Ian Welsh @iwelsh

OG political blogger. Predicted the 2007 collapse. Read: https://t.co/2oa9MDzFwj , Support: https://t.co/XRrXGbpjQm - @ianwelsh.bsky.social ianwelsh.net @ianwelsh.bsky.social Joined August 2008

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

31 minutes ago

@DigitalSamIAm @p_millerd Dude. LOL. Seriously.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

7 hours ago

@JohnSmi37463100 I mean most cheeses, most cured meats. Various fermented drinks. We eat them now even though we don't have to.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

15 hours ago

Wonder what it tasted like. Anyone had dry ash preserved meat?

ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch

16 hours ago

When salt was scarce or too expensive, medieval soldiers relied on a clever camp-craft technique to preserve fresh meat using clean, dry wood ash from their campfires. Hardwood ash is highly alkaline and naturally hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs moisture rapidly while creating an

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Dr.Snekotron @snekotron

18 hours ago

If this was indeed what was signed with the help of Qatari and Pakistani negotiators, it reads like terms of surrender for the United States. A future where the Strait of Hormuz is a toll booth, however, is not something that Trump will be able to accept. He will sabotage, again.

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

23 hours ago

🚨 NEW: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told State TV the emerging U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding is a roughly 1.5-2 page, 14-point document that has been negotiated for more than two months and reviewed line by line by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and

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Muse @xmuse_

18 hours ago

Taipei Metro turned a simple commute into an optical illusion. They sometimes wrap entire metro cars for promotional campaigns. This one is from 2017, the Summer Universiade.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

10 hours ago

@JohnSmi37463100 Some preserved foods taste quite good. Although probably not this one or we'd still be eating it like we do the others.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

10 hours ago

@dayele Also, what a jerk you are.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

10 hours ago

@dayele Ain't nothing we get from the US we can't get from China, and they'll buy what we sell too. NAFTA wasn't mean to help Canada, it was meant to make us dependent. You aren't that important any more, and when you were, you didn't act like a bunch of teenage bullies.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

16 hours ago

Before Trump, American fans once carried the American anthem at a game when the mic dropped. Anyone telling you most Canadians didn't like America and Americans before Trump is lying. msn.com/en-ca/sports/h…

Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada

18 hours ago

Just to clarify: During the World Cup opening ceremony in Toronto, Canadians booed the American flag, not because they hate America, but because Trump has turned that flag into a symbol of hate & division. The boos were directed at that fucking scumbag.

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MenchOsint @MenchOsint

18 hours ago

Airspace at 22h30 UTC - moment the Oil Tanker was hit: US Air Force E-3G AEW&C aircraft, RC-135W Rivet Joint, P-8 Poseidon & dozens of Fighter jets were monitoring Iranian forces. & still failed to intercept the projectile(s). Who controls the Strait again?

MenchOsint @MenchOsint

18 hours ago

⭕️⚡️UKMTO admits that an Oil Tanker *escorted by the US* was struck last night (22h00 UTC). It is an Oil Tanker that switched AIS off and ignored IRGC-approved routes.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

12 hours ago

@LearnerKip Good but also a vigilante would be interesting. "Well this guy caused 100s to starve and raped women so I'm not just taking his gold."

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

12 hours ago

@LearnerKip good point. Wouldn't want people to get ideas.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

13 hours ago

Subversive takes are so normal now that I don't even find them subversive. I'd far rather see a Robin Hood movie where he really is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Grimdark is old now, it's the status quo. Robin Hood being good--that would be subversive.

IGN @IGN

18 hours ago

Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer’s grim medieval drama strips away the legend of Robin Hood to deliver a brutal, subversive take on the iconic outlaw. Our review of The Death of Robin Hood: bit.ly/4gflfvp

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Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta

18 hours ago

Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950. Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect. Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default. That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture. The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins. College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

Financial Dystopia @financedystop

2 days ago

Gen Z realizing one of the biggest shocks after college is that life no longer happens around you. In school, friends, events, relationships, and opportunities are built into your environment. As an adult, if you don't actively create a social life, weeks can turn into months

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Glenn Meder @GlennMeder

2 days ago

4/ Your daughter wants to read about government corruption. She verifies her identity. Because the law requires it. She accesses the independent journalist reporting on classified leaks. Evidence of illegal surveillance programs. Proof of officials lying under oath. She reads it. Shares it with friends. Writes her own thoughts questioning the official narrative. Two years later she applies to college. Rejection letter. No explanation. Five years later she applies for a government job. Denied. Background check flagged. Her search for truth at age 16 is now a permanent record. Her curiosity is evidence of non-compliance. Her questions are a social credit penalty that follows her for life.

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Glenn Meder @GlennMeder

2 days ago

3/ Online child safety laws sound reasonable. Protect children from predators. Shield them from harmful content. Verify age to keep kids safe. But here is what these laws actually do. They require identity verification to access any platform. Real name. Date of birth. Government ID scan. Biometric data. Tied to everything you read, watch, search, and share. And once your identity is attached to your search for truth, your search for truth becomes evidence against you.

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Glenn Meder @GlennMeder

2 days ago

1/ Your daughter is 16. She reads about a protest happening downtown. Police brutality. Government overreach. She does not know what to believe. The news says one thing. Social media says another. She wants to investigate. She wants to find the truth herself. So she opens her phone. Tries to access independent journalist accounts. Citizen reporters who were actually there. Raw footage. Unfiltered perspective. Access denied. Reason: Age verification required. Content flagged as potentially harmful to minors. Online child safety laws prohibit access without parental consent and identity verification. Your daughter cannot search for truth. The system decides what she is allowed to know.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

13 hours ago

@_carlbeijer What's surprising to me is how fast the processes are. 70 to 250 years. Britain's actually unusual in that it lost one Empire then created another. Probably losing the first Empire saved it.

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

13 hours ago

@_carlbeijer But yes, I think you're right. Probably dirt common, just no one wants to talk about it after the society has had its collapse. And it's usually "we don't need real fundamental change. What we're doing now just needs tweaks."

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

13 hours ago

@_carlbeijer Everyone's just looking for an argument to legitimate their preferences. Challenge these guys to say three things they found out that genuinely distressed them: that weren't what they wanted and lead to policies they hated before they started their "project."

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Ian Welsh @iwelsh

14 hours ago

@_carlbeijer I mean none of these people are even Milton Friedman level. He was wrong about essentially everything, but he was legitimately brilliant.