Former business school professor, current software engineer. Writes at ordinary-times.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mupawjt4ls2aThe biggest change is not that it was shown to be impossible but that Republicans decided free enterprise democracies—especially multi-racial ones—were bad04 Sep 2026 15:14 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupawjt4ls2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mup2uexpqs2rBernie is taking the Hugging Face thing seriously04 Sep 2026 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup2uexpqs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muoxrrnuls2rMe yesterday: “omg i hate how everyone on this website celebrates death” Me today: 🥳 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/03/russian-general-attack-childrens-hospital-shot-ukraine/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoxrrnuls2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muoroyomac2kAmong the things I ask when people romanticize the past is ‘whose past?’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoroyomac2khttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mumj5oey2s2p[Listening to “Return of the King”] Yay! They destroyed the ring! I wonder how much more is left to the book. Oh, 9 hours? I guess that sounds about right?03 Sep 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumj5oey2s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mul6annn4s2nIt occurred to me that it was more than the casting of the Odyssey that the modern right hated. The movie also criticizes killing children and war crimes. The film argues against the idea that winning erases all sins [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul6annn4s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mukdcxrhsk2zYes, but do you know which other great president illegally chopped down cherry trees? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukdcxrhsk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mukayvhoh22zHow is Dan Ariely still holding on? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukayvhoh22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muk6svtfok2zTIL: The University of Austin [sic] has a marble bust of Bari Weiss in its lobby02 Sep 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk6svtfok2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mujwikj2uk2zThis was supposed to happen to out group! Not the in group! I’m in the in group, right?02 Sep 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujwikj2uk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mujsoi275c2zThat is one story. The other is that support for Trump went from about 3% in 2016 to about 21% in 2024. He got normalized and has infected the elites [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 11:15 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujsoi275c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mujsaztkw22z [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujsaztkw22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mui6njp4rk2dI don’t know how people were okay with holding US bonds before now, but I guess they were eventually going to figure it out. It’s bad enough to have to be holding dollars [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mui6njp4rk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muhwzvrndk24Tag for those wishing to block: @zonkedonestrogen.northsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhwzvrndk24https://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muht7rr4qk2oThis is the only thing that BlueSky is worse than X on, but this is a pretty bad thing to be worse on! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Sep 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muht7rr4qk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mufrq7pu4s2bFrom @alex.godofsky.social:31 Aug 2026 20:48 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufrq7pu4s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mufqxx3yec2b90% of civil engineers say water ‘wants’ to flow downwards. Blueskyers, being much more intelligent, know this to be untrue. Water just patterns matches on all the water that flowed before it [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufqxx3yec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mueyiwxquk2tHow does everyone know so many slurs? Most of them are “curtains for Zoosha” to me. “Can you believe she said Flumvergibbet?” No, I cannot. I have never heard of that and had no idea it was bad in any case31 Aug 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mueyiwxquk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3muer5onrns2j [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 11:05 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muer5onrns2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/vikrambath.bsky.social/post/3mueqj7knds2jWho did it better? [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:jmhscbbqqnynpki3zvnvginp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mueqj7knds2j