The problem is this post-Moses trend in treating the "community" as if it's monolithic and knows more about transportation planning than the experts. We as a society can say "more transit good, road expansion bad" and ask locals to weigh in on where staircases go, not "should this even happen?"

Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.

Think this week is gonna be ugly

😬

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

Mussolini spoke Minion. The syphilis really helped with that.

Its nice to see him have a bad day.

Look, the Slav loves backwardness.

What more can be said?

i think the worst imports of the UK political side of Bluesky have to be the reactionary centrist opinion class who think it is unfair that their takes actually are supposed to correspond to reality

high chance that the end of ceasefire leads to emotional support warcrimes

Now that was extremely traumatic for me. I specifically remember the moment at the beginning when I was just pacing around my house trying not to have a panic attack because I kept thinking "oh god everyone needs to cooperate and we're not going to be able to do it and people are going to die"

i am *still* struggling with having what i thought was a pretty pessimistic view of the competence of my fellow humans be revealed to be three orders of magnitude too generous.

keeping this light on details so everyone remains anonymous but on conspiracy theories - reminds me of a friend who went to a No10 party some years ago and got stress drunk quite quickly then ended up spending Some Time explaining to the PM's chief of staff that the royal family had killed Diana lol

That seems implicitly anti-Semitic.

Those were his real Sonderkommandos.

The Minions are now canonically the Croatians who were told to "cool it" on the Holocaust by the SS.

I just looked it up, I'm not burning the rainforest down for that.

Dialing it back even further, the Minions were definitely anti-Dreyfusards

Weird to set a children's film in the Republic of Fiume.

Guess this is what anti-woke gets you.

Mussolini is in power in 1922

Some bad early AI of the minions at Nuremberg.

Did Minions execute Minions in the Lubyanka? Did they Russify themselves like Stalin and Beria?

Look, the survivors are all dead, and you can't say this in front of the kids, but they used to say that the *worst* kapos were Minions.

I can't wait to see the '97 Star Wars version of Come and See, but it finally includes the Minions!

In this alternate canon, the Minions were in Congo.

The native that Conrad is talking about, the one that waves to you as if you're joined in a great civilizing mission while hacking off childrens limbs?

It was actually that minion with two little hairs poking out of its scalp.

I want to see the sequel that explains that the cession of Poland was basically a Nazi-Soviet Paperclip thing.

Are the Minions actually native to a pond in what became Auschwitz?

We have many questions.

See, this is why you don't re-write canon: didn't they fall down a cave in 1921 or something initially?

Literally because we wanted to avoid this exact set of bits as a society.

do we think the minions stopped serving Napoleon while he was stuck on his island, or did they help to break him out? did they refuse to serve him at all because they considered him historically progressive?

I can’t wait to see how they depict Mussolini’s active syphilis

the UAE's threat wasn't subtle (give us swap lines or we're going to Beijing) but hassett is dodging here ("should that be necessary") and between this and the Abdulkhaleq post the other day I have to wonder if there was a massive rupture between the US and UAE at the end of last week