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Pye Wacket

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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A take that I have that I didn't realize was hot is that I think nationalizing random companies that we don't like is a bad idea actually.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will admit that this is pretty funny.
Claude correctly counting the number of letter E's in "slice" and then stumbling to the finish line to correctly do the same with the word "potato"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The doomer ethos is, if anything, defined by a lack of concern about the details of any particular problem. There's a reason I paired "beef and gas prices" with "climate change." The end goal here is manufacturing a rationale for cynicism, anger, and despair, not picking an issue and fixing it.
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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bro we need your vote. I hate the war too. But the Democrats want to Trans your Am.
1970 Firebird Trans Am
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/09/2026
“Russian strategists threaten civilian economic and cultural sites with the aim of brutalizing European populations into surrender. Russian targeting of churches and hospitals in Ukraine with dual-capable missiles is meant to foreshadow a similar fate for NATO populations.”
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Nuclear Arms and the New Free World
The free world no longer has the luxury of regarding nuclear deterrence like a snow globe on a shelf.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you want Telarico to lose, you want trans Texans to be pogromed, simple as.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fact check: true
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's me on that Simon Shuster piece in The Atlantic. The reason why I think it struck a nerve is his sympathies are quite transparent. He spends two paragraphs at the start fawning over the grandeur of CCP state ceremonies
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Well, it is finally done: A video going over ballistic missile defenses in a simple language: youtu.be/w3-DAxr1C0U about a year's worth of time/effort spent on it and even longer in terms of research!
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Ballistic Missile Defense: An Overview
YouTube video by Vermillion
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 03/09/2026
Just got outta the TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY 35th anniversary rerelease and Jesus Christ, man. What a movie. They had to do all that shit for real. They had to fly that helicopter under an overpass. They had to blow up that building. They had to find an actor who could turn into liquid metal.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are nearing day 3 of the two popular nichesky users arguing whether or not we should be more like the fascists.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
as Norway plunges into chaos following death of king, one military strongman is seizing power
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cumrade poptart @poptart2nd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You are statistically much more likely to survive an impact with a joke if you're not a bluesky user.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This website's Luddite streak is annoying. Guys, the running robots are cool; please stop pretending to care about Usain Bolt losing his job or whatever.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Recurring Speed Camera Discourse is a bit exasperating really because, look, we all know what's actually happening is people just want to be able to commit the pertinent crimes and don't like being punished for it, but people come up with obvious post-hoc pseudo-woke rationalisations for this.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I don’t think thousands of preventable deaths are less important than your ‘autonomy’ to break traffic laws, personally.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
RIP to everyone caught by Columbo for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than Columbo.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I don't know what any of this means
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After she lost, a lot of people were saying “oh I hope she learns from this, she still has a lot to give” etc. I hope these people now notice that she has instead refused to endorse the candidate who beat her and begun spewing lies blaming AIPAC, who actively opposed the winner!
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Broke: Nolan’s Odyssey dishonors Homer by having black people. Woke: Nolan’s Odyssey dishonors Homer by Americanizing the values of the ancient Mediterranean Bespoke: Nolan’s Odyssey honors Homer by acting as a Trojan Horse for a message audiences would otherwise be unreceptive to.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But also however bad you think The Blob is, the tankies are worse. You thought it couldn't get worse than The Blob and got Pete Hegseth for your sins. The tankies will go exactly the same way. Actually foreign policy is hard and does not get easier for gullible fools.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
People will say the big 3 didn't see it coming but US auto executives knew this was happening 15 years ago and largely acted accordingly, making huge investments in EV tech and lobbying the US govt for subsidies to those investments. Then Trump got reelected and it all got thrown out the window
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.
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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh my fucking god, not this shit again. 1) There aren't enough homes where people want to live. There are empty houses in the middle of nowhere with no theatres or schools, but not enough in Edinburgh or San Francisco, for ex. 2) You still need economics to figure out how to distribute goods!
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20/07/2026
I happen to not be one of the Americans who thinks other countries are this glorious wonderful thing we need approval from I want a peaceful orderly international community but I’m not going to bow and scrape so that The Internationals think I’m One of the Cool Ones
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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 16/07/2026
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 16/07/2026
"Civilization was a mistake" — me when I stay up too late playing Civilization
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Climate hero Donald Trump implements global carbon tax. Saves environment. More at 11.
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
People's takes on US soccer and how to make it better are so interesting. If you, for whatever reason, think that America need become a soccer powerhouse, then approximately 100% of your effort should be on getting more people interested in soccer as more than an after-school time-waster for kids.
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Battle Order @battleorder.org · 06/07/2026
Whatever, go my 300 pigeons
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Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
PoV: you are watching FDR come up with new federal departments to run the new deal and smoke the Germans.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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NPR @npr.org · 02/07/2026
Leaders of the Jefferson County Clerk's office say they’re aware of problems in voter assignments that stem from redistricting in 2022. via @lpm.org
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Voters across Louisville may have gotten the wrong ballots – for years
LPM News uncovered that voters from more than 1,800 households may have cast incorrect ballots due to an error by the Jefferson County Clerk’s office. In some instances, this affected where they voted and which representatives they were able to vote for.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The funnier answer would have been that they tried to work for Hitler but ended up working for Charlie Chaplin by accident.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 02/07/2026
I choose to believe that the people watching and believing in this team are more representative of the America that I wish to see this country become and no amount of content this administration tries to create can touch that. Also watching soccer was woke 12 years ago.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social You've done that and more
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Not MattY 😞
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patrickdotnet.bsky.social @patrickdotnet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Georgism is a better answer. Just tax land values. You want to encourage work and commerce, not tax them. But no one created the land, and land can't be hidden.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the continued appeal of dirtbag politics, from the left to liberals, and how only a politics of grace and edification can save our liberal democracy Dirtbagism delenda est www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
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The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I see it's time for the bi-monthly "a NYC DSA guy demands AOC apologize" ceremony
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Zero tanker traffic at the reflecting pool today.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 25/06/2026
i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school
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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is one of the most scathing things I've ever read. If this is what the UK puts out in their equivalent of Military Review... chacr.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Whatismoo @whatismoo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
On target, fire for effect!
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
a dad bod? you mean a father figure
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Pye Wacket @jackindabox22.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.en-hrana.org/singer-paras...
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Singer Parastoo Ahmadi and Members of the “Caravanserai Concert” Team Sentenced to Flogging and Ban on Artistic Work - Hrana
HRANA – Parastoo Ahmadi, a singer, along with eight members of the production team and musicians involved in the “Caravanserai Concert,” has been sentenced by the Criminal Court of Qom Province to 74 ...
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