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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

And while it’s evolving, it can be grating. “Hone in on,” for example, makes no sense. Missiles home in. Knives are honed to a sharp edge. Honing in on something would mean (roughly) sharpening it to get closer to it. It’s silly, but people still say it with great energy and certainty.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another thought on the HNJ piece: I have a bunch of friends who regret the schools they sent their kids to… & this includes decent public, magnet AND private schools. The situation she describes is egregious, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong & they’re not always obvious or predictable

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21/09/2026

That’s why they carved that poem that goes “Go back home, or at the very least stay in the designated zone” on the base of the Statue of No Transplants that stands in the harbor.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Jadis, riding on a cab horse, Oh man, look at that White Witch go, It’s the freakiest show-oh-oh, Is there life on Chaaarn?”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They‘d better name the bill that enlarges SCOTUS something like the Rebuilding Our Broken Executive Requires Thirteen Supremes Act, so we can call it the ROBERTS Court, not the Roberts Court, and immortalize the epic overreach and its costs. (I tried to make ALITO work, but failed.)

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 30/08/2026

Roses are red Winters are colder

Large rock in eastern Latvia earns title of giant boulder
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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Everything Courtney Milan says here. There are no property rights in facts, and there shouldn’t be. If you publish research on a subject, you are a public benefactor and deserve all the credit in the world, but you should have no right to control anyone else’s use of the information you published.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I usually don’t repost GoFundMe’s, but I interned at Asimov’s as a high school student in fall 1987, and remember Sheila fondly. If you have good memories of Asimov’s from her era, you should think about donating.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was literally in Auckland, NZ last week, and the woman staffing the yarn store I was shopping at brought up Mamdani as a bright spot apropos of nothing more specific than generalized “everything about politics these days is terrible” chitchat. He is a star worldwide.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have been reliably informed that in an area with significant radioactive contamination, one should avoid turtles. They rest in and disturb affected silt.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2026

When DHS began occupying cities like LA and Chicago, resistance was so rapid and well-organized that the White House said it was facing paid agents of foreign powers or progressive billionaires. The reality? It was ordinary people protecting their friends and neighbors from Trump’s secret police.

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The architecture of resistance: America’s year of mobilizing against ICE

Ordinary people launched a movement against Trump’s secret police. They’re still at it.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I am absurdly proud of my daughter Ellie, who has spent the last year with their writing partner Daniella reporting on resistance to ICE: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The architecture of resistance: America’s year of mobilizing against ICE

Ordinary people launched a movement against Trump’s secret police. They’re still at it.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 24/07/2026

electability arguments are always but always bullshit that is trying to snow you. vote--and advocate as vigorously as you can for--your preference in the primary, vote against the greater evil in the general. anybody who presents a different option takes you for a rube.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My methods would involve more bathtubs full of ice and notes left in lipstick on mirrors than hers do.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I sincerely hope the leprechaun isn’t still alive in there.

Sign attached to a park fence saying “Adams administration time capsule buried here: January 1, 2022 - December 31 2025”

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thematically appropriate posting, part one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6O...

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George Washington- [Brad Neely]

YouTube video by DuckDuckCamel1996

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check out this Vox story on donation after cardiac death: www.vox.com/future-perfe... . It raises the issue of unintentional recirculation of oxygenated blood through the brains of NRP donors during organ procurement.

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The breakthrough changing how Americans donate organs

A growing form of donation is expanding the organ supply in the US — and testing how medicine protects dying patients.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is very good, describing how the Court isn’t so much handing power to the executive, as it is taking it for the Court, who can then dispense it or withhold it depending on whether they agree or disagree with the executive in each case.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So we’re doing “who’s a real New Yorker” discourse, and as I do when this comes up, I note that at the very beginning of the 20th C, O Henry wrote down how you get to be a New Yorker: www.online-literature.com/o_henry/4529/

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The Making of a New Yorker by O Henry

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 07/06/2026

🎵 make a little birdhouse out of drones

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Bro sent this photo of a green anole that just wandered up to him, and I'm sharing with you because there isn't enough lizardposting.

A green anole (lizard) peers at the camera from the right side of its head. It has a brilliant green topside, and you can see just a hint of its pale belly under its chin. The lizard is on a brown painted bench in the shade.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Stephen Hales DD FRS 1677- 1761

Curate, Twickenham, Middlesex. The first person to measure blood pressure (in a horse) and sap pressure in trees. Found how to stop a pie crust sagging

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Check out the fancy little model of the Guggenheim I built over the weekend. A pleasant couple of hours, not absurdly difficult, and the product is really cute. It’s from an Australian company: www.littlebuildingco.com

Tiny little wooden model of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC — the Frank Lloyd Wright one with the big spiral building — on a shelf next to a cut-glass vase.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

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Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I went to Deep Springs and what this article doesn't tell you is that you get issued a cow and she's yours for life. Transfer admissions officers at other colleges need a lot of wining and dining to keep accepting us with our cows. So you should think twice before you try to scale the model.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Possible answer to “who has standing to block Trump’s stolen slush fund”.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

also according to NYT, one "settlement" idea the White House and DOJ are batting around is the IRS dropping any audit into Trump, his family, & businesses it's a federal crime for presidents to ask the IRS to conduct or terminate an audit into a particular person ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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DOJ Used To Fight Public Corruption. Now, It’s Facilitating Public Corruption Instead

The Justice Department keeps handing massive taxpayer-funded settlements to President Trump’s political allies.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is right. The government didn’t “settle” this case. Trump brought a frivolous case and voluntarily withdrew it, and then the Justice Department said they’d agreed to set up this insane slush fund for him. It has no legal connection to the case, and there’s no legal authorization for it at all.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The prosecutions of Comey are unjust and worthy of numerous people being fired/impeached, but he's still a combination of dipshit and liar. He was very much "in politics" when he broke multiple DOJ policies with his little stunts like the press conference and the late letter.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I have long held the belief that much of people’s anger at Citizens United should be redirected to Buckley v. Valeo

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Underground Empire was immensely clear and readable for a generally dry topic. I try to understand what I can about international financial systems out of a sense of grim obligation, but am usually too bored to retain much; Underground Empire managed to get past my resistance to the topic.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This is right, and not just singing but chanting. People need to know their lines if they’re going to participate, and they’re not going successfully learn them on the fly. I show up at protests, and would like to make some well-organized noise, but the actual chanting works badly.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It’s not ‘too harsh’, but a honest answer would be “I expect his answer is ‘my wife handled it’ and I expect he’d react to the question from me as evidence that I was either dumb (for not knowing he wouldn’t have useful advice) or rude for making him admit he had a sexist advantage.”

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

So much this. That trash should be ashamed of himself every remaining day of his life.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The existence of public sector unions puts pro-union politicians in the uncomfortable position of acting as management in a labor negotiation. That's fine. The expectation there should be that the pro-labor position is "negotiate in good faith" not "they have to give the union everything they want"

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

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Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Halfway there. I want promises to impeach and prosecute the culprits.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Halfway there. I want promises to impeach and prosecute the culprits.

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Every Democratic senator and representative should issue a statement like this. And every Republican, but I’m not holding my breath for it.

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Annemarie Gray @annemariegray.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

From DM Bozorg: “Our state policymakers in Albany have an opportunity to make a real dent in the housing crisis. Reforming the state’s environmental review process sounds wonky, but it is fundamentally about a critically important question: whether we are able to deliver a more affordable city.”

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Environmental regs must speed new homes

New York faces a dire affordability crisis. It costs far too much to live here, and the biggest expense for most New Yorkers is housing. The Mamdani administration is laser-focused on creating a more ...

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I posted a while back encouraging people to leave public comments on NRP, a transplant organ procurement technique with some potential to accidentally allow procurement organs from living patients. Here’s a story on efforts to publicize the problem: www.theassemblync.com/news/health/...

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Whistleblower Pushes to Regulate Controversial Organ Retrieval Technique

The demand for organ transplants has prompted an innovative procedure that reanimates a dead body. A North Carolina surgeon worries that when it’s done incorrectly, donors might feel pain in their las...

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LizardBreath @lizrdbreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Quite a few: Hopkins “Carrion Comfort”, parts of “Terence this is stupid stuff, most of the first fit of The Hunting of the Snark, Millay “I, being born a woman and distressed”; a bunch of Dorothy Parker; Ozymandius, a bunch of Frost. All from my teens and twenties — nothing I add now sticks.

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