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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love the dudes with the stretcher at the end. Mostly, humans don't need one at the end of that race.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Driving a cybertruck indicates a mental state which would automatically qualify for a hanger.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What kind of toolbox is even contemplating a war between Canada and the US. Pure insanity.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Guess what airport I will never use in my life, ever.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's paper, not leather. But the quality is top notch, and it is well-printed.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Got mine in the mail today. @petersagal.bsky.social @fieldnotes.co . Glad to have my own personal physical copy for once.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fortunately, the ICJ and ICC don't care about presidential pardons for prosecuting war crimes.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Particularly insulting if there's travel involved.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I kind if feel like that's what patrons of Chili's end up eating. So easy choice not to go.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Dude will never be fashionable, no matter where he gets his clothes.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Translation: he's attacking Iran, but doesn't want to tell the press or the American public. He pulled this same routine with the bunker busters against the nuclear facility (which failed to do anything substantial).

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Looks like proof xenomorphs exist.

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Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard @collinwoodard.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16/02/2026

A painting of a bird beside the text "it must be a great comfort that nothing in your fuckin' life has ever been your fault"

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today's been pretty crap for me in the social sphere, so I'm putting some good out in the world in the form of my two puppies taking a little breatk.

Two Italian Greyhounds bundled into a snuggle sack together. One, mostly visible, is wearing pajamas. Only the face of the other can be seen poking out from inside the snuggle sack.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

He will never visit any "Leftist death-worshippers" in prison, if/when any are imprisoned.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

By Charlie SavageEric SchmittJohn IsmayJulian E. BarnesRiley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert
Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay and Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington; Riley Mellen and Christiaan Triebert reported from New York.

Jan. 12, 2026
Updated 6:47 p.m. ET
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.

The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.

But the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

U.S. military manuals about the law of war discuss perfidy at length, saying it includes when a combatant feigns civilian status so the adversary “neglects to take precautions which are otherwise necessary.” A U.S. Navy handbook says lawful combatants at sea use offensive force “within the bounds of military honor, particularly without resort to perfidy,” and stresses that commanders have a “duty” to “distinguish their own forces from the civilian population.”

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Lily Bart 📚 🎧 😽 @roguetime.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Federal agent drew his gun and pointed it right at the face of a non violent protestor. THIS HAS TO STOP NOW

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is the perfect effinbirds to come up after the US's Venezuelan folly this weekend.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I am right there with you. This never stops giving.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Glad to hear you capped out at "miffed". Though I wouldn't be surprised if you're downplaying that a bit. 😇

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

When the time comes, I honestly think we should treat the second administration like the world treats the Cultural Revolution in China: nothing generated by it is worth the paper it's printed on.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Good reference. I enjoyed those two episodes a lot. When asked if owls are smart, Gutierrez said "...owls are no smarter or dumber than any other bird." They are specialized, and if you can't train them like corvids, that doesn't mean they're dumb, IMO.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The absolute temerity to say "You don’t have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that" about MBS after what he put Zelensky through in the Oval Office. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

nbcnews.com

Trump insults another female reporter, this time for her looks

On Wednesday, the president called a New York Times reporter “ugly,” the third insult toward a female reporter in recent weeks.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What's most amazing about this is not the view itself (which is extra amazing) but that the NOAA still has the staff and funds to fly this mission after DOGE, never mind the government shutdown. youtube.com/shorts/P2MgO...

youtube.com

Hurricane hunters share video from inside the eye of monster storm Melissa

YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You mean, like, when there's actual shit to point at?

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is the kind of sentence that would be generated by AI trained only on news, Ulysses, and Naked Lunch.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I already bought and read all the Murderbot books, but I gladly bought this bundle to help World Central Kitchen and grab some of the other books I don't have yet.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Read too fast and my mind created "current white president".

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Doesn't matter, does it, because SCOTUS said presidents are immune for official acts in office.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Even Wendell Berry had 12 acres for a marginal farm. Marginal meaning: "sustain my family and nothing else."

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Probably has something to do with ProPublica only doing long form investigative journalism.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It's made from juniper berries, so you're at least in the evergreen zone.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"...an affront to our great Indian population." Anyone actually ask a local Indian? Dunno that Trump's ever even talked to one.

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

—Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander can't be mentioned enough. —The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David and Leigh Eddings defined my fantasy reading as a kid — The MYTH series by Robert Aspirin (no mentions yet? How?) Recently — the Cradle series by Will Wight is great for YA

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Isn't proper grammar kind of paramount in being a good lawyer?

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Erik Wessel 🖊️ @ejw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

He stuck around just long enough to make sure *everything* went in the toilet, and is now saying "buh bye!"

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