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Bryan Crain

@bryancrain88.bsky.social
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Mostly political re-skeets from a progressive liberal atheist. Occasional random stuff. Love healthy food, old books, the Internet, and autumn. Hate the cold.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12h
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 15h
I'll never be this good at anything. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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School gate to checkmate: British chess prodigy, 11, is youngest ever woman grandmaster
Bodhana Sivanandan’s father taught her to play age five and soon she was beating ex-champions. Now she is lighting up the Chess Olympiad
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 15h
Turns out the original Nazis were also incompetent clowns whom the public voted into office anyway. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 18h
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Jeremy @callmenerdy.com · 16h
In case you were wondering what it'd be like to talk to somebody from the 18% who "strongly approve" of the job Trump is doing.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
Secret Ingredient - Gator Days
 
Characters
 
Hannah - Goat - Daryl and Seth's Daughter

Daryl - Bear - Hannah's Papa
 
Seth - Otter - Hannah's Dad
 
Panel 1
 
Setting - The dinner table of the Hardy-Softbell house.
 
Hannah's family is having dinner.
 
Hannah: WOW! Dinner is extra good.
 
Daryl: Thank you. I tried a new secret ingredient.
 
Panel 2
 
Seth puts on a cute happy face. The backgrounds shifts to a pink color with hearts floating all around them.
 
Seth: Is it LOVE?
 
Daryl's face remains emotionless.
 
Panel  3
 
Daryl looks at Seth and responds.
 
Daryl: Toasted sesame oil.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Daryl: Love isn't a secret ingredient. I put love in everything.
 
Seth: Oh...
 
Panel 4
 
Daryl looks away.
 
Daryl: I used so much love and you never noticed.
 
Seth: I DID!
  
Daryl: From now on I'm putting sarcasm in yours.
 
Seth: NO!
 
Daryl: Yes.

Hannah is ignoring this and just browsing on her phone.
 
Hannah is ignoring all this and has pulled out her phone.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Share a TV show that raised you
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Alewyfe | 🍂 Kitchen🥧Wytchin' 🐝 @alewyfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎃 Advent progress... did #27 (with a little grim reaper scythe for a 7) and did some reworking on 25 and 20. These aren't perfect and I want to embellish them more (with lil pumpkins & spiderwebs and bugs and bats and and and) but also want to finally get this done in time to hold candy this year?
a patchwork layout of halloween and fall printed or felt fabric rectangles with numbers embroidered on them, laid out on a cutting mat on a table, with spools of embroidery floss on the last four squares that need to be stitched.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism. 
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
About five in five non-Trump voters also regret their vote.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I like that the god of wisdom has an elephant head. And these photos are amazing. apnews.com/photo-galler...
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India celebrates the elephant-headed god Ganesha, in photos
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Awesome's Razor: Anything that sounds too awesome to be true probably isn't true.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 25/09/2026
Qualia essays go where curiosity leads. This time, @walkingthedot.bsky.social asks: What would it mean for us to live in a hologram? www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seem...
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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine
The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
History will not forgive us . We do not deserve it
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just keep doing good where you can. The world can go to hell, keep doing good.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/09/2026
Leetle snack snack
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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
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I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026
There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So Politico is a threat to national security because they quoted CBS reporting. The original CBS reporting is not a threat to national security, because Trump likes Bari Weiss.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wednesday and Enid as an illustration of Carol Gilligan's ethics of rights vs ethics of care. Wednesday is isolationist, focused on personal achievement, lacking appreciation of the importance and impact of relationships. Enid is a social people-pleaser who needs to value herself and others equally.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Entropy comes for us all.
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My stomach just tried to communicate with me in some kind of alien language.
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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
College journalists bay-beeeeeee!
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Joe @joelastname.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm of two minds about this...
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wise of La Liga to put J. Jonah Jameson in charge of the Madrid derby. #football
A photo of the head referee from yesterday's Real-Atlético football match. He has a firm black mustache and a haircut that's short and gray on the sides, longer and blacker on top. He's wearing a bright greenish-yellow uniform and has his finger in his ear, communicating with the VAR referees (or possibly demanding more photos of Spider-Man).
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Bryan Crain @bryancrain88.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today I learned that Germany is smaller than Montana.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Misha Zimatskiy @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI is installing aimbot and acting like you're hot shit. You learn nothing. And eventually, your lack of built skills and knowledge catches up to you.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Students told us the temptation was greatest when they feared they would miss a deadline,” the report reads. IMO the underlying issue here is the labor practices these students are being fed into as they near adulthood. Learning is not about volume of output, but do these students understand that?
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The president of the United States declaring that he’s banning the free press should probably be a big news story. Maybe even bigger than Biden misspeaking occasionally.
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Purely Speculative @joleigh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously though, this is a great way to frame a response. All of sport has some aspect of “natural biological advantage” at play; a 6’3” person guarding a 5’7” person isn’t “fair” but happens in high school basketball all the time. Let kids play with their friends!
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The world did not end because WE DID NOT LET IT END The atmosphere has no hole in it BECAUSE WE FIXED THE HOLE WE BUILD THIS WORLD FROM DUST; IT WILL RETURN TO DUST THE MOMENT YOU STOP BUILDING IT anyway, yeah I've been thinking a lot about age and why it's important to talk to older people lol
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 16/09/2026
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted gizmodo.com/71-of-americans-say-the…
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/09/2026
Adolescents and young adults across the country are collapsing under the weight of isolation and pressure to succeed. There’s no easy fix—but it’s past time for Washington to do something. trib.al/jjpIq4T
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The Dire National Crisis That Washington Won’t Touch
Adolescents and young adults across the country are collapsing under the weight of isolation and pressure to succeed. There’s no easy fix—but it’s past time for Washington to do something.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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CoachN @coachn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“One of the teens, Luis Ochoa, told the agent he was a US citizen and the ICE agent’s response was, ‘I don’t give a damn. Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The first day of a vacation is a perilous day, where many mistakes can be made. And I say that to preface the fact that my husband and I have somehow ended up with eight loaves of bread.
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Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is great. I try to teach this idea in a class to varying success. It is so important but often hard for new writers to grasp (and all of us to remember.) Get the behavior right and the rest will follow.
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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The reason is not surprising at all, if you’ve been paying attention to the real world trajectory of renewable energy tech for the last couple decades, but supremely welcome news nonetheless! www.latimes.com/california/s...
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The surprising reason California survived record summer heat without blackouts
California has quietly, but dramatically, increased the resiliency of its electrical grid through a significant expansion in battery energy storage.
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