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Captain Beeftwat

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
honestly, a middle-brow (complimentary) director doing a big splashy Classics adaptation that’s sold out for a month at the IMAX and there’s an ongoing debate about it with one of its en vogue translators is probably the healthiest the culture has been in a long time
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
uh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again
tile mosaic of two men wearing tradesmen-esque clothes and carrying what look like tool or gym bags. they are holding handsclose up of the clasped handstile mosaic of an older man wearing a yalmulke in a sweater vest carrying a globe and a briefcaseclose up of the globe
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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Maps

PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA
Introduction

PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA
I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage
II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots
III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump
IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land
V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony
VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break
VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant
VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie

PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY
IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right
Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity
Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle

Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 19/07/2026
philosophers only want one thing and it's fucking discussing
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I will never forget how a victim of sexual assault was forced to retraumatize herself in front of the entire nation because people waved away red flag after red flag - the Nazi tattoo, the appearance on a neo-Nazi podcast, the domestic violence - so they could have a manly, unfeminized left.
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Brosephine so scary 🎃 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reminded of Frederick Douglass's inclusive vision of American nationality today - more vital than ever.
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As we close a Pride Month that seems determined to kick queerfolk in the chest (again), I consider one of the queerest experiences of all: spite. Excise those motherfuckers from your life like the cancers they are. Live. Make art. Find others. Be joyful. Outlive those assholes, cheer when they die.
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TIL that the relations of property are no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they have become so many fetters. Maybe they need to be burst asunder?
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The project of both sides-ism is to laboriously pretend you do not hear it when conservatives plainly state what they believe and want, and to read unspoken and fully invented intentions into everything progressives do and say
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Captain Beeftwat @captainbeeftwat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Incredible reporting, incredible story, shocking events
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Captain Beeftwat @captainbeeftwat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I love this because my high school played in a stadium that seats 10,000, and if you didn't get there by tailgate you couldn't get a seat -- and that's just varsity. JV and freshmen had their own separate (smaller) fields.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/06/2026
'Rosenthal is among the Hollywood power players who are embracing what they see as the inevitable rise of A.I. in film and television. '“Pandora’s out of the box,” she said. “We’ve got to learn it.”' Pandora wasn't in the box. She's the one who opened it. All the ills of the world were in the box.
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𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Morning Bluesky
Awww yeah, bird homie is back for breakfast.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 02/06/2026
Two months of Detox Doodles! These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-... #art #fish #bird #cat #dog #shark #animal #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RFK Jr, catching snakes: Yum yum yum Pete Hegseth: Fuckin handle em HANDLE EM BOBBY Dr Oz: Oh no my oils
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.
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John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Alright…I’m here.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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ᶠᵁᴿᴿᴼᶜᴬ @furrocabron.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
cada vez te entiendo más
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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.
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Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone
A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Guy who voted for Geogre Bush twice writing in a place called The Liberal Gazette: As we approach 2028, Democrats should be doing unpopular things that make them look stupid
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Yet anti-LGBTQ+ therapists now enjoy a First Amendment right that is denied to abortion providers. But as Jackson pointed out, the inconsistency runs deeper. After Chiles, parents who seek to “convert” their transgender children have a constitutional right to do so. But thanks to last year’s decision in Skrmetti, parents who seek to affirm their transgender children with medication have no such right. States can ban gender-affirming medication but evidently cannot ban anti-transgender talk therapy. And the majority does not explain why anti-LGBTQ+ speech receives heightened protections when other viewpoints do not. Surely, Jackson wrote, a state can direct doctors to discourage, and not encourage, smoking cigarettes. It can prohibit doctors “from telling an anorexic patient to eat less” while allowing them to recommend eating more. It can stop doctors from encouraging patients to end their lives. These laws, too, censor speech on the basis of the state’s preferred viewpoint—in Gorsuch’s words, they “enforce orthodoxy.” Why is it, then, that nobody seriously argues that they’d violate the First Amendment, too?
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Keep in mind: when a young Graham Platner was interviewed by his hometown newspaper in 2008 and said "I loved Iraq. I loved being there", said that his unit had burnt corpses, and that he wore a Blackwater hat because it annoyed the libs, this is less than year after he got a Totenkopf tattoo. 1/
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Went back to an album I’d loved in my teens and you won’t believe this but the lyrics I once thought were powerful and relevant now seem awkward and jejune
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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s my birthday today! 🎉 If you see this post, can you share it? My husband and I have a project live on Kickstarter right now (It’s a collaborative queer historical art zine!) 🏳️‍🌈 Here it is! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... (My art + some mockups~)
A photo of a small part of my watercolor painting for the zine, of two Muslim men kissing in the palace grounds of the Alhambra, during the Medieval period. Both men are Black, with Ousmane (the one with a full turquoise headscarf) slightly lighter and warmer toned than his partner, who has a full beard and white and gold clothing. Behind them are intricate warm brown tile details, referenced from the actual Alhambra.  A mockup of the finished art book, showing an open watercolor and mixed media spread of two gay male cowboys (a Black man dressed in red and a Mexican man dressed in blue), riding horses across a mountainous range, with a close up of them kissing. Other previews are scattered around, like the cover showing a detailed illustration of two Métis men hiding behind a tree being demure and cute, two Mughal women about to kiss in a vibrant patterned background, and a historical French scene of two sapphics climbing into a fishing boat together. Art featured are previews of the other artists’ work in the project (links to their portfolios on Kickstarter!)
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Platner may seem like the right guy to appeal to the white dudes, but that is largely based on the willingness to throw the rest of us non-white, non-Christian, and/or non-men to the wolves. Happens throughout US history. And it never works out cause solidarity is how we get there.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 20/03/2026
one of my most intractable and strident positions is that i absolutely don’t give a single fuck how much the USPS costs, expand their services so that it costs double, you’ll never get me to give a shit
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.
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Dylan Baddour @dylanbaddour.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
How did we get here? Story from 2022: "Five years ago, when ExxonMobil came calling, city officials eagerly signed over a large portion of their water supply so the oil giant could build a $10 billion plant to make plastics out of ethane gas." www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...
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Industry Threatens Water Supplies and Coastal Ecology Near Corpus Christi
Environmentalists have seized on water supply as a “chokehold” to block fossil fuels on the rugged South Texas coast.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list: - pornslop - academic fraud - eroding our collective sense of truth - cyberpsychosis - dementia acceleration - fucking a jagged hole through the arts - search engine enshittification - fascist panopticon - anti-intellectualism - war crimes
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
And what I’m calling “opportunity theft” is the theft of someone’s future and their potential by means of robbing them of appreticeship, menteeship, and experience now. Using AI to perform the tasks that students and trainees do in the early phases of training and education is opportunity theft.
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
As a universal rule everything that you want for Palestinian people, I want that for you
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/03/2026
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Man it really feels insane watching the global order break down in front of me. like is my anxiety disorder especially bad today, or am I aware of how supply chains work and able to read the news
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Will I delete all of these posts? probably. I’m building sandcastles over here not stadiums.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
the minute the fb algorithm clocks you as a straight man it immediately sets about trying to destroy your life & endanger those around you
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It almost seems as if the United States was founded on a bunch of hellish rape plantations run for the obscene enrichment of a gang of already obscenely wealthy slavers.
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