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brike @brike.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
important view, but underplays seriousness of 1) unexplained cancer crisis and 2) food additives (like titanium dioxide) that more sensible countries ban and we don’t. i have to pretend not to care about those b/c some bad people care? (might start posting like this to record thought, avoid arg.)
somebody’s post about clean food, air, medicine, and water.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sky full of frigate birds above Pasadena this afternoon. (Pinellas County FL.)
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
is this white bird an albino mourning dove? seen today in & near a library in pinellas county, fl. #birds
white dove-like bird walking inside a building, looking at a windowwhite dove-like bird in the hands of a librarianwhite dove-like bird near a bench outside the library
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Wu Jintu and Hu Jintao Have rarely shared a line, till now; Now Hu Jintao and Wu Jintu Have shared not just one line, but two
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings! St Pete, Tyrone by 66th st.
crowd holding signs and American flags at a no kings protest
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Pitch an unnecessary sequel. My Second Cousin Vinny
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
There are mentshen in that mansion!
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
i feel like this exchange took a wrong turn here. the question raised earlier is whether the technology is dangerous, not whether the companies are sound. if the companies all go bankrupt and the code & assets are bought up at firesale prices, the tech does not become less dangerous.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Cover me in blubber, baby, cover me in tar Hoist that harpoon to your shoulder, throw it straight and far Let’s go brave the stormy seas Does the captain have two knees?
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
On the eve of 1000+ rapid response "Ice Out for Good" protests, here's our generation's phil ochs/bob dylan/john prine/you get the idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...
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Good vs. Ice
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
update: i finally read this wonderful book. i didn’t know about the after-catastrophes (génocidaires hide in, & stage further killings from, international aid-funded camps on the border). the interviews w paul kagame are extensive and amazing. grateful to gourevitch & his team & sources.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I did a Q&A with Violet Feng on her new film:
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
this article is amazing. (yes, i too have nearly canceled my nytimes subscription many times.) Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
i just swam for the first time in a very long time. feeling grateful for people, who made this moment possible. people, organized in groups, built this pool and maintain and guard it. people did the science and passed on the knowledge and learned to take and then took the steps…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Keep this story in the news. "Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney" www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I’m Ozyman! Who are you? Are you - Mandias - too? Then we’ve a pair of legs! No trunk! Our visage lies - in sand! Our sneering - passions - yet survive! Our pedestal does say - “Despair, you Nobodies” - the Sands - Stretch level far away!
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I can never remember if I was drugged in the Epstein Ballroom, or balled in the Epstein Drugroom.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
From the No Kings protest in St Pete (Pinellas County) Florida this morning. Good energy. Large crowd along Tyrone Boulevard near 66th Street. Road traffic full of honking and thumbs-ups, including many heavy-duty trucks. That was a highlight - I did not know so many of them were on our side.
Three people in inflatable frog costumes and a couple of American flags. In the background, people holding protest signs. Blue sky, palms and other trees.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
i take jay’s side on this one; i read how i like. i think samuel johnson (1709-1784, and one of the great readers of the english-speaking world) would agree, and dispute the point about algorithms. screenshots are from boswell’s life of johnson (1791).
Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON.
'I have looked into it.' 'What, (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?' Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly,
'No, Sir, do YOU read books THROUGH?'
He said, 'if a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it, to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.'
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Remarkable how the tone of the New York Times has changed.
NYTimes headline “Trump Uses U.N. Speech to Make False Claims and Lecture World Leaders” from online front page, with image of a deranged, exhausted, and rotten-orange-peel-looking trump speaking at the UN.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
i agree. also talking to a younger version of yourself (“answer as if you were me at age 35”). and modeling good behavior. “the four of us just had a fight at the dinner table…play that scene back to us, showing each of us being 10% calmer, gentler, and more generous.”
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
One year ago today! Happy Tom Homan Takes a $50,000 Bribe From Undercover FBI Agents On Camera Day!
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025
Dutch late night TV has its take
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I wish I had a larger audience to share this with. It’s a long read but important. The article demolishes the dubious points defending the funding cuts that I recently heard from my oncologist. (He’s a good doctor with bad politics.) 🧵
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Peaceful • hépíng • 和平 When I say war I mean it very peacefully. 我说战争,我的意思是很和平的。 Wǒ shuō zhànzhēng, wǒ de yìsi shì hěn hépíng de.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/09/2025
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a fascist, everyone looks like a foreign invader.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
School/campus • xiàoyuán • 校园 A school-shooting-promotion company has acquired a school-shooting-prevention company. “This is called ‘synergy’.” 一家校园枪击推广公司收购了一家校园枪击预防公司。“这就叫‘综效’。” Yījiā xiàoyuán qiāngjī tuīguǎng gōngsī shōugòule yījiā xiàoyuán qiāngjī yùfáng gōngsī.“Zhè jiù jiào ‘zōngxiào’.”
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Almost • chàdiǎn • 差点 That indecent drawing almost made me puke. 那幅不雅的画差点让我吐了。 Nà fú bù yǎ de huà chàdiǎn ràng wǒ tǔle.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Won’t • bú huì • 不会 I won’t tell you what it is. 我不会告诉你它是什么。 Wǒ bù huì gàosù nǐ tā shì shénme.
Screenshot of the actual Trump birthday message to Epstein, as published in today’s WSJ, consisting of a simple black-sharpie-drawn outline of a female torso w small curved lines suggesting breasts, with words in a screenplay-like format saying the following: 

“Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything.

Donald: Yes. there is, but I won't tell you what it is.

Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is.

Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.
Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you.

Donald: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Donald J. Trump”

Followed by the first half of that idiotic very-tall signature we’re all familiar with now, first-name only, presumably because donald and jeffrey are besties.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Delay • yánchí • 延迟 There is a slight delay while we determine which player I will replace in the final. 在我们确定我将在决赛中替换哪位球员时,出现了一点延迟。 Zài wǒmen quèdìng wǒ jiāng zài juésài zhōng tìhuàn nǎ wèi qiúyuán shí, chūxiànle yīdiǎn yánchí.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Even • lián • 连 Everything here reminds me of something. Even the sky reminds me of my old friend Jeffrey Epstein. 这里的一切都让我想起了一些东西。连天空也让我想起了我的老朋友杰弗里·爱泼斯坦。 #Friendship #友谊 #Epstein #爱泼斯坦 bsky.app/profile/itsa...
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
In honor of our friend Mr. Trump, we are proud to introduce balls named for his friend Mr. Epstein.
Yellow tennis ball with ‘Epstein’ on it in bold letters.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
To eat • chī • 吃 There is some shit I will not eat. 有些屎我不会吃。 Yǒuxiē shǐ wǒ bù huì chī. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_sing_...
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i sing of Olaf - Wikipedia
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Ally • méngyǒu • 盟友 Our allies can fend for themselves. We have unidentified boaters to kill! 我们的盟友可以自己照顾自己。我们要消灭那些身份不明的船民! Wǒmen de méngyǒu kěyǐ zìjǐ zhàogù zìjǐ. Wǒmen yào xiāomiè nàxiē shēnfèn bùmíng de chuánmín!
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
When I say Tennis you say EPSTEIN! Tennis……EPSTEIN! Tennis……EPSTEIN! 我说网球你就说爱泼斯坦! 网球……爱泼斯坦! 网球……爱泼斯坦! Wǒ shuō wǎngqiú, ni jiù shuō Àipōsītǎn! Wǎngqiú……Àipōsītǎn! Wǎngqiú……Àipōsītǎn!
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Chinese vocab: Thoughtful • zhōudào • 周到 When Trump makes life worse he thoughtfully also makes it shorter. 川普让生活变得更糟,也周到地让它变得更短。 Chuānpǔ ràng shēnghuó biàn dé gèng zāo, yě zhōudào de ràng tā biàn dé gèng duǎn.
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Mandarin vocab: Of course • dāngrán • 当然 The CDC, of course, will be renamed The Department of Death. 当然, CDC将更名为死亡部门。 Dāngrán, CDC jiāng gēngmíng wèi sǐwáng bùmén.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
He ought to want to call it the Department of Death - it sounds scarier. But that name’s already taken. (It’s the new name of the CDC.)
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Thanking Captain Planecrash @justwilding.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Chinese vocab time! Taller • gèng gāo • 更高 Use it in a sentence: He is five foot ten, but taller when he stands on the Epstein Files. 他身高五英尺十英寸,在爱泼斯坦档案上站着更高。 Tā shēn gāo wǔ yīngchǐ shí yīngcùn, zài àipòsītǎn dàng'àn shàng zhànzhe gèng gāo.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
comparing search results for duck duck go vs google. ddg makes it easy to avoid ai, but didn’t find what i was looking for here. google shoves its (worse-than-useless) ai results in your face, but eventually found what i was looking for. a billy crystal joke from back in the day.
duck duck go search results for the phrase “i got cystitis and amadeus” (“soft” search, without quote marks around the search terms). first results are from facebook, mayo clinic, and cleveland clinic, and relate to cystitis as a medical condition. duck duck go search results for the phrase “cystitis and amadeus” (“hard” search, with quote marks around the search terms). no results available.google search results for the phrase “i got cystitis and amadeus” (“soft” search, without quote marks around the search terms). first result is ai overview. it says “It seems you are saying you have both cystitis and are taking a medication called Amadeus.” below that it shows a result from the mayo clinic about cystitis as a medical condition. google search results for the phrase “cystitis and amadeus” (“hard” search, with quote marks around the search terms). first result is ai overview: “Cystitis and the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are not directly related. Cystitis is a medical condition, while Mozart was a historical figure known for his musical talent.” below that garbage it shows the result i was looking for - from imdb, the first part of an old billy crystal joke: ‘My wife comes home from the gynecologist - she says, "Buddy, I got cystitis and Amadeus."... Wait! I said, "Is it serious?" She says, "Parts of it - but the ...’
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
i’ve bought - or borrowed from the library - many books based on the recommendation of accounts on this site. i hope tagging the recommender is proper etiquette. this short thread will be the most i’ve ever posted.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
sounds weird to me too - but the OED has it as a verb (and cites Shakespeare and John le Carré).
photo of page of Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, published 1989, reprinted 2000) showing short entry for “safe” as a verb. cites shakespeare (“should safe my going,” 1606) and le carré (“we…safed their courier links,” 1974), among others.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
On NYT’s Chinese-language website it’s the top story(!) (“Military Parade and ‘No Kings’ Protest - Two Events on Same Day Highlight Sharp Divisions in American Society”). Very different editorial decisions for this audience.
Screenshot of homepage on NYT’s Chinese-language version (纽约时报中文网). Top headline is 阅兵式与“不要国王”抗议:同日两场活动凸显美国社会尖锐分歧 (“Military Parade and ‘No Kings’ Protest - Two Events on Same Day Highlight Sharp Divisions in American Society”).
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Obvious point, but: this admin knows perfectly well how to facilitate the release & return of prisoners held abroad, and knows that the court has not ordered it to “forcibly extract” anyone. Here are some prisoners they’ve facilitated the release & return of since January:
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I'm not going to speak for other Jews, but for me personally: I find it pretty fucking galling for the Trump administration, which is staffed in large part by Nazi sympathizers, to use antisemitism as an excuse for their racism and xenophobia.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
3:06am ET. Sen. Booker appears to be wrapping up? Joked w presiding officer. But very much in earnest about saving Social Security from in-process destruction. More than late-night speeches is required. I hope much more will come. But right now I am genuinely moved.
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brike @brike.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
He sold himself his own dog for $33 billion. (Pictured quote from Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair, April 2009.)
“You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.” Excerpt from Michael Lewis, “Wall Street on the Tundra,” Vanity Fair April 2009.
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