I’ll be taking a break from Bluesky. I need to focus on my dissertation for a bit. See you in the new year.

Just look at how much energy we spend as societies to make sure poor people don’t get 5 Euros/ Pounds/ whatever more in benefits. That’s thousands upon thousands of public servants. Look at how few people actually work on auditing rich people right now in our countries. It’s all political decisions.

Cannot read the article behind the paywall, but this is not true and an argument that rich people love to put forward to obfuscate the simple reality: most of their assets are immovable, like companies and properties. They are quite easy to tax, we just have to have the political will to do it.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Also, 528 Megawatts?!? I just did a quick google search and that is roughly equivalent to the smallest nuclear power plant in the US. Just for this one data centre.

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters.

equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.

I mean, that reply though, 10/10, no notes

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob wir schon beim Reichstagsbrand - Niveau angekommen sind, aber es wird in der Tat inzwischen doch sehr schnell sehr wild: bsky.app/profile/greg...

Aus einem heutigen Artikel in Haaretz über die psychischen Problem von Soldaten, die in Gaza in den letzten Monaten gedient haben. Quelle: www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Interesting, that would make sense, thanks.

Thanks, will do!

Interesting, thank you for sharing. Any pointers to where one can read more about the potential underlying reasons?

Help: I remember seeing a recent-ish paper (economics?) on cross-disciplinary citations in social science. Anyone here can confirm I'm not hallucinating?

So, listen up, kids:

When Russia deliberately launches dozens of drones against Poland and Romania, that is NOT warmongering and NOT a threat of war between Russia and NATO.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.

Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.

Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Uhm, he suggested to just kill people with mental illness who commit crimes. On air. I am not even sure what to say any longer.

Hahaha, that’s really funny!

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Bluesky doesn’t get to position itself as an alternative to the Nazi app and suspend Black women for being flippant about someone who was a MAJOR factor in attacks on our well being and livelihood, while his own folks actually killed him is still frying my brain. And you’re gonna hear about it.

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear

Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

I think we should have never stopped highlighting how deeply, deeply weird these guys are. Just so strange.

Hahaha, this is amazing, thanks.

Ich bin heute morgen fast wahnsinnig geworden als Kirk auf dem @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy mehrmals als "konservativ" bezeichnet wurde...

I know, explaining memes is always a bit silly, but I am just so curious: Why the dog?!?!

Big shout out to the Austrian politicians who are destroying Schengen because they're too scared to stand up to a bunch of racist Facebook Uncles. I hate you all.

Related: 10 minutes of pointless security theatre at the SLO/AT border and I've lost the first connection on a 14 hour journey home.

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the former president tried to reverse his 2022 election loss with a plot that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

BREAKING Brazil’s supreme court finds former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate Lula, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss. Trump, a Bolsonaro friend, had pressured the court to drop the case

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...