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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And now we rise / And we are everywhere

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I stopped trading with every place I go shopping, I'd be a millionaire

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No matter what he does, he will always be a really pathetic human being

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trust: easy to piss away, hard to earn back

The transfer follows calls from European politicians and taxpayer lobbyists to repatriate gold reserves from the US, warning that an unreliable American government under President Donald Trump may otherwise seize them amid growing transatlantic tensions.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That was a beaut eh? Still makes me chuckle 30+ years later

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

about.jstor.org

An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. Iron Maiden x2 David Gilmour Tricky Leftfield Fish Grandmaster Flash Moby REM Australian Pink Floyd x5 Death In Vegas

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Night of the Hunter and The General

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reform party: the UK is America's closest ally! Please spit on our face instead.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chinatown The French Connection Performance The Holy Grail The Exorcist

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In all my time living abroad, I din't think I've never known anyone to say they were from "Britain". It's UK or England or Scotland or Wales or Norn Iron.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, it bloody well shouldn't've happened. But glad to see some wrongs can be righted.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Any other president said that...

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Problem: I'm So Tired Solution: Golden Slumbers

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/08/2026

Problem: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Solution: Foreign Object

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"I didn't cause those deaths, a big boy did it and ran away."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"They've done everything possible to eliminate us" — Iran captain Mehdi Taremi unleashes on FIFA and U.S. organizers

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I can't be the only person who thinks this is badly written? That run-on sentence in paragraph three for example. And you don't start a sentence with numerals.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The irony, of course, is that those would-be oligarchs do so in the name of freedom. But it is only their freedom that concerns them.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Oligarchies have different flavours, but they're all fundamentally the same: they reduce the power of the voters in favour of themselves.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Politics follows economics. We went from free markets to managed markets, in everything from football to banking to social media. So in politics the goal of some is to take away *uncertainty* in favour of *managed elections*.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most remarkable achievements in modern political history has been the emergence of "anti-establishment, anti-elite, people's army" parties - committed to "bringing back the nation-state" - that are led, directed & financed by the richest, most privileged & most mobile people on the planet

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

You don't really get "oeu" as a sequence in English, am I right?

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Jesus, go and touch grass, people. Leave the phone behind and get out there. The world is a messy place and all the better for it.

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Downing street mortars lobbed at Major in 1995

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing in their knees on the ground

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Mike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"I've got him now, and I'm not going to let him slip through my fingers."

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

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Letter from an English Department on the Brink | Sarah Blackwood

I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At

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