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I've always assumed that among his many weird and obsessive personality traits he has a strong aversion to pets and animals generally. I don't remember if that was ever specifically confirmed the way it's public knowledge he lives on fast food and diet coke, though.

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Stephen: A glass of claret with you? I should like it of all things, but moderation, moderation always. Two ounces of this excellent wine and no more. [next scene] Stephen: [filling a pint glass with laudanum] Sure 'tis only because I've important business tomorrow and must have a restful sleep!

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we never got the sequel where 2003-era Paul Bettany came aboard ship wearing the Rational Garment and explaining that he's going to be installing 60,000 bees in Jack's cabin

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The meme with a sedately dressed Richard Madden looking bemused at a flamboyantly dressed Taron Egerton. Over Richard is the text "Movie Stephen Maturin" and over Taron is the text "Book Stephen Maturin".

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Rob Dunson, Collateral Beautician @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah, exactly, capital punishment is partly about spectacle and some methods like lethal injection became preferred not because they're meaningfully more humane than hanging, firing squad, or guillotine, but because they appear orderly and clinical instead of gnarly and gross

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The chopped and screwed Jim Bakker videos by Vic Berger are among the greatest media of the 21st century, really cannot recommend them highly enough. I say "I'm FINE! The cows are dead, the kids are on drugs, but I'M FINE! I'M FINE!" at least once a week

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jim Bakker screaming incoherently about the apocalypse while he uses an entrenching tool to stir a trough of reconstituted broccoli cheddar soup

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's so cool that they made that video and asked if they could show it and the judge allowed it. like imagine you were just convicted of murder and at the sentencing the victim's family says "your honor we want a computer ghost to testify" and the judge says "yeah that sounds fine, let's do it"

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my favorite part is the iron mine is a ~90 mile rail trip from Duluth but fuck them, Minnesota is a blue state so we have to send ore 400 miles *away* from the Great Lakes and build a dirty industry facility in the world's most productive agricultural region, because there's an election in 4 weeks

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maury did multiple episodes that were just finding guests with severe phobias and confronting them with the thing they feared until they broke down on camera while his audience cruelly howled with glee

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're a genuine treasure. Almost every recipe site has a vortex of intrusive ads and SEO, cluttered interfaces and scripts that make your phone alarmingly hot, and half the time they lie about cooking time. King Arthur Baking just tells you how to bake a thing, no bullshit.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, we don't have to imagine how it would affect politics and culture today, because people who came of age when it was that bad are still around, and they passed the fear on to their kids. A lot of popular culture and politics caters to the fact that they think cities are still like that now.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That context is really important. These Dems aren't merely betraying trans people, although that would be bad enough in itself. It's that much worse because they're doing it in response to Republicans trying to rile their voters into a frenzy of hatred against a very vulnerable minority.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Where I live in Iowa I see ads for four competitive races (governor, senate, two house districts) and I think people maybe don't understand how unhinged the GOP attacks on trans people have gotten. There's a constant deluge of incredibly ugly anti-trans rhetoric.

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"Most of you will probably remember that I have an extraordinary visual sense," is one of those phrases that my spouse and I will repeat to one another occasionally. Just the entire encapsulation of a character, Aida Turturro getting the whole vibe of Janice into a single perfect sentence.

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even so the fight is basically the equivalent of "what if Frazier could've somehow beat Foreman by wanting it more" but with an even more extreme physical and technical mismatch

Rocky V was bad so not that many people remember it, and they retconned the problem to be much less serious so they could make "Rocky Balboa" in 2006, but in the very next movie Rocky had to retire from boxing because he got severe brain damage from fighting Drago

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Black Rain (1989) - Fight Scene

Sato loses the fight because he cut off his finger in the previous scene and his dominant hand is all fucked up he should kick Douglas's ass but he can't, which is basically the point of yubitsume as a punishment anyway

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm sort of morbidly curious to know where this person is coming from, as in their notions of what happened in WW2 and where they came by them, but there's no fucking way I'm reading a 91-post thread by a person who read Harry Potter fanfiction until they had the equivalent of a severe TBI

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This is a very minor issue, but one complaint I have about this absolute nonsense is I will see something about Tilly Norwood and for a second think that Charles Portis's debut novel is getting revived mainstream attention for some reason. Repeated cruel disappointments.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think the difference is that people around them noticed their health failing and told them to go to the doctor. McConnell did that, whereas Graham decided he wouldn't rest until every last child in Iran was dead. Now Lindsay is in Hell waiting for Mitch to join him.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My favorite part was the inventor and namesake of the Hunley decided they sank and drowned because they used it wrong, so he took personal command on the next attempt and also sank and drowned

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the end effect of "look we're totally on your side but we just can't stand up for you right now, you're too much of a hot topic because republicans are attacking you" is "we will stand up for you, and fight for your rights, as soon as republicans pick a different target"

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It's playing out this way *because* Dem candidates are doing well in the polls. GOP campaigns are going all-in on transphobia and Dem consultants are clearly advising their candidates to respond by throwing trans people under the bus. This dynamic is very obvious where I'm at in Iowa.

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When journalists ask him specific questions he tries to get by with bullshitting techniques like yes-anding them, which he did here about Irish unification, or vagueness like "we might do that, we're considering it" "we're looking into that very strongly" "we'll decide in the next two weeks"

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He doesn't get briefed. Lots of reports since 2016 have said that he is impenetrably stupid and illiterate, so they have to make briefings very short, full of visual aids, and mostly about him in some way or he checks out and doesn't pay attention.

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The thing that really propels that image over the top is the context that the US government knew bin Laden was in Pakistan but needed an explanation for why we hadn't caught him, so they told the news magazines that Al Qaeda built Hasbro's GI Joe Cobra Command Fortress under Noshaq.

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iirc what happened was the municipalities were responsible for the entrances to the ped/bike path, and state DOT told them to install bollards, but they didn't feel like it until after two people were killed

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Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When somebody like Slotkin waxes nostalgic about the 9/12 vibe, what she's actually saying is she misses the years when Americans were so crazed with fear that the spooks had free reign to do whatever they pleased without a whisper of complaint.

Fourierist @fourierist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The I-74 bridge over the Mississippi has a multi-use path that opened in April 2022. They didn't have bollards at the entrances so within a month a drunk driver drove up it and killed two people, seriously injured another, and the city wound up paying a $2.5M settlement.

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Woman charged in I-74 fatal pedestrian bike path crash receives 20 years in prison

Wednesday, Chhabria A. Harris, 46, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated DUI causing death, according to court documents.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

grimly fascinating how trump is chiefly animated by his fear of dying without leaving a lasting mark, but he's so devoid of humanity, so spiritually corroded, the idea of something that lasts because people WANT IT TO never crosses his mind. he can only imagine leaving a wreckage too heavy to move

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lol there was obviously a lot of dumb stuff that should have been a clear tell that the story was fake, but that was the best bit. Everybody knows that exams only ever take place in early May. It's a whole thing for AP teachers because they have the students for another 2-3 weeks after.

Screenshot from the AP website about Exam Dates.

"2027 AP Exam Dates

AP Exams are Administered each year in May. Find dates for the 2027 exams here.

The 2027 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May. May 3-7 and May 10-14."

Imagine a leader in a contemporary liberation movement like Civil Rights or Gay Rights coming forward in 1967 and saying they were proud to work for the CIA because it was a force for good in the world. James Baldwin, just for example. How would that have affected his legacy?

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To me, the rediscovery of Steinem's CIA ties is more interesting for what it says about Second Wave Feminism than about her personally. She discussed her work for the CIA and praised the agency in a 1967 interview, at the height of the Vietnam War. It doesn't seem to have affected her reputation.

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He construes openness to negotiation as a sign of vulnerability to be exploited. Agreements do not bind him and are at best temporary truces while he figures out how to screw over the other party so he can be the winner.

This is reflected in his business career, where he could not entertain the routine exchange of money for goods and services without trying to cheat vendors out of the agreed payment. It's also evident in his idiotic understanding of international trade as a form of theft.

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