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HardleeRic

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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
80% of lifting a child is them wanting to be lifted, not going limp. A child who likes you is going to climb you like a tree.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Turns out more people are related to him than you’d think.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m so Blueskypilled I thought this was about the poster @electproject.bsky.social
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
See also: why police are so quick to use deadly force on nonwhite suspects, why nonwhite people are disproportionately turned away from ERs with injuries/ illness, etc.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I.e., the Star Trek shipboard computers. Providing quick analyses and executing easy commands without everyone becoming dependent idiots.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Fugitive Slave Act would like a word.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As they say, if you’re explaining you’re losing.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Et fucking tu, Brute?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This looks like a cartoon published in the gilded age.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only people who don’t write or read fantasize about a button you can press that will write a book (and another button that will read it.)
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is from the entry of a McDonald’s, right?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In this economy?!?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ask yourself what could make this better for him in the next 45 days.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NARRATOR: It was, in fact, the best he could.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leo and the other actors in that movie were speaking Early Modern English.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What you want is healthy people leaving the insurance pool, right?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
800-1100 AD? When I was in college the drama department did a post-apocalyptic robot R&J, so there’s no reason why not. But “olde English” Shakespeare won’t be any more historically accurate than the robots were.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There already are a couple Beowulf Shakespeares. E.g. Hamlet.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nearly a disasteer.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well it’s working! For what it’s worth, I think the effort is “Eggers always makes actors talk in weird semi-imaginary dialects and spells things with VVs. Won’t Shakespeare be so weird with that treatment! (No.)”
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Next Eggers remakes The Wizard of Oz in High German. Then The Matrix in Proto-Afroasiatic. Then L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat in Sumerian Cuneiform, etc.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Olde English was not spoken in Shakespeare’s England or in 15th-century Verona. What are we doing here?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Go on your local Nextdoor or Facebook page and the things people are complaining about with local news, left and right alike, is a learned, mannerly, wannabe empirical relic.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good points: all the things that are frustrating about the news to left & right alike — bothsidesism, caution/slowness, airs of lofty neutrality, hedging & narrow claims — are artifacts of empiricism. Imperfectly implemented to be sure. A lot of college is learning to tolerate & even enjoy that.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Based on the pattern of good album > bad album, we should be due for a good album next!
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not unrelated: this is why they want a button they can press to write a book, and literally nobody who can write or who can read wants that button.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Overlap between smarter-than-Einstein guys and could-fight-a-bear guys.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed lothario.” - Steinbeck, somewhat
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And press secretary!
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There is no such thing as a “Blue State” or “Red State.” More Trump voters live in California than in Alabama, Mississippi, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Arkansas, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Nebraska combined. He’s fucking conservative voters and liberal voters alike.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No-Bandwidth Mike. Make this a thing.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As the anniversary of Pearl Harbor approaches, can Mazie Hirono shake off potential scrutiny of Japan’s role?
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
He says “Explain it as you might to a young child or a Labrador retriever” about everything.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Watching this, I discovered that I am elderly now.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Coming out of the sands And I’ve been doing just fine Gotta look on my works Ye mighty and despair It started out with a sneer How did we end up out here
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Underappreciated post.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Bessent is in my town (Asheville, NC) for the G20 Finance meeting, and sign guys are ready.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Spotted in Asheville, NC for the G20 finance meeting.
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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🎵 won't make my mama proud it's gonna cause a scene she sees her baby girl i know she's gonna scream "Gawd, what have you done? become a thief in the night become a dog on the run" oh mama Iiiiiiiii just helped myself just a mouthful of bread now they've murdered Valjean 🎶
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Came here to post this.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Equivalent in his mind to disliking the countertops of a penthouse condo after they’ve been installed.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain books, please.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
George Washington: “Just what the fuck man.”
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trump ballroom: 22,000 square feet Mount Vernon: 11,028 square feet
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I love this for her.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Someone check the grievance reserves!
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Troy considering more wars after their relative success against the Greeks.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any GOP Senator who thinks there’s not going to be a lot of Fifth-taking next year when the hearings into Trump Admin corruption begin is fooling himself.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He just sold them last month. Local opinion is it’s in preparation for his divorce, since his wife co-owned them. She’s a character in her own right.
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HardleeRic @hardleeric.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’m guessing a Dave Matthews album in FLAC.
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