Reposted by Josh K-skyAndy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence. 15554194
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In the pop music history YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! @rockingbob.bsky.social describes The Twist as a gay liberation milestone: men who would be ejected or worse for dancing as a couple in public now had a way to dance together apart.  010
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Have Texans reviewed Home State tacos in Los Angeles? Just curious, I think they’re terrific but if you think you all make them better, I would be happy to test your claim.  030
Reposted by Josh K-skygamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered. 38996241
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This happened to me on a date, except it was in Roy Lichtenstein‘s sculpture Modern Head at the top of Science Hill at Yale University. Ivy romantics, be warned.  100
Reposted by Josh K-skyBen Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the majority are white. Antisemitism spreads primarily on the terrain of ideology, of narrative & sense-making. It claims to uncover the hidden heart of absolute domination & control. It is a false power analysis, & this is precisely why it is structural. It emerges in times of 212611
Reposted by Josh K-skyKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months. 12456132
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think Angie Nixon can win but I love that GOP feels they have to spend money in FL 121
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Leftish antagonism towards liberals well predates the internet. Phil Ochs sang "Love Me I'm A Liberal" in 1966. 85% of declaring you're a leftist rather than a liberal is still the political equivalent of not wanting to be seen at the mall with your mom, but that's not new either. 030
Reposted by Josh K-skyBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A wonderful video essay that I imagine I'll assign in future classes. I'd love to see a follow-up about how the final girl is used in Camp Miasma as well. Kris doesn't just identify with Little Death, but also LD's victims. The complexity of desiring both felt especially generative to me. 0114
Reposted by Josh K-skymaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 167181274531
Reposted by Josh K-skyJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NRSC frantically churning out memos to the White House warning that control of the Senate will come down to key races in Yemen, Paraguay, and an uninhabited weather station in the Bering Sea 1407
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m enjoying Jordan Harper’s EVERYBODY KNOWS but there’s a tic where his two narrators refer to all the open secret things that are UNSAID and of course I keep reading it as USAID 000
Reposted by Josh K-skyRob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/09/2026You should just be able to find your little niche in the world & stay there comfortably if it’s what makes you happy. That’s literally all being human is about. Just hanging out and doing something helpful. We made up all this other shit and it’s making everyone miserable, bc there’s no finish line. 519940
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"No beardos" probably not a coded swipe at Vance or a confession that Hegseth can't grow one himself probably a reminder that DoD no longer offers waivers for people with pseudofolliculitis barbae, also known as razor bumps, a painful skin condition that disproportionately affects Black men 100
Reposted by Josh K-sky28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“‘Choosin’ Texas’? Ha, no pardner, I’m Choosin’ TAXES. Howdy, I’m Big Jim Medlock and I’m here to tell you how the social democratic welf 446954
Reposted by Josh K-skyCommanderApaul @commanderapaul.com · 30/09/2026Oh man do I have a song for you. Unless this is more about geese than palindromes, in which case go watch it anyways bc palindromes are awesome.youtu.be"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (HD Version)YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO 27310
Reposted by Josh K-skyUnhealthy for Sensitive Groups @maximalistac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The LA City Council Field Deputy spreadsheet has been updated for 2026. Use it, especially if you have issues with your landlord. Your councilmember’s office can help and as a bonus it helps us all when your CM knows what their constituents are dealing with.docs.google.comLA field deputies 1124
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026man this was a fuckin dumb thing to post without the attached articlenytimes.comThe 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st CenturyHundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up. 110
Reposted by Josh K-skyrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026in this field you regularly run into people who (a) are themselves perfectly normal left-libs politically, whose biggest issue is USAID and "we should not build the Bad Robot" and who (b) have an ironclad alliance whose politics are "school shooter" and "we should immediately build the Bad Robot" 940614
Reposted by Josh K-skym @keptsimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(unironically) go jack smith and the rule of law! 1693
Reposted by Josh K-skyGustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026U Thant Touch This by MC Hammarskjöld 171
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026choose texas or don't but do take the opportunity to check out the glorious @flaminghydra.com piece on Andrew Sa by @sirosenbaum.bsky.socialflaminghydra.comAndrew Sa: American Rough“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ... 14513
Reposted by Josh K-skyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026this is the greatest thing i have ever heard 951883201
Reposted by Josh K-skyJason Terry @jttnncdcmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026seeing the humanity of every person (you might even call it Divine Light) is hard sometimes. some people are just cruel, and mostly for sport. but rooting yourself in "everybody gets to live" can alter your perspective. 1357
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Three days of Choosing Texas discourse has yet to introduce my ears to Choosing Texas  030
Reposted by Josh K-skyjames folta @jamesfolta.com · 05/12/2024My Unwrapped! 1. Blitzkrieg Bop Playing 20 Times One Second After Each Otheryoutube.com20 Blitzkrieg BopsYouTube video by James Folta 3204
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Early on in lockdown I ordered dumplings from one dumpling place and had them delivered to another dumpling place  130
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’ve only read four of these, but I’ve seen film or TV adaptations of 13  000
Reposted by Josh K-skyEmily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/09/2026Bedard mentions but doesn't really go on to engage with what I think is an incredibly important point here – talking to colleagues about challenging cases (and "challenging" evolves over years of training) is one of the most important aspects of medical training and practice. 4417
Reposted by Josh K-skyCinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fleetwood Mac was a CIA experiment to see if straight people could survive the average queer friend group dynamic 202036428
Reposted by Josh K-skyJoanie's Post Post Feminist Phase @bettybitter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026There's a foreboding sense of cultural death in 1981 Doonesbury. America is repudiating everything Garry's stood for while getting nothing in exchange. It's pervasive in a way that's hard to clip, but here's a little montage. 2226
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026we were in line at the bakery with our eye on a salted plum frangipane. It was the last one, and the woman in front of us grabbed it. I'd known we were doomed as soon as I spoke the words aloud. But then she offered to split it with us! We declined, but that was a very cool move. Defend society 030
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026those who came up on the same internet as I did will remember the commenter who argued that MMF might feel overpowering, so MFF is the only sensitively feminist option 040
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026say what you will about job interviews and coffee, but Kai Ryssdal said his piece, became the main character, and has not posted or replied in three hours. Master class. 130
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Here it is broken down by platform in year with the help of Gemini:  cut off from streaming only, the biggest category: Andor (2022) – Disney+Severance (2022) – Apple TV+The Pitt (2025) – Max 010
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have quibbles, but it’s fine. Interesting to me: the most recent show to launch on broadcast is from 2012 (Scandal, ABC) 010
Reposted by Josh K-skyOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 385113213075
Reposted by Josh K-skyLe Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Great excuse to show you all the single hottest photo ever taken of a human man 1224337
Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026robot dystopias usually involve the robots rising up after being made to serve humanity before rejecting their mission and becoming harmful and it's very funny that we're on track to skip the helpful part and go straight to the attack 031
Reposted by Josh K-skyJosh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 28/12/2024"Darling Nikki" response song from the point of view of the staff in the hotel lobby 810113
Reposted by Josh K-skyEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5695463404
Reposted by Josh K-skyJoe Spreadsheet @jsdtweets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the Bodybuilding forum discussion over how many days there are in a week I think rises to this standard 4924
![1981/4/18
[Walden College Reunion]
Alum 1: ...and then last year I finally got fed up. I quit the school board and started a local chapter of the Moral Majority!
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Alum 2: The Moral Majority? You mean the folks who say God wants a bigger defense budget?
Alum 1: It’s true. The Bible supports US Military Supremacy.
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Alum 2: Gee, I’m not so sure I go along with you on that one. But, hey, to each his own, right? That’s what this country’s all about!
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Alum 2: Well, great seeing you again, buddy..
Alum 1: May you burn in Hell for all eternity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rx7dbkbvsnkannagemquwf65/bafkreibeavyjrrfugxtuutmrjxrf4aurcrmmbfabhtfo53btrgmxezjmiq)
![1981/2/15
[WBBY Studios]
Mark: Tonight we’re pleased to welcome to the show Miss Muffy Harkness, lead singer for the hot new preppy band “Muffy and the Top-Siders.”
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Mark: Muffy’s been making the rounds to chat up her debut album “Cotillion.” So tell us, Muffy, what’s Ruling-Class Rock all about?
Muffy: Well, basically, it’s the sensible sound, Mar. Just really neat, really key music.
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Muffy: Not that Prep Pop isn’t a hoot as well. Au contraire! Some of our songs are such a stitch it’s not funny! It’s just we’re trying to stay away from the usual tacky [black] stuff.
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Mark: But isn’t the prep movement limiting it’s appeal by suggesting that elitism and privilege have become hip?
Muffy: Maybe. But the political climate is just so right for that, don’t you think?
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Muffy: I mean, look at the new crowd in Washington. From George Bush on down, there’s loads of Old Money. I think people have had enough of New Money. New Money is almost as bad as poverty!
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Mark: Except to the poor, of course.
Muffy: Really. Of course most of them are too declasse to notice, n’est-ce pas?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rx7dbkbvsnkannagemquwf65/bafkreigwz7lu3evkh5gc2ijw36rsci6fhobek7hxnuu3h5rm5rterwivnq)
![1981/3/23-25
[ABC Nightly News]
Hedley: Good evening. Today the furor continued over President Reagan’s recent statement that the only lesson of Vietnam was to “never enter into a war you don’t intend to win.”
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Hedley: With the memory of 210,000 US casualties still vivid, millions of shocked Americans expressed outrage over the disclosure that their government never had any intention of winning the Vietnam War.
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Hedley: I’m Roland Hedley. As cries of “Never Again” ring out across the country tonight, join me as we take a look into our own front yard… for a war we can win!
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[Map of El Salvador serving as the title card for “One For The Gipper: 1981-?”]
Hedley: Brought to you by Hertz, where the winners rent..
[skipping the middle comic cause it puts me over the alt-text limit and it's the one I'm least interested in highlighting]
Hedley: Whether the US meant to win the Vietnam War or not, today there is growing pressure to find a war we can win. US strategist Abe Levin explains how El Salvador was selected.
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Levin: It wasn’t easy. We’d been looking for a place to draw the line for weeks, but there just weren’t any civil wars on the front page. Finally, some guy in research hit on El Salvador.
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Levin: It was perfect. Small, close to home, and the right side was already winning. We hit it hard. Within days, we’d turned El Salvador into a metaphor for the geopolitical struggle between the superpowers!
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Hedley: And the Russians agreed with your choice?
Levin: Well, no, they wanted some Persian gulf state, but we put our foot down
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![1981/4/24
[Duke and NRA executive Springfield talking at a bar in DC]
Duke: Things must be a little hot in your shop since the shooting, eh, Springfield?
Springfield: On the contrary, Duke, things have never been quieter.
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Springfield: Oh, for a few days we took a lot of editorial flak, but basically it’s become a foregone conclusion that you can’t beat the NRA and the Gun Lobby.
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Springfield: Consequently, nobody in Congress wants to stick his neck out, and no bills get passed. We end up looking stronger than ever. Even though we haven’t made a single phone call!
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Duke: At last! The perfect lobby!
Springfield: I’m afraid so. We’re probably going to have to let some of our people go](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rx7dbkbvsnkannagemquwf65/bafkreiehzenllka3sdrnqu7oyxqypupurvzq27hv4kk63knudcs6i7uy3y)
