Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 6hGiven the frequency with which Parisian barricades are stormed, likely some future lives as well 030
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I was unable to sleep after the MASH episode when Hawkeye has a dream in which he detaches his arms. I was 7 at the time. My older sister helped me talk me through it 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An underrated aspect of the plowshares metaphor is that even beyond the mental and societal commitment, it takes a lot of pure physical toil to beat swords into plowshares. 1400
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He's going to drive all the clock-setters out of business! 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People lining up to view your preserved body in your monumental tomb seems like Trump's literal definition of success 2511
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So people who can afford to relocate are starting their families in high-service/high-tax states and spending their retirements in low-service/low-tax states. On the plus side, it pretty much ensures that red state members of Congress will never vote to cut social security and Medicare 1241
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Since he met his bio mother first, I assumed the half brother was another child she kept and raised? And that allowed him to make the link to biological family? 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On the one hand yeah, but on the other hand there would be people taking selfies and selling merch. I wonder what ever happened to that streamer who snatched up the TPUSA shirts spattered with Charlie Kirk's blood 110
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They should have paired these "controversial" views with the polling support for each 100
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I find something very appealing about ones where the legs fold down to make a smaller square slightly rotated relative to the tabletop 050
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The myth of in-born superiority is very appealing to those who lack individual merit 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The dad just *looks* like a dad trying but failing to hide his drug habit from his kid. The necktie, loosened. The neat moustache but frizzled hair. The beady eyes, slightly bloodshot. He's iconic. 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Since China and its neighbors dominate coal production, they may not be consuming oil and gas to generate that electricity, either 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One would assume he at least had evidence that *Willis* was at the game! 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Using the same logic, the women of Mar-a-Lago have "super" faces and "super" bodies 061
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Conspicuous consumption of media is how one declares one's lifestyle" could be Rolling Stone's motto, tbf 1241
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Congress has surrendered its constitutional authority, but Trump's jealous guarding of executive power is as the framers intended. If Democrats do end up controlling both houses and wage full war against the executive, we may actually end up with the most balanced system in many years. 210
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Google 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 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which these tokens are insufficient to explain." 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026His only requirement is enough room for one large man to get down into the bunker and seal the door behind him 140
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"This five-year-old Texan child with undocumented parents from Ecuador would be much happier with a foster family in South Sudan" 110
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He's the trope of the kid who learns comedy so the other kids will stop beating him up, but he sucks at comedy so he ends up just getting beat harder 080
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's the second season and the audience hasn't liked any of the new character arcs, so they've resorted to making clip shows 140
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When the "Great Wall of Trump" around DC is eventually completed, the Arch will serve as the entry gate 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And the number of people trying to buy beer with a fake ID outnumber those attempting to vote illegally by about 1,000,000:1 030
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I 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/8SR3MAplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 123calixtus scored 889 on Day 123. Can you beat them? 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nice of Donald Trump to bury the hatchet with his former nemesis Leona Helmsley, but why is she paired with a quote from Elon Musk? 001
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"The shape was reminiscent of the overlap in the venn diagram of 'small,' 'long,' and 'slightly pendulous,' which is to say quite narrow, and oddly curved" 1280
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I wonder if the anti-communism blitz is because they fear AI or Trump's stupidity (or both) will result in massive job losses, and they want to gin up public opposition to social safety net programs and UBI. 020
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Weirdly my most rare word was one I thought was kinda meh 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thanks, that's fun! I found a Rarity-82 word worth 93 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 870 points · 10 rare words. Only 16 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 6 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/YYABWSplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 122player-9293 scored 870 on Day 122. Can you beat them? 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026He really wants to implement the coed communal showers from Starship Troopers but he can't figure out how to sell it to the bathroom-obsessed majority of Republicans 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is why there are only two options: 1) put the name back up, or 2) tear the whole thing down so he never has to reveal what's under the tarp 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"male service member (attachment)" so, like ... a strap-on? 040
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There could definitely be a slowdown in overall demand as all the startups with huge growth plans winnow down to the eventual three or four 010
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Boom times ahead for scammy "schools" promising to help people "re-tool" 000
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That's what I was thinking, surely it slows down traffic for Israelis as well, and disrupts business, and adds costs to construct and maintain... but one could shrug that off as "the price of security" 030
Calixtus @calixtus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And if the forecast demand doesn't materialize they could end up as overbuilt as fiber optic networks in the 1990s 100
