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Cycling fan, amateur programmer, history Ph.D., Episcopalian, liberal, patriot If you don't support open borders, you don't love America. If you don't love America, you're on the side of the fascists.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mockup of the Wiktionary entry for "liberal," modified so that the first definition reads "Uncool, specifically uncool in a way that reminds one of one's mother" with the example sentence "You'd never catch me listening to anyone like Joan Baez, that kind of music is so liberal."

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Title screen from David Letterman's recurring "Is This Anything?" segment

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Scene from Blazing Saddles (1974), in which Gabby Johnson gives a stirring speech in authentic frontier gibberish

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

William Howard Taft campaign poster, featuring his face and "Bill" in quotation marks.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dr. John's debut album "Gris-Gris" (1968)

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's just that "Christian Dark Ages" chart for the 2020s.

The hilariously-stupid and oft-justly-mocked "THE HOLE LEFT BY THE CHRISTIAN DARK AGES" chart, purporting to display the supposed gap in "scientific advancement" (how is that quantified?) left by the supposed "Christian dark ages" (historiography that is all kinds of wrong)

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's easy to overindex on them because they were more or less successful while forgetting the countless more that weren't, and that leads to an unwarranted confidence that it could work for us in a pattern of thought that's disturbingly reminiscent of survivorship bias.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

please don't be Custer's Revenge please don't be Custer's Rev...fuck fucking hell

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Buster Bluth from the pilot episode of "Arrested Development," on a ship and looking at a map as he says "Obviously this blue part here is the land.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You should never use a challenge before the fourth quarter unless it's to keep a key player out of foul trouble.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I had never heard that term before, from context I had a pretty good idea what it meant but I did a search just to confirm and holy shit this is great

Top of the results page for a search on DuckDuckGo for "pundit's fallacy," featuring a sidebar blurb with the header from the Wikipedia article on Matthew Yglesias

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Lately I've gone back to a save I started pre-Odyssey so it doesn't have the cool new biomes, but I just discovered it does have this and I'm not sure what to make of that fact: