Reposted by Tom LumberjackScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982243352
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Starting to think Butlerian Jihad Accelerationism is a good idea 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wondering if the era where every value Republicans have ever held is subservient to winning & power will ever draw to a close 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How has the USA become an unreliable ally? Let me count the ways… 000
Reposted by Tom LumberjackJohn Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a fiasco. 2328656
Reposted by Tom LumberjackDoctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026Anyway here is my plea: please don’t surrender weird sex stuff (even cringey, ill-advised weird sex stuff) to the fash. They don’t deserve custody. 218234
Reposted by Tom Lumberjackcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/09/2026is it literally that easy lmao 61234147
Reposted by Tom LumberjackIan Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 10/09/2026my review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma letterboxd.com/peevish/film...letterboxd.comA review of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)the master's tools will not tear down the master's house but did you know did you know those are not the master's tools the master stole them the master claimed them and built his house but they were ... 0465
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Y’know, I was talking with my wife about Nolan’s Odyssey just today. About the theme of changing the rules (Zeus’s law & ignoring it) destroying the whole world. And how continuing to play by the old rules (like Penelope, hosting suitors) just put you at a disadvantage while the world was crumbling. 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh look, today’s issue of “Fetterman is the Worst”. He should at least lose his committee seats for this. 021
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Whatever it is that Republicans call Communism. Communism can keep its own name. 020
Reposted by Tom LumberjackLeah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162133299
Reposted by Tom Lumberjackclyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026(pointing at 1980 on the graph and just saying 'reagan again') 15677211
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I will grant you that he has a savantic ability to manipulate people, but how did such a small, petty, incandescently stupid man as Donald Trump is get to be President of the Inited States of America? Twice??!?? 100
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A multi-generational project to recover from this admin, if we choose to do it at all. 010
Reposted by Tom LumberjackJ. Marshall Freeman @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Here, I made something. 042
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Trumpist foreign policy in a nutshell: try to overplay your hand, end up with no path to even what you started with, and deny your own intentions. 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Also unexpectedly found @buffalotomband.bsky.social The band and the songs still sound great 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I have found the greatest restaurant logo known to man 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Another data point in support of my Eloi theory of how AI destroys the human race 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 18/08/20261970s formula Vernor’s ginger ale and my mock mincemeat pie recipe (also pretty gingery) 110
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I can not make sense of the line of thinking that goes “get me a bunch of books that didn’t hold people’s interest enough to be worth more than their recycled pulp value & use them to help us train the robots” 110
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“Hey Tom how did the move go?” one day of the 3.5 days of the move. Yes we had movers & trash haulers. 000
Reposted by Tom LumberjackBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bodyworn cameras protect cops from false accusations more often than they protect residents from police misbehavior. Cops know this, so when you hear, "they were wearing cameras, but they weren't on," it's because they were knowingly committing a crime. 4481171
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Alien The Wizard of Oz The Great Escapestatic.klipy.comSteve McQueen in The Great EscapeALT: Steve McQueen in The Great Escape 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026How TF do we recover from a government populated with this level of incompetence and sycophancy? www.npr.org/2026/08/08/g...npr.orgSenate votes to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney generalThe Senate confirmed Blanche by a 50-49 vote early Saturday morning, elevating President Trump's former personal lawyer to head the Justice Department. 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The inevitability of editorials like this after the Harris endorsement was pulled is why I told WP to delete my account, not having a subscription wasn’t enough. It was also the thing that turned every day into “nothing* for Jeff Bezos day” at my house. * except for all the AWS stuff at work 😭 100
Reposted by Tom LumberjackPauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is well worth the read - and the repost. It explains so many of the principles on which a working society is based - things which the right-wing are constantly trying to undermine. Progressives of all hues need to reassert them just as constantly. 0298
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Come On Pilgrim Surfer Rosa Doolittle The Pixies changed my life, no exaggeration 030
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Some morning musing on parenting and launching kids Sometimes the launch is a rocket escaping gravity. Sometimes it’s a raft still tethered that stays close to shore. Or anything in between. And the timing truly isn’t easily controlled 020
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I don’t know why I’m so happy about them using The 1812 Overture in the first Coyote vs ACME trailer and Ode to Joy/Old #500 in this one, but I am youtu.be/kMsiD1Nky5I?...youtu.beCoyote vs. ACME | Final TrailerYouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme 100
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Just another day of a judge threatening DOJ with sanctions 110
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Saw The Odyssey. A good, not great movie. I’d give it 6.5 out of 10. Probably better in the theater. Some more thoughts: This is The Odyssey of Nolan, not The Odyssey of Homer. They say artists steal, b/c that’s how you make something your own. If you go in wanting Homer, you’ll be disappointed. 100
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026<family conversation> Spouse: <something I process as a quippy response> Adult offspring: what? Me: that was a pre-Internet meme from ‘70s advertising AO: it sounded…what’s the word? Me: racist? AO: yeah! S: it was the ‘70s, many things were 000
Reposted by Tom LumberjackPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Is "AI" conscious is just a completely worthless question. The answer is "yes" if you purposely define consciousness to include things AI can do, and "no" if you purposely define consciousness to exclude it, because there is no neutral way to define it. But it's also *irrelevant*. 918425
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Tossup between Texas and Florida, and it’s more like I loathe them back. 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026🎼All Teslas wait for me All Teslas wait for me If one’s coming I’m jaywalking All Teslas wait for me🎶 (Sung to a tune a bit like Nearer My God To Thee) 100
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My advice? Discard ALL iceberg lettuce no matter where you are. Don’t buy or grow more. Sincerely, An iceberg lettuce hater 110
