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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Strongly disagree with one of the words belonging in the Yellow category of today's Connections.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I’ve become a big fan of the unexamined life. Huge.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Spoilers for Leviticus . . . . . . . . . . . . This is a romance, by the traditional definition

Naim and Ryan from Leviticus, lying next to each other, head-to-foot, light pouring in through a window, sharing a joint

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

LGBT= Lebanese, Guatemalan, Bicoastal and the T still just stands for Trans

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Not breaking any new ground here but, my god, “City on the Edge of Forever” is so great

Still of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and some assorted red shirts in front of The Guardian of Forever (aka Carl’s Hole)

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Not to nostalgia post, but strawberries have never tasted better than after we picked and washed them from my parent’s garden when I was ten. And I can’t remember any of them being much bigger than a 50 cent piece

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20/06/2026

get in girls we're doing discourse

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Brb, taking an enormous bet out on Polymarket that the next move the Trump admin does is just cover the Reflecting Pool with a giant blue tarp…

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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the 'heh, look at these cringes voting' shit is just more evidence for my thesis that pretty much everyone would be happier if a lot of folks putatively into politics just got really into like avant-garde art/music scenes or something, where you can exclude lames to your heart's content

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Leftists when liberals are organizing to defeat the pro-meteor party

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Couldn’t be me saying “c’mon baby, you can do it” like the babu frik guy all week. Couldn’t be my partner saying “that’s a big pipe huh?” Couldn’t be.

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Grogu (Baby Yoda) Hugs Babu Frik

ALT: Grogu (Baby Yoda) Hugs Babu Frik

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Trump $250 bill is fitting, it’s what you’ll need to fill up a tank gas soon

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Excited for this new movie coming out called IMAX

The theatrical one sheet poster for Disclosure Day with the word IMAX bigger than anything else.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Critical enjoyment -> enjoyment of criticism -> criticism of enjoyment

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I just discovered that E-mail exists in Star Wars

Page from Star Wars Dark Forces Soldier for the Empire with the phrase “and Jan had sent an E-mail” highlighted

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Don’t love the new Harry Styles song but the music video fucks

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“Directionally very bad” is the phrase this era deserves

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Generic ballot will peak for Dems in month or so and then tighten over the summer and everyone’s gonna wig and then it will open up again after Labor Day and everyone will be so fucking surprised that Dems take the House and Senate in November.

Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Barnes & Noble doing a "double stamps" weekend over Independent Bookstore day is real loser shit

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Kids making the Metro announcements during Autism acceptance month 🥹

Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/04/2026

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Hall of fame FT correction

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

CRJ is the Dostoevsky of pop music, as many have said

Michaela
@mimizima_
And Carly Rae Jepsen said "before you came into my life I missed you so bad"
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Libriscent •
@ libriscent
When someone says "I love you" but
Dostoevsky said:
Apr 7
"I dreamed of you before I ever met you, and when I finally did, it was as if I had known you all my life"

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

If you’re an “author” who obviously uses AI for marketing and you follow me, you’re going on the list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“Tap to pay”: you do what it says, perfectly understandable “Contactless”: you literally have to contact the thing, what is wrong with you

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"antisemitism-shaped" works as a term. It really does capture how conspiracy theories almost inevitably assume a form isomorphic to antisemitism, and from there sooner or later turn into pure antisemitism.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My body is a temple. It’s an ancient, crumbling ruin, haunted by ghosts of the past.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

In the distant future, the bards will sing of how the gods punished the imperial capital with intense heat and bitter cold for the insolence of the mad king.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Going to my local coffee shop owned by a woman named Kathy, hoping no one recognizes that I softly hum Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights” every time I come.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Again, I know this isn’t a popular view, but turning AIPAC into this lurking bogeyman, treating it as the core villain of politics, the hidden hand behind all our woes, flies uncomfortably close to some far darker stuff. The amount we’re talking about it.. just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.

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Carter Kalchik @carterkalchik.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"3.1" below normal" how fucking dare you D.C. Winter, why are you like this??? CC @capitalweather.bsky.social

Capital Weather Gang
@capitalweather • 10h
Now that we've declared winter over, let's look back it!
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Some cool stats: * Coldest Dec-Feb since 2002-03; first time Dec, Jan, and Feb were all
colder than normal since 2009-2010.
* If no more snow falls, the total in DC of 10.6" would be 3.1" below normal. But snow was on the ground longer than normal because of combo of
Snowcrete and cold. * Midwest Regional Climate Center rated it a "severe" winter on its scale,
level 4 out of 5, mainly because of the cold and long-lasting snow cover.