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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saved this to my phone a few years back. Truer every day.

A cartoon by "The Gentleman's Armchair." In the first panel the devil pesters god "Come on! Just let me create one thing!" And God responds with "Oh for Pete's sake... fine." In the second panel the Devil is in a close-up going "...Jackpot..." The third panel shows a goose.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’ theonion.com/creatively-tapped-out-…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

how come “Lynchian” never means “a nice old man rides around on a lawnmower and solves familial disputes”

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’re hiring in Latin American history! I’m not on the search committee, but I’m more than happy to answer any questions you might have about the job, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. Please share widely. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70384/f...

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Florida State University - Assistant Professor, 9 Month Salaried - Latin American History | H-Net

Doctoral degree from an accredited institution or the highest degree appropriate in the field of specialization required.

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great example of how bad most entertainment journalists are because the second someone bothers to even start to probe the limits of this thing's abilities it starts buffering and then just goes "ha ha wow you're trying to trip me up"

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My idea was that it's the Muppet Show, so the Muppets and a weekly guest, but also Michael Emerson is there every ep and it's not explained at all.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"We accepted the pitch everyone else turned down because it sucks shit" wow what a scoop

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bragging about an "exclusive chat" with a blatant PR operation is so funny

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One of the things that really shocked me when I moved to London for a few months in 2024 was when I would check my weather app and the air quality was so much better than in my small city in rural Kentucky.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What in the hell is a "bipartisan political consultant"? Sounds like one of those "undecided voters" on the Times speed dial who is an easily identifiable Republican political operative.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm sitting in the Toyota dealership waiting room while they fix a recall issue on my car and I just heard an AOL "You've got mail!"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why are markets today so disconnected from the real world? Part of the answer is the financial press. “Trump could end war early”? Are you serious? We’re in the 6th month of a war that was supposed to take days. And he can’t end it early. He got the US in position where Iran decides when it ends.

Marketwatch.com headline 8/10/26: Dow set for steady start as S&P, Nasdaq eye gains on cooling rate fears, report Trump could end war early

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

40 years ago, it was so common for men to have a beautiful house with a beautiful wife that he would frequently confuse them for another’s. Sometimes they wouldn’t even know how they had arrived at said location in a large automobile. Now the days have gone by and men struggle to achieve either.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lol, I teach that movie in my history and film class about the 2008 economic collapse.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1. Inside Man 2. The Manchurian Candidate: love the original and the Demme version is fascinating 3. Peach and prosciutto flat bread #HATM

A peach and prosciutto flat bread on a baking sheet sliced into quarters.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"You want to sit here and attack me?" You put him there!

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Stop putting these people on television! They're not going to give you or your viewers anything useful and they're just going to yell at you and spread disinformation! You're just letting them manufacture clips to drive engagement and fundraising! bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One day several years ago, I got an anonymous handwritten, threatening letter delivered to my campus mailbox, and then someone (the same person? someone else?) DM'd me on twitter from a burner account, with a photo of my driveway with my car parked in it. This is real and it's dangerous

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

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Denzel Washington in Inside Man: Walking Scene

ALT: Denzel Washington in Inside Man: Walking Scene

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

He's desperately telling George Smiley that he's loyal.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wow, Lindsey Graham really had no one in his life who cared about him. Not even his own sister. Because a real woman would never let someone make a mockery of her brother's life like this.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

People should be normal in response to criticism of things they like. However, that essay reads like when Reviewer 2 decides you stepped on their toes and they misinterpret and find fault with every single thing in front of them.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

extremely funny ("funny") that the president of the united states posted a thing like this that implies a new military operation is underway, but it very much is not. grandpa actually just made a picture on his phone and wanted everyone to see

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Seems to me that Charles Entertainment Cheese controls an animatronic army, so he's in. The Green Giant and the Big Boy as muscle. And Chester Cheetah because he's a diabolical manipulator.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

incredible

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But because American, like most airlines, I expect, runs on such thin margins in terms of fuel and staff, our flight was delayed almost 3 hours. No previous delay, no mechanical error, just not enough fuel to fly around some weather and a cascade of failures that followed. Hope this person made it.

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In doing so, the crew's first officer timed out and needed to be replaced. So we sat in the plane waiting for a new first officer and as we did so, the whole rest of the crew timed out. So they deplaned us while we waited for the new crew. And they eventually arrived...

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We board the plane and start taxiing and then we're just sitting on the tarmac. After a while the pilot gets on and tells us that because of bad weather in Gainesville, we're going to have to go 200 miles out of our way, so we need to get more fuel and are headed back to the terminal...

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Mauricio Castro @castrohistorian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ok, so this person's experience was worse than mine, but his story was incredibly familiar. In March, I was flying from Orlando to Louisville on American. I had a layover in Philadelphia. My plane out of Louisville was mildly delayed, but I had a significant layover so I made my connection...

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