https://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mm36ry63ic2nAspiring Iranian monarch seeks bombs dropping on the heads of the people he desires to rule. Some of them may die, but like Lord Farquaad, that's a sacrifice he's willing to make. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 20:21 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm36ry63ic2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mlufmzznpc25Uh, Carine, that $20 million for diapers is *what* fraction of a $100+ billion increase in state spending (both your figures)? She's a few years out of Harvard, which presumably means decent scores on the SATs. Uhhhh... what does the math section look like these days? [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlufmzznpc25https://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mllrhtavqs2lIsrael's ambassador to the UN is still (within the past few weeks) telling anyone who will listen that the IDF is "the most moral military in the world". Interview with the ambassador: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/israels-un-ambassador-says-idf-is-most-moral-military-in-the-world [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllrhtavqs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mldtoubmvc2gIt's worth remembering that as recently as twenty years ago, support for immigration was bi-partisan. *George W Bush* introduced an immigration reform bill that would have regularized the status of "illegal" immigrants and offered them a path to citizenship -- which got killed by filibuster. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldtoubmvc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3ml2i6ves6c2pGood luck getting the Chinese to agree to this for their next version of DeepSeek. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2i6ves6c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mk6dpogsqc2hAlso the self-styled deep thinkers in the Silicon Valley techbro set -- it was sub rosa until recently, but if you look over on X, you'll find folks like Ruby on Rails creator (and successful tech founder) David Heinemeier Hansson touting this book about dangerous refugee hordes in public. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6dpogsqc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mk3h7qbfhk27So, uh... any idea what's triggering rants like this (also seen in advance of the ruling on the tariff case), if it's not communications from someone associated with the court itself? [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3h7qbfhk27https://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mk2fcg4hq22zI am reminded of the scene in Snow Crash where Y.T.'s Mom, in her soulless programming gig, carefully calibrates the amount of time she spends reading a memo about bathroom usage to create the right impression on her boss's surveillance stat sheet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2fcg4hq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mjp5qj2bbs2sThe darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjp5qj2bbs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/rst.bsky.social/post/3mjkqqib5qs2tUS Bishops to JD Vance: The Pope in his comments on war was restating long-standing and well-established Catholic doctrine. In your own discussions of the subject, and his comments thereupon, please bear in mind these salient points: *) He's the pope *) You're not [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Apr 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:2ysc5r4jviumzvidymoknlom/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkqqib5qs2t