Mark🌹 ⚔️
@markidactyl
He/him. DSA Birmingham, Alabama. HEMA, hiking, caving, tabletops.
why, to stop takeover from undemocratic authoritarians, Dems must simply purge all self-identifying DSA members from their ranks.
This is the thing that really drives them up the wall, it's not that the Dems are being hijacked by extremists with ideas everyone hates - it's that our platform is broadly popular with the Democratic base, it's just loathed by the kind of washed-up neocons the Atlantic likes to employ.
I dunno man I feel like there might be some important differences between somebody whose parents were born in another country and somebody who's great 4X grandpappy came here during the potato famine.
Bad news: I accidentally ordered my dwarves to breach the river, flooding my planned tree farm rooms and lowering the river level near the waterfall enough that numerous dwarves became convinced they could cross the river. The death toll is catastrophic. But the survivors are GREAT swimmers.
"... apologizing for not being clairvoyant..." Everyone who predicted the blackwater mercenary with a nazi tattoo was bad:
Should probably make more HEMA posts if I ever want my timeline to improve. Finally got back out with a sword in my hand after several weeks off due to work, other obligations etc. Played around with rapier and sidesword with a friebd. Heat is awful though, gotta find an indoor place to practice
Dang I really thought it would get a couple of likes at some point. A bot, somebody misclicking, something
One thing I really appreciate about Bluesky is the kind of bog standard bigotry you'd see 1,000 times in a Facebook news article comment section can ratios like this
You're writing about how being racist because you saw one too many North Africans on a subway is fine on behalf of the richest assholes on planet earth but uh sure it was because of the meritocracy
Currently reading Silence of the Gods by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social . I'm just getting into it but it's great so far. Weirdly, I got it as a like new former Brooklyn library book via Thriftbooks. Hopefully I'm not contributing to illicit library theft
Sorry there's only room in my heart for one mystery solving live action dog
Marx: Can I copy your homework Mazdak: sure just change it a little so it doesn't look like you copied it
New book by @cbzeichmann.bsky.social arrived from @firestorm.coop yesterday! I've listened to the audiobook but I like having physical copies (plus pictures). Really cool book, I love it when my two interests of leftism and ancient history intersect. Shout-out to my bro Mazdak and the Khurramites
At the Alabama capitol with DSA comrades and a few thousand other friends (...and Cory Booker...)
Anyone in Alabama, I would strongly encourage you to make it to Montgomery this Saturday if you can. They'll be bus transportation from Birmingham and several other major cities allroadsleadtothesouth.com
I don't think we should have Marjorie Taylor Greene or Liz Cheney in the tent.
When you get AI psychosis so bad you come up with the plot of Blindsight(2006)