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Lapsed academic. “A middle manager’s middle manager” To whom much is given, much will be required.

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Todd Kendall @alpinemigrant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this the fucking way to dusty death?
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This whole thread is great, and also reads like an episode of Deadwood the more you scroll
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sam @samthielman.com · 11/09/2026
actually no I don’t want an alliance with people who reject my most fundamental principles. that sounds like an alliance that would not serve those principles very well
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is my preferred kind of racism: blatant and unmistakable.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
conservative john wick, enraged that someone killed his dog before he could
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell
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Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 27/08/2026
jewish antizionists have been making the same argument for more than 100 years
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ppl don’t like Bernie, but his making Medicare For All a well known “kitchen table” issue is sincerely one of the greatest political achievements of my lifetime
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It would benefit our society alot if we mocked conservatives as literally scared all the time, in their own words. These people are cowards. “Go live a full life, and socialism is the way” is the message. Mamdani is among the first to swim in that lane
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It took 20yrs, but my journey through the Jim Morrison dialectic is now complete - he is an authentic poet who rocks - he is an embarrassing alcoholic who sucks - he is an authentically embarrassing alcoholic who rocks
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is exactly the right point. The Tigers owner also has $7 BILLION dollars, and many other MLB teams could’ve made this trade. To owners, it’s less important that they win than it is that they squeeze every $ out of their investments. Somehow many fans agree. It’s an embarrassment to baseball
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Tigers are about to be 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot. What the hell are we letting 12 teams into the playoffs for if a team is going to trade one of the best pitchers in baseball when it's 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot? We already have the NBA for this garbage.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
i wrote about my favorite odyssey adaptation, o brother where art thou (2000)
Emily Wilson is a scholar of The Odyssey and I am not, so I'll gladly defer to her on all matters of what the poem says or what it meant historically. I'm more concerned here with its status in our culture as a dead thing from nearly three thousand years ago, one more unappealing item on a bored middle schooler's assigned reading list. In Homer's age, The Odyssey must have been alive, no? It was the thriller of the season, for hundreds of seasons in a row! It was packed with everyone's favorite adventure stories! I can't imagine those audiences listening to it in the dutiful, lofty, museum-going spirit so many of us reserve for our infrequent brushes with "high culture." When I imagine ancient Greek audiences hearing the poem, I think of the crowd at a wrestling match I attended recently, of the moment when a wrestler produced a folding chair wrapped in barbed wire. YOU SICK FUCK, we all hollered in delight as he advanced on his cowering opponent.
YOU SICK FUCK YOU SICK FUCK YOU SICK FUCK!
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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
sleigh bells in the glp-1 commerical
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Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A streak to crystallize the changed state of MLB: Jacob Wilson has the second longest errorless streak by a SS in MLB history at 107 games, trailing Mike Bordick (110 games in 2002). BUT: Wilson has 315 chances vs the 544 for Bordick. So: a shortstop has gone from 5 chances a game to 3 this century.
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
as a capitalism hater, it’s kinda satisfying the richest guy in the world is just another wretched, annoying nerd. And extra points for him being a racist paranoiac who’s never known friendship or love and must publicly, pathetically, and futilely scavenge the most vile parts of the internet for it.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
but they already made a historically accurate version of the odyssey?
three men, grinning, stand in front of an old timey microphone in a still from O Brother Where Art Thou
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Whichever country would allow him to be their President, they’d be better off for it
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/07/2026
I found this quote from Riley Gaines to be really striking. Straight-up conceding that the purpose of trans sports bans is to normalize transphobia, and to give "ordinary" people "more cover" expressing it in public. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...
In the paragraph that follows, I am going to briefly subject you to something that, if I were not writing a newsletter, I would not ask my worst enemy to read: insights from the mind of Riley Gaines, whose ability to parlay a fifth-place finish at a college swim meet into a career as an anti-trans podcaster is a tribute to what late-stage capitalism can accomplish.

“I think we’re going to continue to see movement and allow the people’s voice to be heard, especially in some of those purple states,” Gaines told Politico last month, after the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. B.P.J. upheld state lawmakers’ power to bar trans girls from playing women’s sports. “Each major decision gives your ordinary person more cover to say something that…was the standard, like the default position to take, really not that long ago.”

In other words, B.P.J. is not (only) about keeping girls like 16-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson from playing on the same team as her friends. It is about empowering people to feel more comfortable expressing rank bigotry in public.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy Bastille Day
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.
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Ryan Loup-Glissant (Slip-Wolf) @slip-wolf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We’re all mortal and we’re all gonna be remembered for how we treated people and the kind of world we participated in making. It’s a pretty basic but essential lesson that many won’t learn this side of the sod.
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Evie Hemphill @evhemphill.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This deep dive and analysis is well worth a read from @moundcitymessenger.bsky.social If our goal is actual safety progress, we need to sit with the devastating state of things, support victims and families, and address what everyday people are crying out for, including driver accountability. 1/X
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City Data Shows Limited Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety Progress
City leaders have long listened to Trailnet’s recommendations for improved road safety, focusing efforts on traffic-calming changes to the streets. A review of crash statistics found in Trail…
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Love to remember Austin Kearns, part of the coolest young OF in Cin with Adam Dunn and Wily Mo Pena
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 10/07/2026
In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.
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The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Now is a great time to reflect on how Kobe Bryant isn’t even a top 5 Laker of all time
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What that says to me is we’re one vote from basically no rights being secure. A court that could flip on this easy a question could flip on anything.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
how successful have the moderates been in reining in the excesses of the trump administration
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eke @eke.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
this is so insane
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ernie Johnson and the Wu Tang Clan
Ernie Johnson in suit with untied bow tie with the Wu Tang in mostly Knicks gear during their soundcheck for the halftime show
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This game rocks. Fairly sure I have stumbled upon the all-time most fun team to watch. They go 76-6 www.82-0.com/share?id=jIn...
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82-0 — Can Your All-Time NBA Roster Go Undefeated?
Draft an all-time NBA team and simulate an 82-game undefeated season. Build your roster, beat the algorithm, share your record.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Truly one of the stupidest and also best jokes in sitcom history
Sam Richardson reading a book called Karn on the Cobb where Richard Karn presumably struggles with the complicated legacy of Ty Cobb
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Wish I was president so I could get some damn sleep!
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The lefty slugger hoss—who is also a sincerely good all around hitter—is one of the most fun types of guys we have in baseball right now. They went a bit extinct for a bit after the Ortiz/Prince Fielder era, but it seems like we’re in a new, high ceiling generation now. Kurtz, Yordan, maybe others
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Someone asked me the other day, “If Trump can just do whatever he wants, then a Democratic president can too. why is Medicare for All impossible? Why are reparations impossible? Why is anything off the table?”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Yeah, this is the stuff.
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Sarah Clatterbuck Soper @segv.com · 24/05/2026
One of the best gifts you can give your children is modeling an adulthood that is worth looking forward to. Have fun, be interesting. Martyring yourself to your kids is bad for you and them.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I found this very sweet and moving.
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A ’90s Christian Hit Song Is Now Blooming as Queer Anthem
“Testify to Love” means more to former Avalon singer Michael Passons now that he can sing it as “someone who has embraced my identity.”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/05/2026
Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.
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An actual birdhouse @nelsonlong.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“The rest of the facilities are not trying to help”
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At any point my lifetime, the most extreme views you could find anywhere in the conservative universe became the mainstream GOP position within 5, 10 years. As reliably as the tides came in and went out.
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