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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 14h
For my money, that's not even him at his most Wordsworthian
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not that ancient, but: 2004, Boston Red Sox/John Kerry 2016, Chicago Cubs/Hillary Clinton If any Democrats considering a run are from Cleveland, Milwaukee, Tampa etc, they probably have to be appointed to an international body instead
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sentenced to serve as the Lorax's butler? Or court-mandated internship at an Ent-moot?
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oracle at Delphi: If you meddle in the Ukraine-Russia energy conflict before the midterms, a president will fall Trump: <starts making Looney Tunes xylophone noises as his legs start whirling in circles>
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I realize how I sound but can't help myself: you conflate the '98 and the '94 midterms. Clinton's first midterms saw the GOP take both chambers, but in '98 impeachment fatigue gave Dems an okay night. D'Amato had beaten Javitz in'80 and survived Dem waves in '86 and '92 before losing to Schumer
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joe kwaczala @joekwa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
i probably shouldn’t admit how much i gasped when i saw this
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gonna be wild next summer when, four months ahead of its usual schedule, the committee announces that the Nobel Peace Prize has been unanimously awarded to "a pulmonary blood clot that manifested last night at 7:31pm Eastern at Walter Reed Medical Center"
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@edburmila.bsky.social cued me into this! Wonderful episode of his podcast if you're up for a short listen Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast: Minicast C2: The Worst Possible Song Episode webpage: massforshutins.libsyn.com/minicast-c2-... Media file: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/massf...
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Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast: Minicast C2: The Worst Possible Song
A pair of artists use a large market research survey to find out what people say they like least in music and, with their neuroscientist friend, set out to create the worst possible song. Featuring an...
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the number-one failing of NPR's Planet Money. In a process that is regrettably common among access-journalism reporters, they whitewash ideological or even partisan academics as merely "interested in free markets" or "in support of limited government." All for just five minutes of audio!
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have a feeling there's going to be a LOT of after-the-fact appreciation for Warner Bros pics, et alia, once the Ellisons go broke and have to break up and sell off the parts of their media empire
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was coming here just to say, if there isn't a band named Fine Motor Banditry yet, then someone needs to start one
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey! it's normally considered courteous to append a "spoilers!" alert for those of us who haven't finished that Netflix series. This is your final warning, news! www.nbcnews.com/world/german...
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Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief arrested on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason
The arrest of August Hanning, a former head ​of Germany’s foreign intelligence, is unprecedented and could damage the country’s intelligence relationships with allied nations.
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
<guy does a Dylan song on harmonica> Wow, this sucks <guy does Blues Traveler> Wow, this blows..... whoa!
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe adopt the pretense that it's a recent translation of some dead Greek that you came across? Surely they wouldn't ask you what Aeschylus meant by bulldozing a tree
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
goblin mask! twenty dollars can buy many peanuts

norman osborn! explain how
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was skeptical about Star Wars episode 10, but given the original trilogy was apparently about how the Viet Cong were right, the prequels were how Bush Knew!, and the sequels were Love Is Love, we'll get to see the Lucasfilm take that egg prices are too high and data centers lead to the dark side
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But does ACAB include you, in this scenario?
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is... is that not Blackie?
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's like nobody wants to pilfer a babysitter's fashion magazine and waste thirteen pages of tracing paper anymore!
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know I don't have the right take on this, but every single story about AI "nudification" apps turns me into an "in MY day" guy
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Some of us would raid the nests of smaller birds and even attack and eat them which I believe now is the sin for which I have been punished. bookshop.org/p/books/some...
Common Grackle stoned to death by school children
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor
Boyd Elementary School, Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, 1980
We flew together in large flocks whistling and chattering and squeaking to one another of news and of nothing at all over large fields of corn ignoring the motionless human sentries meant to frighten us. We followed behind churning plows and foraged through their bountiful wake for worms and insects and mice and near water we plucked leeches off the backs of turtles who stared at us dumbly. We nested in trees by the humans and ate from their scraps which were plenty and the braver among us stole right from under their noses sometimes as much for sport as for sustenance. For this we were considered a nuisance. Some of us would raid the nests of smaller birds and even attack and eat them which I believe now is the sin for which I have been punished.
Lying in the grass one day letting the ants crawl over me to rid my newly molted feathers of mites and biti
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today in "skeets that make me look something up"
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Melville sold okay, but for Typee/Omoo; Moby-Dick was completely unknown until the Faulkner generation rediscovered it. Same with Stendhal. There may be a greater tendency for authors who are presaging the next big literary shift (I have no idea if this happened in moments earlier than Modernism)
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Slightly responsive: but the exceptions make a list that's more fun. Danielle Steele and James Patterson sell 100x the good writers today and will never be literature. Faulkner, Fitzgerald & Hemingway were completely outstripped by (wait for it) Zane Grey
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Bedevere @bedevere.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It will never stop blowing my mind that Woodie Guthrie wrote that song.
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We may have discovered the lowest-grade instance of a Mandela Effect
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had to look up when the Warren Commission made its report. For some reason, I had always thought it took years and came out late in the second Johnson term, but nope, this was it, about a month before Americans went to the polls to choose Johnson or Goldwater
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's my heavy burden to deliver the truth that the lying media won't tell you, that the "Jane Doe" currently in the news real name is "Jayne Dough"
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Greece, saying "it's Greek to me" means something is very simple, like taking candy from a baby "Like taking candy from a baby," meanwhile, is an idiom for a great challenge in Pixie-sticksylvania, the land of the Armed and Dangerous Sugar-High Babies
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Political scientists since 1974: Yes, it is too much to want that
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seriously, a fantastic film, and just... <seventeen-second--long exhale>
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Deep cut. Spectacular film. Do not watch if you are required to operate heavy machinery, light machinery, or provide care for children, the elderly, dogs, or particularly needy plants. (Your cats are fine.)
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had the same idea for a bumper sticker, but this guy had the idea first and actually made them bsky.app/profile/samm...
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm sure someone already has, but somebody needs to put together the Spotify playlist of all-time great instrumental breaks with this, "Baker Street," et al
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love this map because it's this great swirl of "oh, I assumed they were from London" to "they're British?!?" to "I do not know who that is and do not for the life of me believe that is the name of a famous band"
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Behind Genesis
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was actually one of the things I remember "learning" at recess in middle school, that if someone survived all three shots of a firing squad, the law was that the sentence had been carried out and they were free to go
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Welcome to the League of Rasputin
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exhibit A: "Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?" (Exhibit B is the incest)
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Debate club position: Although superficial similarities exist to Biff Tannen in the second Back to the Future and the rich boss in Gremlins 2, the best film analog to Trump is Noah Cross in Chinatown
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If they win the next two 2-1 and 1-0, then the series overall score will be 3-10 and it won't matter
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You could probably make "the 'X' stands for 'doXXing'" into a slogan without much pushback, and potentially the active encouragement, of the owner of XtheEverythingApp
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, YOU'RE trying too hard to appeal to nerdy segments of the Anglosphere
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Dough or doughnut; there is no try"
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want there to be a rugby team of big ol' fat guys called The Yodas who every time they fail to score, take a fried-food snack break on the sidelines
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How could Ted Kennedy be a good senator? He was such a bad driver....
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Echoing this, exactly. While I don't actually expect them to bite, one would think "Medicare for Pregnant Women" would have had recognizable appeal to pro-life voters and the natalist crowd who are worried about declining birth rates
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why do I have a suspicion he will need to avoid nenuphar traps on the way to meet Sir Vodalus?
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jack Black's character in High Fidelity briefly names his band Kathleen Turner Overdrive
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Dims on Stims podcast @dims-on-stims.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And I'd like to believe the skyscraper next door was made with real cement! Don't make it so....
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