It's scary how nobody in America is doing anything about it.

They also don't want to do anything about it.

Good. Step 1 done. It was time for ~~amendment~~ step 2 a year ago.

No, you're not even close to the true consequences. You're all too busy complaining online and not busy enough doing the right thing. Your constitution gives you options. Use them.

Americans, what the fuck are you doing? You are the only country in the Anglosphere with the constitutional right to fix the Trump situation directly and you don't. I think you're all full of shit when you complain about MAGA.

I won't trust any of you, ever, now I've seen how you let this happen.

I'm ditching #GitHub.

I already self-host all my repositories and have done so for years, but I'm not going to keep giving GitHub free advertising and free content if they're going to start charging people for _not_ using their services.

This self-host runner fee gets more corrupt the more I read.

I am seriously glad I got my current workstation before the RAM market proved why the efficiency of market economics is nullified by concentrations of wealth like what we see with Sam Altman.

Market Capitalism is supposed to allocate resources efficiently.

This is not efficient.

The most infuriating thing about German, Spanish, and British appeasers, is that if there will be a wider war, it will mostly not be their blood, but Polish, Lithuania, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish blood, that spilt. Great Northern war 2.0 where the Baltic is the main theatre of conflict.

The Russian propagandists who whine about how horrible this war is enrage me the most. You dont get to start a war and then complain about horrible the war you started is. Its not that I find your suffering irrelevant, I just believe you deserve every bit of it.

One of the greatest tragedies in Australia's recent history would barely register as a footnote in the USA because they don't understand gun laws.

Protecting their family? Nope - Sandy Hook
Second Amendment? Nope - Trump's ICE raids

Americans fear Black people? Yup. That's why they have guns.

I've got to say, this weekend, from students preparing for finals at Brown to Jews celebrating the festival of Hanukkah on Bondi Beach...it felt as if Yeats' awful vision were coming true:

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned."

Don't try to tell me that the United States is not a White supremisis nation

Any time I comment on shootings in the US, I invariably get told that "you need guns to defend against tyranny".

* looks back over 2025 *

.... does "tyranny" mean something different over there?

In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.

13 years ago today.

I'm back. And retired. For good.

Come on, Kraut. You have more clarity than that.

Because of our gun laws here in Australia, this is called a terrorist attack.

Because of the gun laws over in the USA, this would be called a Tuesday.

Signed, a gun-loving Aussie who has no problem with our gun laws.

I left BlueSky to keep my socials presence low-key for a contract job.

I retired.

I'm 40.

The highlight of my career was that I got to #hire a bunch of #lawyers and #fire a lot of #HR staff. It was beautiful.

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

I absolutely agree with you!

Also, for readers just getting into politics:
Sovereign overwhelmingly refers to states rather than individuals.
A monarch is the specific title for a royal, like a king or queen, who is the head of a sovereign state.

!! BT isn't wrong at all in this context.

Our capacity for delight at things on the internet may be dulled, but that doesn't preclude, and more likely bolsters, us having a powerful reaction to the real world.

The more I think on this post, the more I realize I didn't appreciate nature until I had doom-scroling as a counterpoint.

a man is standing in front of a window and says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in ALT: a man is standing in front of a window and says just when i thought i was out they pull me back in

I'll be deleting this account in the next hour as I sneak back into capitalism.

Oh boy does that hit home for me today.

Odd thought: Those Americans who voted for Trump to avoid liberalism and diversity have just made sure that is all they will get.

America has lost its cultural dominance, ensuring a flood of cultural influence from the comparatively liberal and diverse remainder of the 'Anglosphere'.

I am pro-AI and yet @commanderrika.bsky.social makes an important point.

AI cannot replace humans. A human cannot replace an AI. One is an actor, one is a tool.

Humans must be involved in every step of AI use or the consequences are catastrophically bad.

For execs: AI-only = bad ROI.

#EthicalAI

Fellow writers: @davulis.bsky.social is spot on.

Just like you, editors etc are creatives, and have spent years honing their craft. Respect that.

I'd published two novels before becoming an editor, only to be told, I "don't understand creatives."

Trust fellow creatives.

This point by @davidallengreen.bsky.social is so incredibly important and yet may fly under most people's radars.

The tl;dr is that #Trump may have solved the centuries-long debate over formal vs unwritten constitutions:

Tyrants don't give a damn and will enslave you either way.

Good.

And to the people saying, "but economic warfare just hurts civilians," I say that so does sending 200lb glide-bombs into Ukrainian apartment blocks every night for three years.

Russians are losing the use of their car. Ukrainians have lost their children.

Granted, I learned incredible amounts from those projects, but I'm with you on this one.

Seeing someone else has the same tooling need I do and will let me use it and contribute fixes to it: Superb.

Nothing has taught me the value of dropping the sunk-cost fallacy from my decision-making process than getting years into a project and finding a better implementation someone else has open-sourced.

I work in MLOps, this happens to me _constantly_. I have yeeted years of work into /dev/null.

This is just pure evil from the USA. You don't have to be enthusiastically pro-trans to roll up your sleeves and say, "This is bullshit. Quit fucking around."