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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Haha! Stupid Any Rand wrote these dull books about her banal and profoundly wicked personal philosophy! I shall interview her on my television show / for my magazine / for my newspaper column and expose her shallowmindedness before my intelligent audience!

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never wanted to put anything behind a bookshelf door except myself.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mental health services? I'm sorry, but in what world does responding to unacceptable conditions with unacceptance call for mental health services? This sailor needs an escape route, not mere counseling.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not to mention all the evangelical billboards.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sure, happy to. Attached are the relevant passages from resolutions 25 and 32, cropped and stitched. Here's a link to the current party platform: democrats.org/wp-content/u... (my bad, in my previous reply I went by the pdf page numbers rather than the printed page numbers. Check 56-7.)

Excerpts from the resolutions directly relevant to LGBT+ rights

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today was a big win. The DNC unanimously adopted an amendment calling for the abolition of ICE into their party platform.

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the DNC urges Democratic members of Congress to craft
legislation abolishing ICE and enacting immigration reform that provides pathways to
citizenship, protects workers, and ensures dignity for all impacted people;"

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

25 and 32 each list the protection of LGBT+ rights as a premise, and 32 also lists it as part of the resolution. But these are mid-cycle proposed amendments to the platform. The primary commitment is already in the current platform, pages 57-8.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Although part of my job is explaining how to use standard English conventions effectively, I always make room for historical objections and nuances. I particularly like reinforcing the idea that if you're going to champion prescriptivist rules, you'd best be prepared for a helping of humble pie.

Screen grab from https://owl.excelsior.edu/grammar-essentials/punctuation/commas/commas-with-coordinating-conjunctions/ describing when to place a comma before a coordinating conjunction

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up the evolutionary ladder." — Terry Pratchett

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think Matthew 6:5-6 is also worth a skim here.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm confident he will. He's built up a lot of name recognition in his first two statewide races, so here's hoping three's the charm.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I can't speak for "the leftist," but as a leftist, I voted for Kenyatta. Fetterman ran a populist campaign.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

No one else? Okay, I'll do it: When will they drop the Ebenezer Pleaser teaser?

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

American mainstream media deliberately sucks at keeping Americans informed of international news, though, no argument there, and consistently reinforces the illusion of explanatory depth to make Americans think they should have one of a binary of opinions on any issue. Absolute trash.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Iran was growing closer every passing year to a genuine civil war and regime change, but fortunately for its autocratic leaders and terroristic partners abroad, a bunch of foreigners came in guns blazing and made them look legitimate by comparison.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For my flavor of lefty, it'll always be appalling that a school was destroyed. A small but important part of the reason is that it obscures the fact that the school itself was a tool of brutal oppression. Murdering kids with AI targeting and dated maps is how you entrench regimes, not win hearts.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I can't speak for the American left you mean, but the one I was raised in has always told me that the Iranian regime is a brutal, corrupt right-wing theocracy—and that it gained power and consolidated support as a reaction to the CIA-planted, brutal, corrupt right-wing dictatorship that preceded it.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very much looking forward to seeing it!

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Absolutely understandable, but I'm sorry to hear it. You make excellent entertainment and it sucks that there isn't a better space carved out. I've enjoyed your work, largely for free, for many years. It lightens my load no end, and my wife and I often quote some of your old videos to one another.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Reminds me of this wonderful sketch from John Finnemore's Souvenir Program about goldfish petitioning Neptune for better memories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZXu...

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Just as Vietnam was the first televised war, "AI" is the first live tweeted billionaire-built economic bubble.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I think the spinning jenny and the internet and even, briefly, VR (long-anticipated technologies with sudden payoffs) caused the same reaction among the ultra-wealthy, but the big difference this time is that the credulous rich of ages past were not so publicly forthcoming with their horseshit.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Okay, so if you haven't seen it yet, check out Blue Prince. It's like getting a glimpse into the world where that happened.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you, The weather's always fine; For there ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine."

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I swear, I'll be four score and nineteen years old before French counting stops making me laugh.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Easily done! Yes, in that case, I couldn't agree more. Finest ending in comedy indeed!

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

You might be surprised! There's a lot of aspiring writers and colossal Wodehouse fans out there who would line up spoon in hand. Just look how well that Ben Schott novel sold.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I think I see what you mean, but that resolution still seems a sequence to me; it's like a snowball gathering plot threads as it rolls downhill from the moment Bertie escapes the yacht to his contented sigh over breakfast. For a single move sweep, I'd propose Right Ho, Jeeves and the bicycle trip.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Right there with you. We were conditioned to reject that evidence by the existence of H.R. Pufnstuf and Worzel Gummidge.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

SCOTUS justices have been political actors from the start (e.g. Chief Justice Rutledge's speech against the Jay Treaty). Reagan certainly emboldened them, but the excesses we're seeing now are a return to form after FDR managed to temporarily get them in line with his court packing plan.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Which is to say, in the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, "If you're going to do this damn silly thing, don't do it in this damn silly way."

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Evidence for and against banning mobile phones in schools: A scoping review" (Campbell et al., 2024) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Tldr: there have been no robust studies on the effects of cell phone bans, and bans are usually abandoned within a couple of years.

Furthermore, a consequence of any decision to ban mobiles in schools is that the responsibility for learning digital literacy is left to families, many of whom feel ill-equipped to help their child become digitally literate (Strider et al., 2012). Nonetheless, the banning of mobile phones in schools appears to be gathering momentum despite historically these decisions being reversed a few years later. What is driving the renewed interest in educational mobile phone policies?
The impetus for phone policy changes at school are often championed by politicians responding to community concerns (Selwyn & Aagaard, 2021). Community concerns are amplified by the media, creating moral panics about issues for which little-to-no evidence exists – and to which banning then becomes a seemingly necessary and politically popular response (Orlando, 2019; Selwyn & Aagaard, 2021).

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We are loath to accept them; we loathe them utterly. I'm still chilled to my soul and to my soles every time a school board election comes around.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

PA has a robust reapportionment process, a Republican-controlled state senate, and plenty of Republican district judges. The last reapportionment cycle lasted 11 months.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Why that's not feasible: ballotpedia.org/Redistrictin...

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That Mitchell and Webb Sound featured Turner's biography in a 2007 radio sketch. It begins at 3:00: dn710101.ca.archive.org/0/items/that...

dn710101.ca.archive.org

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The first thing they take is our history. Don't let 'em. It waved above our infant might when all ahead seemed dark as night. It's witnessed many a deed and vow; We must not change its color now.

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

So how many times did this fella deny recognizing Jesus before the cock crowed?

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Interstician @justinterstician.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The incidents coincided, so yes. Coincidence.

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