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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We’ll be writing every day in support of personal liberties. Here’s why workers aren’t persons. by Jeff Bezos

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2025

I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/01/2025

"Whether or not we supported Alaric in his campaign to sack Rome, it is now our patriotic duty to rally behind him. Alaric is now the ruler of all Romans, not just those who smear their faces with blood and smell strongly of dung." (Published on the occasion of GWB's 2001 inauguration)

From The New Republic, January 22, 2001. Partial transcript below. Follow pastebin link in next post for complete alt text.

BIPARTISANSHIP, CIRCA 410 A.D.
Finally, the divisive battle that has gripped our nation for months has come to an end. There can no longer be any doubt of the ultimate result: Alaric and his Visigoth horde have won, and the emperor, Flavius Honorius, has lost.
Whether or not we supported Alaric in his campaign to sack Rome, it is now our patriotic duty to rally behind him. Alaric is now the ruler of all Romans, not just those who smear their faces with blood and smell strongly of dung. We must all show the graciousness, good humor, and dignity that Honorius demonstrated as he fled on horseback with his servants in the dark of night.
If one thing has been proved by this long battle, it is that our system works. The Visigoths worked hard for this outcome: They pillaged our temples, burned our crops, and carried off our women. As a result, they now deserve our support, as well as our respect. Yes, some may continue to question aspects of Alaric's campaign. We have previously noted our concern about the Visigoths' strategy of stripping naked and running into battle making high-pitched screaming sounds, as well as their controversial decision to slay our elders and eat their entrails in the Forum. The Visigoths' scorched-earth strategy—and, again, we would have preferred for them to have scorched only some of our earth-struck many of us as overly aggressive. But, in the end, Alaric and his barbarian horde were simply using every method available to them in a flawed and often confusing process. No battle is perfect, and inevitably some children are going to be impaled on stakes and their lifeless bodies paraded through the streets. Those tactics don't make the result of this contest any less legitimate.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/01/2025

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In the early 1970s the U.S. was averaging almost five bombings a day. I think a lot of us who didn’t live through that era take for granted the relatively low levels of political violence in the 2020s.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I swear to god 50% of the posts I see on Bluesky are just people posting starter packs. No thank you! I don’t want any until I can also unfollow all those users with one click.

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 23/12/2024

Hey everyone I saw the most important beer ever to exist today

Black Flag Brewing Company’s A Wizard is Sometimes Thicc, featuring a wizard with a big ass, wearing only a hat

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“Rock bottom” and “the collapse of the system” just mean the middle and lower classes suffer and lose more. People with money and power won’t lose anything - the opposite happens. Chaos might be a ladder but YOU sure as hell ain’t climbing it. You’re getting kicked off.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A friendly reminder: paying politicians a livable wage is how we keep corruption out of politics.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

“The Dems need fresh blood!” “The gerontocracy has to go!” Cool, so you guys all canvassed and voted for young, new representatives this last election, right? Why should the entire hope for Dems rest on AOC? She’s just one person. If you want better representatives, it’s on YOU to get them.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

All these weak conservative “men” out there trying to cosplay as “warrior-poets” but too insecure to embrace the “poet” part. Failures, every one.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/12/2024

Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.

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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning

A two panel comic strip.

Panel 1: A light gray human shape (like a thicc stick figure) labelled "THE WEALTHY ELITE" reaches greedily, mouth open in excitement, towards a large floating yellow ball that is labelled "A SECOND GILDED AGE"

Panel 2: same as above, but behind the gray figure (who now has a sweat drop to indicate nervousness on its head) is a VERY large pink blob labelled "THE RETURN OF OUTLAW FOLL HEROES" with one arm wrapped around the gray figure, expression quietly threatening

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

WHYYYYY Can’t we just have ONE good thing happen??

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Instagram has just become an advertisement platform. My entire feed is *products and services*.

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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“You make eating an apple look damn good.” Okay girl, I know you didn’t mean it in a flirty way, so I’m just going to take it as a weird compliment and move on.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself #MondayMotivation

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A post on Bluesky is apparently called a “Skeet” and I don’t know what to do about this

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Rudy Giuliani publicly admitting he’s broke and can’t afford gas is a great reminder of what kind of a criminal shit-show the first Trump admin was.

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Mike D. @paperalaminga.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Imagine my disappointment as a child when I learned that a gravy boat was not actually a ship.

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wow. Now we can understand why so many Americans are obsessed with trans issues and panicking about being replaced. They think there are 21x more trans people, 27x more muslims, 15x more jews, 5x more asians, 3x more black people, and 2x more immigrants than there actually are.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just a reminder that in 2020, Dr. Oz suggested that opening schools during COVID would "only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality," and that "any life is a life lost but... that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."

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NPR @npr.org · 18/11/2024

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.