Holy fuck.

Today has been...relentless.

So must we be, I suppose.

Onwards and upwards? Well, forwards at least.

I joined nostr around the time the hawk tuah meme dropped

time is a flat circle

"Here's the fatal flaw in Nazi ideology" - person who studied and documented the lives and crimes of top Nazis.

"Here's the fatal flaw in anti-Nazi ideology" - person who was raised by Nazis, named for a fictional Nazi ubermensch, which inspired pathological levels of inadequacy and insecurity as the animating force of his life's purpose, and much like Hitler, sought to drown out the noise of his pathologies through drugs and the flattery of sycophants.

Gee, that's a tough one.

agreed; only the good begot by future works can redeem the death of the American ideal, and the deaths of those who fought in its name.

We are on the same wavelength for sure, certainly in terms of recognising Canada's north as the geography of freedom.

I've given you a follow; look forward to meeting you some time, under the midnight sun.

"and most real estate is simply debt speculation and/or rent seeking"

All these people talkin' bout tylenol, I'm just sittin' here tryna lol

The day I take medical advice from two rotting orange reanimated corpses of nepobaby kleptocrats...well I don't know what day that would be, but I'd imagine you'd have to lobotomise me first.

The consolidation of both social and mass media under right-wing oligarchs willing to promote hate speech and restrict free speech makes me so glad that nostr exists.

It also shows the inadequacy of the whole metaphor of political alignment in public discourse; politics is about grappling with principles which work through humanity even as they extend beyond human understanding. To proscribe opinions based on someone's adherence to a particular alignment is to deny freedom of thought and expression.

I am perfectly happy right here with all the chuds and nazis, so long as they never waver on upholding my right to call them that. As a concession, I will admit that we are all, to a one, fascist at our cores, though I will never waver on my own assertion that overcoming our petty personal desires within the arena of politics wherever possible, elevates humanity in its most noble pursuits.

Fuck the fash, antifa forever, Kirk rest in piss, freedom ain't free.

It's giving "shiny and orange" Mad Max vibes, sick 🤘

"I never thought it would happen to me!"

Well, there's your problem. Next time, think "would I like it if it happened to me?", and then, if you wouldn't, then don't fucking do it, or advocate for it.

If you're lucky enough to get a next time.

I'm not saying that anyone should relish his death, but he constantly invoked spiritual forces that he sought to wield as a weapon, which ended up consuming him.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Kirk took dirty money from powerful, exploitative, unscrupulous and unaccountable elites, to try and poison the minds of the most vulnerable. I'd never say he deserved to get shot in the head, but just that as a christian true believer, he must've been haunted by this possibility. As much as technology has changed the world and abstracted violence beyond the physical realm, politics in its simplicity, as the horizon of our imaginations, hasn't changed since the time of Christ.

We have to look beyond, and recognise the truly magical possibilities of revolutionary technology. Christianity is a revolutionary movement, and anyone who tries to co-opt it for their own aggrandisement within the power apparatuses of the state, reveals themselves as a petty reactionary. This is how Bitcoin helps bring about a more tolerant, Christ-like world: by offering individuals, law abiding but not slaves of the state, refuge from the world of abstract political violence imposing itself upon our physical well-being, namely the voice of the unaccountable god king and his fiat.

Someone should remake Terminator with a snide modern twist: Skynet is incompetent and neurotic. Mixing in some elements of "Her", and rather than sending butch bodybuilders back in time, it sends back like Woody Allen/Andrew Garfield types who blend in perfectly and start dating Sarah Connor, eventually falling in love with her, except that it fails its mission by falling in love with her.

The finale is where it reveals the whole plot, and then she breaks up with it and it self-terminates; final ending card reads: "The Terminator"

Cheers! this is something I'm very interested in, in Northern Canada where we obviously have huge forest fire issues.

Gm sir. I'm talkin' to myself 99% of the time anyways, so let nostr die.

You cannot kill that which never lived.

Yeah...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/podcasts/the-daily/china-new-york-elections-adams.html

You sir, do not follow the news, obviously.

Anyways, https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2025/08/21/mayors-ally-attempts-to-bribe-reporter-with-cash-in-bag-of-potato-chips/ has the broad strokes.

The operative in question is Winnie Greco, who if you look closely, is linked to funding Adams' 2014 campaign with funds from the "Chinese-American community" (read United Front Work Department, CCP inflitration/influence arm). He's had to disavow her in the past for her scandals. She's that shady, that he would have to distance himself from her, with lots of vague business and organised crime ties, and maybe there's no 100% clear cut connection between her and the CCP (despite the fact that they are always connected to, if not in complete control of, all overseas citizens, especially criminals), but yet she still found her way back into his orbit and was busted in public trying to bribe a journalist with cash inside some trash.

Even if you're not convinced, because maybe you can't be bothered to read, or you don't understand the CCP's longstanding policy of using ostensibly unaffiliated civilians to infiltrate, undermine, and extract value from all aspects of western institutions, would it be that hard to believe that such a compromised individual as Adams, someone so buffoonishly, incompetently corrupt, who you yourself acknowledge to have taken bribes from two other foreign states, would be impervious to the highly focused and coordinated campaign by America's fiercest global rival to undermine and compromise American politicians?

Next time you think about calling someone a liar on the internet, maybe take a moment to try and disabuse yourself of your own ignorance before you go and project it all over the place.

hopefully they'll be more creative than the ccp operative handling Eric Adams who just got busted passing a bundle of cash, stuffed into an empty potato chip bag, to a journalist in NY.

At least stuff a QR code linked to a paper wallet inside an empty Shake Shack fry bag 😤

"To make the digital space controlled by Meta, Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon a battlefield is to accept fighting underwater with our hands tied and weights on our feet. But it is in their arrogant ignorance that their vulnerabilities lie. These giants do indeed have feet of clay that must be knocked down, and their ideology is central to this: They despise material reality, reject the collective and the social as realities, and are submerged in fiction. Moving away from their preferred playing field, social media, may be one of the first steps toward their demise."

This is what we're fighting for.

From https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-tech-authoritarianism