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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 · 11/10/2026
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 · 11/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
The dwarves of Ankh-Morpork want the dead rats
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's ok, he can still mess it up tomorrow
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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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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A large percentage of humans are born with limited curiosity and imagination. They don't understand and never will develop full sentience. Holding it against them is like blaming them for their height. Only answer I have is to somehow remove the limited humans from power.
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whenever I'm sad I'll think of Werner Herzog saying "Wrestlemania" and the sun will come out again
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What will you do NEXT?
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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 · 27/09/2026
Pretty sure the Dodgers AAA team could beat this Giants team 65 games out of 100
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Except there’s no such thing as a fish
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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
I think you meant Republicans ruin everything
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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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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If he says it 3 times in 1 day, it must be true
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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
I would think requiring medical treatment is reasonable (would not call that a ban because there is a pathway to compete) but would hesitate to exclude based on puberty (if I were in position to make a difference)
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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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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He’s such a gutter racist bigot
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Agree 100% the league or association for organizing the competition should do what they deem best for fairness. Guidelines for participation of trans athletes, not bans. Keep local, state and federal governments (and especially courts) out of it.
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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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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm curious, for the specific example you gave, trans athletes competing on sports teams that don’t match their birth sex: who do you think should address those concerns?
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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
They can at least correct the spelling to "Eerie"
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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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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Of course some concerns are sincere and don't come from bigotry. That's beside the point of the article and of my declaration, "Don't negotiate with bigots". Would you still agree that exploiting those concerns by public leaders, politicians and commentators, for political gain is bigotry?
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Layne Flake ❌ 👑 @laynef.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hope you get to do this to that place
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Explosion Breaking
ALT: Explosion Breaking
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