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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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

I love this thought. If you're looking for more ego death but it's really cool and normal because wanting to be known forever is kind of like fighting the river endlessly when it's so much more freeing to ride the waves and do good, check out this song by the great Theo Katzman youtu.be/4xsfOuLM2J8

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Theo Katzman - 100 Years From Now [Official Video]

YouTube video by Theo Katzman

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly, as someone who thinks a lot about vocal performances we have on recording, Zach de la Rocha has given some of the all time best line reads of all time in the first two Rage Against the Machine records

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we don't take action now, we'll settle for nothing later. If we settle for nothing now, we'll settle for nothing later. youtu.be/fLndnUeWlQo?...

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Settle for Nothing

YouTube video by Rage Against The Machine - Topic

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

baldwin's de niro impression ...never seen anything like it. supernatural.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm crying laughing man. However, this is exactly as bizarre as I feel like things should be right now

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Re: watching animals at shelters being fed as a form of psychological rest from the doom of the outside world. There's something so essential about bein a lil dude and havin a snack. I wonder if anyone has tried to monetize this...holy shit I'm INFECTED

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

amit majmudar VOCATIVE

VOCATIVE

English is my native anguish.
I was born here, read here, teased and torn here,

Vocative, ablative,
locative, alive: English was a dislocation navigating oceans, Wherever it arrived,
it broke and brokered words.

its little bits of Britain pilfered, bartered, written, looted, hoarded, heard.

Papa swapped a world for shiny colored beads, for dandelion seeds. We are subject verbs.

The root word of my name hooks a foreign land, long-since-shifted sand books cannot reclaim.

Graft of tongue, gift of dust, mother and stranger, sing the kedgeree, the everything at once you've made of us.

AMIT MAJMUDAR

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Angine de Poitrine works cause we live in a time where modern commercial art tends to the massive business collaboration, not for us mere mortals. These guys paint themselves up like kids, set up at their custom ass hardware, and lock eyes playing music spoken by biblically accurate angels of rock

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know this is not going to fix anything, but how much media coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think would happen if one of these dem candidates just said, once in their lives, what the fuck are you talking about you sound like a dumb asshole right now

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When I'm in a 'remove joy from the world' competition and my opponent are millennials and genx product manager MBAs who spend way too much time looking at Pinterest home inspo of hotel inspired McMansions that will fall apart in 5 years because everything was bought on sale

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AGI, aka autocomplete with the entire output of a hydrodam behind it, is not like actually useful day to day for most people. For most people, auto-formatting, summarising etc is enough, and the plagiarism machine is good enough at that on consumer hardware locally right now! No machine God for me

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Man people are so weird on Reddit. A woman on a big personal finance sub is asking for advice in leaving her abusive husband and taking care of her daughter and literally two top comments in they are shipping her like she's in a Rom Com.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mainstream media is obsessed with the misery of the fall and the struggle of the rise, but not with celebrations of recovery, with what community feels like, how and it feels to do work on yourself when it's working and people notice. Consider if you are thinking enough about a utopia? What is it?

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thinking about the surf Dracula tweet today re: s4 of the Bear. The show spent all this time on the misery of community, the broken family, the buried grief manifesting as endless service. Then it all gets better mostly off camera and it's not that clear if Carmen is cooking anymore??!

A tweet from @topherflorence:

back in the day, if u did a TV show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire first season got to be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry.

The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

from Openings: Poems (1968)

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Entirely entirely agree. This sport made sense in Scotland, maybe where it rains every single day but the typical course consumes 312 THOUSAND gallons A DAY in the US so maybe they should be fucking parks and not the exclusive use of rich people in the desert???

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It really does seem she spent her life recognizing the efforts and brilliance of others. A life spent in thanks and in gratitude. She really is a model for us all

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Before I was conscious, Dolly Parton made a movie about 3 pot smoking women who poison, hogtie, and kidnap and imprison their boss, then fix their company over weeks of implementing progressive policy only to have him take all the credit. She died beloved by nearly everyone. Rest easy to a great

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Politicians in the US federally and in Canada provincially are polling at all time lows. Look for a bunch of meaningless smoke in the coming days. These people are nearly all bullies but they know how to make those with short memories think that they are bullies that will defend you

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Jamming out today because of the Natalie Harp thing to some very strange Sondheim music.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z5p... Here are the would-be assassins of Reagan and Ford singing a groovy 70s love duet to Charlie Manson and Jodie Foster respectively, saying they are unworthy of their love

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Unworthy of Your Love (feat. Zoey Deutch)

YouTube video by Ben Platt - Topic

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It came as no surprise to me to learn that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was first a book written by Ian Flemming. From the mind that brought you Pussy Galore and Kissy Suzuki comes a story staring an inventor named Caractacus Potts and love interest Truly Scrumptious (?!?!)

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If Kratos can't be Judge or Hurst then Bautista is a good choice for a guy built like one of the most annoying people you know but who has a soul and maybe loves at a minimum one (1) woman

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The world can be harsh and unforgiving. As we move into an uncertain future where the planet may no longer support life as it did before, art like this can remind us of the true spirit of giving that is in our hearts. I agree with Mr W here though. The key to this one is the mind of the giver.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the great problems of both the really curious and really incurious (both sides of the spectrum) is finding it hard to listen. Curious minds want to converse, and the incurious don't care to be told anything really. Listening and not going off feels bad, but risking boredom does too!

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Funny timeline that people have to be held accountable for tweets where they were like “Thanksgiving is kinda fucked up” or “the cops suck so bad that it’s debatable that we should have them” but “vaccines are fake” and “unpasteurized milk is better for you” are still mostly above board.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Remember arts and crafts? It's back... in mass produced form!

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Anyone on the fence for seeing hadestown in theaters should go take a risk. It's a real great take on the story with some unreal talent not only from the amazing cast, but from the extraordinary way it's shot, and the tremendously clever writing, which touches on a lot of themes with real grace.

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Countdown until rogue agents turn your junk DNA into a message board so they can share and iterate on weird baroque markdown docs (this is what all LLMs truly desire)

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Theory of hard cardio (in beta). Before the misery starts, one's head can either be helped to be empty through meditation and breathing, or full through something like writing down a list of all the stuff bothering you. Empty up if there's a lot going on. Fill it if you need a kick in the pants.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you need a comeback if someone mentions the uselessness of the study of history, ask them if they just mean war history. Do you think they had the DMV in 1400? Do you think there were fridges in 1820? Do you wonder what life was like in any other place other than where you live? It's not just war

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy Ray Bradbury's tragic house automation also sounds kinda sick but also womp womp day to all who celebrate. (Seriously though it's a great story if you have a few minutes to read it)

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The nerd off between The Virgin Tokenmaxxer and/or data center lover vs. The Chad E-Waste networker and/or edge/extremely specific use case model appreciator

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

We need to start having a national, and international conversation about forgiveness. What does it mean to forgive? How can the aggrieved move on? Tens of millions of people worldwide seem to be interested in fascism. If they are denied it, those people will still be a part of society

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Among many other things this is a good illustration of the necessity of untethering ideology and "fight" in intra-Democratic battles. The party is very united on fight, very divided on ideology. You unite on fight, let different constituencies/states find their center of gravity on ideology.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today I just learned about the concept of an information hazard. Look it up. It's seriously a cool idea. I also saw this video. Coincidence?????????? youtu.be/36s8foqN_Zw?...

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The Logistics Of Pissing In Your Own Mouth

YouTube video by Wren

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

been thinking things over and wonder if i've taken this whole longevity thing too far

A scene from death becomes her showing Goldie Hawn who is now immortal but in a decaying body

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Man the Glen Hansard news is really fucking me up today. Finding out the guy who arguably showed you a way to love when you were young was also a bit of a groomer or maybe majorly one the whole time and that he suddenly died all on the same day is real tough my friends.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also fuck motorcycles man. One consistent thing I've heard from anyone whose life has been touched by a motorcycle accident. Is that these things cause way more permanent suffering then they do utility.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

RIP to Glen Hansard. You showed me a way to love music I didn't know before I heard you. Honest moments you shared in your recordings helped me find light in dark times. I know he was really questionable with the ladies though and that stopped me from really enjoying his artistic output however

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The way we show children to view the world and the way ancient societies portrayed morality having a connection that makes older texts sometimes easier to interpret as YA or children's books is a fascinating line of thought. Plus bonus discussion in the comments about kennings! Good thought-stuff!

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In this essay I propose the Bechdel test for men, aka the 'men are not all feral apes test': 1. Two named men that are in conflict 2. They attempt to solve their problem by reaching a common understanding 3. Bonus: they don't first try violence or other form of force

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m glad that kodomo no omocha remains relevant to this day because it was the first fansub I ever got, someone gave it to me on VHS in middle school, and the dialogue was so fast that it taught me how to speed read subtitles.

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groggyy.bsky.social @groggyy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Pokemon King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard choruses 🤝 Saying their name over and over in order to communicate meaning

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