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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Google teaming up with Amazon to push JK Rowling reminds me of Apple pushing the U2 album except none of them have any reputation left to damage
Pixel system update info touting

"Harry Potter Audiobook Packs
Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter Audiobook Packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons, and sounds with elements from the audiobooks - no wand required. To begin your journey to Hogwarts, all eligible Pixel users will receive a two-month Audible free trial."
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found a Rarity-83 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 889 points · 10 rare words. 2 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/8SR3MA
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OUTLIER · Day 123
calixtus scored 889 on Day 123. Can you beat them?
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Who will be seen first: Mitch McConnell or Mojtaba Khamenei? Bonus question: alive or dead?
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
As England wraps up their 2026 run, I am reminded of this podcast about the creation of "World in Motion" A hilarious episode, and I will never think of the song the same way again. pca.st/episode/a72d...
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S2E8: World In Motion
New Order are scattered to the wind – pursuing solo projects. But in the background a plan to bring them back together is being hatched. In the final episode of Transmissions season 2, hear the story…
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Nominative determinism never fails
From Merriam-Webster

trumpery noun
trum·pery ˈtrəm-p(ə-)rē 
1 a : worthless nonsense
b : trivial or useless articles : junk

… a wagon loaded with household trumpery …
—Washington Irving

2 (archaic) : tawdry fineryThe stage for the Trump 250 MMA rumble looms over the White HouseFrom NOTUS

The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold

The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.Mock-up of a 250 Trump bill. 250 what? It doesn't say. Perhaps he also wants to decree that the dollar is now called the "Trump"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCOTUS hears arguments about Trump's EO on birthright citizenship today, a dispute no more valid than "can the President prohibit the free exercise of religion?" Anything other than 9-0 against Trump is a grave injury to the very idea of having a written Constitution, to the very idea of America.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
All workstations in this office have been updated with extra wide curved monitors, and a unanticipated side effect is that the screen of the guy sitting diagonally behind me is acting like a parabolic speaker and his phone call is blasting in my ear.
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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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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
China could address their demographic collapse by appealing to Americans' fears of a rogue SCOTUS. "Are you an 18-30 year old born in the United States to non-citizen parents? Afraid Donald Trump may strip your American citizenship? Come to China and receive citizenship in your first year."
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What happens when a democratic country has no nationally respected newspaper?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
The #NobelPeacePrize medal.

It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years.

Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine.

And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate.

But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.”

A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Putin: Ukraine is historically Russian and should be controlled by Russia. Send in the tanks. Netanyahu: Gaza and the West Bank are historically Israeli and should be controlled by Israel. Send in the tanks. Trump: America is historically white and Christian ...
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
[P] I can’t really overstate how important Tom Lehrer’s work was to me and to helping shape me as a writer and performer. He was a true one of a kind. I mourn his passing but celebrate all the musical gifts he left us.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It's got to be tough to be a wide receiver when you can't use your hands.
Bing news quiz doesn't know football from football or a winger from a WR
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Only a very evil person would use the grief and suffering of others to hide his own incompetence
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I know it's the flag, but an endless wall of red and white stripes looks stupid. One flag is sufficient. There is no legit reason for an array of the POTUS flag. Ever. That's not respect for the office, that's a show of personal dominance. And take off that f'ing hat.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thank god dems have finally figured out that their voters are angry and want a nasty, in-your-face fighter
Email header
From: Kamala Harris.com
Subject: Please let us explain
body preview: Here it goes:
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I have no idea whether the cybertruck has any practical uses, but for decades to come they will be the absolutely perfect vehicle for the villain's henchmen in a comic book movie
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
RFK Jr says he didn't know about kids who were disabled or merely different when he was a kid. Why? Because pre-IDEA many kids weren't allowed in schools, or faced too many barriers to even access the building. Trump wants to eliminate Dept of Ed and give the implementation of IDEA to RFK jr's HHS.
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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Due process if you’re guilty and due process if you’re innocent are the same thing! You can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
i am calling for due process for kilmar abrego garcia and his immediate return to his family in maryland. come at us all you fucking fascists.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I can't believe that "oppose Trump, unreservedly, his criminality is bad, his policies are bad, they're hurting people in various ways, they're not even popular, don't praise them or him at all, just oppose" is such a controversial position among prominent national Democrats, but it apparently is.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This hits harder if you followed what Trump did with the families of Abbey Gate victims. He brought them to Bedminister, brought them to RNC, basically worked with them as surrogates to trash Biden. Coffins coming on his watch? brb golfing
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Garbage @garbage.com · 25/03/2025
We’re thrilled to announce Happy Endings - our North American dates for 2025. This will be our first headline tour of the US in almost ten years. We hope you will choose to join us. Our artist presale starts Tues, Apr 1 @ 10am. Access the presale and VIP packages by signing up at garbage.com
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's telling that Trump's excesses fractured the conservative movement into MAGA and Never Trumpers, but the wildly authoritarian and politically toxic Project 2025 has had zero public impact on the Heritage Foundation. Has *anyone* announced they are parting ways with the group?
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Darth Return" is trending People are hungry for good news ☀️🌸🌱
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A much closer analogy would be "allowing someone who arrived on election day and stood in line before the polls closed to cast a ballot three hours after the polls closed," which is how it works for every election everywhere. You can't disenfranchise the voter because the government system is slow.
This is like allowing persons who arrive 3 days after Election Day, perhaps after a winner has been declared, to vote in person at a former voting precinct, which would be absurd.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just listened to the Euromixx "Blacksmith Mix" and "Goldsmith Mix" of The Smiths for the first time in 30+ years, and it's just as cringey "14 year old with a brand new dual cassette deck" as I remember youtu.be/Nwv8YKdBB4M?...
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The Smiths - The Blacksmith & Goldsmith Euromixes (CD Bootleg) FULL VERSION
YouTube video by swinzor
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The paradigm has shifted. MAGA is wildly radical, and Democrats are the true conservatives of the constitutional order. Win or lose, it is now Democrats' job to stand athwart history and yell "STOP!"
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 13/03/2025
The entire conversation around government funding is Washington at its worst. I cannot in good conscience vote for a bill that increases costs for Georgians, defunds care for servicemembers, and slashes investments in education and health care. I am voting NO on the partisan funding bill.
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 14/03/2025
Sen. Ossoff tonight announced he will oppose cloture and, if it comes to it, final passage on the partisan House budget proposal and issued the following statement —
“Among the risks to Georgia in the House GOP’s partisan budget proposal: it guts NIH research into diseases like Alzheimer’s and maternal mortality, funding for the prevention of violence against women, and Army Corps of Engineers construction of water infrastructure.
 
“The House bill also irresponsibly fails to impose any constraints on the reckless and out-of-control Trump Administration. The Administration is gutting the CDC and the VA while destabilizing the economy. Both parties in Congress must fulfill our Constitutional obligation to check the President.
 
“I will oppose the House budget proposal. The best available solution is a 30-day stopgap funding measure to avoid a shutdown, during which time Congress can do its job to properly pass a bipartisan budget.”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13/03/2025
This is an excellent clip. I wish more interviews of administration officials were this strong.
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Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
On my recent trip to Tokyo, I explained that death threats are functioning as the dark matter of the political system, distorting behavior without necessarily being visible.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Perfect time to roll out a smoke-belching gas generator that mounts in the back of a cybertruck to keep it charged. Available upgrades include 80-gallon gas tank and stars-and-stripes paint job.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What are the odds that the 27-year steelworker who raised 7 kids and fostered 40 others is in a union?
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This story, about a man who donated his rare form of lifesaving plasma a whopping 1,173 times to save the lives of literally millions of babies, is wonderful. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I don't know why Garbage or Shirley aren't over here yet, but let the countdown commence!
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The president of the United States has a brain made of jello
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Does Louis DeJoy have to be nominated and confirmed again, or is he just presumed Postmaster General for life now?
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Maxim Dorky, the Delaware Disparager @maxim-dorky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Manipulated screenshot from _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_, showing the scene where Indy brags about Marcus Brody's skill (in defiance of reality), spread across 3 panels. 
In the top panel, Indy (labeled "Millennials") says "Generation Alpha are digital natives. They've grown up already using every technology you had to adapt to."
In the middle panel, he continues: "They know every smartphone, watch 3 screens at once, spent 10 hours a day online. With any luck, they've hit the tech skills we need already."
In the bottom panel, Marcus Brody (labeled "Gen Alpha"), out of his depth in a crowd in Iskenderun where he sticks out like a sore thumb, is saying "Does anyone here know what a C drive is? Is it an app?"
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
As an American who enjoys heartfelt patriotic displays, it irks me that Trump will be president for the 250th anniversary of our nation (the semiquincentennial!) He will make it so schlocky and grift-filled that I dread seeing it. Then 2 years later he gets his own 1936 Olympics!
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"I was saved by God for his greater purpose... so buy my meme coin"
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
did he just say no one is doing anything to fight fires in LA?
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It's stunning to rewatch the video of Trump at the CIA lying about his crowd size in 2017 and see how much younger he looked. And he was laughing and joking and mugging faces through it all. Trump II is a much older, deeply embittered man. Hard to see how this will end well.
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Obvious ideas for DOGE if it was actually seeking efficiency, not symbolic budget slashing - Eliminate death penalty - Expand public transportation - Upgrade electrical grid for small, distributed generation - Replace proprietary election equipment with open-source code running on whitebox hardware
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Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lots of talk about "Day 1" but nothing about the day prior. Who should Biden pardon on his way out the door?
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