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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

FROM: Jonathan Safran Foer

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Is fourty-nine tomahawks a lot?

It depends on the context

For CENTCOM, no

For INDOPACOM, yes

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23/03/2026

from Fraser Nelson:

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

He's a fraud and a hack, and he draws the entirety of his legitimacy from the academy's willingness to continue to address his arguments as if they are real, good-faith legal arguments. He's a birther, basically. A creationist, for all intents and purposes. He deserves to be treated as such.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Principled, sincere pacifists: This war is bad and you should feel bad. The kind of dead-eyed MilSky posters who defend the F-35 program: You don't feel nearly bad enough about it.

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a man with the words " it 's much worse " written on his face

Alt: a man with the words " it 's much worse than you think" written on his face

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cmanteuf.bsky.social @cmanteuf.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Women's suffrage was deeply tied to prohibition, which was an overtly religious movement. Women's suffrage was in many ways a proxy battle for Prohibition, according to Last Call by Okrent. Everyone assumed that when women got the vote, prohibition would immediately follow.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2026

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

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How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find

Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/12/2025

Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/29/t...

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Nine: Apollo 13

Apollo 13 is a film that sits atop a small but diverse and, for some people, extremely enjoyable sub-genre of film: Competence Porn. This has nothing to do with actual pornography (well, I guess it…

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cmanteuf.bsky.social @cmanteuf.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Sure hope Lucky Jack Aubrey made it off HMS Surprise. And the ship's surgeon, Dr. Maturin, what of him?

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cmanteuf.bsky.social @cmanteuf.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Orcl was less than half its current value on the day Chatgpt released (opened at 80$, today is 198). Presume it drops to lower than it started if AI goes to zero- he's still got billions, probably. Exactly how much he's borrowed against his stock- and what the terms are- is going to be not public.

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cmanteuf.bsky.social @cmanteuf.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

We used to call this "dartboard theology" when JRPGs did this back in the 1990s. Okay, so that villain's henchman is ... Tiamat! And their underlings are ... Hulijing! And their fighting over the super weapon... Loki! And the fetch quests are named after ... the 12 Apostles.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/11/2025

The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke

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Sean Forman @sean-forman.com · 31/10/2025

I've been the treasurer of a mainline protestant church in the past, and I can assure you we've been champing at the bit to make big IT investments. Blockchain, AI, all of it. We've got so much budget for this stuff.

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 24/10/2025

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

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Stefan BC @stefanbc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you’re placing prop bets on South Park you need to have a conservatorship

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Nealer 🇨🇦 @acanuck.itch.io · 11/09/2025

Text heavy, but if you're a diehard Star Trek fan it's HILARIOUS! I look around for this thing every few years, and keep thinking I should FRAME it 😂 tldr: Aliens don't understand that the movie "Back to the Future" is a comedy because Doc Brown is how ALL Starfleet Engineers behave

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Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn't just an artifact of the television serial format. Rather, it's because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don't really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they're as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn't actually happen to anyone else; it's literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.
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So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.
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Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience".
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THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING
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vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core
humans: we're going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast
vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast
humans: hahaha yeah
humans: it did tho
vsa: IT EXPLODED
humans: it exploded twice as fast

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you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O'Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station's core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer's hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse.
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you know what, I'm not done with this post. let's talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they're playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century, and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we're at it, while we're building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let's see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we're invisible.
"but why" said the one Vulcan in the room.
"because that would fucking rule" said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull.
there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like "our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric- flux toaster that toasts bre…

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Perhaps this is obvious but perhaps not: both my research work and my public-facing writing would be impossible without the astounding resources of university libraries. My household also makes ample use of our local public library. Libraries are amazing.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Another in the same vein:

Dale Partridge 0 @dalepartridge • 5h
Prediction: If they ever remake The Sandlot, there will be a girl on the team, she will play the hero figure, and she will hit the home run to win the game.
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♱ Vicar of Christ ♱ Fire-Breathin... • 4h
Not only that, but all the guys will be total losers and she will have to single handily win the game for them all.
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Ben K.
@bkabak
Unclear if you're accidentally or ironically describing the plot of Bad News Bears, a movie that's nearly 50 years old.
3:24 PM • 6/27/23

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

This is funny and the whole mascot reenactment thing isn’t even as good as the guy after holding the sign that says, “this *IS* my wife”

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Lucifer @ironwhale.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Toxic Masculinity is OUT! Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN! - Loud laughs - Roasted meats and spiced drinks - Hospitality to strangers - Living in the moment - Singing in public - Body positivity - Emotional generosity - Sick robes

The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The less you know about homeopathy, the more powerful your knowledge becomes.

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cmanteuf.bsky.social @cmanteuf.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

www.professoraxelrod.com/p/the-tech-j... Cleanest explanation yet for how the Trump tax cuts in 2017 buried a landmine in software development starting in 2023, a cynical budget gimmick which has gutted American software development.

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The Tech Job Meltdown

Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The real threat of AI to education isn’t just that students cheat but instead that students never learn anything because they no longer have to think critically or understand topics to graduate with good grades. The intellectual regression we’ve seen in modern life will only accelerate.

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The Myth of Automated Learning

AI's real threat to education.

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