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I mean, it’s chronological order. But you’re right, Magician’s Nephew is a weird and troubling one Good strategy when rebooting

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m not a Victorianist, but I’ve read a lot of these titles, and Villette is a worthy one I recall a scandalized French schoolmaster sputtering, “outrageous insular audacity!” when the young British teacher does something unspeakable, like asserting herself or going out unaccompanied in public

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That’s some next-level, Goebbels-scale propaganda

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Some of the monkeys were dressed as human babies.” I struggle to imagine how this kind of torture would gratify anyone. Then that line hits, doubling down To me, torture is something so monstrous, so annihilating, that it calls everything about human beings into question Who are these people?

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kind of video is fascinating to watch But is there any potential harm to the animals? I assume the birds can range pretty widely, but if water is scarce, and you provide some in that spot for the mammals and reptiles a single time, does it alter their habits of where to seek it in the future?

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Humiliation’s hard to watch, no matter how deserving the victim might seem

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Pod Save Reactionary Centrist crowd? Are they affiliated with the Capitalist Running Dogs Caucus? Or was that the Fascist Insect that Eats the Life of the People Forum? Not that I object to Ossoff kicking the shit, metaphorically, out of the likes of Mike Rogers

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If he’s kicked out of the House, maybe he’ll leave politics and work on getting his soul back

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Keep the kids away from that house

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have a primordial and unslakable appetite for Cthulh-flavored humor

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No, the tech overlords - who made your fortune, and bought you your senate seat - bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents You know, the way the American economy has worked for four centuries Take it up with them

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not willing to entrust J.D. with the task of deciding who the “truly elite human beings” are

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Moral blind spots: no fascists on his list. No Confederates.

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Because his brain is melting, he leaves out part of the equation. The ‘weave’ is not properly woven So it’s not, “Go ahead, nuke California. We’re better off without LA.” It’s “Pay the price for the war, or kiss San Diego goodbye.”

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think people are misinterpreting what he said (and believe me, I know full well he’s capable of ANY vile thought or deed) He’s trying to claim that the war’s costs are trivial because it’s the price of stopping Iran from nuking us

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That’s a home-run line. Tip your cap!

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Has there ever been an episode of Reacher in which he uses realistic armed and unarmed techniques? That’s not why people watch Reacher, etc

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now that’s real ugliness

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What’s this about? If NATO responds to incursions into the Baltic States, don’t touch Kaliningrad, or we’ll be nuked? Because no way Putin risks annihilation over Kaliningrad Unfortunately, if things go badly enough for him in Ukraine, he just might end up facing a personally existential threat

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve slashed my Amazon purchases by about 80% since Bezos allied himself with Trump at the second inauguration, and I’m not going back Let’s wean ourselves

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Boat that small, it’s surprising they weren’t killed

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, because nothing dissipates political resistance like a vaccine analogy

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fantastic: “my racism is the proof that they’re not assimilated. It isn’t anything that they’re doing. Or not doing! It’s that they’re visible at all.” It’s ironclad

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Rehnquist Court’s rush to close off recount avenues was a travesty, but it’s pretty obvious that the recounts wouldn’t have changed the outcome for Gore Plenty of reason to excoriate the current Supremes independent of that

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Rehnquist Court’s rush decision to close down the recount was a travesty, but the recount wouldn’t have yielded a different outcome We were incredibly unlucky that the botched design of the Palm Beach County butterfly ballot provided Bush the margin he needed by diverting Gore votes to Buchanan

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You tell how diabolical the product is in proportion to the sickening treacly quality of the avatar

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are plenty of foolish and doctrinaire humanities types out there, too, but we’re not the ones destroying the planet

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s certainly a swaggy version of American militarism We can feel justified in having killed Nazis, though George S Patton would have gleefully jumped at the chance to wage any war we had on tap Morally best?

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hellmouth? Diet maintenance scheme?

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What historically attested cultures have been “rape-free?” I agree with what you’re saying here about patriarchy, rape culture on college campuses, the salutary effects of female socioeconomic power. And I don’t believe for a second in the evolutionary biology “inevitability” of rape.

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are there people who put miniature still-life paintings in their fridges?

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Truly invincible ignorance

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The list of lunatic claims Mike “really believes” is a long one Not reassuring

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Prey moralists”? He’s not an ubermensch, but he likes to pose as one online

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lifetime of harm to the public interest. Quite a legacy

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine the outpouring of global sympathy if the Iranians were to incinerate this guy

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have a lifelong record of partisan affiliation But every time I go on a road trip, I would gladly sell my vote to any candidate who pledged to raze to the ground these ambulance-chasing billboards that blight our great American cityscapes

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Celestial Broom? (Logo on his orange jacket) “celestial broom,” as a search term, brings you to a hitherto-unsuspected category of Halloween witch costume accessories

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As I understand it, they’re brave in part because they’re too fast for wolves to catch. They evolved to outrun the American cheetah, which went extinct. Wolves can kill sick or wounded pronghorns, or catch calves, but they’re not a threat to healthy adults

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The dumbest, and I mean the bag-of-hammers dumbest motherfuckers in our culture are the guys who believe “FAFO” has any meaning Not a philosophy, not a personality, not a strategy, not a rebuttal

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Though in actuality, I think that work is pretty cool

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cuing John Adams: I must study politicks and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy . . . . . . In order to give their children a right to study fine arts, so that their great-grandchildren can make tendentious postmodern installation pieces

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks for clarifying this. Still bullshit

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That would be stupid. Boorish. Parochial. But racist? Pretty thin Not that Mike Lee is anything less than a full-bore racist

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