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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 5h

I would bet $1000 that “Demosthenes Twin” is named for the character in the Ender’s Game series and not the Athenian.

A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 6h

He means that in Independence Day, he played a scientist that had an alien shove a tentacle inside of him, and use him like a puppet to deliver exposition to Jeff Goldblum

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Holy shit, he wrote a fantasy novel about spiritual warfare

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can remember the one person in that group I wouldn’t be afraid to be alone in a room with, but the other two are interchangeable in my mind.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I should be embarrassed by this but I’m really happy with how many comments I got by merely suggesting that the Emperor of Mankind is bad.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rush To Diagnose Children "Left Handed" Can Scar Them For Life, Worry Right Handed People Fears mount a recent influx of kids written off as "Left Handed" can lock them out of using right handed scissors Opinion: Jobson LeCruesset-Natwest - I was kicked if I used my left hand & I turned out great

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If it makes you feel better, a lot of the enraging stories are fake too

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve seen people go “the Imperium is bad but the Emperor is good” and I truly don’t know how to respond to that

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What if we went to Lake Ontario and talked about artificial intelligence and kissed?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

fuck i just had my own personal curtains for zoosha moment

Screen shot of a bluesky post thread. User was blocked for this post said: “Gerg is not a serious person and is not the paragon of moral judgement he seems to think he is.” A Simple Tailor said: “I can’t believe they tried to cancel Gerg.” Carados said: “Dude just makes goofy Minecraft videos.” A Simple Tailor said: “Wait is Gerg a real person? I’m old, I thought it was just a funny typo”

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wait is gerg a real person? I’m old, I thought it was just a funny typo.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can’t believe they tried to cancel Gerg

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No, you’re right. The fever dream these guys have is that everybody gets to create their own dream video game. This type of person also fundamentally believes everyone wants to be a video game designer. Why they believe this, I’ve never understood.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can never tell if these journalists really believe social media is a window into the real lives of people or if they’re just grifting.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“He just stood there holding my Amex Black Card because he hated to hear the truth”

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love the passive voice here. Penised by whom, Jo? JO WHO DID THE PENISING?!?!

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As far back as the year 1984 we knew we can’t trust any program really: “You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself…. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are you saying “chat“ in the Gen Z/streamer way or are you saying “chat” in the way weirdos referred to ChatGPT as “Chat” as if that were its name?

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This podcast is excellent. Even if a podcast about linguistics doesn’t excite you but you’re someone like me, who got excited about the potential of podcasts back when Serial first released and went off to discover science podcasts about niche topics, Lingthusiasm is worth a listen!

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah. I see the subreddit still has a very weird relationship with money and class. Some things never change.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Since this is getting likes, I feel obligated to post the original which truly is a work of art.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You warned us but I still wasn’t prepared for how much this explains the media’s behavior in the last 25 years.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More people deserve a say in what our country invests its money in. This is the real issue at stake in 2026 American politics. Even all the culture war issues boil down to this for the wealthy.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you already know (after some delay) what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, or just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't tend to need the help. with that said, onwards!

an edited version of the box art for the dreamcast survival horror game Blue Stinger. the face in the background has been replaced with a picture of my fursona (a pink kangaroo), and the title now says Spacetwinks Rec Thread. 'Sega Dreamcast' has been changed to say 'Online Kangaroo', 'Sega' was changed to say 'Dogs Bower', Activision is changed to say 'VideoGames', and 'Rated M for Mature' now says 'The Letter M', above the letter M.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Editor: Did you get the pictures of the angry anti-ai guy? Photographer: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what?

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Artist Elliott Dold sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dold_e... was born on this day. He co-edited the two issues of Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories with his brother Douglas in 1931, so here's some of the interior artwork (Artist: 1-3 Elliott Dold, 4 [uncredited - style different to Dold's usual work]):

Elliott Dold's interior magazine artwork for "Valley of Sin" by Douglas M. Dold

Elliott Dold's interior magazine artwork for "Revolt on Inferno" by Victor Rousseau

More of Elliott Dold's interior magazine artwork for "Revolt on Inferno" by Victor Rousseau

Interior magazine artwork for "Fish-Men of Arctica" by John Miller Gregory (from Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories, Jun/Jul 1931, edited by Douglas M Dold and Elliott Dold

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ok but if this dude were a Calvinist, this would be a sick burn

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m fine with forever standard time. Let’s just not do forever daylight savings please

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. This is bananas 2. Did they add a provision letting states decide if they’ll be on DST or Standard Time? I don’t really want to have 9am sunrises over here on the northwestern edge of Central Time

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Exactly. Obviously, Fauci infected them

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026

the long shadow of the war on terror

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You definitely get this type of attitude in the Hays Code in Hollywood too. Filmmakers could make their villains as sympathetic as they wanted, but in the end they couldn’t get away with their crimes without punishment.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That reminds me of the episode of Dharma and Greg where Dharma opens a shop but can’t decide what to sell but it just becomes a catch all place in the neighborhood

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Dharma & Greg 2x10 - "Yes, We Have No Bananas (or Anything Else for That Matter)"

YouTube video by Tina C

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe.

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really hope we someday get a trove of anthropic emails because the number of people in that organization who seem to genuinely believe that they need to work really hard to do the right thing and then they continue to justify why doing the wrong thingis ok needs to be studied.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really like the movie but it’s definitely one that is only good if you haven’t watched The Shining in a while

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A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This post/article points to outpatient care and nurse practitioners and physicians assistants. Think primary care and urgent care along with dialysis clinics, etc. That’s what I’ve been seeing in the small towns where I and my extended family live in Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, and Minnesota

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