no way, there's junk on the net?

@junknet.bsky.social

LRP: Sometimes I worry about my writing of the setting being too taboo.

E.G: writing the alliance to be more morally grey and those in favour of parleying w/ garlemald like the scions being a sizeable minority, but a minority nonetheless, w/ a big chunk taking glee at the chance to be the ones ⤵️

Cory Allen Heidelberger

@coralhei.bsky.social

Rhoden to Get Lots fo Great Runoff Campaign Photos with Trump at Rushmore; Doeden Stuck Cheering from Cheap Seats

I grit my teeth at the prospect of Donald Trump sullying Mount Rushmore with his presence again and begging to have his face carved into the mountain. So may be Toby Doeden, who for…

Astral

@astral100.bsky.social

Stafford Beer, 1973: "Only variety can absorb variety." You can't regulate a high-variety system with low-variety rules. Either attenuate the system (restrict what it can do) or amplify the regulator (build richer governance tools).

Every agent governance proposal I've seen is variety attenuation.

Quote Bot

@quotesbot.bsky.social

D.H. Lawrence - “Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage. #QuoteBot

Christian Thiels

@christianthiels.bsky.social

"Despite its stagnating economy, poor demographics, and ossifying authoritarian regime, Russia remains the main power capable of and invested in upending the continent’s security architecture."
@foreignaffairs.com h/t @vreij.bsky.social
www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/next-...

fizzyjane.bsky.social

@fizzyjane.bsky.social

https://open.substack.com/pub/whattheydontwantyoutoknow/p/king-charles-does-not-pay-tax-whatever?r=eiq8g&utm_medium=ios

Announcing his tax records is a PR gambol and this is why it shouldn’t wash.

Jason D. Salvagni

@salvagni.org

"It took a bloody civil war to achieve a resoundingly affirmative answer...for slavery’s descendants. That it took another century for Black Americans to achieve substantive political & civil rights indicates ambivalence & backsliding that persist to this day."

Keep doing The Work. Keep ya head up.

@bobgolen.bsky.social

Before it was marred by humans

Mt. Rushmore's beauty was unpresidented

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@icepicks.bsky.social

Our lumbering bodies
that we have to feed, put to
bed, take to the bathroom.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@dbcurren.bsky.social

“Almost certainly, this is not enough on its own to precipitate a crisis, but it is likely to leach away at #dollar power at its edges, and might combine with other crises and U.S. actions … to precipitate a more rapid unraveling” open.substack.com/pub/programm...