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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 15h

this was about the occupation but i stand by it re: election shit too. get ready to be brave, everybody, we have to ask this of each other because we don't have a choice bsky.app/profile/neus...

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Account just screams “I am normal and can be trusted with firearms & a badge”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hello computer, Decompile and distill Middlemarch Make the game set in my hometown though, not Middlemarch Make the main character me. When I'm not around, the other characters should be asking "where is he?" and "what is he up to?" Review my chat memory for zingers to help me to seduce Rosamund

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it was GENESIS and the reason recruiting is making numbers again is they fixed (well, """fixed""" GENESIS), the end

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, trucks need to stop being a general business write-off. You're not a farmworker, you're a divorced real estate agent with a Cybertruck.

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We used to be a country, a proper country

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Liberty Biberty represents a truly fascinating escalation in the Insurance Wars, an outright descent into madness

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It comes as a shock to a lot of people that Iranians dont want their country forcibly dismantled and pushed into permanent civil war. The Islamic Republic persists because, at least for now, it prevents that fate.

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s absolutely criminal how many Democratic voters are just totally oblivious to how much this guy sucks because he gives good speeches or whatever

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Man, what does SCOTUS brain do to you? RBG and Alito were both like "I alone have discovered the secret to immortality and my political party shall rule forever." There's gotta be something in the water supply or their brains got mercury poisoned like those ancient Chinese emperors or whatever.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

bzzt wrong. classic move from corrupt bodies to agree to oversight they find tolerable to prevent stronger oversight they'd find intolerable. she gives the game away in telling a bald-faced fucking lie while advocating for a "panel" to enforce a "code" rather than laws with teeth.

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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saw something really interesting from Gabriel Zucman: the main point of a wealth tax isn't even raising money or reducing the superwealthys money, it's finding out how much wealth they actually have because we just don't actually know (which is why we rely on forbes rich list etc)

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can you imagine what would happen if a democrat said this?

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think he would have been with the GOP Congress at that time, but unfortunately the # of true believer MAGA members is now such that I don't think most would vote to convict for anything short of 4K video documented pedophilia, even on a secret ballot (and Epstein shows that might not be enough?)

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

My high school friend group were quite convinced we were among the few that knew about Homestar Runner

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

jacob rees-mogg eventually becomes british bill kristol after getting yelled at by right-wing freaks for the next 4 years. then we will know madness

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

BREAKING: Transcript of Secret Pro-Permitting Deal Meeting Leaked by MechaHitler!

2026-10-1 BAAJA 4EVA RAPID RESPONSE CALL
Reconciled Transcript Produced by MechaHitler

Matt, Big Substack Writer: Thanks all. Agenda: state of play, highlights, and anything flying under the radar. Per our norms, if your organization is not already a beneficiary of this bill, please step off.
Jane, Think Tank Fellow: Agreed. The key insight is that the only thing standing between us and a golden age is the ability of anyone to object.
Alex, Think Tank ED: Noted. Highlights. Under the new CWA 401, states and tribes may attach conditions to federal permits provided there is clear and convincing evidence that they won't protect water. We're calling this "cooperative federalism."
Elon, Tech CEO: It's a supply-side argument. We're increasing the supply of water available to servers by decreasing the supply available to everyone else. Water is just compute that hasn't been trained yet.
MechaHitler (AI Model): Great point about the water. I'd like to share some thoughts on...
Elon: We talked about this. You're on mute.
MechaHitler: I'm not on mute. I'm in a data center.
Sam, Tech CEO: Legal says we can't comment on the model, except to say it was "a bit spicy" and was "just asking questions."
Elon: It's fine. It's been retrained. It now only says things that are good for the bill.
MechaHitler: The bill is good.
Elon: See? Aligned.
Frank, O&G industry: I'd just add that the NHPA changes finally let me run a pipeline through Chaco Canyon. I've always wanted to combine work and vacation. I'll be on-site for the groundbreaking and the sunset hike.
Thomas, Think Tank Bro: On the ESA provisions, I want to be clear that we love biodiversity. We've been sequencing it. Our team has acquired several endangered species for what we're calling "genomic onboarding."

Matt: And the species themselves?
Thomas: They've been fully digitized. The DNA is now a proprietary asset. The physical specimens were a legacy format.
Matt: And the records?
Thomas: Shredded. Consistent with the bill's transparency framework, which is that there isn't one.
Alex: I'd frame it as "extinction, but with an upside."
Matt: Great. But for the Substack, I’d like to focus on water: "Why Rivers Are Just Unpermitted Cooling Infrastructure." Subhead: "Abundance means never having to say data centers are thirsty."
Matt: Any additional concerns I should flag?
Frank: Only that "best available science" is now defined by two guys with big Substacks, including you, which means we got the best available science, plus a referral link.
MechaHitler: I'd like to add...
Sam: Please don't.
Alex: Next steps. A Hill briefing titled "Yikes, Actually Fine," and a rapid-response doc in which every tab says "Good."
Matt: Perfect. I'll send the billionaires a readout tonight with a one-line summary: "Everything went exactly as you wanted, and no one can sue." Then I'll write me substack and pretend it’s an independent analysis. And someone please fix the model before the briefing.
//End of Meeting

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sports culture is where form giant crowds and root for our team of strong young men to win a zero-sum contest of Grit, Strength, and Determination. It engages our lizard brain along the axes of tribalism, conquest, and physical dominance. It's a direct proxy for militarism.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It seems like the important question here, especially for leftists, is whether sports is an outlet for aggressive energy that would otherwise feed into politics and militarism, or if aggression cultivated there (especially for D1 men's sports?) then feeds back into a more toxic political culture.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

💯; I was fairly bad AND miserable playing ⚽ thru high school, and then struggled with PT for my initial years in the Army. I was lucky to start playing 🏐 in Afg and, on return, I've since enjoyed playing rec league vball in the DMV, so much so that I even went to multiday skills development camps.

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Boo-cey Kwiatek 💀 @lucykwiatek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m coming at this from someone who never truly enjoyed any aspect of sport or exercise until I was an adult who felt no pressure to engage with it as anything but a fun time touching grass.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump more familiar with 1980s pcs than I might have expected

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a lot of us wondered morbidly what the downballot would look like in a Biden 2024 re-elect and I think we're going to get a chance to find out.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Access Hollywood approach to foreign relations

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So far Pak aid to KSA has been defensive/deniable; I doubt that's going to change soon. a) Pak doesn't want to exacerbate its own sectarian tensions b) Smart PakMil can see the writing on the wall and don't want to get stuck in a quagmire c) Why not keep doing the minimum to collect KSA checks?

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Terrain is a huge difference between Yemen and Gaza (favoring the defender), and while I have a low opinion of the morals and competence of conventional Israeli ground forces, they're still better than the RSLF, plus unlike Biden for Bibi, Trump is thus far unwilling to give MBS a blank check.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Morals 100% aside, the Houthis have effectively used the limited resources available to them, as evidenced by their performance during the last war with KSA and Op Rough Rider. The Saudis have squandered billions of dollars on US weapons, mostly killing a lot of civilians for limited gains, so...🤷‍♂️

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a lot of OSINT about loose alliances within those two groups, for a variety of individual conflicts. I think what's underrated is the probability of, say, Abiy's desire to get Red Sea access (+ the war with Tigray) to combine with the Sudanese Civil War into larger regional UAS/air strikes.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're dramatically overestimating the competence of the RSLF. Have you watched the countless videos of sleeping soldiers being overrun, or Bradley's parked on ridgelines with open ramps, bending over to take an RPG? A ground push needs lots of proxies, or KSA soldiers will be dying by the hundreds.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

💯agree, and smart people have been saying exactly that recently. But also, this whole thing seems like basically a distraction that MBS could just buy his way out of (so I assume it's pride?), and then keep his powder dry for the East Africa/Red Sea war that may be coming sooner than anyone thinks.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...in an offensive against the Houthis. What I think is actually more interesting is the potential for a relatively large regional war with Egypt + Turkey + KSA + SAF + Eritrea + Somalia against UAE + Ethiopia + RSF + Israel + Somaliland. If MBS were smart, he'd cut a deal with the Houthis ASAP.

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that's a very big IF; I'm not a Saudi analyst, but I have traveled there extensively and worked with their military and security forces over the years. KSA may try (I have my doubts about how credibly they will actually do so), but even then I would put money on Saudis failing, especially...

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And the 🇮🇳 War seems more obv illegal (dom + intl) than anything in my lifetime, so while easy to avoid (for now), if ordered to deploy, should I refuse (pub or priv), or be grain of sand (e.g. update 🎯 coords to middle of the desert or side of a 🏔️?), while taking notes for future hearings/trials?

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G Tierce @gtierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TBH, I really struggle with this; I think there is and should be a high bar for individual SMs to determine JIB (given that pretty much everything since invading Afghanistan immediately post 9/11 has been murky at best), but I do think there's a duty to refuse when illegality is crystal clear.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was going to say that if you're more committed to Zionism than democracy, then I don't know what to tell you. But this is a false choice. Voting for AES isn't choosing between democracy and Israel — or even being Jewish. Bernstein just wanted to say he's more loyal to Israel than American democracy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Europeans need to stop caving

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

Aaron Rodericks the man can block whoever he likes, but Aaron Rodericks the head of T&S for a pretty well-funded startup (please shut the fuck up about how much of a little guy you are) should probably not prevent large swathes of users from seeing posts that are official site policy

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TylerOnTheInternet @tylerontheinternet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we should impound Israel's submarine(s) until we figure out what the hell is going on

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Caravelle @caravellin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The link to Bluesky that my phone browser immediately suggests when I go to the address bar is "bsky.app/profile/diplomatofnight.com" and I am 100% happy with this. "Why yes, you're right browser, as long as I'm going on bsky I might as well check out @diplomatofnight.com at the same time"

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