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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 10m

As a nation we need to band together and fucking figure out a way to not have peak election season and Spooky season always be happening simultaneously

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 1h

Pete Hegseth is exactly the guy who says "it's not gay, it's two men celebrating each other's strength" on his masc4masc HWP only Grindr profile

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 1h

The closest corollary that can be drawn between Hot and Good is that because everyone is instinctively nice to people who are Hot, they have less reason to be bitter, cynical, and defensive in social interaction, but this also makes Hot people more likely to be egotistical, immature, and thoughtless

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 2h

I recognize the instinctive appeal of it as a meme but watching "Paul Rudd still looks the same because he's so unproblematic" metastasize into "being problematic makes you ugly" which then becomes "Ugly People are Bad and Hot People are Good" has been really frustrating to watch!

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 3h

I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 4h

how are we ever gonna hold the trump regime accountable when it’s not even legal to say what they all deserve

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 21h

This entire thing is like an SNL parody of Scandal

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Text only posting is the one true way and I feel a twinge of regret every time I stray from the path

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help me Amy Poehler interviewing Andrew Garfield, you're my only hope

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It offers free daycare to stay-at-home parents, what the fuck are you talking about

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a very common phenomenon is people rejecting the conclusions of propaganda, but accepting the premises. you can passionately disagree about how the trans problem should be handled, and it will still keep you from asking "what do you mean, 'trans problem?'"

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🥊 @querelleofbros.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just found out about this guy. gonna lie down and dissociate for a bit

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it’s ya boi Nixo 🌈 @nixostorme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Neurodivergent people deciding to set a boundary:

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planting this flag in the ground now, it's gayer to top than it is to bottom Men generally have prostates which means they have easy access to anal pleasure regardless of sexuality. If you can maintain an erection while you're inside another man that's on you, buddy

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One time I saw someone ask why MILF porn is SO popular among so many young men and the answer that I will never ever forget is someone saying that it's because it's a genre of straight porn that comes off as less fundamentally rapey than most of the others and I think about that a lot

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it.

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"We failed to consider that human skin doesn't like to be as hot as computers get"

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like "Clowns are evil and scary and will kill you" and "Clowns are goofy, silly and unserious fun" hit an equilibrium and settled on "it could be either, so you might as well have sex with it, too"

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm just gonna go ahead and say that I'm on team abolish all of Greek life, we need to learn how to form and maintain communities in ways that are not predicated on reinforcing and reproducing cultures oriented around an entitlement to money, power, and sex through masculinities constructed via rape

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is literally a Simpsons joke

So learn on the go with
your phone, wherever you are.
Genghis Khan
Professor of History

Genghis Khan Simpsons

YOU'LL GO WHERE I GO DEFILE WHAT I DEFILE, EAT WHO I EAT HMM?

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This article gets written over and over again so here are my thoughts 1) Society is increasingly atomized, everyone is feeling more and more estranged from each other 2) Bigoted parents can go fuck themselves 3) The specific problem of the baby boomer's generational narcissism goes underdiscussed

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I deleted my posts saying that nobody cares about Choosin' Texas because it became clear that it was mostly "people I know / gay men in general don't care about Choosin' Texas" but folks, it's actually really, really, really easy not to hear music that is "popular" these days

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This movie has never been part of my rotation but I watched it recently and I cannot stress the degree to which it maintains a weirdly authentic found footage / documentary vibe even as the sex starts happening

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a real shame that the other political parties didn't think about the "be good at governing" strategy first, you would think that would be a good way to support the argument that they should govern

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm glad Widow's Bay ended the way it did

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nobody in my house is willing to watch Widow's Bay with me so I guess I get to go on this journey myself

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Eugenics is real and Disney doesn't know what the fuck they're doing"

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Slowing starting to make use of the entire bench press / squat rack setup we have in our garage again

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some of the folks who only post face were posting hog and some of the folks who only post hog were also posting their face and that's all I got

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

holy shit lmao

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The punchline about Trump illegally using taxpayer money to fund political ads is that making the midterms about the president with historically bad approval ratings is a disaster for the Republican Party

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mgayultra @mgayultra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lenny gets the "please be good. For the love of God, please be good" treatment

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One thing I miss from Twitter was the little dopamine rush I got every time I got served an ad and had the ability to just block the fucking account

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Robert and Michelle King : Broadway actors who are 40+ :: Ryan Murphy : Hot tall men with square jaws and brown hair

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend had over 150 original songs woven into the plot over the course of four seasons and I don't think Breaking Bad, The Wire, Mad Men, Succession or Fleabag had more than 10 new songs between all of them, list is automatically invalid

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gay guy music video night but it's just us all sharing our favorite porn scenes

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every time I see Manny Jacinto I'm reminded of my "Manny Jacinto as Nightcrawler" fancast. It truly hurts to be so right all the time and remain forever unacknowledged.

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🥊 @querelleofbros.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

straight people look at Boy Scouts of America, the Catholic Church, and D1 sports programs and are like “actually that’s my emotional support sexual abuse mill”

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Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kind of wild how smoothly this interview skates around Willem Dafoe's answer to the second question, which involves a theater fag seeing Willem Dafoe shake his famously huge penis in a plastic grass skirt for a show called "Hula" and then throwing money at him to see more of it up close in private

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Willem Dafoe Comes Alive While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

YouTube video by First We Feast

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