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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two right answers for wildly different reasons

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turtle @turtle.labeledrude.online · 23/12/2024

GERALT: Hhh. Seven Monster cans. Empty. And a diet Dr Pepper. If you're lucky, you've got a pack of small gamers. VILLAGE HEADSMAN: And...and if we're not lucky? GERALT: One really big one.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is what passes for 'evidence' for the lab leak: - The CIA says it (other intelligence agencies disagree) - They were doing gain of function research (this is common and has never led to a lab leak) - They had lax safety standards (untrue and also so do lots of other labs)

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm not sure if he intended it, but the line actually makes sense if Odysseus is referring to Hesiod's Ages of Man. It's anachronistic to when the Odyssey was set, but not when it was written.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Climate denier MO: zoom in and start at the warmest year you can find. They do this every time

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Traditional Chinese Medicine" is a pseudoscience legitimized and massively promoted by the Chinese state, to the degree that skeptics sometimes face political persecution and job losses. It is also a $92 billion pharma industry.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Pre-agruculture utopia people when you ask why all the bones have marks on them:

Homer Simpson is tugging at his collar because the prevalence of inter-human conflict in pre-agricultural societies is staggering.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The oil and gas industry thought it could get away with hiding its toxic waste in injection wells. What to do with oceans of toxic oil and gas wastewater? Just blast it all underground and forget about it. Until it returns. This is just beginning.

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Oily sludge is flooding their dream home. Oklahoma regulators say they can’t help.

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...

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Alex P. 👹 @saddestrobots.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

googling "grandparent rights" after my daughter said i wasn't allowed to see my grandchildren anymore after the second "i bet she's not actually allergic to cherries!" incident. my phone beeps. inbox full. every newspaper in the anglosphere wants to talk to me.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This isn’t excusing the military, of course. “Instrument of inchoate violent spasm kills thousands” is not a compliment.

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ompuco @ompu.co · 28/04/2026

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

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beep @1borzoigaming.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#borzoi

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Aldi and Costco are in a competition to create the most brutally efficient shopping experience imaginable. I, for one, fully support their efforts.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Pluribus is a show about how you should never open attachments from an email if you don't know the sender.

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 13/01/2026

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

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Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We've successfully gone from "billions dead collapse of global systems" to "make everyone poorer by about 10-15%", which still isn't great. +2C target is probably not going to happen at this point but every fraction of a degree is a lot of lives.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Yeah we need to go full Genghis Khan on this company.

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Great and cool how the future of the US auto industry looks like the Malaise era again.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is why The Long Dark is about as enjoyable as a hangnail.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A lot of geology discoveries are surprisingly recent. Plate tectonics wasn't proven until the 1960s and there was still debate on it into the 70s.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Comedians being recast as great truth tellers with some piercing insight into society is a neat piece of self-serving rhetoric that we’ve obligingly swallowed since Carlin. Unfortunately, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet in your life are good at getting a laugh- it’s not a mark of virtue.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Beaver carefully holding the number 0 brush, painting in the cockpit glass on my RotS Guard Mechs.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2025

It’s the addition of wheels to make the act of carrying the cross easy and painless that really tells you everything you need to know about the absolutely uncritical and selfish ideological positioning of this kind of politics.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Superman and Captain America are both in the same boat where they have a number of flaws which would theoretically sink a campaign (including, notably, not being born on this planet) and yet they've both got enough charisma to bend reality so it doesn't matter.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Just build solar farms. The endless search for some other place to put solar panels is just skirting around the real issue of bad land use.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

PBS funding solved in 3 seconds through addiction

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Fake Court For Clowns continues to be exactly what you thought it was. DHS delenda est

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/07/2025

a point I make over and over re: climate change is that there’s no point at which it’s time to throw up your hands and give up, because each tenth of a degree you can prevent is worth it 2C is better than 2.1C is better than 2.2C and so on and so forth

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/06/2025

In 1956, a Bell Labs seminar presented the silicon transistor. In the audience was the co-founder of Sony. Pure silicon cost more than gold. Technologies were now battlefields. He said then – he knew it was the age of Silicon. 50 years later, another audience would sit, and witness a new age unfurl

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I love this dumbass' take where apparently drug abuse doesn't make you a worse person: doing bad things on drugs just means you were secretly evil all along. What a perfect asshole.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

i want a black comedy spinoff where Dedra Meero is freed from prison and immediately hailed as a hero of the Republic because her charging documents accuse her of everything Lonni ever did

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We see a New Republic dropship land, the gantry coming down as light and smoke billow out of the opening. Some of the First Order troopers scream in terror, but not the first row. They had no time to scream. yub-yub

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 11/03/2024

I wish I could get a fucked up looking car so bad. I wish they still made weird shit like this

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ghoulish gosh @woodencube.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There Are No Single Women In Your Area! No One Is Looking To Fuck! Stay Indoors and Away From Windows, and Await Further Instruction

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 19/03/2025

Democrats could win every seat in the House in 2026 by promising to fund and reopen the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park.

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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Foreign Policy Patrick Star is right.

Quote Post from @irhottakes

I just hate Republicans at this point and have no other politics at this point. What should the welfare state or healthcare system look like? Who cares, can't deal with it until Republicans are gone. What should U.S. foreign policy look like? Who cares, can't have a workable strategy until Republicans are gone.

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I hope God can forgive us for what we are about to unleash onto unwilling billions across the planet.

@irhottakes continues

I literally do not care anymore about lib/left fights anymore except insofar as I want whoever hates Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular to win any particular argument.

Bill Kristol is a hero and whatever Leninist the commies drag out in California to primary Gavin Newsom for the crime of daring to agree on anything is to be supported unconditionally. There are any number of genders except two because that's how many Republicans say there are.

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Hard Times On The Gravitas Ranch @oopsnogravitas.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

God damn, didn't think NPR still had it in them. This is the kind of interviewing we need more of in American media.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When the edible hits and it’s also the Ordovician.

A large shelled cephalopod, covered in spots, on the floor of an ancient reef

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Casus Belli: Ukraine 2014 | 🔱⚒️🌅 @doctoradmiral.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"2-3 years ago, I would say in speeches that 'We shall enter Damascus and Aleppo'. I didn't say it just to raise morale, my claim was based on data. We compared data about the economic and socio-political cohesion in Idlib with the institutional and societal collapse in Syria."

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The entire blue dog caucus threw itself on their swords to pass the ACA. The GOP can't even agree long enough to repeal the ACA. This is the most juiceless, loser shit analysis possible.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I think this speaks to a broader problem, that the lawyers have psyoped us into thinking the Constitution is not written in plain English and that there are not records of the people who wrote the 14th amendment. That there’s some arcane knowledge required to understand what’s plainly spelled out.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 27/01/2025

watching Run Lola Run for the first time since seeing it in high school philosophy class and man the hyperactive MTV aesthetic kicks ass we gotta bring this back

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