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Noj the Cynic

@nojthecynic.bsky.social
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Like an Ancient Greek Cynic, though I haven't progressed to living in a barrel. Yet. Also, the modern kind of small-c cynic too. My genuine life motto: Everything, everywhere, is awful. Once you accept that, it's really not so bad.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things
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phantazach 🎃💀 @vantazach.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3 www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Call me crazy but if the money spent on AI was spent on the sevices the you wouldn't need AI. You don't need AI to fix potholes. You need a worker, asphalt and a shovel
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Has it always been acceptable in the US to call it the Mideast? Feels like a thing that didn't exist at all until the mid-to-late 2000s and is apparently now fine for NYT headlines.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Absolutely no notes.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I mean... yay for the Syrian people and the end of decades of brutal dictatorship. Unqualified good news. However, the 'what next' element of this thing has to be the most terrifying in my lifetime. One fears it could get very, very unpleasant.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
From Hollywood films about DOD procurement from the early part of the 20th century this seems to track perfectly. Maybe what he means by make America great again?
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I was under the impression they wanted to expand cricket into the US.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The atheist in me is so conflicted.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Mike Johnson issued the transgender Capitol Hill bathroom ban actually ON Transgender Day of Rememberance? That's a little bit on the nose, isn't it? Can we now expect the national abortion ban to be passed on International Women's Day?
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I will say this: I am certain I will enjoy Bluesky a lot more when half of the posts I read aren't about how great it is and how bad Twitter is and how much better it is here. Like, cool. Okay. We get it. Can we get back to the fun things we used to do before now?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Best reaction so far.
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Will Gamino @tgnyc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Shaping up to be more of a junk drawer than a Cabinet.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Not often, but sometimes, I wish I had no soul. Grifting stupid right-wing Americans into giving you literally millions of dollars seems so easy; they just give it to you. Just some BS about Jesus wanting me to be rich and bam... private jets and luxury living.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
Can't find a clip on Google, but Tracy Jordan's impression of how white people dial a phone in episode 01x18 of 30 Rock is the exact sound of the Microsoft Teams ringtone. 🤯
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 02/03/2024
Watching a 30 Rock episode from 2007. In the show, the GOP protesters go absolutely mad when Jenna does this. How terribly naive we all were back then. Write that today and she would have become their poster child.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Of all the myriad things I find confusing about social media, none is perhaps as surprising as the amount of people who confuse 'lose' and 'loose'. I don't remember this ever being a thing pre-2005, and yet I see it all the time now.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
One thing that appears abundantly clear from reading a lot of social out there is that large numbers of people, if not a majority, don't really understand what the job description of a journalist or news reporter actually includes.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
For every occasion?! I am fascinated to know the leather mask for grandma's funeral looks like.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
The crazy GOP version of most Democrats is usually the absolute best one imaginable.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
lol this is BOLD even for you people
a giant banner that says END RACISM inside the touchdown space for Kansas City with a giant “CHIEFS” sign painted on it
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 10/02/2024
Please, please never let me hear the phrase ‘side hustle’ again. It’s a job, extra job, part-time job, new job. It’s a job. It’s a job.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Laying off all of the people that actually produce the product I sell while retaining or expanding the better-compensated tiers of people that administer that process and sell ads against it. My business functions better and more successfully this way.
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
I just learned that Ginuwine's real name is Elgin Lumpkin. The dude that sang Pony. Elgin Lumpkin. Not a joke name, his real, actual name. Now I don't know what to think.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
so true…the original lyrics to American Idiot were all about the importance of forgoing the liberal agenda in favor of bipartisan bridge-building
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
The Onion 2014 vs. New York Times 2023
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
This is utterly bizarre. reason.com/volokh/2023/...
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Clarence Thomas: The Best and Most Incorruptible Supreme Court Justice in U.S. History
116 people have served on the Supreme Court and Justices Thomas is the best
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
You know how they say every right-wing accusation is a confession? So...
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
hello, good morning i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2023
i think the one thing i am most struck by is how fragile these personalities are. most of them received essentially mild pushback and immediately jettisoned whatever principles they claimed to have inthesetimes.com/article/form...
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Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Whuff.
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Jen @sheerjenius.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
What level of disposable income is “getting rid of functional linens because Big Capitalism say they have a best before date”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
That’s fine, what kind of damage could he possibly do with only 1 day in a January
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Noj the Cynic @nojthecynic.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
For all Norman Lear's undoubted talent, fully lifting an already successful British sitcom and repackaging it for an American audience - twice - isn't exactly what I'd describe as 'visionary'. Not to throw shade, he was genuinely great, but it's not like he conjured Archie Bunker out of thin air.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Someone asked an AI to render what Ken Loach’s Star Wars would look like… it’s… it’s breathtaking
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