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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Marina Hyde on top form this morning.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 12h

Correction: bsky.app/profile/prof...

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 12h

And you passed the age Teddy Roosevelt was when elected president 279 days ago. You have a while to catch up to Bill Clinton and U.S. Grant though.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🔭🌙 Just 10cm tall, this little clock-watch in the form of a book includes adjustable sundials, signs of the zodiac, tools to calculate the hours of daylight and the phases of the moon, a lunar wheel-chart, and even an alarm! ⏰

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 13h

🍐This beautiful pear-shaped porcelain bottle from Japan is covered in a distinctive green flambé glaze. It was made by Ishiguro Kōkō of the Sumida Pottery in Tokyo, named after the nearby Sumida River.

Pear-shaped bottle with a green 'flambé' glaze

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 13h

I cannot believe this got published and (apparently) quite favouribly reviewed.

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MJen Markus @mjenmarkus.bsky.social · 19h

I hereby grant Jack Smith all the schadenfreude he can manage. He deserves it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

CSPAN: “We should mention that Senator Schmitt was supposed to appear on this program with Sen. Coons but he pulled out the day after that hearing.”

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 14h

I am two-thirds of the way through the second volume of her Collected Essays, and I think Virginia Woolf might be the most consistently great essayist (Baldwin at his best is better, but he is less even), dare I say, in any language.

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Libby @ancientprawns.bsky.social · 22h

Mansfield Park continues to blow my mind

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Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.

Chart shows a close positive relationship between Trump's 2024 vote and Google searches for testosterone boosters.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI might be a bubble, but is it a tulip bubble or a railroad bubble

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gork I started a war with Iran and it’s not going well. Do a breakthrough

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Christmas Movie Bot 🎄🎬🤖 @christmasmoviebot.bsky.social · 17h

Journey Back To A Craft Sale (1965): A real husband sells his beard to buy a gold for his wife, but little does he know, she's sold her gold to buy him a beard.

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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 17h

it continues to be baffling to me just how many people zohran has infuriated by being basically a normal (if charismatic and talented) guy

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 17h

I am using the new Penguin translation (Lydia Davis) of In Search of Lost Time as a crib to read the original (I read a section in English, then a chapter in French). And as a crib, it is fantastic.

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Jude the Obscure @shikaakwa-herriaka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

turns out being unable to think is not, in fact, a strategic asset when your opponent is specifically there to fight, instead of some guy just trying to enjoy a night at the pub who attempts to deescalate

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump is, like all people whose racism is simultaneously casual and bone-deep, racist in ways normal people don’t even know about. Brain like a slot machine for racism. Hispanics can fall real far. Black people have an extra tendon. Indians can see in the dark. Japanese people hoard matchbooks.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Treating workers like shit and denying them rights just seems to just be one of those things humans in general really love to do for some reason.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything is mind boggling if you're out of yours.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if every bit of medieval exegesis commanded the same cultural and intellectual authority as the talmud...lmao.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love McGoohan in general and The Prisoner in particular. He was also great in Basil Dearden's Jazz retelling of Othello as the Iago character, for which he learned to play drums.

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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I poasted this in an Australian fb group, I inadvertantly did a Mainland Chauvinism by asking "Native or Introduced."

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have been hearing them all my adult life, and I had no idea that they had a speeded up villain laugh. This is fantastic.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A far right French politician said a bunch of antisemitic things to his far right friends when he was young. Well, you don't say. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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French hard-right leader Bardella accuses opponents of 'total war' after claims of antisemitism

National Rally President Jordan Bardella says he will sue for libel over comments he is accused of making as a young activist.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

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Ellen Hokanson @ellenhokanson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re doing a racism. We’re good at it. Been practicing for centuries.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Everyone responsible for the anti vaccine panic deserves to be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

His legal career is probably best analogized as “defense attorney for the Klan”

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security, literally had a portrait of a mass shooter of Palestinians on his wall, it’s literally the equivalent a U.S. Senator having a portrait of Timothy McVeigh or Dylan Roof in his living room

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Hmm we did a war with a country who didn't control the Strait of Hormuz and it set the region on fire for 15 years, what we need is to do the same thing except with a nation that DOES control the Strait of Hormuz" - senior fellow, Foundation for Strategy Democracy Defense Institute

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People I never met, yet miss greatly.

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Lauren @larrygoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Being a parent is cool because you get to experience failure at something that matters to you more than anything else in the world

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“You can’t say someone isn’t a real Christian” sure but in some cases it’s like saying someone isn’t a real bodybuilder

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They’re every bit as Christian as they are muscular.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Sentimentalist @sentimentalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This idiot needs to be impeached and removed before he completely destroys the US military

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Sentimentalist @sentimentalist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is another impeachable offense: misappropriation of lawfully disbursed funds

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think we should stop saying "the Bible/the Quran/the Talmud/the Odyssey etc... [teaches]." This locution completely obscures the role of the interpreter in reading the documents.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jerome channeling Tacitus Ambrosius, Mediolanensis episcopus, usque in praesentem diem scribit, de quo, quia superest, meum judicium subtraham, ne in alterutram partem, aut adulatio in me reprehendatur, aut veritas.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope can’t resist his pizza.

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Ex-miss Febem @anapads.boio.la · 29/09/2026

Sabe viver

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Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The poor Christ is a scandal to the world and to many Christians. If we paper over the poverty of his condition, the unflinching vulnerability of his state, and his deliberately willed dependence on others, we disfigure him into the image of what we vainly want for ourselves.

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