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@docparadox.bsky.social
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Snark release valve and occasional insights into a man who may be going slightly mad from a dying world.

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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
As I recall, OBL was already on the Clinton radar, so I think we might have been more on the ball, but I suspect the GOP would absolutely not have rallied around the flag for a war in that case. I suspect they'd just pound on how Gore was weak and maybe behind it, etc. Bad faith all the way down.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Man, I miss my college knees. Those were good knees.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
While I am appalled at the glee and pomp the conservatives have for their new concentration camp, I would have a small quibble with calling it “Alligator Auschwitz”.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Democrats keep racking points in these off year elections, and I hope this continues into the mid terms, but I've gotten a buncha pillows around my torso just in case. Status: Defensively optimistic.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I mean that, yes, it appears that bounty hunters and other paramilitary types are being sought and recruited. It's a grim statement on how this regime is conducting itself, and one that's pretty ominous that a lot of unvetted assholes are taken off the leash as it were.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Something that came up - considering how slim the margin was, there's a decent chance that Gore would have won in 2000 with just a few breaks. Seems to me the world would be in a different, and maybe better, place.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Excellent observation here from @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social: "The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles and enablers on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint"
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Court rules 7-2 against Trump administration's efforts to disappear people without due process - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Trump administration has fully (and properly) lost the presumption of good faith in its AEA deportation process on the part of a majority of a Court, including four Republicans: By the standards o...
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hi everyone - is there anyone who can give me the name of a book or podcast or even just some blogs on how an espionage agency worked during the Cold War? And, especially anything that talks about private intelligence agencies? It's stupid, but I wanted to write some fiction from the period.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I know it's a troll, but also too - go f* yerself, Lindsey. Seriously, if he still thinks he's a good person after making a troll like that, he deserves to be slapped by every Catholic in America.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I have heard very few 'American' jokes, like 'An American walks into a bar' sort of set up. Maybe Texan jokes or something. I fear that we're about to be starting to hear some very soon and I'm not super jazzed to start hearing them... but I'm also concerned that we'll have earned them.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Trump Administration is an unstable coalition of zealots, con men, fascists and vacuous techbros who they can will their goals into reality, despite it being demonstrably bad from GO.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
There was a story by Turtledove about an alien species that invaded Earth, but the problem was that while they were 'advanced', that advancement had stalled at wheellock muskets and basic gunpowder, not death rays. They weren't ready for machine guns and jets.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is from Newsweek, which I consider to be 'not great'. But, it came across my feed anyway. And I knew they were doing this anyway... but the urge to find the vents to these places and load them up with rotten fish then close them up is.... tempting. www.newsweek.com/luxury-dooms...
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Luxury 'doomsday bunker' for ultrarich unveiled by US firm
The bunkers will be part of a network of sanctuaries, catering for the 1 percent.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
To add insult to all the other outrages - the betrayal of Ukraine, the storming of federal agencies by a gang of Musk sniffing edgelords, the fight with Canada - he can't even bring the price of eggs down. Worst. Apocalypse. Ever.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Watching Trump and his flying monkeys rapidly disassemble the pieces of the government along ideological lines as set out by a drug mad technobro, a band of christofascist zealots and his own sense of aggrievement and hubris is breathtaking in its suicidal audacity. They are really going for it.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I'm just some schmuck on the internet, like most of us. I have an opinion about policy preferences, and I like to think that I'm a little better informed than the average person. That being said - with the Trump nominees and the outright disregard of the 14A, everyone's hair should be on fire.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hegseth is being utterly dragged by Dems in his confirmation as someone who absolutely would turn on the public if ordered to by Trump on the merest pretext, is morally impaired by both addiction and his history of sexual assault, and lacks the basic competence needed to fulfill his duties.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I keep hearing that Trump is going to start with 'Shock and Awe' from day 1. And there are a lot of ways to take that, but I am grimly anticipating that this is going to be 'against us'. And while that will be bad, it's also going to amuse the same Pepe avatars and Musk sniffers, just because.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Trump transition team: make depressions great again www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/make...
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Make depressions great again - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The new Republican economic populism turns out to be Hoovernomics: The Trump transition team has started to explore pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdog...
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
While it's amusing to watch many of Trump's picks implode on the tiniest amount of vetting, I would point out that the media would try the same rigorous examination if Harris had won. The difference is 'Is a drunk who assaults women' versus 'Performatively likes jazz'.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Now, no one asked for my opinion on what to do with the increase of AI scraping data from sources to make the products more believable. But, I think that, if you are a creator of any sort of content, you should probably insert some gibberish into it, just to confuse them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/11/2024
I am Ira Glass
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greg @mistergeezy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
😂😂😂
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Something else to pass through me.
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Is just the algorithm messing with me, or are stories about a nuclear exchange increasing in volume since Trump won the election?
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Of COURSE, Gaetz was having group sex with underaged girls! We all knew this! The GOP knew it! The party is full to the rim with sex pests, grifters, oligarchs and crazy people. If he'd been a tiny bit more discreet, he'd STILL be an AG nominee.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I hate the fact that the Trump cabinet is a pack of unethical dilettantes who Trump caught on TV saying nice things about him while a gang of human anal polyps dismantles just enough of the guardrails to let them do what they want, but enough to spring on Democrats when it all inevitably collapses.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
What is the antithesis of The Last Supper?
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
On a different note - saw an ad for a pill to aid in 'straightening a bent penis'? Which... ok? Glad the money we won't be putting into vaccine research is used to accommodate the specific penile anxieties of some people. RFK would be proud. But a side effect had included 'penis fractures'? YOLO.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And, just because it's That Sort Of Year, North Korea is getting a little nutty and antagonizing S Korea with GPS jamming and blowing up the last roads between them. Just in time to watch US pull out of NATO, then we'll reach Double Jeopardy, and the scores really start to change.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I have to admit, while choosing Hegeseth as the DoD head is... bad, the pictures of him with "Deus Vult" and Nordic Crosses tattooed on his body is not something I had anticipated. Or wanted. It IS, however, on par with the rest of this dumb decade to come.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"Amid Earth's heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions" by @borenbears.bsky.social for @theindependent.bsky.social AP News: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Amid Earth's heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions
Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Trump's next Cabinet is one bad trip from becoming the Legion of Doom. If Mar-A-Lago becomes amphibious, we're only a few days from an army of sentient Tesla robots attacking Detroit.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I am led to understand that Elon Musk does not like Dana Carvey's SNL impression, but as he could be replaced with a bobblehead and the latest Catturd post, he should be flattered. However, a true impression would be having Carvey passed out in a K-hole coma, and he could have had a lil nap.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Is anyone else annoyed by the circuit of 'what the Democrats ought to do now..." that were largely absent from comment when the GOP lost under Trump? This man was called a dangerous loon by anyone who worked with him, and they're treating his win like it was an unavoidable act of nature.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Does anyone know where I can send a picture of my dirty @ss-hole to Chuck Todd? He did the usual 'Trump won and it's all the Dems fault. But, if he screws up, boy he'll be in trouble." As if Trump's concerned about winning again, when he'll be fluffing his pillow on the taxpayer's expense.
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docparadox.bsky.social @docparadox.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hi everyone - This is going to be all snark and nothing else. It's the only thing that keeps me sane and happy.
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