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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's wild that someone who claims that a cognitive screening for dementia is "very tough" is allowed to command armies. We owe history an explanation of how things were allowed to get this far.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It ought to be front page news when the President of the United States makes up something like this.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Odd to exclude the two, non-contiguous states that most recently joined the union.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, come now. Would you have us believe he originally got elected over the mishandling of classified documents by his opponent, but got reelected despite being indicted for much worse?

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the guy with opinions about the Antichrist?

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Meanwhile this guy is leaning on the governor of SD to put him on Rushmore.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Price of gas? Canada not yet a state? Too many taco trucks unraided?

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would like to hear from Senator Schiff about his interaction with McConnell when he returned.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An echo of Russia's reaction to Ukraine seeking closer ties with Europe rather than subordinating its own interests to Russia.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is his attitude toward the entire world, including the country he leads: Whatever is not remade in his name and image is to be destroyed.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The GOP is the party of drunk driving. The newspapers of record have taken the position that if the GOP favors drunk driving, it must be presented as a serious alternative to driving sober. This is how a civilization drives into the wall.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe someday being stupid and malevolent will be seen as disqualifying for high office?

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whit Stillman's "trilogy": "Metropolitan", "Barcelona", "The Last Days of Disco"

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's apparently no video today of Senator McConnell speaking to the press. The Fourth Estate is killing it. youtu.be/yubaEwyrIrI?...

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Game of Thrones - Reek Shaves Ramsay (4k)

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Senator, please consider whether you and your constituents are well served by rhetoric like "commonsense reform" when confronted with this kind of evidence of state terrorism, or whether it makes you look ineffectual and out of touch with the magnitude of the problem and its stakes.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A remake of a sequel, even!

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Where's the beef? Oh, sorry I asked.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Since you are using the language of a bygone era, perhaps you will understand this: Delete your account.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Information workers are confronted with what in better times became an unfamiliar choice. Legitimacy and certain forms of authority are diverging. They can either hold the line for legitimacy against power, or ratify the exercise of power as self-justifying. Many fail this test, not just Google.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Google should be held to account for collaborating with Beijing to memory-hole the Tianenmen Square massacre. Who cares that the PRC authorizes such censorship? POTUS may be technically empowered to subvert GNIS, but GNIS' authority rests on such things not happening.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Those making excuses for Google on the naming of international bodies of water are still reckoning with the denial phase of grief. GNIS ought to be an apolitical reference, but it no longer is. We didn't expect to lose such things, but we have. To pretend we have not is to enable corruption.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If I post AI-generated photos of myself surrounded by hot babes, everyone will think I'm a chick magnet, right?

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

GNIS is under political pressure such that it no longer acts as a reliable authority. Google could reasonably object to GNIS' erratic policies regarding international bodies, just like a well-informed doctor or parent would reject CDC's new vaccine schedules. It won't however, and that is shameful.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They could, for example, put up some scaffolding so nobody could see the name.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If the price of gas doubles from what it is now, Trump will believe he is the greatest president. Also, if it quadruples. There are no checks.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nope. Berlin IP here. The madness is on full display.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can confirm from Berlin that a non-US IP doesn't seem to matter. Google's compliance is on display.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An Undistinguished Little Whorehouse in Texas

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's hard to see how the USA recovers from this horror show unless and until it embraces in full measure the contempt that Donald Trump plainly deserves. Talk of "goals" and "concerns" are out of place when describing a monkey flinging its feces. Also, here. Dignifying this circus is complicity.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The eyes of Blexas are upon you!

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This film is at its most interesting as a revisionist take on the Odyssey. The antihero is trying to return from the war to a home that by now only exists in his mind.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is especially poignant given the most prominent Kennedy.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Paranoid Style is a helluva drug.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Queue the dancing maenads: Stillman loves dance.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Taylor Nichols as Pentheus and Chris Eigeman as Dionysus. This could work.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hear me out: Whit Stillman's Bacchae

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Let us not mince words. The president of the United States is an evil man, dragging his country and the rest of the world into wickedness and misery.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Homer voice: 11 years... so far.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

YOLO. Do it. Report back.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was trying to riff off of Weber, so I hope so! But I don't remember Weber following his subjects so far into decline. The Spirit of Capitalism demanded and produced industry. Those assured of their salvation, who consume rather than produce, are whited sepulchres to their Calvinist forebears.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In the 90s, "New Democrats" promised to deliver the white working class with free-market centrism. Post-Obama, Leftists Not Liberals claimed they could prevail with redistributionist populism. Maybe it's time to stop chasing the white whale and commit to coalitions that are actually possible.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The Portrait of Dorian Gray", American Edition

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