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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 09/08/2026

You can fuck right off, you pestilent, fat, bloated, piece of ugly bling in a bad suit.

The decision "severely jeopardizes the lives and welfare of the people who work, and will be working, at the White House — including all future Presidents of the United States, and their families, as well as the lives of all those visiting, such as Heads of State and other Dignitaries, and all Americans who wish to visit the historic, beautiful Executive Mansion," Trump wrote.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 04/05/2026

dammit *cough* Uh, I meant that's great news for his family. Presumably.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 04/05/2026

One thing I love about BlueSky is PhDs get to complain that they're not considered working class and that socialism is all about teaching working people to read novels and go to the symphony so they'll become more fully human. I feel pretty sure the revolution will definitely happen soon-ish.

Joel S.

@joelhs.bsky.social

Farmers are coded "working class" as rural white people, even though they own their means of production. Meanwhile, I have a PhD and teach at a liberal arts college, so no one will ever call me working class, even though I earn a lot less and depend on wages. It's gendered vibes, all the way down.

In Reply To:

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property.

That's it. It's not rocket science.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/05/2026

I wonder if either of have worked in a factory. I have. In any factory or mine are always gonna be some people who are familiar with and enjoy art that you think is worthwhile. But maybe you're not seeing those people because you aren't even looking.

A screenshot of a social media post responding to another on a dark mode interface.

The main post is by Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social) and reads:

'My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.'

Embedded within this is a quoted post by Paul Boldrin (@paulboldrin.bsky.social) that reads:

'I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.'

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 28/04/2026

Aww! There's the adorable First Lady we all know and love!

A screenshot of a live news update. At the top, a timestamp reads '16m ago 15.55 BST'. Below this is the text: 'Donald and Melania Trump have now arrived,' with 'Melania Trump' highlighted in red, indicating a hyperlink.

The main portion of the image is a photograph of Donald and Melania Trump standing side-by-side with neutral, serious expressions. Donald Trump is on the left, wearing a dark blue suit, a white shirt, a solid red tie, and an American flag lapel pin. Melania Trump is on the right, wearing a structured, tailored white jacket with a row of small buttons down the front, paired with a matching flat-brimmed white hat that has a light-colored band.

A caption below the photo reads: 'Donald and Melania Trump ahead of the royals' arrival. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images'.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 22/03/2026

Behold the insanity of today's world.

23.53 GMT

Trump threatens Iran with further attacks if Hormuz does not reopen within 48 hours

Donald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past few minutes: "If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 05/03/2026

Genuinely the most recent.

A wholesome edit of the 'Always Has Been' astronaut meme.

Two astronauts in white space suits are floating in dark space with the Earth in the background.

The first astronaut is looking at the Earth, with text beside them asking, 'wait, i am worthy of love?'

The second astronaut is standing behind the first.

Instead of pointing a gun at the first astronaut's back like in the original meme format, they are holding out a bouquet of colorful yellow and pink tulips. Text above them replies, 'always have been'.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 27/02/2026

Taking another pass at this joke. www.kmellis.com/nightmoves/

kmellis.com

A TRANSLATION OF "NIGHT MOVES" (1976), BOB SEGER

by Keith M Ellis

'Wasn't it great in 1962 to be young and fucking? Me and that girl I didn't much like, the one with the great tits. Fucking in my car, the backroom, wherever. We'd fuck in the alley! Mosty we fucked in the woods. And in my car, a 1960 Ford. Fucking at night in the summer. Those were the days.'

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ADDENDUM: THE SOURCE MATERIAL

I was a little too tall; could've used a few pounds

Tight pants points, hardly renowned. *

She was a black-haired beauty with big, dark eyes.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 16/02/2026

This setting is pleasant. (Not irony.)

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 16/02/2026

Try 'chromatic', 'mass', '2', 'full', 'scattered', 'normal', and demo off. That will be named the 'alarming' preset, when I add presets. 😀

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 16/02/2026

Had an idea the other day. www.kmellis.com/swarm.html

A screenshot of a mobile web experiment titled "Swarm Conductor." Against a dark background, a vertical axis on the left labels musical pitch frequencies (from C2 to G5), creating a horizontal grid of quantized notes. A chaotic "flock" of colorful geometric agents—blue triangles (bass), red squares (reeds), and gold circles (chimes)—is clustered in the bottom right quadrant, swarming around an invisible touch point. The agents are shown jostling for space using separation logic. One agent flashes white, visually indicating it has just crossed a grid line and triggered a sound envelope. The top UI displays the current musical scale "Mode: Major (Ionian)" and a green digital VU meter indicating the volume, which is determined by the flock's horizontal position. A large "CYCLE SCALE" button sits at the bottom.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/02/2026

They're all alike, aren't they

A screenshot of a news article header featuring a photo of author Neil Gaiman wearing a black tuxedo, bow tie, and glasses. The headline reads: 'Neil Gaiman claims sexual assault allegations are result of ‘smear campaign’'.
The sub-headline states: 'Author says accusations ‘spread and amplified’ by people more interested in ‘outrage and getting clicks'.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 29/01/2026

So, noxious Libs of TikTok uses other people's suggestions for targets in her harassment campaigns? Like this one in her screenshot from 'Patrick Casey'? Assuming these people are actual people ('PC' looks like a bot to me): uh...have they thought this through?

A screenshot of a Media Matters for America article. The visible text quotes a social media caption: 'parents know that the person teaching their kids is on an anti-ICE resistance group chat which coordinates the doxxing and harassment of federal agents? Do you condone these actions?'
Below this text is an image of the actual social media post by 'Libs of TikTok' (@libsoftiktokofficial), which directs this question to a school district account (@bps271).
The Libs of TikTok post shares a screenshot of a tweet by Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) dated Jan 26. Casey's tweet features photos of an individual (whose name is redacted in white blocks) and reads:
'Say hello to [Redacted]. He's in one of the anti-ICE Signal chats the FBI is investigating. [Redacted] is a gay man who uses "he/they" pronouns. He is also an elementary school teacher with @TeachersOnCall and @bps271. Would you feel comfortable with him teaching your kids?'

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 28/01/2026

‘Betteridge's Law of Headlines’ and ‘You Just Had to Say It’ in one terrifying package.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 25/01/2026

A great lede for this guardian story. It struck me that a whole bunch of what's wrong right now is neatly captured by that quote.

A screenshot of an article by David Smith titled '‘This is what fascism looks like’: terror in Minneapolis reminiscent of civil war'.

The sub-headline reads: 'Alex Pretti’s death could be a moment of reckoning for Democrats to call time on Trump waging war on his people'. The date is Sunday, 25 Jan 2026.

A red circle highlights the first paragraph of body text, which reads:

'Wearing helmets, gas masks and camouflage fatigues, the federal agents took aim and prepared to open fire. “It’s like Call of Duty,” one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game. “So cool, huh?”'

The text continues:

'This was the scene on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday after armed agents, wearing masks and tactical vests, wrestled 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him dead. The killing took place just over a mile from where Renee Good was fatally shot on 7 January, a scene that itself was less than a mile from where police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.'

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 08/01/2026

Our society has been depraved for a long time.

"A screenshot of a mobile image search grid displaying results for 'Abu Ghraib.' The thumbnails show several recognizable, graphic historical photographs documenting prisoner abuse and detention at the prison, accompanied by captions and headlines from sources such as The New York Times, NBC News, and the Philadelphia Inquirer."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 23/12/2025

I'm not going to bother to attribute this. It reveals an almost total ignorance of the technology of everything mentioned. I block almost every possible term related to this topic because people who have a *lot* to say about it tend to be competent to do so in inverse proportion.

“...results. If there were enough demand in the places (highlighting begins) where I suspect AI is really powerful - finding patterns in massive troves of data which humans can then review, doing calculations in aerial dogfights faster than any human possibly can and whatever other things I can't think of (highlighting ends) - they wouldn't be so pervasively coming up with these silly things that I think most people find annoying. That logic is mathematical in its clarity. Because this stuff isn't cheap. I'm...”

No attribution included.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 18/12/2025

i am so very sorry for this for multiple reasons, but the power of grinch compelled me

A parody of the movie poster for "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." In this version, the character of Ted (originally played by Elliott Gould) has been replaced by the Grinch. The Grinch sits on the far left of a large bed, scowling with green fur, alongside the original cast members Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. The credits below the title have been altered to read "Grinch" instead of "Elliott Gould," the title altered to replace "Bob" with "Grinch", and the tagline at the bottom reads, "consider the possibilities."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 05/12/2025

A conservative, somewhere, probably

A Father's Lament

My three daughters all voted for Harris. Two of them have stopped speaking to me (and one is boycotting Thanksgiving) because I voted Nazi. I did not tell thrm how to vote. I did not presume to argue or even to convince them not to associate with people of other races. I cannot fathom why they expect me to tolerate this lack of basic social courtesy merely because I wish them to be stripped of their rights and forced to be brood mares for other fathers' proud and well-muscled sons who I totally do not imagine engaging in such activities with my ungrateful baby girls. I have the right to my opinion. A man should be able to practice eugenics in his own home. This is what freedom is and I am very angry at my children for hating freedom, even were I to forgive them for hating me. Which I most certainly do not. I will not talk about their mother, The Bitch. American society has lost its way, hiding behind the smelly skirts of women, and it now must return to the bountiful embrace of tall, hard men in sleek, black uniforms, all practically exploding from their swelling pride. This, this: women cannot comprehend the warrior spirit of a boy in his prime, they can only tremble at his feet in fear and awe in the presence of such Aryan vitality. I did always want to have a boy, you know. Or two. Yes, it's true, two at the same time can be a bit much.

But I hear it's worth it.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 26/11/2025

No coffee shop I've ever been in broadcasts my conversation to numerous strangers, periodically, nor invites me to listen to theirs. This is not a coffee shop. Where is the coffee? What does the shop sell? It sells our conversations.

Mishell Baker thankfully @mishellbaker.bsky.social

"Don't post if you don't want random strangers to reply" remains one of the most most hilariously illogical things I have seen people say on social media.

Allow me to list several other examples of "Do not allow me to perceive a thing if I cannot personally interact with it" logic at play:

Nov 25, 2025, 5:53 PM

Some people can reply

11 reposts, 1 quote, 65 likes, 2 saves

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 22/11/2025

This is less a review or a news article than it is a press release. It's very flattering to a bunch of con artists. I'm very disappointed in everyone who takes this BS seriously. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

A screenshot of a Guardian news article under the category 'Documentary films.' The headline reads: '‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist.' Below, the sub-headline states: 'The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered up.' The byline lists the author as Shrai Popat, published on Saturday, 22 Nov 2025.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 20/11/2025

He's not mincing words, is he?

Chris Murphy

@ChrisMurphyCT

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19/11/2025

I will allow this only — and I mean only — if they also have a male sibling they named ‘Uhea’.

"A sleek black kitten strides confidently toward the camera across a polished floor, her tail held high in a friendly posture. She has bright yellow-green eyes and shiny fur. The setting appears to be a shelter or clinic room with metal equipment legs visible in the background. A text overlay at the bottom identifies her name as 'Uhera' with a 'NEW' status indicator."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19/11/2025

Is it just me, or do you agree this cream-colored kitten is ABSURDLY pretty? I mean, wow. The other photos aren't as good.

"A close-up portrait of a stunningly fluffy, light orange (buff) kitten gazing directly at the camera with large, pale sage-green eyes. The kitten has a soft, almost angelic appearance with long whiskers and ear tufts, resting on a textured blanket. A 'GOOD MATCH' tag is visible in the top left corner, and gallery navigation dots appear at the bottom."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19/11/2025

Looking to adopt a kitten, I see this little one and I reflexively say aloud, ‘Ha! You tell 'em! Grrr!’

"A tiny white kitten is held aloft in one hand by a veterinary worker wearing a black medical glove and a smartwatch. The kitten looks adorably feisty, with its mouth wide open in a mid-hiss scream and one paw raised in a dramatic striking pose. A green badge in the top corner reads 'GOOD MATCH,' and the background features purple shelter walls and a checklist for 'Closing Duties.'"

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 13/11/2025

The blatant hypocrisy is quite deliberate. They want you to notice it. They want you to feel they are absolutely untouchable.

Attorney general Pam Bondi called the governor's effort a "power grab”.

"Newsom should be concerned about keeping Californians safe and shutting down Antifa violence, not rigging his state for political gain," she added.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 31/10/2025

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of text from Guardian article

“But to many, the Totenkopf-bearing man, shirtless and belting in the video that Platner showed on Pod Save America, is simply more American than others – more authentic, more admirable, more worthy of winning over. Women of color, Jews, rape survivors, Black people, or any of the others that Platner might alienate with this past behavior, meanwhile, seem relatively cheap to them in comparison. This chase for the white male vote as more worthy and important is conspicuous, now, among the liberal pundit class. How are all the other voters supposed to feel about it?

“Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist”

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 14/10/2025

Coming straight down the middle.

Inset of Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son"

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 13/10/2025

This guy. This guy is a walking stereotype. The whole article is an embarrassment. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

Brian Harris was working from home on Indigenous Peoples' Day and went to the Santa Fe Plaza after seeing on social media some type of protest was taking place. When he arrived, he was confronted with what he described as "an angry mob."

"It was disheartening, to say the least," Harris said.

He arrived a few minutes after the obelisk had already been toppled and said he stayed for about 45 minutes, during which he said there was a sense of lawlessness he hadn't previously encountered in Santa Fe.

Harris, who moved to Santa Fe in 1999, said he is "very much a liberal" and believes in free and fair protest, but what he saw that day was something different.

"There was an undertone of violence," he said, adding he felt like many people present were inordinately happy they had succeeded in destroying the monument.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 23/09/2025

Michael Tolkin's 1991 film, “The Rapture”, is little known and a minor gem. Tolkin makes stunning and courageous choices. It's arguably amazing that the film got made.I cheered at the end, and probably not for the reason you think. Here's Roger Ebert's review: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

In the mountains of Southern California, Sharon (Mimi Rogers) and her daughter, Mary (Kimberly Cullum) hold hands while watching the sky as they await the Rapture.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 22/09/2025

A copy of the "algorithm". That and "epicenter" were both useful words, once. (Yes, strictly speaking, I'm a linguistic descriptivist. I don't care.)

26m ago 16.42 BST

Tech giant Oracle, headed by Larry Ellison, will receive a copy of TikTok's algorithm to operate for US users, a senior official in the Trump administration told the Associated Press.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 20/09/2025

Oh, look, here's the new style, we can call it 'fashfash':

Lots of black leather. Two people. Meta's new RayBan smartglasses. You're in a Ridley Scott movie and these two supercillious synthoids are looking at you and wondering how tender your roasted thigh meat is going to be.

Someone else is going to have to describe this photo, I suppose.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19/09/2025

For my fellow NM peeps (regarding the House resolution)

New Mexico

No Vote NM-1

D

Stansbury, Melanie

Present NM-2

D

Vasquez, Gabriel (Gabe)

No Vote

NM-3

D

Leger Fernandez, Teresa

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 18/09/2025

For fascists, hypocrisy is a flex and not an embarrassment. It says: "I make the rules and I enforce the rules, not you." Does pointing out the hypocrisy alter the opinion of the undecided audience? Maybe. Does it bolster a sense of brutal, inevitable fascist power that's attractive to some? Maybe.

Brendan Carr

@BrendanCarrFCC

Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not.

The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the "public interest.”

usatoday.com/story/opinion/...

7:05 AM

Feb 14, 2019

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 21/08/2025

Here's some green chile chicken filets I've prepared for later use. (Primarily a green chile chicken soup.) They're chicken filets baked with garlic butter basting, after being brined in a green chile & teriyaki marinade.

Chicken filets baked with garlic butter basting, after being brined in a green chile & teriyaki marinade.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 19/08/2025

It's always the ones you suspect. “The school got nine separate complaints from faculty members, administration staffers and other students about his ‘rude and belittling behavior toward women’, Idaho state police detective Sean Prosser wrote in a report.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot of Guardian US crime story, photo Kohlberger in custody:

'Idaho students' killer had reputation for being sexist'

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 12/08/2025

This guy must find southern Missouri downright terrifying.

Will Chamberlain

@willchamberlain

Follow

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I brought my family to DC for the Cherry Blossom festival.

The first thing I saw when I exited the L'Enfant Flaza Metro was a gang of youths driving ATVs down the street, one of whom was doing a wheelie

So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down

1:40 PM

Aug 11, 2025

611.6K Views

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 29/07/2025

Sample headlines appearing at the beginning of a dystopian movie.

Three Headlines and Subheadlines:

US

New York shooting: gunman dies from self-inflicted wound after killing four people

35m ago

Reno Shooting at Nevada casino leaves three dead, with wounded suspect in custody

London

Two dead after four people stabbed at business premises in central London

8h ago

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 22/07/2025

Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest?

Guardian story: "Stephen Miller's legal group asks DoJ to look into 'illegal DEI practices' at Johns Hopkins."

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 26/06/2025

Kangaroo kicking Christ, she is deeply and truly regressive. TERFism is closely associated with 2nd wave feminism, but this *very much* is not that.† Wow. She's just taking off all her masks, isn't she? † 2W difference feminists aside, possibly, but not really, I think.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

The highest calling of men is using their strength to defend and protect, and I honour every one of you who does it ♥️

11:57 pm

23 Jun 2025

9,221 Views

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 26/06/2025

The deepest borehole ever drilled is 7 miles deep.

"As for what's on the ground right now, it's buried under miles and miles of rubble because of the success of these strikes on Saturday evening,” she said.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 25/06/2025

I'm sure this guy's sister-in-law especially enjoys how he's been using her as a rhetorical prop for god-knows-how-many years.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

@chatterton.bsky.social

My sister-in-law grew up in the Soviet Union. One thing I can say with 100 percent certainty is I'm not *ever* going to be shopping at a government-owned and -operated grocery store when I'm in New York City

June 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Some people can reply

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