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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan

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Loves my wife, dogs, wine, nature, and slowly trying to get the U.S. Department of Defense to be more climate-resilient.

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DC Beer @dcbeer.com · 08/10/2026
It is 3 PM, 2 days before Snallygaster. It is time.
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Snallygaster 2026: The Power Rankings | DC Beer
Well, here we are again. And here you are. There used to be some consensus, reflected in the power rankings, among DC Beer regarding what Snallygaster was
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That this wasn’t a category today makes me so mad
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch
Chart with headline “The Us has little incentive to ease the global gas squeeze”.
The charts show European (Dutch TTF) prices rising from $10 per MMBtu to nearly $30 now, while US prices have remained mostly flat below $5
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well I’m sure this is going to create some problems in the short term while having no immediate way to fix it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Declaring a National Emergency to Secure the United States Bulk-Power System
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So they’re raiding Navy payroll to fund bombs. If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about how Republicans ‘support the troops’, I don’t know what will
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Got to do a fun, cool thing and dress up like a fool to do it. I call that a successful weekend!
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fantastic thread on this issue
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026
Above all, we need to stop talking about AI as *exceptional*. AI is normal. A normal technology has some uses, but isn't useful for all things and all people. A normal technology isn't inevitable, it's something you decide whether you want to use or not. 25/
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
August 9, 1955 – Canadian physicist Gilbert Plass submits his paper allouryesterdays.info/2024/08/08/a...
Screen grab of Plass "Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change"
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If only someone had mentioned this before, like for the last 20 years, with ever increasing evidence
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This game is completely nuts
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Strong start for England, but I said the same thing for the game against Argentina
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Even Taco Bell looked out and thought, “hey, this seems like a LOT of diarrhea, even for us”
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This looks absolutely hideous and is going to cost taxpayers a lot to fix during the next administration
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
They say: “American History is Worth Learning” [Posts picture from British history].
Facebook post from the US Department of Education with an image of British suffagettes that ironically says “American history is worth learning.”
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This Egypt goalie is doing an amazing job
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This Cape Verde game is nuts!
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
oh my god

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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

By Ken Harbaugh
An illustration of a rocket headed from a shadowy female figure toward a soldier whose face is illuminated by the glow of his phone
Illustration by Ann Kiernan
June 21, 2026

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For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine’s occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her.

“Send me a picture,” she said. “I want to see your life.”

One afternoon, he obliged—a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit’s position.

The housewife did not exist. “She” was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine’s military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country.

“Serhiy was great at flirting,” his commander told me. “Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.” Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone.
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A glorious day here in Iowa. Best weather we’ve had visiting out here in a few years.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Now at hour two of sitting at the end of the runway to go the wrong way into air traffic for “operational” reasons. Seems like it would have been better operationally to take off like normal and then turn in the air, but what do I know?
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s nice that airlines will text you that your flight is going to be delayed so that you don’t need to get to the airport as early. It’s crazy that they then change the flight time back to the original time as if that’s not a massive problem!
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is just blatant corruption, and nothing will be done about it
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
one thing I find really interesting is that the worst-case oil shock scenarios seem to have been averted largely by china reducing demand by 40% (!) and no one knows exactly how (!!)
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵
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A GOP dirty tricks operation, exposed
Following the breadcrumbs from a “progressive” super PAC to a powerful Republican operative
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2026
Internet rules dictate that whenever you see the Tom Holland Umbrella video, you have to share it. I'm just following the rules.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/05/2026
1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
At 33 points, Trump’s approval rating is official lower than his felony count.
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Someone had to come face to face with his biggest fear today. I think he handled it well
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
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a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is just one more part of the slow moving train wreck that is coming our way that I was talking about the other day. There are so. many. follow-on effects from the imbecility.
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is a slow-motion train wreck that is coming our way. We’re going to see the impacts of this for a long, long time
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Being cute is hard work enough, Jack
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.
Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.  In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This dog is such a ham with women, but as soon as one of my friends comes over, he woos up a storm
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Mr Global 🌎 @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Oil Skyrockets youtu.be/goRs6oX7zms?...
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Crude Oil For Delivery Skyrockets Over 140.00 Per Barrel
YouTube video by Mr Global
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is an excellent and informative listen from @snellarthur.bsky.social. Tl;dr everyone is going to come back from their Easter break in a week and a half’s time and really start to freak the fuck out. open.spotify.com/episode/25WX...
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FILL YOUR TANK! PREPAY YOUR GAS BILL! IT REALLY IS AN ENERGY EMERGENCY
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Mr Global 🌎 @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The SPR Grift youtu.be/MLphPoriDfw?...
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Trump's Biggest Grift Of The American Taxpayer Is Coming In The Form Of The SPR Release
YouTube video by Mr Global
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It’s a Mad Mad Mad Madmartigan @adturbett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Yup, this is infuriating. OPLANs for decades have prepared for this. Why were none of them followed regarding this VERY foreseeable contingency?
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Mr Global 🌎 @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
They never even considered the fact the Strait of Hormuz would close. youtu.be/wfi93uX6HXk?...
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Trump Had No Plan For A Closure In The Strait Of Hormuz
YouTube video by Mr Global
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
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Jeff Galvin @docgalvin64.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You will never find a more joyful performer on the planet. Love her to death! youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1...
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canon in D but it keeps getting jazzier
YouTube video by George Collier
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
When Matt’s right he’s right
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/02/2026
Brokers have told the FT that war risk insurers have submitted cancellation notices for policies covering ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil chokepoint, with prices set to rise as much as 50% in the coming days ft.trib.al/Dc82Tff
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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