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Brenty Blas 🏳️‍⚧️ @vibrent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Does Robert Downey Jr. know his new Marvel role’s greatest weakness is a woman named Doreen who talks to squirrels?

Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince (1983). Loooved this show as a kid. Looking back, it's an unbelievable meld of the Benji franchise and 1970s Doctor Who production values. My favorite parts: Zax's lasers, the aliens' life-support bracelets, and Zord (the evil Zax). youtu.be/gcwkIXIhxUI?...

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Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince Opening Credits

YouTube video by The 80s Quadrant

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

To be clear, no ghosts spoke at that hearing.

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Let's start an over 30 selfie thread 50

Selfie photo of me (middle-aged white male wirh brown and white long hair, mostly grey beard, and glasses) on a wooden patio.

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

"Thank you! Your friendship means a lot to me"

Photo of the corner of a room with white walls, a poster, and a miniature television set. Everything is covered in large, dripping blood spatters.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Historians are gonna have such a weird time talking about this moment in history

Two people wearing inflatable hippo costumes with a sign “Hippos for Democracy”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple Again and again” #NoKingsinAmerica

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Weirdest government shutdown ever

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 18/09/2025

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

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Simon HB @norock.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

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Gadget (Sheepish) @sheepishgadget.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Important Reminder

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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

realistic Star Trek

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

"what if....biscuits and gravy but you have to pay an annual subscription for them"

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My god, the Borg would have driven cats nuts.

Still from FIRST CONTACT of the Borg, shrouded in darkness, appear only with their head-mounted laser pointers shining any light

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

When you strip away humanity

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

thehandbasket.co

FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge

Staffers sound the alarm.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/07/2025

The original Gizmo puppet at MoPop. Look how they massacred our boy. 😭

Two angles on the Gremlin-movie gizmo puppet which looks emaciated and terrified. You cannot imagine the horrors he has seen.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

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JJ 🏳️‍🌈👻 @jjr222.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Immigrants make our country a better place. Pass it on.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 13/06/2025

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Adopted a new kitty, our outdoor-now-indoor stray, NC (for "Neighborhood Cat").

A middle-aged guy with long hair and glasses leaning back, wearing a blue shirt. On my stomach, curled up, is NC, a gray tabby with a notched ear.

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

regulations.gov

Regulations.gov

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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PRRI @prri.org · 29/04/2025

While a majority (52%) of Americans agree that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy,” 55% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 and regret their decision agree that Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited.

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"Alas, poor Yorick.....I knew him, Horatio"

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I’m angry about many, many, aspects of Trumpism. And it’s not the top of my list, but I hate the amount of media (and mental) space occupied by absolute cranks, racists, and fools who have been promot because of their venality stupidity. If this is “meritocracy,” it is a meritocray of monsters.

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/04/2025

"Hell is here, in Boston, in the way a woman’s voice goes unnaturally high as she strangles a shriek when surrounded by six masked people in plainclothes who claim to be police. Hell inhabits the place in your heart where you feel her fear."

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Meditations on Hell

“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE - - - Hell is not a lake of fire, no...

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Date yourself with toys that were newly available when you played with them.

In-package toy of Crystar, an 80s action figure of a crystalline warrior.

In-package action figure of Mantor, a bearded guy with insect eyes and antennas, and Raptor, a big blue bug companion, from the Sectaurs toy line.

Package for the Track Patrol toy from the Sky Commanders 80s toy line. It’s like a futuristic ski lift with guns. An action figure is included and pictured riding the ski lift: Commander Cliff Baxter.

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Lesson Less @jfletch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Baton Rouge, LA hands-off protest at the capitol.

Wide shot of a crowd of people, many holding protest signs, outside on the steps of the Louisiana state capitol. In the distsnce, behind speakers, are various flags being waved, including the trans pride flag and an upside-down US flag.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I honestly didn’t know someone could break so many things in so many directions all at once

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

PRESIDENT BUSINESS GENIUS: a big man came up to me tears in his eyes and he said sir Mister Business Genius I have too much money PRESIDENT BUSINESS GENIUS: *sets all the money on fire* REPUBLICANS: *cheer* REPUBLICANS: *also catch fire* AMERICA: *on fire* PRESIDENT: *does his jerkoff dance*

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The goal of a business is to make money. The goal of a government is to serve the people. They’re not interchangeable.

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