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Greg Boyle

@gregjboyle.bsky.social
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Husband and dad. Casual gamer. Addicted to drinking coffee and quoting ancient Vines.

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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 6h
After Operation Metro Surge, I was expecting Assad margins for basically every statewide Democrat. Is Flanagan a particularly weak candidate or something?
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is correct, and it’s not a close call. If he was repeatedly using the N word while demeaning black soldiers, no one to the left of JD Vance would hesitate to say that that’s impeachable.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’d much rather get cash and get to choose whether or not to spend all of it on daycare, but I haven’t exactly seen any of the opponents of universal daycare propose a ~$12,000 increase to the child tax credit.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something I don’t understand about Thomas and Alito: If I was a devout Catholic and old enough that actuarial tables gave me roughly 10 more years to live, I think I would try at least a little bit to avoid going to Hell.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s worth noting that these particular assclowns have been disaffiliated from the Libertarian Party. Sadly, that doesn’t save the people of New Hampshire from having to deal with them.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People seem to have forgotten that Beto actually outperformed the polls by a decent margin. His numbers peaked at a larger deficit than *Hinojosa* is currently facing.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine the first two years of post-ICE America without any border state governors using their office to hurt immigrants and create anti-immigrant propaganda. No Operation Lone Star. No floating barrier in the Rio Grande. No mountains of razor wire.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AfD has 39 votes. The four parties that have agreed to maintain the firewall also have 39. Unless those four parties refuse to all back the same candidate for minister president in the third round, BSW abstentions are insufficient for Siegmund to win.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AfD doesn’t have enough seats for BSW to break the deadlock by abstaining. If they’re not voting for Siegmund, then he doesn’t have the votes.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even then, anyone who knows the basics of what they’re doing should be able to fall back on “control the center of the board and develop pieces.”
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mine will begin next week on Frodo and Bilbo’s birthday
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Khazad-dûm is the name for Moria in the Dwarvish language. People often associate it specifically with the bridge because there is a chapter called “The Bridge of Khazad-dûm.”
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My favorite story in this genre is that out of the five nonwhite students that got admitted to UT with lower grades and scores than Abigail Fisher in 2008, two or more of them evidently went to high school with Fisher and knew her well enough to tell her their scores and GPAs.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The closest anyone to the left of Joe Manchin came to predicting that Roe would survive Kennedy’s retirement was when my professor said “then again, I thought for sure Roe was dead when Marshall and Brennan retired, so I guess we’ll see.”
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As bad as things are in many places, it’s just a fact that the two conservatives who were in the Bostock majority are still on the Supreme Court. There really are some limits to what the Trump regime and the states can get away with.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I agree that Dem judicial nominees are far better on nearly every high stakes issue and that that’s a compelling reason to vote for Dems. I just think it’s often inaccurate to attribute wins in specific cases to specific presidents. It’s a long term aggregate thing
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Neither Souter nor Stevens would have retired during a McCain presidency
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The obvious tipping point is replacing White with Ginsburg, but that was only teed up because Reagan nominated Kennedy six years before that
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of my sharpest points of disagreement with Vance is that I think his kids are as American as mine.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We wouldn’t get to watch the next president take a wrecking ball to it if they didn’t let him build it
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social reading all the right wing commentary about this game
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When interacting with machines that imitate sentient beings, I don’t expect everyone to join me on the “vegetarian in Minecraft” end of the spectrum, but deploying made up slurs in a way that intentionally mirrors the use of real world racial slurs is just kind of obviously bad for your soul
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Forerunners” would preserve the reference to John the Baptist while also being more descriptive of the idea you’re conveying
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In this case, it’s borrowed from a fictional setting in which it is pretty straightforwardly a slur directed at sentient androids and a cyborg. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Clanker
starwars.fandom.com
Clanker
Clanker was a slang term used to refer to droids[2] that existed since at least the days of the High Republic Era[3] because the joints and metal bodies of droids[4] made noisy[5] "clanking" sounds as...
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I happen to know Byas, and I think he is a very intellectually honest person that reliably approaches discussions in good faith and has reasonably self-consistent, liberal views. I disagree with a few of those positions, but I think some of you should be approaching him with a lot more courtesy.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’m so sorry for your loss Cory
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/08/2026
There are real-life heroes in our midst.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t disagree, but falling asleep in class was kind of the highlight of my first two years of high school. Don’t know what I would have done without that little perk of the 7:30 opening bell.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Tbh, the main thing I remember about this discourse is a Vietnamese exchange student getting turned into a national villain for complaining in his school’s student newspaper about how shitty the banh mi in the food court was.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Absolutely. “His name sounds foreign” is already 100% accounted for in the polls because pollsters are necessarily saying his name out loud to respondents. Whatever advantage that gives Rogers will shrink significantly in the next 12 weeks.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The obvious explanation for this is that Evelyn Normielib would prefer not to vote for a socialist, but she will go scorched earth on any incumbent who refuses to water her fields with the blood of tyrants.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This was a more pleasant jumpscare than I expected. Not a fan of the new layout though
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Also 99.97% of the unclaimed land on earth.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social, if only there was a theory of everything that could explain how everything is simultaneously immigration, gender, and race. That would be very useful for making sense of things.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My God. My “treat yourself” order at Taco Bell is when I spend $8.50 instead of $4.50.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Most of the antisemitism here is the type that won’t show up in a simple search of the word “Jew,” but that kind of counts in favor of your point re comparing it to Twitter antisemitism
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
JD Vance has fully embraced the idea that his own children are less American than their white peers. Somehow, that has only earned Vance a silver medal in “being a bad father because of politics.”
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A lot of online atheists come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds and now believe that Christian fundamentalists are bigoted idiots who nevertheless have totally fair and accurate beliefs about what other faith traditions actually teach.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“One year of HRT followed by a blood test to check hormone levels” struck me as very permissive when I first read about it. Then I bothered to check and see how many trans women were competing under those “permissive” rules
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
McGuire has five kids, and he has apparently never gone to the pharmacy himself to pick up a prescription for any of them. Pathetic.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The fact that “public’s guess” adds up to significantly more than 100% is a pretty obvious tell
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I keep telling you -- the kids are all right.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A big part of it is that the weird racists got a massive algorithmic boost as a reward for being the only people to consistently reassure Elon that he’s the greatest man to ever live every time he shit the bed during the Twitter acquisition.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Erasure of trans kids as well. Six year olds that just want to go to school without getting bullied give a negative number of shits about how “subversive” they are.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pretty sure this is the plot of a Michael Bay film from ~25 years ago. The whole operation takes place in a hidden bunker because it is understood to be self-evidently evil and wildly illegal.
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Greg Boyle @gregjboyle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I think what he’s getting at is that Carlson’s content is slop that’s specifically marketed to a non-Jewish audience. That’s the only way I can make sense of it, anyway
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