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Layne Flake ❌ 👑

@laynef.bsky.social
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Science, Secularism, Human Rights, and Beauty — Computer Hardware Engineer

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 19h
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 18h
this is inhumane - denying babies a lifesaving vaccine to placate vaccine deniers who will never be placated
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happy voter @happyvoter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Impossible to object to DC statehood after Trump’s years-long armed occupation, vetoing of normal municipal level initiatives, supposedly accidental cuts to DC budget, destruction of property and killing of legacy trees — and much more. 51st state asap.
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The idea that pitchers need MORE rest in October is a conclusion you could only reach if you never watched baseball. The playoff schedule already produces a warped, distorted version of the game. Adding off days would make the things we have hated over the last week even more prevalent.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"That about wraps it up"
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have seen porn considerably less erotic than this man's sex dream about Jesus Christ.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Great story
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a weekend-long ad for full ABS. Players shouldn’t have to officiate the game.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We need a lot more explicit talk from elected officials and others about how nobody should join the US military while Trump is in charge. Continued, zombie-like veneration of military service today is a danger to our democracy. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/friends-do...
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Join the Military
Donald Trump’s hired gun is a bad thing to be.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks, Patrick, for summarizing what I do every day
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yay the Barves lost! ABS strike-out too! bring on the permanent roboumps
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eva, it's behind you.
Eva Longoria with caption "Searching for France" but she is walking away from the Eiffel Tower.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is Menace youtu.be/1HLsLxXrtXM
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Trump is Menace
YouTube video by Layne Flake
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At every turn, Trump's idiotic ideas run into reality
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It happens every year
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Impeach the leaders & abolish CBP/ICE/DHS
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also, thanks to @sirenma.bsky.social for pointing out our porcelain cat friend's resemblance to Salvador Dali, which now I can't unsee
Detail of a porcelain cat's head, which maybe makes him look like famed Surrealist artist Salvador Dali...?B&W photo of Salvador Dali
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor.
Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty star in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is no hell or punishment harsh enough for these idiots who promote the needless suffering of others, especially innocent children
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tempest (1981) erasure
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My pal @marynmck.bsky.social with a banger science mystery in Scientific American's latest issue—an enigmatic apple tree in Maine rewrites the global story of apple orchards. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a reader I urge news organizations to take this opportunity to reconsider their practice of running months and months of headlines like “ISRAELI BOMBS KILL 37 AS CEASEFIRE APPEARS FRAGILE.” Words mean things.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
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The Rock Eyebrow Bluey Dog
Alt: The Rock Eyebrow Bluey Dog GIF
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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Contact Hormuz Jeff on Texto, through Peelr youtu.be/nS97AzfKp3U?...
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Hormuz Jeff - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bad to worse.
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The Iran War Hits Crisis Point
Free access to the Red Sea has been lost
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prices have been rising faster than wages. The result: Real wages -- average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation -- have been falling.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump/MAGA will try to falsely blame this on Biden just like they do everything else
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some context because when we discuss climate change, someone always brings up the 1930s and the Dust Bowl. I have written on that in the past, but Jeff Berardelli has some interesting context here.....look at U.S. and the ENTIRE globe...
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
don't negotiate with bigots
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think this might be the truest sentence we will read today
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
boycott this country in any way you can.
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Israel to shut down UK consulate in Jerusalem in response to sanctions on Israeli settlements in West Bank
Israel's foreign minister announced the move after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused Israeli "settler terrorists" of "ethnic cleansing" in the illegally occupied West Bank.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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Nate @ngs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1. I think I'm going to be cutting hamburgers out of my diet entirely for a bit. 2. The corruption knows no bounds. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The people, who were facing depleted fishing stocks & their own exhaustion, began floating their houses across the harbor to the mainland. Because New Englanders do not like waste & to abandon a perfectly good house was a pointless folly, especially in 1850." andreakastontange.com/personal/flo...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
11yo: “Bro [the president) is doing evil side quests at this point.”
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
these people are just weird
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This sign is so dumb. Hedgehogs can’t drive, and even if they could, they wouldn’t drive fast.
SLOW Hedgehogs

Please drive carefully 

A sign in a Dorset village
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The only other time the US was so definitively beaten in a war was in Vietnam and that took a decade. America has been brought to its knees in Iran in a little over five months. Just a complete and total strategic defeat and not enough people are acknowledging it. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I thought this essay was quite good: henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
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Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Incredible concert last night! www.setlist.fm/setlist/muse...
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Muse Setlist at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel
Get the Muse Setlist of the concert at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ, USA on July 22, 2026 from the The Wow! Signal Tour and other Muse Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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