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H R Pickens

@hrpickens.bsky.social
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I don't expect to be followed back. When I find your stuff interesting, I don't necessarily expect you to find my stuff interesting. That photo is fake. It's not me. But also, basically, it is.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Free rein Toe the line Bated breath For all intents and purposes When affect is a noun, it's a synonym for manner When effect is a verb, it's a synonym for cause
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Planetfall (1983)
Ultima III: Exodus (1983)
Star Control II (1992)
Master of Orion (1993)
X-Com: UFO Defense (1994)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
EverQuest (1999)
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003)
Oxygen Not Included (2019)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Actually, the Democratic mayor of NYC meeting with the Republican President of the United States is *not* remotely comparable to the Democratic House Minority Leader meeting with the unelected, unappointed, unofficial grifting son-in-law of the president.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Honestly not sure. But either way, he was a fucking idiot and I don't care what he thinks.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, President Curtis is good. But also? I think I'd just enjoy the hell out of watching Keith David, Stephanie Beatriz, and Jim Rash in absolutely anything at all.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/09/2026
The position “I would mass murder [any group] for any improvement of [other group]” is indistinguishable from Nazism. This is one of the most disgusting political opinions I’ve ever seen posted on this site (though of course the only person who needs to answer for it is the poster themself).
Liquid Coyotes OV @liquidlatrans.bsky.social
Just to make our position clear and obvious for all the bigots who are going to be seeking clarity and what is surely ambiguous messaging to them: I would happily grind every cishet centrist liberal into catfood if doing so made one working class trans life better.
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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People on this site want a popular front against fascism until someone puts together a popular front against fascism.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi. I'm HR, a dad and soon-retiring software engineer. I like astronomy, colony sims, and bread with a chewy crust. And that bit near the end of Larry Carlton's solo in Kid Charlemagne where he eases up and just glides home, like a surfer finishing a run still upright.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One should never label sarcasm as sarcasm. That reeks of insecurity. If you can't live with a small fraction of your audience failing to get the joke, sarcasm isn't for you.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just had the first of what I presume will be a long string of "my kid opening kid-safe packaging for me" episodes. 8yo saw me struggling with the zip lock on a bag of tide pods and said "lemme get that, daddy"
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The thing that pops for me here is that if "we" act, "you" will bear the blame. He's probably not even aware that he has that tic. He literally can't conceive of blame properly attaching to himself.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness may be your only move if that usefulness isn't actually available on any terms.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Big Feat
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The easiest part of a president's job is deciding which turkey to pardon. Maintaining good relations with Canada is surely the second-easiest bit. You'd have to be an S-Tier dipshit to fuck that up.
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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Natalie Harp quoting Pride and Prejudice to a dude who used to fast-forward through Bloodsport to all the times dudes got kicked in the balls
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20/08/2026
ICE: "We're going to start using torture gloves against the public." Public: "What the fuck, you should not have those." Omaha PD: "What's the big deal, we have them." Public: "what" Omaha PD: "We use them on school children."
fortune.com
The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools | Fortune
The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
IMAGINE HITTING A 449-FOOT HOME RUN ON THE VERY FIRST PITCH YOU FACED IN THE BIG LEAGUES
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anything connected to the Internet is, to a reasonable first approximation, under the control of hackers.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
wargen
@funeralpig.bsky.social
me: hey is this the mouse temple? i'm here to worship the mouse god

snake temple guard: buddy you are lost 3:29 PM • Apr 21, 2026
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Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE @captainannoying.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“‘He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen,’ a former Shaker Heights High School classmate and baseball teammate of Miller’s told Politico in 2021 for a story that documented no fewer than four arrests between ages 18 and 22 on criminal charges…” prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
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Max Miller’s Endless Wars - The American Prospect
The Ohio congressman fabricated a wild story of death threats on Interstate 90 and casually destroyed the life of a constituent. It’s one of many accusations Miller, now facing a spousal abuse scandal...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bluesky is sort of a dark forest for discourse, where, upon encountering a human being, you need to immediately try to take a kill shot. Anyway, please don’t accuse me of plagiarism and demand my resignation because you imagined my anti-plagiarism blog post said the opposite of what it does
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some number of people with self-diagnosed impostor syndrome actually are impostors.
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Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Rewatching Babylon 5 (S1) and struck by the fact that both B5 and Star Trek: DS9 have a season 1 "And Now An Episode Specifically About Our Nazi Analogues". www.imdb.com/title/tt0517... www.imdb.com/title/tt0708...
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Absolutely drives me nuts that the 8yo at the piano will not slow down. Just cannot. When he makes a mistake, he tries again but faster. There is just no talking to him on this. He either refuses to slow down, or flatly cannot grasp the concept. He's a really bright kid. And also an idiot.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
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Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
The 26-year-old man was fined £200 by Llandudno magistrates
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
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Sheep And Goats And 'Hell'
It's a very tricky business clinging to "depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels" while dismissing "I was hungry and you gave me no food."
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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/08/2026
"The idea of society may sound appealing, but it's old men who will take the hit, planting trees under whose shade they might never sit."
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Voynich manuscript.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Treating any overreach by Israel-critical voices as an opportunity to leap in and secure through trickery some kind of implicit endorsement for what Israel has actually been doing in Gaza and Lebanon is deeply unhelpful. I’d go as far as saying this behavior is symbiotic with the antisemitism.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's pretty convenient for DOGE people and prediction market people to cump up. Fewer targets for prosecutors to chase down later.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
youtu.be/rQW4W1_SJmc?...
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What Luxury Housing Does To Homelessness
YouTube video by Justine Underhill
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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A prominent, large-follower account & recent candidate for federal office willfully inciting a bad-faith dogpile on someone for the sake of drawing attention to her fundraiser is *gross*, just incredible noxious behavior that should result in a ban.
Kat AbughazalehO @katmabu.bsky.social • 12h
I have never seen someone so flummoxed by the concept of feeding people mao
© Will StancilO @whstancil.bsky.social • 1d
Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social • 12h
sorry for taking the bait, but if you like feeding people you should check out (and maybe donate a couple bucks!) to my organization Kapow which is integrating mutual aid + direct action in campaigns across the country :)
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Stancil's threads are an endless source of horrible assholes to block.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Found the 8yo sorting decks of playing cards. Showed him a bubble sort and an insertion sort and he said "cool!" and wanted to try it himself. Gonna let him chew on that for a bit and see what he comes up with. Then maybe show him a quick sort.
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madman1234855.bsky.social 🔞 @madman1234855.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It makes more sense when you realize that the modern PRC is in many ways the kind of state Chiang wanted to China to be, an authoritarian single party capitalist superpower.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Wait, the other scenario was within my risk tolerance, but this one is outside it! No fair! Risk doesn't matter unless it matters to ME"
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Do you suppose that, waiting hands on eyes, Veronica has gone to hide?
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Looking to see which of my follows has disappointed me by uncritically reposting trash. And then, with a mix of relief and frustration, I see I somehow landed on the Discover feed again.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
1. Swift trials for Trump-era lawbreakers at all levels 2. FAIR trials 3. But swift too
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17/07/2026
ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.
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H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A successful composer comes to resent a more talented newcomer.
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