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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23h

This probably should have but different occur to me - the current midterm wave we're seeing is the political wave we're getting *before* most of the big cuts in Medicaid go into effect. If anything, people may well be angrier in 2028, which is wild to contemplate.

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Cosmo Wenman @cosmowenman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Portraits from the city with the best city name ever in the history of world: Crocodilopolis.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Weird all these guys who skimmed the wikipedia page on Ancient Rome keep telling me that the Romans all looked like Northern Europeans www.instagram.com/p/Dego3b2Dcr...

A portrait of two Roman youths on display at the Ara Pacis museum in Rome, on loan from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I am aware of a generational national trauma!

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

...I'm a teetotaler and think in a hypothetical ideal world* alcohol would not be drank, and even I think Prohibition was a bad idea with bad results. What even. *(I don't think that world is really achievable, religious reasons just for one, to be clear. But I think less alcohol would be good.)

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Calling all nations! We are massing our fleet off Salamis as our last stand against the Persian invaders! Send help at once! If you can't send help, at least send rye and mustard!

Groucho Marks as Rufus T. Firefly in an elaborate uniform talking on a radio amid a pitched battle (Duck Soup).

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Big Dog on the Space Cat @derekcarrsopp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

they called it the battle of salamis. I said salami? they said, no, it's salamis, it's not-- it's not a sausage, and I said wow. you wouldn't know it, but it's different. so we're looking into that.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

(to the tune of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart") Pert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swamp Pert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swampert Swamp

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Zer0 🏳️‍⚧️ @ironwolfzer0.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Forgot I never posted this piece of a Tiefling I wanna play in the future! #art

Art of a Tiefling in a relaxed pose with her left hand on her hip. Her expression is that if mild confusion as she looks in the viewers direction.

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love Raichu, she is darling. I have no idea what she's doing with those fancy rocks but I'm happy for her avant-garde fashion hobby. I hope it goes as well as her surfing one. It's nice to see her stepping out of her younger brother's shadow. Sorry somebody taught her a Grass move, though.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They cut that third stage evolution and gave us Pichu instead. RIP Gorochu

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John @johnmcgivney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Several decades ago I worked at a bookstore Mr Cool James frequented and I can confirm that he special ordered a LOT of books

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Brexit has shown they cannot be trusted with nostalgia. All pictures of the past are to be replaced with hedgehogs until such time the British electorate can think of the present and future. God save the king and all hedgehogkind.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hyper Beam this, Dragon Rage that. Splash was fine. What do you mean you want me to use Crunch on that Pokémon? He might get hurt?

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm sure the fabric of football here being in big cities is meaningfully different than the dynamics of it being in a town, but like how your family hasn't lived in Burnley in your life, you also get small communities with their "local" big team, which is at least similar in dynamic?

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And I know one smallish place in the state I grew up in, Ohio, had a big culture around the local hockey team even though hockey isn't super huge more widely. I think there's a fair amount of that scattered around with sports, just not as common.

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Apologies for responding to an ancient post, but Americans do have that kind of culture as well! It's just that its about other sports. American football over here is the biggest, and while yeah football doesn't have much of that footprint, that's a time thing, I think? It could grow, in places.

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Dark Elf on the Shelf 🦔 @darkelfontheshelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Portrait of the Artist as Among Yams.

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aquartermain.bsky.social @aquartermain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kind of. I do think she's been radicalized and that the books were anti-fascist, but they were very shallowly anti-fascist. Which is basically fine for a kid's series. But the signs of lots of unexamined prejudices are all there in the text.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The grim irony is that if Trump hadn't started his damn fool war with Iran, we could have shifted much of those interceptor stocks over to Ukraine to protect Ukrainian civilians and then we would actually have the leverage to ask Zelensky and Ukraine not to kinetically sanction Russian oil.

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It turns out that the grandparents also have a good couch.

Fairy the greyhound snoozing on my in-laws' couch, having successfully occupied it before her brothers could.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I appreciate that PBS opted to depict an older wiser Martina instead of reusing a youthful image, but they could have glammed her up a bit with some feathers or something.

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On dai wai @ondaiwai.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

His hair was *perfect*

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Corax D @coraxd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm pretty sure this is the guy I met who had a Chinese menu in his hand while walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1. RM is of course entirely right. Sulla wiped out his enemies and totally remade all of Rome’s institutions, and it *didn’t work* 2. I think it’s also extremely important to understand *why* it didn’t work, as Ronald Syme memorably put it…

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Federico Iglesias (FreeGlass) @freeglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this is my vent art

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Rather well beyond the actual stuff YouTube might demonetize or take down a video for.

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm not an expert but it's my understanding that "unalive" started in anglophone TikTok as an attempt to get around shadowbans on saying "death"... which were not actually happening. You can see the same sort of earnest belief that you can't say certain things on YouTube from younger creators, say,

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the lessons of Athens must be that democracies can inflict atrocities just as well as autocracies. Our democracy does not make us moral; we must make moral our democracy.

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Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ac8 is so good it's got the porn artists drawing F-22s

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Whereas I've always considered him kinda a happy, smiling lil axe-guy

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RIP to the speediest of Eevees. Speed creep is a bitch in this metagame.

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So I think the Onion article being shared was meant in that spirit rather than casting college sexual assault as a just America thing. Sorry if that was obvious or you were riffing, just thought I would try to clarify since the waffleposting response uh, didn't, if it was a missing context thing.

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So, suggesting it as one possibly needful reform of many in harm mitigation, rather than as the one quick trick to solve sexual violence in higher education so we don't gotta address the issues and fault of individuals and culture generally. If that makes sense?

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DoobleDeeDooble @doobledeedooble.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's not saying "These poor men wouldn't be rapists if not for the corrupting influence of fraternities!" it's saying "Fraternities as organizations have cultures and structures that facilitate coordinated assaults and gang rapes, recurrent enough that maybe they should be done away with entirely".

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Damn, I wish my transition went as well as Van Helsing's.

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Gromp Prrolbo @yggdrasillygoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is why everyone instinctually loves Mudkip. He possesses the inner tranquility of a lotus flower

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Cute Mudkip Pokemon Duo

ALT: Cute Mudkip Pokemon Duo

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely LOVE the floral initials in this copy of the works of Apuleius, one of the first books printed at Rome (by Sweynheym & Pannartz) in 1469. The initials apparently added in France, perhaps in the 1480s or 90s. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.2.1[1124].

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A tree that took 250 years to grow getting cut down by Donald's jackbooted thugs in minutes is the type of on-the-nose symbolism that would have a writer panned by critics as a hack.

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