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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Ya Girl, Chimerelda E. Error @chimerror.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Don't believe the lie that "nobody wants to work any more"; the reality is that no one wants to pay for work any more.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just reporting in that, no, there will be no Brush & Quill interactions today- 28 SEP. While you can still DM Shao, Ozzy, or myself, there will be no posting on the main account or public-facing interactions from Shao. This is not medically-related. Though that has been taken into account.

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Spongebob Open Closed Sign

Alt: GIF: SpongeBob SquarePants (Tom Kenny, voice) from SpongeBob SquarePants (1999). Flipping an OPEN sign to CLOSED.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

May have also inspired people to go into IT...

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For anyone concerned, I believe I've overcome the worst of this situation, but will need to consider some lifestyle changes. Among other things. It's a rough patch still and I feel much better, but there may be interruptions this week. For various reasons.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's funny, though, is that the rule was SUPPOSED to be: "Three characters can never come back to life in comic books: Jason Todd, Bucky, and Uncle Ben." So, what the hell do we do if Ben Parker rolls up?

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

You know cat pics are nice, but it helps to also have the actual cat. 🐈🪟

Photo: A cream-colored cat with gray facial markings sits in a windowsill as dawn breaks outside.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Given that I am forever distracted of late, let us just dive into a bit of fun: music and the Brush & Quill project cast. Is it a playlist? A thread? Make of it what you will. I will share songs that I, personally, think of when thinking of the cast. If you want to share your own, feel free. 🎼🎶

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well, I may be up and a little tired. But this is a pleasant outcome.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Funnily, Freeze is being a bit of a snob. Icicle is a physicist and Cold, while never getting a degree, has an extensive grasp of engineering. The only poseur in the crowd in Chillblaine. He just filched one of Cold's guns. And, yes, nobody remembers him.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I was more actively reading DC Comics, this was actually one of my favorite skits from the Robot Chicken special. Because I prefer the cold and I'm a fan of Captain Cold. Though, Icicle has a point. He actually was working the freeze ray racket long before everyone else in the room.

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Robot Chicken | Coolest DC Villains | Adult Swim UK 🇬🇧

YouTube video by Adult Swim Europe

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This may or may not be besides the point. But George W Bush is a son of a bitch.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best description isn't even cultish. It's slavish. As in "obedience." Like others have said, "loyalty" is reciprocal. It's an exchange. Trump doesn't believe in loyalty. He believes in obedience and nothing else. He's a criminal, a mob boss. Loyalty isn't enough. It's total obedience.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact that Anglo-Americans routinely point to the 1950s for American greatness, they muse about the prosperity of the period. When, in fact, they miss segregation.

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Matty! @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yooo folks! I need some mouse quarters… So I’m taking some $5 PWYW doodles! Repost this post, and reply with an idea and/or a reference picture of what you want! Check alt text for additional info!

A crappy doodle of some mousey quarters!

Please wait until AFTER you have received your drawing to discuss payment. Thank lease understand: I am a wretched creature of ADHD and procrastination, and there is no guarantee that I will draw your idea.

If I do draw your idea, payment will be accepted through Ko-fi. Please leave your DMs open. Also, please do not include any comments with your payment. Commissions are PWYW with a $5 minimum.

I will not be doing paper doll cut outs this time. I am out of knife blades. :(

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It wouldn't be a BAD thing to actively discourage working yourself to the point of loss of bowel control. For the record, that is.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jesus Christ... There's bound to be a point where, like with McCarthy or Robespierre, this asshole overreaches. This is how he contributed to the death of Yitzhak Rabin and he's just going to keep riding this, hoping that an American evangelical does what Yigal Amir did for him.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That's because, globally, centrists SUCK. They keep wanting to creep us toward authoritarianism rather than even entertain the possibilities of socialist principles.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is Patrick Bateman raising a son

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23/09/2026

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa:

When I visited Trump at the White House, when he said the Golan Heights belongs to Israel, I made the joke, “Why don’t you give New Jersey to the Israelis? You don’t own the Golan Heights to give, but you own New Jersey.”

I believe New Jersey is full of Democrats, and they are not voting for Trump, so it would be good to give it to the Israelis. At least this is something you own. Trump doesn’t own the Golan Heights.

Regardless of this joke, the Golan Heights is owned by its own people. It is neither the Syrian president’s, the American president’s, nor any other person’s to abandon or give up to others.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes. Because they reject our reality and are trying to substitute their [SEVEN-FINGERED HAND].

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canada still knows to fight fascism. And I thank God for the fact.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Compared to Shàonǚ and Javier, Ozzy is the least accurate with firearms, leaning on precision over accuracy. This is reflected in her use of shotguns and large caliber rifles and handguns. It should be noted that this is likely an extension of her practices with fire and lightning magic. 💥🦄

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Dean Winchester Shotgun

Alt: GIF: Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) from Supernatural (2005). Dean breaks open and checks the barrels of a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I appreciate everyone who humored this set of antics.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Cool. Thanks. It would have been nicer if they realized that in 2024...

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So, to be clear... "Gnoll" is another word for hyena... "Kobold" is either used for lizards or dogs... And "orc" is used for pigs... Well, aside from the "orc rhymes with pork" arbitrariness and the noses and tusks. I don't quite feel like an orc. Are there orc clerks and staffers? 🪓🐷❓

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Honesty, they've pushed this matter to the point of it being utterly infuriating. Even IF transgender people were remotely close to "a problem," the dangers of climate change, wars in Eastern Europe and Western Asia, and a looming energy crisis are MUCH more pressing. And REPUBLICANS are to blame.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey, if anyone in the UK is seeing this: let me be the one to say that we've DONE this in the US. These pot sweets are MUCH more expensive than the actual candy. Someone that LIKES their cannabinoids isn't going to leave 20-50 Pounds Sterling worth of pot edibles out for kids to snatch them.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On "Sacred Objects": Sacred artifacts are part of every culture on the Earth. Truly evil or malevolent beings are often harmed or repulsed by them. Some are universal, others are contextually specific. Not unsurprisingly, most bear mystical power simply because of what they're made of.

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Exorcism Exersise The Demons

Alt: GIF: Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowell) from Fright Night (1985).

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've missed that time frame, but I'm penning something of a more official update. Briefly, I'm actually quite tired. Not as stressed as I was, but still distracted by important concerns. My personal affairs are still disordered, but a clearer course of action is slowly taking shape.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our ways are mysterious and inscrutable because we must protect our secrets. Also, "hee-hee-hee..." 🥣🐖

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

... Yes, actually.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh. Snap. If there is a "cute bunny tattoo girl with black hair that was at an LGBT career fair" in my followers: the flustered they/them bunny tattoo person you called cute is looking for you in the skyline. The they/them bunny is looking for you in the skyline. 📞🐷

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Pee Wee Herman: Paging Mr. Herman

Alt: GIF: Pee Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) from Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985). "PAGING MR. HERMAN."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just posting a picture of the price of gas every day and going "look at this bullshit!" and refusing to discuss any other issue seems like it would be largely the correct strategy for these red state independent Senate candidates

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've been seeing this article floating around. It discusses "long-term" perspectives as relates to Musk and his peers. And I have to say it's the old fashioned Millenarianism that, quite frankly, is just the Nazi prophecy of a Thousand Year Reich.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Personally? I would suggest in feminism. In furry. In socialist causes. I would argue that anything that the manosphere argues against is better for you than anything they have to offer. Because their only real "offer" is a set of slogans. A mental "diet program" that starves your mind.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not an official update about my personal status. But I'm a bit distracted and disappointed in a few things. So I'm up a bit late. Either later today (17 Sep as of 02:21 UTC -4, DST) or Friday I'll have an official update.

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Lazy Pig with Goat on its Back

Alt: GIF: A pig lays on the ground while a kid goat hops around on its back.

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

... Does this mean that Kendrick will show up in a Caine shirt?

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C.S. Bernard 🐷🪶 @csbernard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, hey. Those horrible LEDs crossed the Pond...

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Embear 🚩🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐻❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @embear.org · 16/09/2026

If you’re in a position of power and you keep your political opinions to yourself that makes you complicit in the thing happening in my opinion. It makes you a coward.

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