A Quaint Duck
@serisothikos.bsky.social
Erstwhile medieval historian. He/him, cishet scum. At least 2000 years old. Wife guy extraordinaire; anti-fascist. "Fix your hearts or die." I hate bullies. Femroe appreciator; elf troubler.
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
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the political dunk stuff is boring but it's genuinely heartwarming to see a dozen people i know dogpile an AI slopbrain for asking if "we" (bluesky) still "hate AI" (yes)
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
the political dunk stuff is boring but it's genuinely heartwarming to see a dozen people i know dogpile an AI slopbrain for asking if "we" (bluesky) still "hate AI" (yes)
why are universities even considering folding to an administration that's 20 points underwater
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
why are universities even considering folding to an administration that's 20 points underwater
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Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death.
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
This may very well be RadioShack’s final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
www.sbnation.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death.
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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christmas card photo
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
christmas card photo
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if Zillow Ed is saying you've not only done crimes but that an OLC opinion won't immunize you, you may want to start making travel plans to a non-extradition country that also ignores the ICC
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
if Zillow Ed is saying you've not only done crimes but that an OLC opinion won't immunize you, you may want to start making travel plans to a non-extradition country that also ignores the ICC
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
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I don’t know how much these guys are trying to bamboozle people vs how much they’ve bamboozled themselves, but what they really mean is “M4A is unpopular with our donors and possible future employers.” That’s all they’re talking about. Do they even know the different this point? Who cares! Fuck ‘em.
Man remember when that "Deciding To Win" manifesto came out a month or two back that people like the Pod Save America hosts and David Axelrod and James Carville signed off on that said M4A was an unpopular nonstarter that should be jettisoned?
none of those people should work again
none of those people should work again
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.
This is YUGE.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don’t know how much these guys are trying to bamboozle people vs how much they’ve bamboozled themselves, but what they really mean is “M4A is unpopular with our donors and possible future employers.” That’s all they’re talking about. Do they even know the different this point? Who cares! Fuck ‘em.
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sorry i can't go to that thing tonight. yeah im gonna be busy taking poison damage and cycling through the same three grunting sound effects. yeah.
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
sorry i can't go to that thing tonight. yeah im gonna be busy taking poison damage and cycling through the same three grunting sound effects. yeah.
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This thread is good and Daniel is smart ⬇️
The reason we got and cannot get rid of Trump is that America is a business and he is a cash cow for way way way too many people including his ostensible opponents. He’s the Beatles of news, and that is an indicator that the news itself is broken.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This thread is good and Daniel is smart ⬇️
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
Mark Carney has had to 'step forward and backwards and it all sort of cancels out' headspace on climate for quite some time.
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
It's the logic of carbon offsetting: if you operate a coal plant, but you also build some renewable energy, the latter cancels out the former 🫠
medium.com/lobbywatch/n...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The basic policymaker mental model for climate action assumes:
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
- maintaining status quo is a win
- we have plenty of time
- electricity is the only source of pollution
All 3 are false, to the benefit of the wealthiest enterprise in human history, at the expense of all life on earth (including us)
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the Chiefs trading Alex Smith to make room for Patrick Mahomes seems like an obvious move in hindsight
at the time, it was a biiiiig big deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lE...
at the time, it was a biiiiig big deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lE...
How the Chiefs altered the NFL with one move
YouTube video by Secret Base
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the Chiefs trading Alex Smith to make room for Patrick Mahomes seems like an obvious move in hindsight
at the time, it was a biiiiig big deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lE...
at the time, it was a biiiiig big deal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lE...
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it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
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we generally don't do anything when we travel to visit my dad so we were batting around ideas for activities and he suggested wicked act 2
i said sure bc we'd have wanted to see it again anyway and it'd be a fun choice
before we go out to see it he casually mentions they haven't seen act 1
??????
i said sure bc we'd have wanted to see it again anyway and it'd be a fun choice
before we go out to see it he casually mentions they haven't seen act 1
??????
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
we generally don't do anything when we travel to visit my dad so we were batting around ideas for activities and he suggested wicked act 2
i said sure bc we'd have wanted to see it again anyway and it'd be a fun choice
before we go out to see it he casually mentions they haven't seen act 1
??????
i said sure bc we'd have wanted to see it again anyway and it'd be a fun choice
before we go out to see it he casually mentions they haven't seen act 1
??????
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Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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