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@misplacedthings.bsky.social
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Angry vet. (Col)lapsed academic. (Un)civil servant. I have fifteen friends. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
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Statements — AHM
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I learned to drive a stick on that car because my dad never turned down a deal on cheap set of wheels. Yellow. No AC. No radio. St Christopher magnet on the dash—a legacy of the former owner’s mom (we were Methodists but nobody messed with it). (The former owner married my cousin.)
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m 62 and I confess I aspire to be this uncle.
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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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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/09/2026
Column: We memorialize 9/11 reflexively and habitually. But we have learned to overlook the more sinister and lasting changes — the loss of public space, the universality of surveillance, the fortification of our buildings and infrastructure.
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Column | The architect of 9/11 built the world we inhabit today
The changes to our urban design, architecture and everyday life are so profound we can hardly see them.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wear them in my native South and get great looks.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have two of them so I always have one available.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
And yeah I was not a youngster when it came out.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I listen to it pretty often and it breaks my heart each time. A song about hope that the years since seem to have crushed. But I still listen to it.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They left us many years ago, but memories of the boys still bring me joy.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pork butt should be perfect for Lexington NC style pulled pork bbq but I love lechon asado (Cuban roast pork) or pernil (Puerto Rican pork butt). All so good.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a... This is a genuinely great article about a genuinely amazing moment in time and band and person.
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D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I just asked my son where his best friend in the whole world is going to college next year and the boy said: “One of those fancy colleges that start with a P.”
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Regarding tomorrow’s OPM status: Not to repeat my self, but, dicks. People of low character and cruel intent, who lack compassion and fellow-feeling, who seem indifferent to or gleeful about famine or war, will also have no trouble fucking with your commute.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Naming US Navy aircraft carriers after presidents is an atrocious and un-American convention that must die.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them
Your grandpappy signed up to defend the very same nation that INTERNED HIM...???
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Horrifying and amazing. I can’t imagine what Tsurkov went through but to the be able to write about it like this…I hope folks will read it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... What about Mississippi? You know, where they burn synagogues. Oh, maybe this is about easier access for Nick Fuentes?
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US reportedly considers granting asylum to Jewish people from UK
Trump lawyer Robert Garson told the Telegraph he discussed refuge for those leaving UK over antisemitism
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
like do i trust bernie would oppose the annexation? yes. do i think this is good messaging that is what EU allies need? no
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them," he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. "I am not a pacifist."
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=nuev...
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Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet (Philadelphia, PA 7/7/1989)
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
All Greenland party leaders have issued a united statement about not wanting to be annexed: siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
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Inuiattut ataatsimoorpugut – Siumut
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei... DC does this right. Good write up too. Wish I’d been able to make it.
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Following Wednesday's ICE killing, D.C. residents take to the streets, chanting "ICE out now"
A protest at 14 and U streets in Washington, D.C., stopped traffic for roughly an hour on the evening after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
these gangsters cannot be trusted
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
One of the pictures I took on Jan 6, before disgust and anger drove me back home. I walked from my home, curious and wanting to bear witness after seeing people moving down my street all day.
Picture of Jan 6 looking at the east side of the Capitol.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
probably worthwhile thinking what a post-American concert of democracies looks like
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Tomorrow may be the best feast day of them all for the peoples of the American South. For me anyway. Simple; full of possibilities. Cow peas, collards, and cornbread, maybe a bit of pork. A glass of something with friends and family popping in and out of the house. Love all the way.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
www.ms.now/opinion/marc... Again: Imran and these other good people doing the hard work of protecting both human rights and our children and friends (and ourselves). Cynical l, hypocritical bullshit from the Trump administration.
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Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... Oh ffs
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US launches 'powerful strikes' against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump
The US president says IS targets were attacked in north-western Nigeria, accusing the group of killing Christians.
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misplacedthings.bsky.social @misplacedthings.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The president cannot buy my love.
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