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Yeah man, Ralph Nader is the reason Dems watched the Supreme Court hand their opponent the presidency and then spent a quarter century doing nothing about it. Fucking braindead

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 17h

Ok like, what's the lowest possible rank of the dude that actually wrote this letter? It's a bishop MINIMUM, right?

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 17h

Lol no reason whatsoever to bury Berhalter on the touchline there, but maybe Chile watched the Peru game

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phylan @phylan.website · 17h

smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 18h

I love that it's being held up by Sen. Kennedy (looking like he's mid-stroke) and one of Schmitt's nazi staffers (with his belt buckle in his pants pocket)

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chelsea bridge @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thank a trans person today for being in your life while surviving in the face of a world that would prefer we didn't

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.

After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

Google working as intended

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 20h

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19h

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

america.gov

America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

nytimes.com

Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)

Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My man is driving home in a car that has to be started with a hand crank

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Buddy looks like a Rob Liefeld drawing with feet.

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Welp, expect a party line 5-3 here, he'd never recuse without assurance

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 28/09/2026

Messi come on man

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Verlander: gets the hook from his daughter, walks off the mound crying, lovely scenes Scherzer: screams his manager back into the dugout, is gonna throw 150 pitches in a meaningless game to pass Verlander's strikeout total

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wild to write this paragraph and then choose to continue with the rest of the piece.

There are, as always, logical explanations for such a phenomenon. In our algorithm-driven age, it’s entirely possible to design a curated world where you never encounter “Choosin’ Texas”: You don’t engage with country content, you don’t listen to country playlists, you don’t even remove your earbuds when you enter a coffee shop, should twang be coming out of the speakers. Gone are the days of the monoculture radio hit. Shared experiences are few and far between.

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nice of Berhalter to put that game on ice just as the Spirit started

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Peru giving Berhalter time on the ball seems to be working out pretty badly for them so far!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Connecticut Sun's final game is tonight. Connecticut and its fans bought into the WNBA at its low point, turning a profit when the NBA's owners saw the league as a moneypit, only to lose their team now that everyone sees big bucks in women's sports. Some thoughts on the setting of the Sun:

Surprisingly, moving the team to Connecticut worked. In 2010, the Sun became the first WNBA team to turn a profit — during a global recession, and during the league’s nadir of popularity. The casino in the middle of nowhere became a fortress. The Sun has won 64.5 percent of its home games. It developed a real fanbase and made four WNBA Finals.

The Connecticut Sun is not the first WNBA team to die. (Enjoy this haunting image of the mascots for the Sacramento Monarchs, Utah Starzz, Detroit Shock, and yes, the Houston Comets, hanging out, smiling, not realizing that death will soon come for them.)

But it’s the first WNBA team to die for this reason: Not because nobody cared, not because it couldn’t make money, not because it couldn’t find fans or win games, not because the league is shrinking … but actually because the league is growing. The Sun helped the WNBA survive, but the period of mere survival is over. The league is moving on to bigger markets and bigger money and leaving Connecticut behind.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Something uniquely unseemly about a genocidaire going "come onnnn I stayed for YOUR kid," evil is supposed to have some dignity

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Another London dispatch: If any of you know any Broadway producers or investors, I am begging you to convince them to transfer "My Neighbor Totoro" to NYC when it closes in London in January. It is one of most enchanting, moving, heartwarming shows I've seen & I want audiences here to experience it🙏

Photo from London production of My Neighbor Totoro, with Satsuke & Totoro standing in the rain

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026

I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Englishness is an ethnicity" is incredible

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty please Dafoe as Romeo

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "feeling up" was extremely bidirectional as I recall! This happening in Aspen is very funny

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gonna be cool when the AI running our new Memorial Circle Drone Base decides a 737 on final to National is a threat and shoots it down

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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i often think of the gas station in deus ex and the terrifying 2050s cyberpunk nightmare era prices on the sign

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Crazy, you're telling me the Congresswoman giving out aisle seat theatre handjobs was also fucking a bunch of her staff?

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A chatbot told him 6 times to not do one

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knickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Well, well, well: not so easy to find a manager that doesn’t suck shit, is it?”

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This Spurs team is an elaborate prank.

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Howdy @chrishowdy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have never heard a reaction like that to a VAR review just being announced, lmao

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't really follow politics

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