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Ian Mosby@ianmosby.bsky.social |
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Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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I’m no expert, but it’s probably not a good sign for a political campaign when the best possible thing that could happen to it is the candidate dropping dead
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Ian Mosby
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I am Canadian but will do my best
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Moby Dick
@mobydickatsea.bsky.social
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showers of gore
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Ian Mosby
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Goals
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Zamira Rahim
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.
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Ian Mosby
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I think you'll really enjoy his Our Ancestors trilogy (Baron in the Trees, especially). They share a lot of stylistic and thematic elements with your books and they are just lovely, lovely stories.
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Ian Mosby
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Just finished reading Marcovaldo this morning and am in the midst of reading Italian Folktales with my kiddo and love the idea of "lightness" as a descriptor of characters like Marcovaldo and of the joyfulness of Calvino's writing style
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Nina Metz
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Wallace Shawn on Gaza: “The Anger of the Palestinians Cannot Be Ended by Killing Their Children” The playwright, actor, and member of Jewish Voice for Peace challenges the notion that all Jews support Israel's actions Via THR
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Matt Novak
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Happy fourth
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Michael Hobbes
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I think what makes this difficult to discuss with any kind of rigor is that Biden staying in is bad and Biden dropping out is also bad! There are no good options available so we’re all flailing to figure out which bad thing is gonna be like 15% better than the worse thing
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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Fireworks suck.
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Star Trek Minus Context
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Ian Mosby
@ianmosby.bsky.social
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Your body when you're in your mid 40s
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Ian Mosby
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New person just dropped
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Charles C. Mann
@charlescmann.bsky.social
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I know people keep decrying globalization but part of me wants to say, "Hey, what about the way that a young Japanese music student at Casio ended up creating some of the most iconic reggae beats in Jamaica?" /v @radosh.bsky.social
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Alan Richardson
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Tocqueville understood the USA at a level few reach
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
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Ian Mosby
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It's genocide.
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Torrance Coste
@torrancecoste.bsky.social
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"This notion of 'economic reconciliation,' while appealing on the surface, masks a deeper perpetuation of exploitative practices on Indigenous lands under the guise of progress and mutual benefit."
Really important words from @janellelapointe.bsky.social:
breachmedia.ca/economic-rec...
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Ian Mosby
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This is a key point. The US has only really been a democracy since 1964—at the earliest and if we're being generous.
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Adam Shprintzen
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As people note the normalization of autocracy and fascism, I’ll remind everyone of how “normalized” we have built the idea of Jim Crow and segregation into our sense of the past as just part of how life was rather than an oppressive non-democracy.
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Ian Mosby
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Biden, however, could do the funniest thing to the Supreme Court right now.
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Ian Mosby
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Few countries have a worse constitution than the US, with the exception of Canada—whose "get out of the constitution free" clause means that pretty much everything in there is a recommendation more than a requirement.
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Ian Mosby
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When full fascism is officially constitutional, the constitution is officially and fully fascist.
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Daniel S. Goldberg
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The US continues its slide into outright authoritarianism. You don’t have to be a scholar of fascism to know how much courts have aided and abetted autogolpes and the like. Terrifying beyond measure. There are no safe places.
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N. K. Jemisin
@nkjemisin.bsky.social
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What happens when you put business interests in charge, instead of educators.
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Glyn Moody
@glynmoody.bsky.social
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if only there were some handy phrase for this kind of thing...
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Ian Mosby
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It's genocide
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Hey Mickey
@heymickey.bsky.social
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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.
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Ian Mosby
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Joe Biden was basically an AI hallucination and Trump continues to be a genuine nightmare. Fuck you, America, for putting the rest of the world through this.
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Ian Mosby
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Watched one 2 minute clip of the US presidential debate and all I can say is, fucking hell, that was basically the rotting corpse of an empire festering on a soundstage.
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Saeed Jones
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This piece from @jackmirkinson.bsky.social sums up where I’m at this morning.
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“I am particularly outraged at being told to excuse genocide on behalf of someone who can barely string a sentence together at the most consequential possible moment.”
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Aaron Bady
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The Democratic party is in a very difficult situation, but, luckily, all the decisionmakers who will navigate that situations are the dumbest and most cowardly hacks you can imagine, you cannot believe the depth of their absence of vision and leadership
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
@pixelatedboat.bsky.social
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President Biden’s debate strategy, dropping dead on stage and being wheeled off in a coffin, is unconventional to say the least … but it might just pay off
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Saeed Jones
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September 2023: “A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency told The AP on Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank…” “There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.”
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David William
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.
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Ian Mosby
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Congratulations! Look forward to reading!
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Ian Mosby
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I'm reading your book right now and also nodding sagely.
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Gerry Canavan
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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice
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David G.
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There is no digital storage format/medium that has held up as well as even the crappiest paperback from the '70s.
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Ken Lowery
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ah man starting to think opening the most miserable liminal spaces in modern America every other block and then locking all products behind glass so the one employee on hand can get to it 15 minutes from now ISN'T a great business model.
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paul seesequasis
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Gathering at Buffalo Child Stone (Mistasiniy), a 400-tonne glacial boulder and sacred site, in 1966. Elder Wilfred Tootoosis in background with headdress. In December, 1966 it was dynamited by the Saskatchewan government prior to the damming of the South Society…
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geoffrey
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ranch is the aioli of the oppressed
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Ian Mosby
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~rULe Of lAw~
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Kevin Collins
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SCOTUS says it's okay to bribe officials as long as you pay after you receive the thing you paid for
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jj skolnik
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just ran across the fact that andy warhol rented the factory for $200/mo in 1964, roughly $2000/mo in 2024. average rent in manhattan these days (for a place i would wager is much smaller than a giant loft) is double that barriers to survival are also barriers to making art
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Molly Knight
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Thrilled to know we got water in the woke wars.
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Ian Mosby
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My critique of Butler was always that I needed to read someone else's writing on Butler to actually understand their arguments. But clearly they've taken that sort of critique to heart, it's really good.
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