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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 20h

They're really showing their asses here (see also Polymarket on Angie Nixon) and it is going to make it very easy for Dems to classify and regulate them as gambling operations (which they are) if they get the chance.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is disgraceful, immoral, and unethical in the extreme.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Her book on Simonides and Paul Celan, "The Economy of the Unlost," is so, so good and thought provoking. Simonides is the Andy Warhol of ancient Greece, and pairing him with Celan of all people makes for some very original lines of inquiry.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On the off chance you've not heard the story, legendary mayhem merchant Karlheinz Stockhausen once asked Feldman what his secret was, and he said, “I don’t push the sounds around.”

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're less than an hour away from today's "Broadview Six" hearing. You can follow me here for live updates, but the @chicago.suntimes.com will also have up-to-date coverage here: chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi...

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'Broadview Six' case returns to court as judge weighs sanctions against feds: Live updates

U.S. District Judge April Perry is set to hear arguments Thursday over potential consequences for prosecutors in the politically charged case.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I were PL brass worried about actually having control of the league, I would force a sale of the club and expunge the threat. If I were worried about money I would do significantly less.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a beauty. And New Mexico is amazing.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Black-hole level gravitational warp.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great, put her under oath and she can testify.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That was going to be the next season of Alaska Daily.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Truth and Incarceration if you please.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've got a painting (one of the new In Medias Res series) in the Yellow Chair Salon "Community" exhibition at Art Cake in Brooklyn, closing this weekend. Very fine core sample of art in NYC that I'm happy to be a part of. Please check it out if you're in the area! 214 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232

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Yellow Chair Salon Open Call: Community — Art Cake

Yellow Chair Salon is pleased to present Community, an exhibition celebrating the artists who make Brooklyn and the greater New York metropolitan area one of the most vibrant creative communities in t...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In a better world all elected officials would have to do a week of manual labor before taking office.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah just saw it again and he's legit frozen by the runner but we've got 3 defenders there. Not great.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was a perfect shot but Calafiori should have closed Gros down instead of backing off.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excuse me? "[T]he Department and USCIS are directing assigned personnel to make false claims, using Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from DHS data, on state government websites by affirming that they are the voter or have been authorized by the voter to obtain the desired state voter data.”

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Whistleblower Claims Fed Agents ‘Likely’ Broke State Laws in Pursuit of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories

Agents Instructed To ‘Misrepresent Themselves’ Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise!...

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard has died. I recently read her "Holy the Firm," a very interesting kind of long essay I learned of from Simon Critchley's "Mysticism," another excellent book.

Image is a quote by Annie Dillard from "The Writing Life": "Examine all tings intensely and relentlessly...Do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength."

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a clear, balanced, and informative take from one of our most knowledgeable AI researchers. If you're interested in learning what's under the AI hood, I highly recommend Melanie's book, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Guide for Thinking Humans." Great intro for a lay reader (i.e. me).

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Indignant robocaller is a kind of charm campaign I wouldn't have imagined. Points for chutzpah though.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He's no doubt reminding everyone Bruno should have been sent off for kicking Foden square in the lower back when he was on the ground?

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's no question. Keeper did not do well but Enzo freezes him as he's trying to get to the far post. Another atrocious call/VAR this weekend.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So not impossible. Thanks! Always appreciate your hits on Ari's show.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That's been my number all along. You think it's doable?

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine you are familiar with it but in case not the live album by Coltrane's classic quartet from the year before at the Village Vanguard is one of the greatest and sustained high intensity albums ever. Recorded over 4 nights. Absolute zenith.

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The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings - YouTube

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop.

Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community.

Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered.

Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"No one comes to our parties and we have no idea why."

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Looked to me like AV just were pressing harder in our third looking for an equalizer. But I recall that a lot from last season. Inability or disinclination to pass/dribble out of press when holding a lead, leading to long clearances and a lot of anxiety.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In his defense, if you read Carl Hiaasen you know that’s the minimum requirement for elected office in Florida.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Even Peggy Noonan says, “Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.”

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just unsubscribed from your newsletter.

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Great article. Very well done throughout and informative. Thanks.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.

A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.

A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).

A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.

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