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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 8h

Finished a book. Would recommend.

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way Mr. Douglass could'a brung hisself to fight a real war. He was a speeching parlor man. Just like I knowed there weren't no way I could'a brung myself to be a real man, with a real woman, and a white woman besides. Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 13h

We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.

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Druggy @drugslinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The weekend Trump got Covid was one of the funniest times to ever be online

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my god the direct use of the hot dog guy sketch from I Think You Should Leave in a political ad

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyday we stray further from God’s light Cc @jfallows.bsky.social

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/09/2026

“I don’t get it” well first of all it’s not for you and second of all some of us like it BECAUSE it sucks

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ravioli is plural. The singular is raviolus.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What are your professionally acceptable fluids in your job interviews chime in below

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is an amazing quote 😹 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...

“Talking to Rahm, it’s like middle-age married sex,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. “It’s focused. You know what you’re going for. And it’s short.”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 26/09/2026

Like @gregdoucette.bsky.social says, guillotines are the moderate option. There will never be a return to normal politics until there has been a reckoning. Those who so callously cast aside the norms and mores of civil society must pay a public price for the restoration of those norms.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

for whatever it's worth: as a political philosopher I fully cosign this message

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is utterly enraging and I gotta be honest, I have no idea how to fix it. It’s a symptom of a much, much deeper problem. The next two years are just going to be a slog.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026

my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...

After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.”
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics.
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the last ten years or so have taught us that one of our major problems as a society is that we’re being run by perverts (derogatory) rather than perverts (complimentary)

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

*to the tune of Eleanor Rigby* Beetlejuice handjob Rubbing a guy at a show while he squeezes my tit Take a vape hit

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ceej @ceej.online · 21/09/2026

See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my favorite part is when the muppet, whose name is Alan, salutes in solidarity. thank you Alan 🫡

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

taika waititi has lost his damn mind

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This, like pretty much everything @adamserwer.bsky.social writes, is good. Part of the problem, which Serwer knows as well as anyone, is that the goal to to hurt MAGA's perceived enemies, even if it hurts everyone.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes! I'd add that the rich and poor alike also massively undervalue the benefits of collective action for the public good. It seems like it's all "I want treats now, and I will melt down if I bear any costs."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

yes. i would wager that these people genuinely believe that the country is MAGA and that there is a vast and untapped audience to be appealed to. incidentally, these people also exist in an impenetrable bubble of sycophants.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I refuse to learn what you people are talking about

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also really enjoyed this article from @noemamag.com, dealing with our perceptions of accelerating time. Sounds like our days are full, making time seem to pass quickly in the present, but little is memorable, making time seem to have passed quickly in retrospect. www.noemamag.com/your-percept...

Our memories are the key to the central irony of our supersaturated world. Roseboom’s theory posits that time spent in an environment overflowing with visual information should feel long and robust. “You would think that because we’re paying more attention to more things, that retrospectively time should feel longer,” Jones noted. “But I think we’ve got the worst of all worlds.” Because while we encounter a glittering constellation of apps, games and videos beckoning us at every turn, eager to light up our sensory cortex, they’re not generating the indelible experiences crucial to forming memories. “When you get to the end of the day, you look back and there’s no meaningful content there. It’s just the same blur, the same stuff, and there’s nothing distinctive about it.”

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Luke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Loved this @asteriskmag.bsky.social article comparing non-work sources of meaning, respect, and social order in the court at Versailles, upper-class women in an unnamed Midwestern city (Cleveland?) in 1984, and working-class Italian Americans in the West End of Boston in the late 1950s / early 60s.

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After Work, We’ll Have Each Other

Once you realize what that means, you’ll be giving two cheers for the American work ethic.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am driven to distraction by how *not angry* so many of my electeds seem. When they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah, what I hear is "This is an interesting intellectual exercise for me." You should be barely able to contain yourself in public.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Occasionally, I'm reminded of my all time favourite piece of internet: this Reddit post from 12 years ago in which a guy claims he ruined dinner with his girlfriend's parents by refusing to admit he knew what a potato was.

TIFU by enraging the parents of my girlfriend by pretending not to know what a potato is.
Let me tell you that I have made a bad mistake this evening.

My girlfriend (who let me tell you is only my 2nd girlfriend of all time) said I am "invited to dinner" with her and her parents. I was very aghast, nervous, and bashful to be invited to such a situation. But I knew it must be done.

I met them nicely, I should tell you, and it started off in a good way. The idea slapped my mind that I should do a comic bit, to make a good impression and become known to them as a person who is amusing.

When I saw that baked potatoes were served I got the idea that it would be very good if I pretended I did not know what potatoes was. That would be funny.

Well let me tell you: backfired on my face. I'll tell you how.

So first when the potato became on my plate, I acted very interesting. I showed an expression on my face so as to seem that I was confused, astounded but in a restrained way, curious, and interested. They did notice, and seemed confused, but did not remark. So I asked "This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a baked potato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a baked....what is it again?"

And she was like "A potato."

And I was like "A 'potato', oh interesting. Never heard of a potato, looks pretty good."

And then they didn't see I was clowning, but thought I really did not know what is a potato. So I knew I would be very shamed, humiliated, depressed, and disgusted if I admitted to making a bad joke, so what I did was to act as if it was not a joke but I committed to the act of pretending I didn't know what a potato is.

They asked me, VERY incredulous, did I really not know what a potato is? That I never heard of a potato. I went with it and told them, yes, I did not ever even hear of a potato. Not only had I never eaten a potato I had never heard the word potato.

This went on for a bit and my girlfriend was acting very confused and embarrassed by my "fucked up antics", and then the more insistent I was about not knowing what a potato is was when them parents starting thinking I DID know what a potato was.

Well let me tell you I had to commit 100% at this point. When I would not admit to knowing what a potato was, the father especially began to get annoyed. At one point he said something like "Enough is enough. You're fucking with us. Admit it." And I said "Sir, before today I never heard of a potato. I still don't know what a potato is, other than some kind of food. I don't know what to tell you."

Well let me tell you he got very annoyed. I decided to take a bite of the potato, and when I did I made a high pitched noise and said "Taste's very strange!"

That is when the father started yelling at me, and the mother kept saying "What are you doing?" and my girlfriend went to some other room.

Finally the father said I should "Get the fuck out of his house" and I said it was irrational to treat me like this just because I never heard of a potato before. Well let me tell you he didn't take that kindly.

Now in text messages I have been telling my girlfriend I really don't know what a potato is. The only way I can ever get out of this is for them to buy that I don't know what a potato is.

I wish I never started it but I can't go back. I think she will break up with me anyway.

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A great exchange, the greatest exchange, and honestly... says it all about Barro and our media class.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

40 year old died from measles

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 13/09/2026

This is amazing… They gave the Humanitarian Award to an entire state. At the 2026 Hispanic Heritage Awards, the people of Minnesota were honored for how they came together to support their neighbors during the federal immigration crackdown. Congratulations, Minnesota. 👏🏽 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know this is not going to fix anything, but how much media coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think would happen if one of these dem candidates just said, once in their lives, what the fuck are you talking about you sound like a dumb asshole right now

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