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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Simple peace plan. Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries. Step two: There is no step two.

addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That's the kind of western conceit that blinded the west to the threat of Islamic terrorism in the years approaching 9/11. It's a sort of Bug Blatter Beast of Traal logic: "If I don't believe in a god, therefore no one else does either; if my invocations of religion are cynical, so are everyone's."

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It sums up where I am pretty neatly insofar as I want nothing to do with either of them, the one a bland modern contrivance, the other an atavistic relic of a past I thought we'd outgrown as a species, and it's depressing, sometimes, seeing how popular they are.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Technically he's right: His administration is "the talk of the world." Just—not how he means.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Sigh. Better buy that Band-Maid merch before August 1.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

No, it doesn't. Rather, it comes down to whether people who *aren't* like us can be detached from the Trump coalition and persuaded to vote against him.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The next logical trend in the #hiring AI arms race will be companies offering applicants a "premium" option: Pay to put your application in front of the hiring manager, bypassing the AI filters. Soon thereafter, only paid applications will be considered seriously—and eventually, accepted.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What a revoltingly glib way to talk about killing a human being—even an enemy. Regardless of what the administration does on Iran (regardless even of what it should do), this is not how it should be speaking. www.npr.org/2025/06/17/n...

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Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict

President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Really? Anger is the thing of which we need most right now? Calibrate your enthusiasm.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And to think these people don't think they're in a cult.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Federal health authorities should treat it as a public health issue. Other parts of the federal apparatus can treat it as a different kind of problem. We can do both. I have no problem with appropriate parts of the latter investigating how it started, and finding patient zero is valuable.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The judges in these cases should move as quickly as they would want judges to be moving if it was they themselves who had been extraordarily renditioned—because in the days to come, it very well might be them. Move. Faster.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The Supreme Court said that, being equally divided, it didn't have a majority to reverse the decision below. Nothing more. It happens.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This is normal. This is literally the way all 4-4 cases are dismissed.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution. State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim. Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates. Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Jesus Christ, it's Air America all over again. They've learned nothing.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I was a Metallica and Anthrax guy. I never understood Slayer, nor or its appeal. I understood why people liked Megadeth, but I never did.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To use an Amos-ism, people are caught up in the churn. The rules have changed, and people soaked in the old ways can't adapt. Change or die.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Democrats' line of attack on Trump should be that he and his cretinous creatures flunk the "merit" test with which he claims to be replacing DEI. Democrats should say loudly that they are really for merit, as against what Trump really stands for: A thumb on the scale for mediocre white men.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Craig was right. AI is garbage. The problem is that the other execs were also right: AI is very popular, revolutionary even, and it has yielded a rising flood of garbage. How we turn off the garbage spigot is the next challenge. 9to5mac.com/2025/05/18/s...

9to5mac.com

Gurman: Siri upgrades 'unlikely to be discussed much' at WWDC next month, more - 9to5Mac

In a new, lengthy report regarding Apple’s AI strategy, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has detailed a number of strategic failures for...

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Remarkable that Fox News is now dragging him.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

You died, m'lud, much to our sadness, and much to the delight of Hughes—that old goat.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

There are no GOP members with a moral compass; not any more. There are no GOP members with a backbone, nor even the capacity to grow one; not any more. This administration, like Take One, is pure malice limited only by incompetence.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Laws"? "Now"? Who are you kidding? Who would pass those laws? We aren't going to have a functional Congress for twenty months minimum. There is no "now." If you want to stop this, it's going to take revolutionary action.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Edmund Burke understood this well. If the public wants a secure ballot, you can either secure it with reasonable trade-offs, or, eventually, pressure will build and they, having used the issue to depose you and obtain power, will impose security with unreasonable trade-offs.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The so-called "SAVE Act," like the government's (illegal) onslaught on migrants legal and otherwise, is the result of elites ignoring the concerns of the hoi polloi for years. Pressure must be released safely and responsibly or it will build until it reaches a point of catastrophic rupture.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"Why did you vote for it?" "Because it wouldn't pass the Senate." "Okay, but you're not answering the question. Why did you vote for it? You're insinuating that you got something else in return for a "harmless" vote; what was the quo? What if the quid proves less harmless than expected?"

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

If the next pope does this to the last one, it will be a very good sign.

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Ana Braga🦋💙 🌊 @theanabraga.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Right? 👇🏽🤢

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The irony is that I'm no more welcome in trad parishes. Large parts of SSPX would regard me as a heretic, because large parts of tradworld conflate a certain aesthetic preference (one I don't share) and certain theologies and ecclesiologies (of which I'm skeptical) with the adamantine faith.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pope Francis leaves, for me, a legacy of disillusionment and dysregulation. But he did permission me to take up space in NO parishes unapologetically: If (per TC) trads can't do trad things at trad Masses in trad parishes, NOs are just going to have to put up with us doing trad things at NO Masses.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A country still nursing a chip on its shoulder from a "century of humiliation" by the west (a century that was not even the last century, already 25 years in the past) is not going to kowtow to a western power. Period.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Let his epitaph be "Rudera relinquo, quam marmoream accepi." If that Augustan barb is overstatement, it is so only by omission: The marble he found was covered in sewage and weeds, and instead of draining the sewage and removing the weeds, he dynamited the marble.

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Would they please stop calling it deportation? It isn't deportation. Call it what it is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraor...

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Extraordinary rendition - Wikipedia

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addictivegadget.bsky.social @addictivegadget.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Great, just don't make Twitter's mistake: Make it available to anyone who meets reasonable criteria, not just the elite.

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