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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spelling out letters feels so weird. The letter is inherently a written form, but we need a written form of the written form? It's like the natural-language equivalent of encoding a string that's already encoded so you end up with things like "&" in your text.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Withnal-Qaeda and I? Withnail and IRA?

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pritzker/AOC 2028, AOC/Bouie 2036, Bouie/idk 2044

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got to love a proper high-waisted trouser look

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's like how the right always yells "Paid protestors!" because they can't bear to imagine that so many regular people actually hate their guts.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So that's the diagram for paella. Maybe next we can get the diagram for peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches. You know, fluffernutters.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Woody Guthrie: *incisive pro-worker, anti-fascist commentary* Also Woody Guthrie: Oouuwwhh I'm a good ole Cowboy Hobo, I been eaten by Two Hunnerd Rattlesnakes, pow pow chicky chicky whack a doodle dilly

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Idk if this is well-trodden territory already but it is my firm contention that "Pollution" in the title is to be understood in the archaic sense, as ritual or spiritual uncleanliness. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Have fun! Maybe next time we'll grab you for a double date

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh you're in Chicago? Neat! Yeah, the conservatory is great. Maybe not near a lot of other fun things, but worth the hike.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Don't want to be an Ontarian Idiot—wait, Weird Al already did that one

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Those are Luther's digs, not Calvin's, but nice try

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not sure Cromwell would agree with you there, Discy

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Almost identical to Carl Schmitt's strategy for the fascist takeover of a liberal democracy. But I'm sure that's just a wacky coincidence

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pardon me, I was not aware that Byron was this level of based

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What do you mean? All the American Quakers I know are super woke too.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

404media.co

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Finally the IRL politicians are starting to catch up to BlueSky

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My fellow Americans, I assure you the Cancel Mob is arresting Mr. Evans as we speak. *checks earpiece* Uh actually folks, looks like I may have spoken too soon,

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We'll finish the Temple of Freedom And make it capacious within, That all who seek shelter may find it Whatever the hue of their skin!

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thou hast Thou hast me Thou hast me yfrayned, Ond ic have nought yseid

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I mean you probably couldn't do worse than her real-life husband, the abusive fascist narcissist who invented stand-up comedy

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have MR. KELLY

MR OSSOFF

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When my wife sends me to Walgreens for a bottle of rosé

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Idk if I'd write him off entirely, but he did say some kinda gross stuff when someone asked why it seemed like he was only casting white people for his LotR film

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

>ask the pundit if it's a future where everyone is richer, or just the rich people >he laughs and says "it's a good future sir" >get the future >it's the rich people

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That's what they rename themselves after starting to get popular, like (British) Sea Power or The (Petrojvic) Blasting Company

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Hi folks, we're A Recurrent Problem in 16th Century Beijing and we have a very weird set for you tonight"

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Refusing to let the robot teacher fuck is a coward's move. Consider: George Lucas didn't give C-3PO a massive brass schlong* and the poor guy ended up neurotic and scared constantly. R2-D2 meanwhile has an electric dick and is the swaggeringest droid alive. *except on that one trading card

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is how hours worked in antiquity

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Come on bro just one more offensive it will definitely work this time

Tobias: Many leaders have tried to break the morale of civilian populations by strategic bombing.
Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does...but it might work for us.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Minced oaths are objectively so wild. Like wdym certain words are prohibited but you can use similar words as simulacra to get some of the fun without the shame

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ooh are we posting about the Hundred Merry Tales

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, you cataracts and hurricanoes"

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

PRES. BUSH: So do y'all think we should invade Iraq? THE DELPHIC ORACLE: If you make the wrong decision, then in 25 years the people who hate us for our freedom will rule America.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Well, if she's going to believe something nutty, there are plenty of more toxic options. So why not I guess

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's somehow even more unsettling to see a guy who is a Nazi because he really likes the nuts-and-bolts policies of fascism, rather than because he's a dumb bigot with nothing better to do.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Probably just trying to distinguish you from notorious bingo tycoon Katherine Zamboni Abughazaleh

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And yet it obviously is an anti-AI thing, no matter what the polls say. Many people agree "AI sucks and we shouldn't be spending our environmental resources on it." When answering a poll they probably just think it sounds more grounded to mention the resource cost than the reason it's not worth it.

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Luke Bretscher @luciusvoltaic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That's literally addressed in the lyrics, though: "Nobody knows in America / Puerto Rico's in America"

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