Bad Impulses

Bad Impulses

@badimpulses.bsky.social

I don't particularly like what I'm doing but I can't keep it to myself

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To paraphrase Richard Wolff: Socialism is when the government does boys in girls' sports. And it's more socialism the more boys in girls' sports it does. And if it does a real lot of boys in girls' sports, it's communism

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

Great write up from North South Notes on the state of Brazilian politics at the moment.

Vincent Bevins@vincentbevins.bsky.social

What is happening in Brazil in October, and why does it matter? We asked a philosopher, a social scientist, a journalist and an organizer. Now up on North South Notes, featuring Rodrigo Nunes, Camila Rocha, Piero Locatelli and Stephanie Weatherbee Brito: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/how-to-wat...

Serious reason they are doing this is that Watergate was one of the only times a President has been held accountable for breaking laws and, objectively, Trump commits one Watergate level scandal every few weeks. It's in his interests for Watergate to have been overblown in retrospect

Stoked for this. So glad to have HNIC back, and the PWHL has been a breath of fresh air for professional hockey. Go Goldeneyes

3 days ago she said she wasn't going anywhere. I expected her to break that promise but admittedly not this soon

Andrea Woo@andreawoo.bsky.social

BREAKING: BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigns. "Sometimes leadership means knowing when the interests of something larger than yourself require you to step aside."

Macklemore has been outspoken about Palestine for years and has faced professional consequences as a result. No one mentioned a 12-year old costume until this most recent one kind and it mostly seems like Israel supporters had to start digging deeper to find reasons to be mad at him.

In what other engineering discipline would a >10% chance of killing someone (let alone everyone) be considered acceptable? You would not have structural engineer design a bridge with a 10% chance of collapse, or a geotechnical engineer sign off on a slope with a 10% risk of failure

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”

The Onion's posts on here are superb and further solidify my belief that the worst satire rag is by far the Halfway Post. Every single headline is just BREAKING: Donald Trump crying and pissing his pants because (insert thing that didn't happen)

Pretty easy to say that Cuba and Cubans were better off after the revolution, despite the most powerful country in the world being only 90 miles away and trying bitterly to sabotage them at every turn for 70+ years

Trump's brain is mush and so everything he does revolves around old memories, like the time him and Kim Jong Un wrote letters, or the time a sailor told him steam was a better way to launch airplanes.

Trying to get a feel for the physical size of the Power Broker book and I think the best way to express it is the spine is so thick that the title is written horizontally

Shout out to Neck of the Woods, one of my favourite niche Vancouver progressive metal bands with less than 1000 monthly listeners

r o o@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social

"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

Everyone staying on twitter at this point kinda feels like Peter Parker refusing to get rid of the venom symbiote. Except in addition to making you cruel and obnoxious it also makes you get into race science

Trying to start a small programming project in a new-to-me language in 2026 and every tutorial I see is about how to use AI to write the code for you. No thanks! I want my code to suck because I don't know what I'm doing, not because I used AI.

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