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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 08/10/2026

I mean, maybe our culture could stop acting as if men raping women was like bad weather, what can you do but prepare, it's just a fact of life. This makes me want to set people on fire.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/10/2026

20 years ago, I read about the supposed microexpression recognition FACS and I took it at face value 🥁. I got very enthusiastic about it. My friend stopped me in my tracks by suggesting to me that there are reasons why people are able to lie to each other and that seeing every lie wouldn't be fun.

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/10/2026

His court duties were getting in the way of his passion project, which is punching babies.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 02/10/2026

"This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God." - pretty much the most famous example. But, you know, as much as I have strong preferences for this stuff -- and I do -- the bottom line is always what the house style guide requires. 🤷 Whatya gonna do?

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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 · 11/07/2026

Every one of you who believes aliens are visiting Earth are stupendously stupid and are outing yourselves as someone who is stupendously stupid.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 11/05/2026

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE PODCAST

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

It was a while after *that* when we built better telescopes and then discovered that there are even *more* things out there, *each* themselves made of more stars than *all* those we can see with those telescopes. Just in case anyone says that if it was always this big, it couldn't have been missed.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

every time someone is like "the pharmaceutical industry just wants to make money" they leave out that the Wellness industry is way way bigger and entirely unregulated

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

You know, it occurs to me the problem might be that people see — because apparently, sadly, Wall Street does — markets as speculation and by implication, gambling, so they ask: why bet on failure? But start with the kind of reasoning for futures trading, and it looks very different.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

I am not sure where to start if you know the process but don't also know the outlines of the answer...?

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

You can stall a plane at any speed or attitude.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

I'm not criticizing her. You're right to defend her from people who don't understand how things are.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

Coyote vs ACME was filmed here, which is not a complete coincidence.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/05/2026

She was one of the driving forces behind the VA congressional map initiative.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is the 82-year-old state senator the FBI just raided because she successfully redistricted Virginia to match racist Republican redistricting efforts. They targeted her because she's ruthless and effective. They don't want anyone else to play within their new rules.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need "coaching" on dedistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting Virginia. 10-1.

Replying to Ted Cruz on redistricting: You all started it and we fucking finished it.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

"If you like, I can escalate and perhaps you could prepare someone to be contacted by the bank through a Vatican official public channel, therefore ensuring security?"

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

It's just very good. I didn't pay much attention at the time. It was much, much later when I really listened to any of their music. Being a musician, and having watched Beato interview (individually) most of the people who made that record, I'm now pretty fascinated with it.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

Even Dawkins, doofus that he is, has expressed regret at what he thought was a neat little idea at the end of his book. It's taken seriously but it should not be.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

I have fond memories of watching WTCG-TV Super-Station on cable. Many of us in some more rural areas had cable television in the 70s and 80s. I remember the whole sequence from WTCG to CNN. What I liked was to watch the Braves late at night. I'm not even a big baseball fan.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

Ha! I Listened to Gaucho this morning. I still prefer Aja much more. I saw Charlie Puth interviewed by Rick Beato. Puth is adorable. A couple of times they talk about SD and he'll play a bit and then kinda have little squee frisson in delight. He does that a lot. And, yeah, some stuff is tasty.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

OMG! That paragraph just gets worse as you read it! I imagine your sister is having a hard time. I'm so sorry.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

🙋🏽‍♂️ Is it that easy? I've been anxiously dithering for a couple years, ever since my elderly cat died. Petfinder seems almost useless to me. And I'm a bit anxious about the process? I've been thinking lately that some of us who really need a pet companion are not well-equipped to find one. But: go!

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

This is looking to be, if built, the most hated public building in the USA. It will be a symbol and a rallying cry. I don't think the Trump regime will stand. But Trump and many others are so incriminated, and losing popularity so quickly, that they will metaphorically as well as literally dig-in.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

That is very true in spirit about both him and Trump. Strictly speaking, POTUS or the world's wealthiest person can't really be described as 'losers'. But they are! These are two men who, deep down, believe they're losers and every are desperately trying to prove they are not. It's a weird time.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

'Birdbrain' is outdated! They've had a *long* time to select for intelligence and they are amazingly efficient with their tiny brains. Mammalian brains are pretty big, wet, and heavy. And it's not just that: flight enforces strict constraints on many other traits. Birds are *differently* very smart.

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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

None of the Iran War's stated strategic objectives have been achieved. Highly repressive regime still in Tehran, nuclear program still intact, missiles & drones still launching. And US now suddenly pausing effort to re-open Hormuz-- a problem that did not exist before the war. It's mind-boggling.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

The "blood libel" is a specific bit of propaganda, with certain details, and you don't stumble on those by accident. I mean — I'm not Jewish and all of what I knew about the history of antisemitism when I was young was maybe from Fiddler on the Roof. Some people are blind to it; some willfully.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

Even at the time, people noticed it. I did. It's a blatant use of an antisemitic stereotype and what's super-upsetting is that because of the fantastic setting, people are now accepting the full conflation of goblins and this old depiction of Jews. It started long before her. But this cemented it.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

I made it to my 30s before I learned that many people think quotes make something emphatic. The person who clued me asked what I thought people were doing when it was weird and I said that I'd assumed they had someone in mind that said that specific thing and thought for some reason we should know.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

She's acting with every square inch of her head. There's squee visibly leaking out of her ears.

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Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com · 06/05/2026

Yeah, I had Act of Killing in mind. I didn't realize it at first. But the idea was generic but pointed: a survivor of an old atrocity travels to the land of the perpetrators just hoping to talk to people responsible and he finds that it is everyone and yet also no one, and even he is confused.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/05/2026

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face theonion.com/epidemiologists-confir…

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

Experts Say Disease Has Spread Beyond Early Hot Spots In D.C., Florida

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

A dark satire would be a bildungsroman of a third gen survivor of a genocide traveling to the enemy's land in search of someone in a photograph of an atrocity, and all the people they meet along the way are kind and react with revulsion to their story, each one not knowing they're in the photo.

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

Are you fucking kidding me? I hate these bastards down to my very DNA.

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

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding robespierre and the committee of public safety. actually you do, under these circumstances, "gotta hand it to them". well done.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If every worthless dimwitted blue maga shitbird who thinks “hurr hurr let’s fight racism by being racist” is cool would just block me now to spare me the trouble of blocking you, that would be very thoughtful and I would be appreciative.

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

What's truly great about this is that, the way these things actually work, that prompt would be *guaranteed* to lead to a Gríma Wormtongue. Your prompt is a vector. It heads off exactly the way the prompt is pointing. Here, in that direction, there will be certainly be duplicity.

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

Yeah. I am in complete agreement with the sentiment that we need to prioritize and not waste energy on lost causes. It shouldn't have been him. It is. We all have a bad feeling about it. What are we gonna do? Try not to eff things up *right now* and don't make the mistake again.

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

That's usually enough. Like, almost always.

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

I'm so happy you wrote this.

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

It's a bigger red flag than if he'd written the stupid thing he wanted to write in the first place. I'm not even joking.

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

ALANIS MORISSETTE: that's ironic, let me tell you about my wedding day

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

One of the best thing about being in any marginalized group is when we're used as political footballs by opportunists.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm not expecting Obama to save us. It's just incredibly jarring to see him try to maintain pop culture relevance rather than spending his post-presidency on building houses for the poor, profiting off of lobbying connections, and/or quickly dying.

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