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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 10h

One of the great things about this fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for me is the range of acting they put the actors in. I could've done with fewer gimmick episodes as a proportion of the season, but there's not one I'd give up. Make more episodes per season!

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Funky Dynamite @sweavart.bsky.social · 10h

I thought he specifically said no beardos no weirdos

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

i think it is bad that the secretary of energy is either utterly misinformed about the diesel market or straight up lying about it

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US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year

Dallas Fed survey finds energy executives believe high cost of fuel will persist

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 17h

Look, if you can understand that Christmas is 12-day holiday most people only celebrate the first day of, then you can understand that Halloween is a 31-day holiday most people only celebrate the last day of.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 17h

At a thrift store watching me put art books into a shopping cart at a thrift store: @jasperhedgehog.bsky.social "Where will you put all those?" Me: "I don't know. Never ask me that question again. 😂"

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Question: which Day is the longest Day of the Year? First Answer: the Summer Solstice, the Day on which the Sun is highest in the sky for the longest time. Second Answer: when Daylight Savings Time ends, literally a twenty-five hour Day.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This feels like a line in a musical satire.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/10/2026

right, the sMoKiNg GuN in these dumbshit’s heads was that smith was in atlanta for a basketball game at the same time fani willis was and that he might have coordinated with her, a thing that is neither illegal nor unusual, and schmitt managed to outdo that embarrassment with a much worse one

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was the what the fuck are we even doingest of times...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

imagine being the low level govt employee reading the "sorry our demons did an oopsie" email they sent to the fucking generic contact address

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New in our lost & found: —One (1) Tupperware container filled with pennies —Index card with a recipe for mashed potatoes, with the words "DO NOT MAKE. REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO NATHAN, HE STILL GETS SEISURES" [sic] written at bottom —Eyeglass case, empty

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/09/2026

city/state auditors should require an audit of these logs on a scheduled regular basis and filing criminal charges for abuses should be the norm

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would remind people that Tuberville was also scandalized to learn that active-duty soldiers wrote poems. Not even any particular poems or genre thereof, just any poems at all.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Let's talk about AI in archaeology journalism. NB: Never use AI to illustrate news stories on the ancient world (or really ever). Beyond just ethics, the public cannot tell that this is a fake image of the mummified remains found with a Homer papyrus on his abdomen. These images are taken as real.

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Archaeologists Found a Copy of the Iliad Stuffed Inside an Ancient Egyptian Mummy

They have no idea why.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What’s your fake starwars academic paper

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please don’t gamble if you’re dead. The gaming commission keeps giving us fines.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026

this is disgusting and shameful, first and foremost, but this is also an argument that does not win over *anyone* who isn’t already very deep in the right wing reactionary tank. in fact, it confirms the OPs point about the GOP, and the polls suggest that even republican voters are picking up on it.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am once again reminding the NYT they can simply decide to not pay Bret Stephens to write things for them. bsky.app/profile/norm...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s allllllll happening you guys

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September 22nd is a close to a Lord of the Rings holiday as one is likely to get, being both Bilbo's and Frodo's birthday.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21/09/2026

see also: lori chavez-deramer, formerly of the US department of labor

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, I pulled it off. Had the last show Saturday night, cast party til 4 AM, got to bed at 5 AM, 25 hours later, Monday at 6 AM, I got up well-rested and ready to start my workday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[insert Star Trek: TOS fight music here]

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hear me out: The Lion in Winter, continued as a weekly newspaper ½-page Sunday comic, or The Lion in Winter ends... then lights immediately come back and we do a full *That's How It /Could/ Have Ended* alternate endings à la Clue.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone brought a /baby/ to the stageplay.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I remember friends from [chats] all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each [meme] we caught. Those [memes] are all painful [takes] where we fought. Battles better left [on read], ones we never sought. What is it that we spent and what was it we bought?" —Frank Herbert, [sorta].

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Got that Finished A Book Today dopamine in me. Gonna make people laugh on stage between scenes and dork out beautifully.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If my friend's abusive ex-partner asks me if I have their phone number—assuming I do—and I say, "No," I'm not lying. I'm answering the question /being asked/ and not the question /as it's phrased/ by a liar.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17/09/2026

tbh i think the federal government should buy/build and maintain and operate furnished apartment complexes for housing members of congress and their families, though i am still in favor of raising salaries

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Again, bigots will never choose bigotry-lite over the real thing. You're not going to win them but you're going to drive away people who otherwise would have voted for you. And this year -- when voters most of all want "a fighter" in Congress -- running ads about how you will not fight is idiotic.

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"But we [demons] want a man hag-ridden by the Future—haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth—ready to break [God]'s commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the other..." —C.S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters," letter 15

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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Funky Dynamite @sweavart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Other things being equal” doing an insane amount of lifting here when literally discussing inequality

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

yeah the initial marketing was both wildly overhyped and aimed directly at their fellow oligarchs and the combination has left them in a PR hole I'm not sure they're going to be able to dig out of regardless of the actual merits of the technology

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What kind of bullshit is this? Almost all upskirt photos are taken in a public setting, and ALSO surreptitiously. This applies to the phot JK Rowling posted as well. Most upskirt photos also don’t show genitals! They show underwear! The levels of anti-trans bias in media is fucking unbelievable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Considering that Montaigne invented blogging, it's not that remarkable that 400+ years on, he still hits the mark.

Photograph of a quote from the Essays of Montaigne, "No man is exempt from saying silly things. The misfortune is to say them painstakingly. 'Indeed this man with mighty toil will utter mighty trifles.'"

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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah yes, the famous replacement for the Odyssey *checks notes* the Iliad.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 16/09/2026

The entity drifted dreamlessly through space, as it had for aeons. It woke when it neared a star. Scanned for planets, life, signs of technology. Having found all, it analyzed and decoded radio emissions, then composed a message to send. "My hovercraft is full of feels." It resumed dormancy.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence

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Citations upon Request @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They've creäted a Torment Nexus TV show from the famous psych experiment "Don't Creäte the Torment Nexus."

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Funky Dynamite @sweavart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you try to comment “Slop” on an AI post on instagram it won’t allow you to and considers it “hurtful language”. I tried to comment on a fake “news” post spreading obvious disinformation, but apparently that’s fine to post, while the word “slop” is some new slur.

Instagram warning that will not allow the word “slop” to be posted in a comment

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