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@finemisha.bsky.social

Moscow Sans-culotte. Polemics Leftist. Bi. He/Them. 21. https://linktr.ee/perfectlyfine17 I love anime, games, and yapping UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÉS DE TOI.

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I'm afraid bluesky fucking sucks. Nothing happens here, no interesting, clever or poignant thought is formulated here, no cultural moment is here. No fanart or meme, nothing is here. Will stancil is here, but that's it.

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China's electrification bet is paying off. Electricity now accounts for 30% of its energy consumption - 50% higher than the US or Europe. With 1/3 of global renewable energy capacity already installed, China is structurally more insulated from rising oil prices than most Western economies.

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It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

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Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

I can’t believe there are really people like this

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A thread of useful mods, moderated lists etc. that you can use across Bluesky to protect your space here from 🅰️ℹ️ stuff. I'll be updating this as I find more, so if you know of any that I haven't included, please let me know! Reposts are very welcome so more people know! [ #helpfulbskypost ]

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Alternet: Trump's economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. Economist Catherine Rampell said the nation’s terrible jobs report would likely be much better right now if Trump had entered the White House more than a year ago and gone to bed and stayed there.😅 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Genuinely fascinating how widespread the idea is that Trump can simply walk away from anything and it’ll mostly reset to normal

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social

With oil at $110, I’d guess the equity markets give up another 3-5% over the next few days. And then Trump TACOs. The result? The war will have succeeded in clearing out the Iranian gerontocracy for a new generation of younger extremist Mullahs.

Bluesky is cursed. I gained freedom from rabid antisemites and demented fascists, but in exchange I lost anything I can actually agree with. There's nothing poignant to retw- sorry, retruth.

It's a conveniently simple mantra that everything is the fault of Trump and maybe everything that has to do with the Trump administration is the fault of Putin. Putin and Trump will be gone and America will only be in a worse state.

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Bluesky really has not one single person mention Rosa Luxemburg or Clara Zetkin on international women's day. Twitter would have leftists mention the February revolution. Sorry, bluesky, that's an L

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feels like democrats should be at least half as upset about israel goading trump into a full new war with iran as they were about the possibility of russian interference

BlueAnon thinks Trump disrupting Shahed drones is a Putin master plan. God, I don't want to be the BlueAnon Monitor. I really don't. But why the fuck is my algorithm full of shit like this

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Happy international women's day! Here in Russia women were the bulk force in overthrowing the tsar in the February revolution. One can only hope.

This website is insufferably boomer liberal, blueanon, blue MAGA, it's a cesspool. The cesspool is better, mind you, I don't see any mushrooms growing, but still.

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Democrats have had one continuous congressional leadership clique since 2017! It’s crazy! Despite all the political disaster and failure there’s never been a serious effort to put a different group of people in charge, and if you complain about it, they treat you as an obvious crank for noticing.

Vivienne (formerly BillThePony)@billthepony.bsky.social

We crush the republicans for being anti-democratic all the time and this is true but they are much more democratically responsive to their voters than dems are. they have had multiple leadership sets during the time we have had 1 (one)

Mensheviks and Bolsheviks all over again.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

We're seeing a lot of divergence in the Twin Cities RR networks. The best ones have stayed relatively open, allow press on the line, and are not screening heavily, and are extremely active as a result. Others have locked down tightly and have shrunk enough to be considerably less effective.

And here's an example of a fundamental disagreement with Will Stancil despite my immense respect for the good work he does. Violence, explicit threat of violence or the implicit threat of violence is the only thing that ultimately forces the opposing team to even negotiate with you.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

No, we don’t need violent tactics, scare quotes or otherwise. “Why can’t you just stick to your peaceful nonsense and let us burn things?” Because the consequences will fall on my city and my neighbors. If you try to start something like that, I will try to stop you.

It also does seem extremely narrow minded to have lived in America and seeing it kill millions abroad, seeing dozens, hundreds of black people brutalised by police, and when it's YOUR city that's under attack, you finally do something.

As a Russian, I know precisely where that atomisation and narrow-mindedness leads to. I'm guessing Will Stancil probably wants the Russian and Iranian regimes to fall. He doesn't make the same connection in his country.

#FreeWillStancil I disagree with him on a lot of stuff, including the precise conduct against ICE and the goal of this political battle, but he has to come back to be a prominent media figure for the Minnesota rapid response effort. What the fuck are they doing?

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks. It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.

I don't like him nor dislike him. I however do dislike people impeding him from doing the best thing he ever did, better than anything they will ever do. Whoever it is that's obsessed with Opsec (lefties?), they're delusional to no end and are sabotaging the good fight.

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“Opsec” as understood on the movement left invariably means “taking efforts to remain anonymous and ensure no one can see what you’re saying and who you are.” But these efforts are illusory and completely corrosive to the goal of public resistance and open organizing.

Andy Carvin@acarv.in

Hi Will - apologies if you've addressed this in detail previously, but is your criticism of opsec primarily about protesters not wanting to be filmed, the use of certain tools giving them a false sense of security, or something else?

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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

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You and what army? No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army. We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?

What's going on? I just woke up from a long dream where twitter was bought by Elon musk and he made an image bot that undressed everyone... Weird.

Meh. An idealist article from people, whose understanding of Russian opposition is entry level. The end of the article sounds like it's from '22. Disgruntled nationalists “will form” the main opposition to Putin? They already have. Prigozhin is dead, Strelkov is in jail.

Richard Branson@richardbranson.bsky.social

“I thoughts there were some brakes on the system, but I was wrong.” One year since Alexei Navalny’s suspicious death, political opposition in Russia is more repressed than ever. Here’s what’s going on: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RISE, EMBERS OF THE SED, RISE!

Europe Elects@europeelects.bsky.social

Germany, Forsa poll: CDU/CSU-EPP: 30% AfD-ESN: 20% SPD-S&D: 16% GRÜNE-G/EFA: 13% LINKE-LEFT: 7% FDP-RE: 5% BSW-NI: 4% +/- vs. 11-14 February 2025 Fieldwork: 11-17 February 2025 Sample size: 2,501 ➤ europeelects.eu/germany