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Tom Pietri

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Sometimes art, sometimes woodwork, always bad dogs

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Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's compelling!
A screengrab from Reddit, headed by a poster of The Odyssey and the name of the OP, accountspayable aka Paul Samuelson. The text reads:
> Adapt The Odyssey
> Change the race of all the major characters
> Add a huge amount of political subtext and references to other non-Odyssey literature
> Deliberately include a bunch of technical flourishes that hurt the entertainment value but puff up your legacy as an 'artist'
> Include your signature incomprehensible dialogue
> Trigger outrage among American conservatives
> Be James Joyce, writing Ulysses. Pic unrelated.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Tom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You guys. YOU. GUYS. Somehow I didn't know that Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris had covered Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," I feel like I have been wasting my life until this moment
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Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush (Official Music Video) | TRIO
YouTube video by Linda Ronstadt
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It’s the 56th anniversary of Buzz Aldrin taking Holy Communion on the moon, a moment which wasn’t broadcast because the leader of American Atheists had sued NASA after the Apollo 8 crew had read from Genesis while in orbit. Later Aldrin became the first man to piss on the moon (well, in his suit...)
Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon, with astronaut Neil Armstrong and the lunar module reflected in his helmet visor, during the first walk on the lunar surface
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not 'western civilization doesn't exist' nor 'western civilization is bad' but rather, "western civilization is real and good, captured in the writing andsong and we are *killing* it with our violence, cruelty and greed, we have *become* the barbarians at our own gates." Conservative in that sense.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
when you have to go back to florida
Messi crying
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨BIG ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 InfoWars endorses the #MAJA movement's mission to rename Austin to JONESTOWN for the late Alex Jones, who popped like a balloon.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
tfw you’ve just finished pissing on jefferson davis’ grave
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Donald Trump and I have two things in common: a love of musical theatre and utter contempt for Donald Trump's supporters.
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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Graphic offering advice on “How to survive the global heatwave.” It says:
Stay hydrated.
Treat yourself to an ice cream.
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
Loose fitting clothing.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Fuck this guy and fuck you if you voted for him.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/06/2026
i mean they say this a lot but they've also had ~3 months to plan attacks in EU/US
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 09/06/2026
tired: blaming the end of the Knicks’ playoff win streak on Donald Trump wired: blaming the end of the Knicks’ playoff win streak on Rahm Emanuel
Rahm courtside at the Knicks playoff game at MSG in what can only be described as a Rich Guy Flex
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Lulu-La'Croissant Mawari @lululacroissant.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Twitter post by user @slimefiend: thinking about the time I went to a planetarium and somebody booed when they showed Earth.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/05/2026
Right wing propagandist outlets should be viewed less as money losing endeavors than investments that pay dividends in other ways.
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
This is it
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
In all seriousness, we made it a couple centuries, with populations on average considerably less educated, in which very successful politicians routinely deployed pretty elevated rhetoric, certainly compared with the norm today.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Happy Star Wars Day everybody! #StarWars as photographs from the #Orkney Archive photographic collection. ⭐️ #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Things suck. But, the second civil rights movement is going to be fought with a much larger porportion of the population in support of it, and with a citizenry that thinks nostalgically about the relative prosperity and strength of the United States during its era as a multicultural democracy.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!
A two-panel illustration.

In the first, a photo of Mussolini appears the wrogn way up.

Rebecca: "I can't tell what it is, Mr Squiggle."
Mr Squiggle: "That's because it's upside down, Rebeca!"

In the second panel, the photo is turned the right way.

Rebecca: "Oh! It's Mussolini!"
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
there is going to be years of your life in the future where you dont hear or read a post of someone doing a donald trump impression. you are never going to see a political cartoon where he is a squat little orange guy with the long red tie again. green grass and blue sky stretching on forever
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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
time bandits!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The plan to demonize creativity, the arts and entrepreneurship while simultaneously shoving AI products down our throats that seemingly make 99% of things worse isn't going to work. We need the robots do the laundry while the people make stuff robots can't dream of. That's a good future.
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Guy who voted for Geogre Bush twice writing in a place called The Liberal Gazette: As we approach 2028, Democrats should be doing unpopular things that make them look stupid
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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Sustained good faith diplomacy leading to enforceable multilateral agreements and shared prosperity for all.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/03/2026
ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural theonion.com/ice-agent-injured-afte…
ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
kid-in-the-brown-hoodie is a whole-ass ideology
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Pabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Being on the line and seeing her through the kitchen window is like catching a glimpse of something huge through the porthole of a submarine
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is 100% the truth
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
at least toby keith is dead this time
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Be prepared for radically expanded accusations of national security threats.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Really spectacular levels of incompetence. Do they just not coordinate at all once they’re on the ground? God forbid someone have to carry two radios
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/06/2025
Being cool is great but having somewhere to be cool in the future depends entirely on linking arms with some silly cringe right now
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Caffeinated from a late night drive and freaked out by *how* bad the coverage of Trump Sec Def Pete Hegseth is, I decided to start reading his new book, The War on Warriors. A thread. The new Pentagon chief begins by bragging he was pushed out for being an "extremist"... 1/
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
imagine a world where instead of being friendly and doing interviews with fox news, you instead go scorched earth on the gop propaganda machine and destroy their credibility with the very voters you need to win elections
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/11/2024
Having read the Federalist papers reluctantly, this is literally the thing the founding fathers feared more than anything, a demagogue with a factious temper and sinister designs mobilizing ignorant mobs to undermine government.
The image contains a post attributed to Elon Musk that states:

1. "All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency."


2. "Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know!"


3. "We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining."

It includes two emojis of a laughing face with tears.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education
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