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Dawg we are talking about 1966, no American white working man was suddenly getting left high and dry by deindustrialization or austerity or recession The only “radical shift in the material conditions” was “you have to let black people into your school/office/shop/apartment block now”

The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us

It's so weird how most US cities are run by like,, a version of the Urban Growth Machine that's somehow also nimby now? Like they'll support extremely dubious public private partnerships for sports stadiums, and want to legalize gambling for the tax revenue, but housing is too far

Anyway, occasional reminder that attempting to get NYC tenant activists to explain how they would actually pay for the NYCHA’s maintenance backlog produced the classic “white ways of knowing and being” tweet.

The Cheesecake Factory stuff is dumb, let’s go back to r/opensource banning discussion of Linux

bleh completely exausted after yesterday not a fan

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

i have been informed that somebody is actually doing the counteroperative imperial japan HoI4 game omg it hapening

Got third place at the warhammer tournament!!

The absence of persistent Spanish-language machines to rival the CBC might be the strongest indictment I can make of the "Democratic consultant class"

I have my first irl warhammer tournament tomorrow. I made a checklist for each game so I don’t forget to do anything.

Really enjoyed @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's new post about hoi4. It's kinda obvious to anyone who plays the game that it's rigged in Germany's favor, but I didn't realize just how pro-fash the basic economic system is until he pointed it out here acoup.blog/2026/10/23/t...

Bleh. Just learned that my pet insurance for my elderly cat has a yearly spending cap

Metro 2033 and Last Light Update Their Post-Apocalyptic Worlds to Next-Gen Spec

President Harris would probably not be at war with Iran. She certainly wouldn't have regime-changed Venezuela. Under President Harris, the USA wouldn't send anyone to CECOT. Under President Harris, Alex Pretti and Renee Good would not have been shot by DHS thugs.

The funny thing about people trying to “subvert” a genre they don’t like very much, is that with murder mysteries they often end up unintentionally copying something Agatha Christie already did better.

my "zero 'coercion' required" t shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

I think that democratic politicians should not forget that the teamsters are going all out to defend swing seat Republican ghouls like Mike Lawler

Jag lager soppa

There are a lot of good arguments about what the Dems should do if they get power, but job one needs to be a drastic reduction in the powers of the Presidency (and probably SECDEF too). If you don’t do that, the game is up. The next person to abuse that power will be better at it.

More friends

There was a friend on the sidewalk. I was worried she was hurt but she flew away after a bit so hopefully she’s fine.

Heck yeah, the new Tomb Kings arcane journal released and it’s everything I wished Royal host was. Chariots are good now + you can still make use of foot tomb guard

New rule: if you wanna whine about free software being built with the help of Claude, you have to submit at least one (1) useful PR to their project on Git Otherwise, you're literally just demanding people work way harder for free — you're an entitled asshole

This slab of OSB made on a CNC machine to patch the rotting flood damage hole in my floor has none of the elegance of the old architectural masters that built this house, may as well just leave it inundated

Not an ai apocalypse doomer or whatever, but entering a world where the normal operation of cybersecurity is vast swarms of hacker bots battling vast swarms of defender bots 24/7 at a scale beyond human comprehension doesn't seem like a *great* path forward.

Re-professionalizing and de-politicizing DoD will be crucial. And doable, as this thread with specifics shows. Add Thiel-Palantir to Musk-SpaceX and Luckey-Anduril review. Courts martial for boat bombings. Problem is, it’ll take political will, and there’s at least two more years of damage to go.

Far too much of this going on in the neighbourhood chats at election time

Very jealous of this lady, my boss isn’t a fan of cube decoration.

QRP with your most popular piece. The people love Him.

Kinda fascinated by the "extant 0 days are good and we should have more" crowd

It's a myth in much the same way that "Versailles created Hitler" is a myth. The idea being that there was something "the West" could have done differently that would have averted catastrophe. It's seductive for think tankers because it lets them spin off wild hypotheticals of what might have been.

The idea that the US deliberately humiliated Russia in the 1990s is a bizarre myth. We were overtly solicitous and supportive of them and their hurt feelings. We just didn’t accept their claim that the nations or Eastern Europe could never seek their own destiny.

Watched the first 2 episodes of edgerunners s2 with my GF. They’re good!

Going to give my own takeaway on the demise of Bioware, which still makes me very sad. The TLDR: Bioware was not killed suddenly by a private equity acquisition. It was slowly strangled by idiots who didn't understand what made Bioware great - some at EA but also some inside of Bioware leadership

It’s been normalized I guess but all of this remains a profound and criminal assault on our constitutional order.

Inventing the term "CVEslop" to refer to vulnerabilities discovered by agentic means. "Get out of here with that CVEslop. We only patch human-discovered vulnerabilities."

gonna bury this one in the replies a little bit but while i think dx uptick for adhd is very much driven by awareness i think it's also driven by nicotine cessation-- we had a widespread-to-the-point-of-inescapability drug that ~worked pretty well for ADHD (shame about the other side effects)

Animal knowers of bsky, do you all know who lives in here? I’ve seen a few of them around.