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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom)

@gnarlygeek.bsky.social
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DEI is a moral imperative. US, IT/Eng, Science, Atheist, Grandpa, Married, LGBTQ+ and Neuro advocate. If you don't like what I post, tell me, I'm here to share and to learn. #earworm #musicski #writingcommunity #writers #bookski #fantasy #scifi

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h
This is Gilded Age-level squalor. trib.al/Qmif9HR
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Why Did DOGE Exist? Now We Know.
Turns out, Elon Musk’s pimply minions didn’t actually want to cut government spending. They wanted to get a piece of it for themselves.
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DavBatz @davbatz.bsky.social · 4h
Kung Pao Chicken
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Sandy Wolf @sandywolf.bsky.social · 4h
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12h
Speaking as someone who walked up to the rental car counter in Portland ME to discover I had reserved a car in Portland OR and this Portland was out of cars: this is the funniest thing I've ever heard 😂
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h
Congress can acknowledge the problem, praise a bipartisan solution, and still pay almost no political price for doing nothing. trib.al/6C4i40B
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This Is the U.S. Government’s Most Maddening Poverty Trap
Supplemental Security Income is designed to prevent poor Americans from falling into destitution—but the program disqualifies recipients for saving even a dollar more than $2,000.
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Machine Gun Kelly @koc71.bsky.social · 12h
Is this an SNL skit?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
"I believe that our education, like, such as in South Africa and the—Iraq everywhere, like, such as and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries." -- Miss South Carolina
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
The word you are looking for is hanged—otherwise, you're just repeating a wishful daydream of Donald Trump.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h
The incoming White House press secretary has made a name for herself as an on-air legal expert, claiming she’s an attorney. But is she? trib.al/rz7o2ug
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
Katie Zacharia passed the bar in the same way Melania Trump got a degree in architecture and Elon Musk stayed in the US legally—she didn't.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 11/10/2026
Forrest Valkai and I discussed the conspiracy theories. sbee.link/pam8kcb39h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
Just 5% of independents approve of Trump’s handling of inflation, per a new poll from FT/FocalData
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dear Mr. Zelensky, First, I admire you greatly. Now, please destroy EVERY Russian energy site, and continue wiping out Russian bot/troll farms. With gratitude, -Jack
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right now these people are thinking the $50 wasn’t worth it. 🥴 “You know what they’re doing? They go straight down. You can make those drill bits talk, sing, make them go. They go down. New York’s over here, Pennsylvania. They go down, take a sharp left, and suck our oil out. Can you believe it?”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
🚨 WTF! Trump's new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has been EXPOSED promoting Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories—including claims that Democrats are child-eating cannibals. And her posts about Trump's secret signals are even more bizarre.
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Trump's New Press Secretary Exposed as Pizzagate and QAnon Conspiracy Peddler
Katie Zacharia pushed claims about child-eating Democrats, secret Trump signals and stolen elections before landing the White House podium.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Executive: so we want an amazing island-scape and wind farms and the SEC building and a castle and a dude on a horse and f’ing Nessie and everything! Artist: ok sure, remind me what your company does. Executive: laundry, obviously.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/10/2026
It might take me longer to go from LaGuardia to midtown than it took me to fly from DC to NYC
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 09/10/2026
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/10/2026
White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass theonion.com/white-house-downplays-…
White House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s Ass
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
In opposing the California wealth tax and helping push through the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, the governor is doing the bidding of billionaires. trib.al/eFuOAjF
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Why Does Gavin Newsom Keep Helping the Oligarchs?
In opposing the California wealth tax and helping push through the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger, the governor is doing the bidding of billionaires.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Please look at this dog
This is maybe a dog but also maybe some kind of weird collapsible handbag or a slumbering albino kangaroo or a canine pocket dimension, anyway if it is a dog, it’s a dog sleeping in such a way that his back legs are folded up all the way up past his nose which is only possible in an Escher print, anyway his name is Cooper, he is a hound lab mix, he is baby
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
Only one in six trips had anything to do with work. trib.al/yJaoMBz
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Ken Paxton Caught Using Taxpayer Funds for Hundreds of Vacations
Only one in six trips had anything to do with work.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ninety Years Ago We Said Never Again. Thursday We Said "Watch This." www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 09/10/2026
Be like Alan!! 😆 link.amazon/B0iq8Idqh
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These Savage Stars: A Companion to The Stars Are Legion: Hurley, Kameron: 9781534454347: Amazon.com: Books
These Savage Stars: A Companion to The Stars Are Legion [Hurley, Kameron] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. These Savage Stars: A Companion to The Stars Are Legion
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
Democrat Adam Hamilton is polling shockingly well in the deep red state’s Senate race. trib.al/DA5HgEa
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Why Kansas Might Do the Unthinkable and Vote Blue
Democrat Adam Hamilton is polling shockingly well in the deep red state’s Senate race.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Hate corrodes the container it’s carried in.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He didn’t name three random citizens. He named the three people most able to organize against him. That’s not revenge. That’s strategy. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Toddler-in-Chief throws another tantrum. "But I started a war! Why don't I get the Peace Prize?"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/10/2026
Lol I think the response would be if I was so famous why don't I have a private jet
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 09/10/2026
Antibiotics can reduce the diversity of microbes in your gut and lead to health problems, but a study in people with cancer has identified a potential solution
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Slashing sugar intake before antibiotics may save your microbiome | New Scientist
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
The guy is a virtuoso—Bernstein with a baton, Jordan with a basketball. trib.al/xrUYjB4
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Garthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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White Cow in a Blizzard @mtdave.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another Far Side in real life.
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 06/10/2026
Yeah. This happened.
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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gas station succi!
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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Right - bookmarked that one!
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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Personally, I think it's a secret gag that pharmacists are playing on us all.
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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, that's right: First, time your anus spasms tight. Second, your gut goes into retch practice. Third, your knees get very wobbly. Nothing to it.
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Gnarlygeek (aka Tom) @gnarlygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They discovered after mine that the nurse had missed/puncture the vein and there was a bubble near my elbow. I was awake the entire time, farted the 30 minutes on the way home, and slept for 12 hours. I woke up, ate an entire pizza and had 3 beers. Fell asleep watching college football.
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Tess Lecuyer @tesslecuyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
IT HAS BEGUN. I drank all of this. Don't worry, I don't plan on providing literal shitposting this evening.
Clenpiq, a solution designed to clean you out from the inside.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You may be the hackiest reporter in a world of hacky reporters if you state a fact and then tell viewers "you can see if that's true or not." It's your *job* to know if what you just said is true or not. This is not acceptable cover for a lie.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/10/2026
“Upon careful analysis, it’s clear our organization is going to bungle messaging in late October, costing us many key races across the nation.” — Ken Martin, DNC chair
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DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i...
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
IF we take it back. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. Remember Kamala!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon. Published March 2026: trib.al/aVH1Y2E
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thethinkingatheist.com @thethinkingatheist.com · 03/10/2026
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛-𝐻𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, 1995
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's $2/gallon cheaper than gas currently is in SoCal.
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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Somewhere an AI John le Carré is writing about an AI double-agent going after rogue AI agents.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Trump’s top national-security team quietly met at Camp David as the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of emergency oil reserves. And what they were reportedly discussing could expand the war even further.
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Trump’s Iran War Team Huddles in Secret as G7 Drains 100 Million Barrels
As JD Vance chaired a closed Camp David meeting on the Iran war and Yemen, G7 governments committed emergency oil reserves while Trump kept the next military move concealed.
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