Abdul El-Sayed

abdulelsayed.bsky.social

19 September 2026 14:57

Mike Rogers couldn't be bothered to show up to the debate, but here's what I would have asked him if he wasn't such a coward:

Alona Ferber

aloner.bsky.social

18 September 2026 17:40

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Patrick Wyman

patrickwyman.bsky.social

18 September 2026 17:19

If something dramatic does happen - Rome gets sacked, the palaces burn - that's practically always a symptom of the deeper and far more idiotic rot that lies beneath. Those things are signs of the times, not the essence of the matter.

Patrick Wyman

patrickwyman.bsky.social

18 September 2026 17:19

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.