Reposted by Captain Stringbeanandy vs. @im-all-id.me · 24/09/2026The people demand a Samsung dryer that plays a melancholy tune 2437783
Reposted by Captain StringbeanMichael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2026🚨New paper. 🧵Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics's budget. cc: @nickbloom.bsky.social, @ericagroshen.bsky.social, #econsky 325689
Reposted by Captain StringbeanPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam. 534134970
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life 92147713029
Reposted by Captain StringbeanKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me. 329203323671
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I've been struck by a spiffy criminal 000
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/02/2026white people work so hard. even their restaurants are open on chinese new year 457526583
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025look, i don't know if there will be history graduate students in the year 2073, but if there are, you need to know this: colonel lockjaw was not a satire of greg bovino. one battle after another was filmed entirely before he was a public figure. 19928111
Reposted by Captain StringbeanVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite. 9480362248
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025i think the Claude Spiritual Bliss Attractor is caused by the RLHF to be "open, honest, and helpful" + "positive affect" "do not claim to be conscious." the conjunction of positive affect / open, honest, helpful / no-self occupies the same basin as "i am free from the wheel of samsara." 1114511
Reposted by Captain StringbeanKevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 24/01/2026"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." Ernest Hemingway It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant. 3597144
Reposted by Captain StringbeanVictoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.com · 03/01/2026Going specifically after a Spanish speaking country surrounded by mostly Spanish speaking countries is one of the absolute worst options for overall strategy. Iraq, you can argue, was relatively isolated. Venezuela, culturally and geographically is not...in the world, not just in South America. 1578
Reposted by Captain StringbeanMiami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 8115568914727
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanceej @ceej.online · 18/11/2025oscar the grouch, the curious green creature who makes a trash can his home and positively revels in his life among the filth, has made of me a cuckold 25981116
Reposted by Captain StringbeanLindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party 21795043514
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/07/2025like they're more or less a fact about language that it would often be convenient not to know 1241
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2025we are going to see mass deaths in American immigration detention even if they are not ordered by Trump because Trump is actively communicating that mass deaths are desired 734356
Reposted by Captain StringbeanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2025Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful." 2215200024337
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Huh. It is almost as if the people who work in government aren't subhuman idiots incapable of doing efficient work, and that there is reason why they do things the way that they do. 010
Reposted by Captain StringbeanBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Some interviews and shots of protests in Kanab, down in Southern Utah with a population of about 4700 people 1378
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/05/2025So I don't have the energy to redo the entire thread about the papal conclave but I will redo the part about the Latin nerdery: the announcement of a new pope is always in Latin, and uses a very traditional form. 8484120
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months 972533449778
Reposted by Captain StringbeanKerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social · 29/04/2025this is a literal attack ad running in Australia right now lol 291848365
Reposted by Captain StringbeanCEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Everyone watching Pierre Poilievre eat absolute shit in Carleton and respecting Canada's bilingual culture. 69159013234
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Describe what is uniquely American about Walt Whitman's poetry in 500-1000 words. Consider both substance and style. 000
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally? 030
Reposted by Captain StringbeanNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025*Laudato Si* was a crucial factor in getting Georgetown to divest from fossil fuels and is, on its own, a document of humane generosity that focuses on the power of the poor to determine the just course of the world. RIP Francis. A terrible loss. 🌿vatican.vaLaudato si' (24 May 2015) | FrancisEncyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015) 27919
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Jesus Christ JD you killed the pope! 000
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 18/04/2025 319851
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"We have nothing to lose but our chains." -- David Brooks, 2025 010
Reposted by Captain StringbeanAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/04/2025As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation. 1500354707401
Reposted by Captain StringbeanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025What a fucking timeline man 232724206
Reposted by Captain StringbeanSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805312263125530
Reposted by Captain StringbeanLincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!” 1209361389291
Reposted by Captain StringbeanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy. 2024680680
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 11/04/2025A 1903 version of Bluesky that despises techbro Thomas Edison for electrocuting Topsy the elephant, and cites this as proof that electricity as a technology is an unqualified evil. 000
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Hiding boxes of new iPhone Airs inside my bags of fentanyl to sneak them across the Canadian border. 010
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I think part of the issue is that progressives are incapable of separating media that is artistically compelling from media that is politically useful. they believe the two things are identical 518812
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Rare example of a Burkean conservative protest sign. 000
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025no trans woman ever took my nintendo 234646915
Reposted by Captain StringbeanBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 03/04/2025The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers. 12697481732
Reposted by Captain StringbeanBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025this is a 1990s post-Soviet headline 151606364
