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E.St.V.M.

@estvm.bsky.social
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Posting the occasional Edna St. Vincent Millay poem, random science, and other thoughts. But mostly political ravings. Proud Progressive/Democratic Socialist. All views explicitly mine.

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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I shall not care; Foolish am I to think about it, But it is good to feel you there." -from "The Dream," E.St.V. Mullay
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let's not.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dear airlines: instead of requiring people to check carry on luggage for free - every. single. god-damned. time - because the flight is full, just go back to a one checked bag is free policy. Problem solved. FFS.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now tell me again that it's not apartheid.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"I don't gallivant! I've never gallivanted. I don't know *how* to vant! I don't even have a galli!" -Sam Vimes
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I carefully planted (discarded and left to rot) a pumpkin in my garden (perpetual plot of weeds) last year, and through much care (complete indifference) and attention (utter neglect) am proud (stunned) to announce I (nature) grew a pumpkin.
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 😡🤬
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
AI is a lousy solution looking for a problem that's already been solved.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I don't care that the form was "approved by the sponsor" if the sponsor has demonstrated they know jack all about data collection.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Feeling kinda disconnected.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
youtu.be/QxrGL1xuGK8?...
youtu.be
One More Year of Good TImes
YouTube video by Country Joe & The Fish - Topic
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What if we had "emeritus" positions for congresspeople? Handle some of the routine things like arranging White House tours, answering constituent questions, etc. Anything non-legislative, no voting power.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Three meter sphere nutrition facts at the University of Maryland.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ian Kershaw: "The fatal miscalculation of the conservative Right was to imagine [Trump] would be 'tamed' by participation in government so that the [MAGA] bubble would burst. When worries about [Trump's] intentions were voiced, 1/4
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It is time to speak ill of the dead. At some point, maybe in a decade, maybe in two, or more, there will be a reckoning, and authors will write books like "Ordinary Americans" asking how the American people came to elect and continued to support such a monstrous administration. 1/3
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Has happened to female colleagues of mine that are still in academia, which is infuriating. Women, minorities, and folks with disabilities have to put up with too much shit. This hurts not just them, but the scientific endeavor as a whole.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself... The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that." -Sir Terry Pratchett, in "Guards! Guards!"
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
AI will never be clever enough to write such an amusing phrase as "a game of skill and dexterity, involving tortoises." You just can't replace a human author, especially not one like Terry Pratchett.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"They came up in lines, straight up, passing us, passing through, attacking the pillboxes, attacking any buildings and within a period of ten minutes they'd disappeared and the beach organization started to get up and move." -Midshipman Rene Le Roy on the 4 Commando attack on Sword Beach
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"We reached the road but... a shell exploded beside the tank and we slid sideways into a deep ditch... we [were] stuck fast. It was hopeless, so we did what all highly trained and disciplined British soldiers do: we had a brew up." -Trooper W.J. Blackwell
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Get on them, men! Get on them! They are raising hell with the men on the beach, and we can't have any more of that! We most stop it!" -Rear Adm. Carleton F. Bryant, commander, Center Support Group, Western Naval Task Force aboard USS Texas, message to destroyers
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Reading "An Oral History of D-Day" this third and fourth. "We trained our main battery... in his direction, took a range on his location and sent him a four-gun salute. Another direct hit and the tension was relieved because we had gotten one of the bastards ourselves." -Edward T Duffy
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Zippin up my space suit, hey now, I know that you're making your way around. And you got no gravity to weigh you down, so I'll be coming after you. Zippin up my space suit." -from "Space Suit" by Kash'd Out
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"What has often been suggested has now been established: so long as the press is free and not corrupt, it has an enormously important function to fulfill and can rightly be called the forth branch of government." -Hannah Arendt, on the press and the Pentagon Papers Welp, we're fucked.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"So what is cyber security?" Actual line in the "training" I have to take for my job. FFS what a waste of time.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
There are few things better than burying your nose in your dog's fur after they've come in from outside and inhaling the smell of grass and outside air and pollen and fur and everything that makes them them.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Some lyrics give me a strong emotional reaction. "Things are getting rough like the seven seas Never givin' up when it's hard to breathe Give me all you got, put it all on me Put it all on me, put it all on You don't have to wander all alone Trouble follows everywhere you go 1/2
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Eisenhower was still old-fashioned enough to believe in the Constitution." -Hannah Arendt Christ.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Image-making as a global policy - not world conquest, but victory in the battle 'to win the people's minds' - is indeed something new in the huge arsenal of human follies in recorded history." -Hannah Arendt I wish she was around for this administration. She'd have tore 'Rump a second asshole.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Potentially controversial statement: I'm tired of people saying there were ~23,000 American casualties at Antietam. No. There were ~12,500 American casualties and ~10,500 traitors who forsook the United States.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Might I have had the acceptance, not the love Of those clear eyes; Might I have been for him the bough above Or the root beneath his forest bed, A part of the forest, seen without surprise." -from "The Fawn" by E.St.V. Millay Been awhile since I've posted some Millay.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Random thought. Tie corporate tax rates to the number of their employees on any kind of government assistance. Don't pay your employees a living wage? Extra tax for you because the government has to step in.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Anyone else spend two hours in silence save for ten words while listening to music and tending a fire to ward the evening chill and all ten of those words were "hey bud, I love you" twice uttered quietly to your dog while running your fingers through his fur? It's pretty nice.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Truth is I'm prone to depression But a life spent coping has taught me a lesson Happiness can't be bought or given Despite what is missing it's a life worth living" -"Optimism in F#" by the Bumpin Uglies
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
CBS is dead.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Paying taxes is a patriotic duty shirked by billionaires. Time to call them what they are: unpatriotic parasites who feed on the shrinking wealth of this country and her people.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"The growing pains don't ever wane The aches might change but it's all the same At it's worst if feels profane But a life of love is worth the pain It's worth the pain" -Growing Pains by the Bumpin Uglies
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Eyeball cleanse. If it's soft, my dog will rest on it.
A brindle small to mid sized dog lying on a blanket and pillow looking very cute.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Couldn't have happened to a better person. Only saying that since it's very survivable. As a survivor, I don't wish cancer on anybody. Not even someone like Pam Bondi. Doesn't mean I didn't enjoy reading that news though.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Becoming convinced Miller aspires to be Lex Luthor.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Tell me you have CTE without telling me you have CTE. And with a name like "Jaxson" to boot.
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I hate that this is a thing. Especially for someone as fascinating, brilliant, and flawed as #Feynman. youtu.be/A2_8199CL1I?...
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Richard Feynman is Now A.I. Slop
YouTube video by Kyle Hill
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"The kind of thinking that presents A and C as undesirable, therefore settles on B, hardly serves any purpose than to divert the mind and blunt the judgement for the multitude of real possibilities." -Hannah Arendt
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"... when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive...
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E.St.V.M. @estvm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us." -Hannah Arendt
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