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Birthday Pokemon. Last digit of the day Last digit of the month Last digit of the year 168 Am a bug :) (I played Gold/Silver long ago and don't remember this one)

pic of ariados pokemon 168 from pokemon gold and silver, they are a bug thing with four legs a horn and two pincers

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A pinned intro post WITH hashtags muahaha. Hi! I'm Taylor (not that one). I write about culture, literature, tech, and current events, mainly to make the online simulacrum suck less. Spare-time fun includes #cats, #gaming, and the #outdoors! Website's below. Say hi! :) #writingcommunity #bluesky

taylorkempema.com

Taylor Kempema

Taylor is a writer, researcher, and content creator with plausible-sounding opinions

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/10/2026

"I will not touch anything with ai-generated code" is going to mean, in pretty short order, "I will not touch software" this is just functionally what software development is now and it's only going to accelerate from here

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Can't tell if I have a very normal relationship to gender or a very unusual one, but one of the two explains why I'm just not tempted by "socialism is about leftistly restoring my masculinity as a bookish nerd".

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 12/10/2026

gas prices 🌎👩‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

Chart showing average AAA retail gas price (national) for month versus NY Fed Consumer survey % reporting they are worse or much worse off than one year ago

Chart of gasoline/other motor fuel consumption % of disposable personal income (household income net of taxes).

Current 1.9% is below the 2017/2018 average let alone the ~3% from the 2013-2014 period.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Veep-esque subplots piling up rn

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hey AI Columbus already has a Daily Wire series.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nothing could’ve prepared me for the ad read of the century from the Brewers radio broadcast after that Christian Yelich go-ahead single:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...

Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/10/2026

The reviews—and the box office numbers—for the new Facebook movie are bad. Here's why I am not surprised, and why Aaron Sorkin could've avoided all of this if he had just taken a few moments to read more Hannah Arendt.

necessaryfictions.blog

Why “The Social Reckoning” Was Never Going to Work

Hannah Arendt had two theories of evil. Elon Musk embodies one, Mark Zuckerberg the other — and only one of them makes for a good show.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A+ Fresno State fan shot

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10/10/2026

i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 10/10/2026

Space's placement ahead of healthcare on this very Bluesky reply is really sending me

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is impossible not to notice the rise in casual antisemitism online and in person. If you don’t see it, you’re lying to yourself.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Late to this but it's a crime that Review isn't on here (at least they remembered Nathan for You).

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I like to think Chet Hanks and Jack Harlow are BFFs. Just seems appropriate.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

nytimes.com

Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

POV ur inside a baitball of mullet. A lot of Coralheads didn’t get much work done yesterday, mesmerized by the mullet run that blotted out the sun and turned Coral City into a marriage of heaven and hell for predators and prey 🪸🐠👀

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm writing something about this but a major flaw of the right-wing movement is the clear and obvious belief that racism, homophobia and misogyny are *correct*, but unpopular. so the most "forbidden" voices are obviously *right*, but voters aren't ready for it yet. This whole thing is an example.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will not spend 100 minutes of my life watching a low-rent Netflix rom-com. I will, however, spend 200 minutes of my life watching unwell zoomers recap a low-rent Netflix rom-com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.

abcnews.com

Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

imagine if she was on set all the time lol like I 100% believe this story and the key part is its a captive audience type situation

I've heard straight men talk about trans women as though they're fallen
men to whom sympathy ought to be automatically extended, but there's
deeper stuff going on, too.
I asked a lefty straight man I know (this is irl) whether he was aware how
many penised "lesbians' are involved in the push to access female
spaces. The subject made him incredibly uncomfortable. He simply
didn't want to hear it. I then asked him whether he knew what his
straight male friends wanted from women in the bedroom, kink/sex wise.
Horrified look: "no, of course I bloody don't:
I said to him that if you put 100 straight and bi women of our age and
average sexual experience in a room together, they could write an
authoritative compendium on straight male kink in an afternoon, from
their own direct experience or that of women they know. I said I
presumed he knew that a cross-dressing fetish is one of the most
common paraphilias in heterosexual men and that this has been in the
psychological literature since Freud.
I cannot overstate how little he wanted to talk about this, let alone
acknowledge that any of it was real and happening. I don't know
whether it was the idea that women actually talk about what they meet
in the bedroom that touched a nerve, or whether he found the whole
subject ick, or didn't like the suggestion that he was naive or poorly
informed, but the impression given was that I was depraved to say such
things aloud, and that he'd much prefer a seemly silence.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I don't know whether...[he] didn't like the suggestion that he was naive or poorly informed" I can't with this part. "Poorly informed" indeed! Gonna guess he's plenty informed now about his friend Joanne lol.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't watch enough legal news shows, why am I on this app, I need to catch up with this.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Less specific but honestly YouTube in general does this.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Probably the winner, though I could make a good case for March 11, 2020 (NBA cancels the rest of the season AND Tom Hanks says he has Covid).

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The elites Got Online circa 2020 and we honestly never recovered. (Although Alito and others like him really were like cranky Fox News uncles even before this)

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"...the...far right is a cross-class phenomenon...a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation – formal work, accountable institutions, real equality before the law – and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer."

equator.org

Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR

The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 05/10/2026

also!!! literacy (and I’m using that word broadly) means understanding that a protagonist is not “a person in a work making a moral argument” in fact if a moral argument even exists, it emerges from a work as a whole; relating to a character is often a distraction from that end

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"My benevolent dictatorship would be Good, Actually" is a common take but the best part is this guy and others like him happily adding "Also I'm a lying criminal!" to the pitch.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/09/2026

Getting mad at Joyce Cato Oates for being a snob after cheering all her epic burns is a different form of being a member of the Leopards Eating Faces party. You can’t contain that heat, you can only hope to avoid its gaze.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This phenomenon is clearly real yet my brain kind of just doesn't process it. We can know a lot about a person beyond their vocabulary! It's only one aspect of communication.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Referencing *Simon of Trent* isn't even a red flag, that's so many red bulbs lighting up you could see it from space.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fondly remembering the "critics are a buncha mooks!" campaign after John Travolta's John Gotti movie got trashed on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So is he just trying to impress Maeby or posing for Michelangelo's the creation of Adam.

Michael Cera as George Michael wearing the muscle suit in Arrested Development.

Michael Cera as George Michael wearing the muscle suit posing as Michaelangelo's Adam in Arrested Development.

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Taylor @kempema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol Kurt Schlichter is still around.

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