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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

who invented kimchi fries and where can i find them so i can give them all my money and the deed to my house

a takeout container with a little sauce remaining and a fork left in it

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

TIL that there's an entire subreddit devoted to the sale of high-quality copper JK it's about Ea-Nasir

A cartoon captioned "Only kids born in 3700 BC can relate." Three cartoon animals speak. Animal 1: My mom wants me to be a scribe. Animal 2: My dad wants me to be a great warrior. Animal 3: I want to be a low-quality copper merchant.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

tell me you found me on the aarp mailing list without telling me -- (okay but i have a dvd player and tbh a lot of these look pretty good and this isn't amazon so ...)

Cover of a DVD catalogue called The Big Book of Movies, "presented by Critics' Choice." Illustrated with comic-book-style images of many movie stars: Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Murphy, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and so on

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Anyone happen to know the thug pushing the woman to the ground? Images clipped from Instagram video of decent human beings resisting the #ICE raid in lower #Manhattan the other day.

During an ICE raid in Manhattan, a white man with close-cut dark hair, wearing a vest with "police" on it, is pushing to the ground a woman wearing a navy backpack.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"Such behavior is disgraceful." They got that much right, but slapping my thigh here at the idea that racism and misogyny are contrary to Rethuglican values.

Statement from the board of directors of the Young Republican National Federation says "We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement represents. Those involved must immediately resign from all positions within their state and local Young Republican organizations. We must hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity, respect, and professionalism."

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

history embedded in language vanishes & i guess it's inevitable but i don't have to like it gritting my teeth as a political commentator i admire reveals that she thinks "kid gloves" are gloves you use on kids er not quite

Photographer's caption: Baby goats at the crag (Sleeping Wall), Vang Vieng, Laos.

Description: Two black kids perched on a rocky cliff. The one on the left is facing rightward and toward the viewer and has a white patch on its side. The one on the right is facing leftward, toward the viewer, and is nearly vertical, with its hindquarters up in the air.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Behold these ICE agents, seen in Lake County, IL, on Sep. 16. Note the tattoo on the underside of the left arm of the driver. Name and shame? #ICE #ChickenshitMotherfuckers

Two white men in a vehicle. Both wear ball caps and have beige face masks and sunglasses obscuring their faces. They seem to be wearing police-type equipment but no uniforms and no visible indication of what agency they do or don't represent. The one on the left, in the driver's seat , has a tattoo on the underside of his left forearm: a five-pointed red star with a black V over it.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If any of the military brass needed confirmation that the CinC is deranged, he has helpfully provided that confirmation. Every time he opens his mouth where they can hear him, I feel a little bit safer.

"I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way," he said at one point, pausing a riff about tariffs to bring up a 1950s documentary series about naval warfare. "I used to watch 'Victory at Sea.' I love 'Victory at Sea.'"

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Neither MULCT nor CALUMET is acceptable. Am reminded of why I avoid this stupid puzzle for months on end.

Screenshot of the New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle. Letters are A, C, E, U, L, T, plus M in the center

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A visit to the #JamaicaBayWildlifeRefuge takes me from the Broad Channel stop on the A train to a nearby bus, super convenient yes but Broad Channel is the scariest neighborhood in NYC: RWNJs all the way down. However, I do not think this sign says what Mr Sliwa thinks it says.

A campaign yard sign. It reads "Fighting for Queens. Curtis Sliwa for NYC Mayor."

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Sometimes a bird has to work SO HARD just to enjoy a little snack. 🥲 #BirdSky #Warblers #MigrationSeason #Green-WoodCemetery #Brooklyn

A Black-and-White Warbler is perched on a bare branch, facing down. Dangling from the bird's beak is an insect, apparently an earwig. Blue sky behind.

Oops, the earwig seems to be giving the warbler some trouble: it's now at a 90-degree angle upward from the beak.

Success! At least, success for the warbler: now only a tiny bit of insect protrudes from the bird's beak.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Brilliant sunshine & not hot yesterday, so I headed for #JamaicaBayWildlifeRefuge w/camera & binoculars, hoping for early migrants. Naturally I got no good pix of either warblers or shorebirds despite seeing plenty of both. However ...! #Birds #BirdSky #Invertebrates

Peregrine falcon perched on a bare branch, looking to the right and down. Leafy green background. I am here to tell you that Peregrine necks apparently incorporate ball bearings, because this bird's body remained still while the head disappeared around the corner to the left.

Eastern Kingbird perched on a bare branch, facing rightward. Leafy branches and blue sky in the background. The Kingbird's tail feathers are looking kind of ratty from this angle, so I guess somebody molted late or else narrowly escaped a raptor. That Peregrine Falcon, for example.

Common Green Darner dragonfly seen from behind and above. The spot on its head that looks like an eye is clearly visible, as is the veining on the transparent wings. I love insects but that eyespot is frankly skeevy.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Brachycephalic dogs often sleep in this position because it helps widen their airway and decreases their chronic respiratory distress. Despite what the well-meaning person who originally posted this believes, it's not cute. It's tragic. #Dogs #Brachycephaly #BrachycephalicAnimals

Three images of a pug lying on her back on the floor, captioned by the original poster "I regret to inform everyone that Lily has lost her bones and is now ded."

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This one too. Adolf Wissel, "Farming Family from Kalenberg," 1939. Bought by Hitler for 12K RM (per Swiss National Museum blog, "Extreme Pictures from Extreme Times"). The same nonsense, over and over.

A farm family around a table. Three young children: one in the mother's arms; a boy staring straight out at the viewer; and a girl with her hair in braids writing or drawing. Father and grandmother seem to be looking at each other. There's a vague, barely visible rural background.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Adolf Wissel, "Farming Family from Kalenberg," 1939. Bought by Hitler for 12K RM (Swiss National Museum blog, "Extreme Pictures from Extreme Times") Nothing to see here, kids.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A Great Spangled Fritillary from my garden yesterday. The magenta Buddleia brings all the pollinators to the yard. (And then clashes horribly with them.) #butterflies #pollinators #WildlifePhotography #fritillaries

butterfly on magenta buddleia flowers, wings closed so blue-spotted orange and brown undersides are visible

Butterfly on buddleia. The spread wings are edged in white, then a band of orange and black, then dark chocolate brown around the butterfly's body.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Eventually, having been chased from pillar to post (branch to branch to tree to tree) for some time, the hawk alit in this stream and stayed for a few minutes before taking off again for parts unknown.

Red-tailed Hawk standing in a shallow stream among rounded stones.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Redtail being dive-bombed by a Baltimore Oriole. (Not the crispest photo, owing to overcast and backlight.) The audio would be about a million American Robins yelling their heads off, + occasional distress calls by the hawk. #birds #ProspectPark #Brooklyn

Red-tailed Hawk perched on a bare branch and looking up toward a Baltimore Oriole in flight. Both against a backdrop of tree leaves.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This Redtail was being harassed by American Robins and Common Grackles, and was in turn harassing a Cooper's Hawk (which was also being harassed by the Robins and Grackles).

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

#Green-WoodCemetery last Sunday, nice & sunny, & thankfully the COVID symptoms didn't show up till after I got home. The Green Heron's prey is-- uh, was -- probably a dragonfly nymph. #Birds #Brooklyn #BirdPhotography

Green Heron in the process of swallowing its prey

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

this is the kind of thing that just fucking enrages me, this liberal classist bullshit. "hillbillies," for god's sake. "plumbers." you know, those unworthy tacky low-class people, such bad taste. next, the ragging on poor people for having bad teeth.

clip of bluesky post reading "And they aren't totally wrong. Lots of wealthy americans really are that classless. Being forced to watch Below Deck by my S.O. recently and I get that it's a self-selecting sample. But very clearly these are just American hillbillies whose plumbing or car dealership got really big.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I don't even care if Leo really did eat their canes, but also consider: Cat eats dogs. No I can't help myself.

Photo of a sign for the Wieners Circle, with lettering in Latin reading "Canes nostros ipse comedit." Translation above reading "He has eaten our dogs."

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

istg this carolina wren was screaming at me maybe it was confusing me with one of my weaksauce congresscritters i'm doing what i can, wren! #ProspectPark #Birds #BrooklynNY

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

but um not when there were deranged fascists in charge of the government soooooooooooooo past performance is no predictor of future results amirite

Screencap from the New York Times. Relevant part reads "The U.S. stock market has always recovered from declines, usually within a couple of years."

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Chickadee, #Green-WoodCemetery, #Brooklyn. Hooray for holding still long enough for me to get something resembling focus! #Birds

Chickadee foraging on the leaf-covered ground, amid dried plant stalks

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ruddy Duck at #Green-WoodCemetery, #Brooklyn. Swam a few feet away from me when I accidentally woke it, then resumed napping. #Birds

Ruddy Duck, swimming away from the viewer and facing right; the water ripples all around it

Ruddy Duck, seen from the rear, with head partly tucked away for napping, but one eye remains open.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I don't often see these guys out of the water. Was so mesmerized by the feet that I didn't register the beak at first and wondered what the hell I was looking at. (Answer: Northern Shoveler duck) #Birds #ProspectPark #Brooklyn

northern shoveler duck on snowy, icy lakeshore with scattered branches. the duck is facing the camera and flapping its wings. its bright orange feet contrast sharply with the white ice & snow.

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Here's another one, who appears to be a fan of "womensportfeminism"

Charles Arthur, @charlesarthur.bsky.social

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

come on. musk stages a coup, an actual freaking coup, and the nyt has nothing to talk about but tariffs? (granted the tariffs are idiotic, but sheesh.)

screenshot of the new york times front page, with headlines about tariffs and human evolution, but no mention of doge's coup at the treasury department

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Behold the Neville Chamberlain of Brooklyn. I hope he has people screaming outside his house every night for the next two years, until someone primaries the fuck out of his cowardly ass.

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