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an odd fascination of mine is what would've happened if the 1866 luxembourg crisis played out differently, like if napoleon III successfully bought it or if a franco-prussian war broke out early over it and it ended up annexed to prussia

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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/1... classic phantom amiright

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lotta ppl are like "no, that's just gonna make it worse," and sorry, i personally am not gonna get past this

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly makes this famous origin story even funnier. "finally, a guy who sucks enough for me to make him the protagonist of one of my movies"

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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/1... keep in mind, though, that this is an EXTREMELY boring town

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gotta admit that as dem fundraising spam texts go this one has a certain verve

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i'm reading STAY ALIVE, ian buruma's book about life in berlin during WWII, and came across this bit about how the germans thought shakespeare worked best in german translation. is this where @nicholasmeyer.bsky.social got the "in the original klingon" bit in THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY from

"Shakespeare, too, found favor with the Nazis, as a Nordic bard whose true spirit was most evident in German translation (an idea already around in the eighteenth century). A critic in Der Stürmer, the most crassly antisemitic journal in Nazi Germany, compared Hamlet's fate of being robbed of his inheritance to Germany's humiliation in 1918 by the Allies at Versailles."

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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/0... wouldn't be Rex Morgan, M.D., if people weren't genially agreeing with one another

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a few months ago they had a teen character in blondie with broccoli hair and i just had the thought that maybe it's bc they finally invented a contemporary hairstyle as stupid as whatever's going on with dagwood

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

our woke king ahead of the curve as usual

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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/0... me

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ME 10 MINUTES AGO: AI-assisted hacking is probably the actual number on immediate threat from AI. the idea that AI agents will "go rogue" and take steps to harm humans in physical space on their own is almost certainly overblown ME AFTER OPENING MY EMAIL: hmm. concerning

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ok, just warning you if you aren't keeping up, this isn't as cool as it sounds

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had such a weird experience at a place that billed itself as having a "ramen bar" the other day that i felt compelled to do a thing i never do, which is write a google review, just bc i would've liked to have known what i'm getting into. am i being unreasonable at finding this so odd?????

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when you're not beating the "we want to look at your genitals before you come into this bathroom" allegations

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speaking as a leftist i do NOT want sam alito step down while there's a republican president and senate majority????? sir you are strong and brave, please keep defending constitutional originalism until at least jan 2027 at which point you can [redacted] if you feel the urge

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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/0... me

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ME, AN INTELLECTUAL: ah, time to learn more about the "carry trade" and its effect on global borrowing THE AVERAGE NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE CLICKER-THROUGHER:

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the difference in the headline for this article on the front page of the times website vs the one that shows up when you post it on social media is so funny man www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...

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