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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OK but guys, Chrome still can't deal with Canadian spelling or postal codes

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It is genuinely incredible how certain people will know absolutely nothing about a subject yet pronounce on it confidently, projecting their own views as though timeless and ironclad

Skeet insisting Lupita’s looks are “very different from what was considered ideal at the time”

An excerpt from Frank Snowden Jr’s Blacks in Antiquity which notes there was no inherent beauty value assigned to skin color in classical literature

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Warrior culture." The fuck are you talking about. You look like you trained a horse to jump off a diving board.

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Lane Hutson Enjoyer @adlemm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Who wore it better?

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem" is the best band name of all time

Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (the band from the Muppets)

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"I'm going to lose weight this year." [some asshole invents salt and vinegar pistachios]

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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I’m also getting to the point where I really appreciate how the original Star Wars was portrayed as being part of a larger narrative without feeling the need to expand on what the rest of the story was. I like telling “middle story” stories as art-pieces without needing a before or an after.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Exactly one year ago today:

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Pete @peeete.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

There used to be a speed camera here.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Headline:
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Cool cool, so it's going to keep dragging my 7yo daughter's corpse along the road after it kills her, huh?

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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Hard agree. The best cities I’ve lived in have been full of all different kinds of people. Places that are overwhelmingly single culture can be nice to visit but I think I’d eventually succumb to utter boredom living there.

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

99.9% of acoustic cover songs are slow and boring and should not be on the radio.

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Yeah well I grew up in a mushroom village, so I’m not really used to how you do things. We used big giant mushrooms as our houses. We used bioluminescent mushrooms as lamps. And we didn’t try to change the plan last second if the other person already made reservations I guess that’s normal here

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Yeah, everything looks good. We just have a couple more questions about your last position as CEO of doin my own thang

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/12/2025

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Nobody who joins ICE has ever had friends, enjoyed sex, or made another person happy in any way. They’re miserable bastards and they only want to spread their misery, to offload it. They will fail at this, too. Their misery will just get worse. I have scientific proof of this.

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If only the Toronto Police had some way of knowing in advance where the vandals will strike

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

All the panics & long features about political correctness & “free speech” on college campuses - with real buy in from centrist pundits at prestigious mags - was always a ruse for this: right-wing control over universities

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

They should have called this So You Think You Can Swim

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters.

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago.

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety.

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think-

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q: They're not really.

A: Those are like different genres.

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different.

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“Across military Reddit forums and enlisted meme pages, Hegseth has become a regular target of satire, often referred to with nicknames such as "DUI Hire," "Whiskey Leaks" and "Kegseth."” www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the Pentagon's top civilian leader during his first months on the job, casting himse...

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

God I am so tired of seeing this same weirdo pronatalist couple in the media all the time

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Another one for the “economic concerns as a mask for cultural concerns” file. This delusion that manufacturing jobs will come roaring back if we cast the right policy spell isn’t really about that being a desirable economic goal, but about romanticizing Manly Work.

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Love spotting a tktk in the wild. (iykyk)

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Zone of Pinterest

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Adam McDowell @adammcd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sounds like ~somebody~ didn't watch Duck Tales episodes to their heartwarming conclusions

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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