Reposted by Captain Stringbeanandy vs. @im-all-id.me · 24/09/2026The people demand a Samsung dryer that plays a melancholy tune 2437783 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I've been struck by a spiffy criminal 000 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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. ❤️ 🇧🇷 8115568814727 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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." 2215200014337 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 972533439778 0
Reposted by Captain StringbeanKerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social · 29/04/2025this is a literal attack ad running in Australia right now lol 291848365 0
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. 69159003234 0
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 0
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally? 030 0
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 0
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Jesus Christ JD you killed the pope! 000 0
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 18/04/2025 319851 0
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 18/04/2025"We have nothing to lose but our chains." -- David Brooks, 2025 010 0
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. 1500354697401 0
Reposted by Captain StringbeanJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025What a fucking timeline man 232723206 0
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. 805212262625530 0
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!” 1209361379291 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
Captain Stringbean @captainstringbean.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Rare example of a Burkean conservative protest sign. 000 0
Reposted by Captain Stringbeanae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/04/2025no trans woman ever took my nintendo 234646915 0
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. 12697471732 0
Reposted by Captain StringbeanBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025this is a 1990s post-Soviet headline 151606364 0
