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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If Matt Pike returns to Sleep, I’m in. My Wife saw Sunn O last year. She says I couldn’t handle it- even with ear plugs. I believe her.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I haven’t seen many shows in my time, but I’ve managed to see Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill, TMBG in SLC, new Pixies and Weezer in Grand Rapids, and Melvins in CLE. Dylan is unlikely, Cash and Prine are dead, so that leaves a trip to Philly to see The Dead Milkmen.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 13/10/2026

This is doing the rounds, and I’m aware some people may not like the choices Andrew Scott has made. But my goodness. I’ve heard this speech hundreds of times and this may be the first time it’s ever truly hit me. I *felt* his horror at “ay, there's the rub”. Bravo.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And so we decided to prove how morally superior we were by shooting a man in a wheelchair. Excuse me? No no, it’s not what you think. We let kids watch it.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My voicemail spam folder full of predatory loan offers is racing neck to neck with my text spam folder full of Democratic fundraising texts. I feel a matchmaker moment coming on.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

KARL: The president has announced this deal. He says to buy diesel fuel from Russia. You've called it a birthday gift to Putin. Explain why. ZELENSKYY: Because it gives Putin money and he spends money only on this war. Kill us. Kill our children. abcnews.com/video/137173...

abcnews.com

Video 1-on-1 with Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviews Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy on “This Week.”

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watching the sports highlights and this caught my eye. This is an advertisement for a 5-year-old defense contractor named Hadrian whose owners include Peter Thiel (the antichrist guy) and Donald Trump Jr. Trump Sr. and the GOP gave them $900 million to build a factory in Alabama.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We had one that was translucent!

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's so weird, because--and I know I'm a broken record on this--I was told in no uncertain terms this would not be happening, by one of the NYT's brightest stars.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/10/2026

In a new Truth Social post, Trump explains why he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize—writing entirely in the voice of a man being forcibly removed from a Cheesecake Factory. Really unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize laureate.

Screenshot of a long Truth Social post from Donald Trump dated 9 October 2026. The full thing is here https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117414533410378018. It's too long for alt text, but begins:

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This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:

Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas

Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Ve…

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

screenshot of a post that reads "Not to be all "you're getting sold" National Guard troops spend all day standing in out of the way corners of DC. Not great that they're standing in front of a ballot drop box, but c'mon, people, use some common sense. They're not stopping anyone from dropping something off." it is a quote-post of a post from the DC Council that says "this is clearly not acceptable" and features a photo of national guard members standing around a ballot box in Foggy Bottom

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026

Brilliant idea to take a murderer motivated by ideology and publicly martyr him.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

niceville and hurlburt, best okaloosa shout-out since that startled sheriff's deputy emptied his clip after an acorn fell on a car roof

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Dave Dustin @dustin.nz · 07/10/2026

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

President Trump's demands for Fox propaganda are getting even more bizarre and extreme.

Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Schumer does not appear in Media Matters’ database of Fox News weekday appearances, which dates to August 2017.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has made at least 5 appearances on Fox weekday shows since November 2018, with the most recent airing in January of this year.
Fox’s Jessica Tarlov is the Democratic host tasked with matching up against four conservatives at once on the network’s weekday panel show, The Five. She made 2 guest appearances on other Fox shows in September; conservative co-hosts Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Dana Perino all have separate weekday Fox shows of their own.
In September, weekday appearances on Fox News by congressional Republicans and Trump administration officials outnumbered appearances by congressional Democratic guest appearances by 148 to 7.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Especially if it makes angry animal noises when it falls down the stairs.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I swear I did not know that was written by Matt Fraction, but when I read that joke, I thought, “that sounds like Matt Fraction”.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

kudos to the times for randomly quoting a cartoonist in an article about the power grid, it's important to know what cartoonists think

Replacing all those aging devices won’t be easy. Robert Crumb, the underground comics artist, once described drawing the various transformers he saw while being driven around Sacramento. “You can’t make up this crap. It’s too complicated,” he told a documentary filmmaker. “This stuff is not created to be visually pleasing. It’s just an accumulation of the modern industrial world that people don’t even notice.”

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brooks and Dunn's Neon Moon might be the better version of this song anyway.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

13/ Kalani also said the “system worked the way it was supposed to” for me. I didn’t qualify for a manual review, despite depositing $21,600 into my account in eight weeks. When I asked her if DraftKings ever *did* cut people off, this is what I got:

Article excerpt: Overall, “the system worked the way it was supposed to” in my case, Kalani said. The range of behaviors and indicators that DraftKings scans for that trigger closing or manually reviewing an account didn’t ping for me, she said.

While I often played late into the night, I wasn’t playing in the wee-est hours, between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., she said.

I found this response revealing, though perhaps not in the way she’d intended it to be. I’d deposited $21,600 into my account in less than eight weeks, exhibiting just about every sign of compulsive gambling there is, according to my expert consultants. By DraftKings’ metrics, I didn’t even register for a manual review. Kalani had told me that the company was motivated to retain customers who were betting “within their means and can sustain their own entertainment.”

So I asked Kalani straight up: Does DraftKings ever cut somebody off purely based on their betting history and not because they’ve disclosed that they’ve got a problem? “Yes, we do that all the time,” she told me. She repeated the same answer when I asked her how often. I pressed again, and a spokesperson interjected, telling me he could take the question as a follow-up. I checked in later, but the company told me that “we do not share the specific number of closures.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

theguardian.com

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would love to pay a subscription for BBC TV and radio programs in America, but alas... There are millions of us who would.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I managed to get 6:07 into that before I needed a break. Very busy. It has been bookmarked.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When I was in grade school (early-mid '80s) we were frequently told to not wear garments with our names visibly displayed. Talk of kidnapping gave me the impression it was not a matter of 'if' but rather a matter of 'when'. Also- don't eat red berries or play in old refrigerators.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

nytimes.com

From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Gambling with borrowed money" is a breathtakingly stupid move for everyone BUT the platform, and many, MANY people will go for it. This sucks and is horrible. People will die because of this, and I am not kidding. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...

psychologytoday.com

Gambling Disorder Shown to Put People at Risk for Suicide

A major study found suicide is the leading cause of death among people with gambling disorder, highlighting the roles of debt, shame, and stigma.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Old people like zoobooks because they take their minds off death.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My phone sends me a notification whenever there's an owl nearby. I don't remember asking it to do that and I don't know how to make it stop. I tried throwing my phone into a ravine but it just reappeared in my hand moments later. The owl notifications are growing more frequent

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Mr Calvin @mrcalvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That guy looks like he's about to put a bird on it and do a great drum solo. (He's very handsome. I do not know of him)

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

cops shoot dogs to spare them from what the FBI will do to them

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.

theguardian.com

Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Morty! Morty. I’m Alan Cumming, Morty. I’ve got a [BELCH] sparkly kilt and everything.”

The Traitors promo image where Alan Cumming is wearing a Statue of Liberty style crown, the spikes of which resemble the hairdo of Rick, the character from Rick and Morty

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, male opera singers dubbed with ship’s horns

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