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"Muscular Christianity" is one of those slapped-together terms that just automatically creates a sour note in my head. Like "Brutalist Confectionery."

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh god. I just thought about what this is going to do--is probably already doing--to the college admissions process.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, where am I supposed to have heard it? I don't use Tik Tok or Instagram; I don't listen to Top 40 or country radio; my playlists comprise almost entirely old, alternative, and/or indie artists; no algorithm is going to select "Choosin' Texas" *for* me. This isn't a boast; it's just reality.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The claim that evil proves competence is refuted by the Trump administration at least once per day.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well. I've been feeling less and less interested in staying on Facebook over the years, but this is a pretty horrific new development.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would repeatedly ask them to do things the wait staff at a diner would do. "Western omelet with home fries and a biscuit, please." "I'd love a little more coffee when you get a chance." "Could get 'em to turn down the music?" "I think we're ready for the check." "Do y'all take Discover?"

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, the first thing I wanna say is "Mandate, my ass."

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Hey, all we do is call balls and strikes and secretly accept money from teams that are playing in the games we officiate." --Shoeless John Roberts

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In junior high, my teachers in art (grades 7 & 9), science (7 & 9), social studies (8 & 9), English (7), and PE (9), plus my principal, were all black. At the time I didn't realize how unusual that was for a public school in NC.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love the fact that this guy who objects to the entire Neolithic Revolution in favor of men doing their own hunting and gathering apparently prompted an AI to do his artwork for him.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was going to reply, "Not again," but then I remembered that was the begonia.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah, this isn't transactional. If you're eating a french fry and you're attacked by wild dogs, offering them your french fry isn't going to keep you safe.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NCSU famously forfeited a trip to the College World Series finals in 2021 when their mostly unvaccinated team had a COVID outbreak. I think that's pretty comparable. Especially since the team they forfeited to was Vanderbilt.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Speaking as a classic American mongrel, I say Da Fuq?

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@jacobsphysics.bsky.social I conferred with a senior whose college essay concerned a conversation with her physics teacher that inspired her to rethink her career plans and pursue science. I asked if she'd told her teacher. "He cried," she replied. "And he showed it to his mom. And she cried."

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tuned into the UNC-Duke women's soccer game just in time to see the Heels equalize, then poke in a winner, then deliver a thunderous closing goal to put it away. A wonderful palate cleanser after months of gridiron sludge and scandal.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dammit, first Death keeps taking out the wrong 80-year-olds, and now Unemployment has started taking out the wrong Belichicks.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I certainly picked the right week to benefit from my complete ignorance of Ed Sheeran.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nixon didn't manage this twofer in my lifetime, but only because he already had a war going in SE Asia.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do not live in Michigan, but as an American, I want this guy's attitude to be the norm in the Senate. I figure the quickest way to make that happen is to elect him.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In 2001, I worked at a boarding school in rural Va. The nearest town had one grocery store and three gas stations. There were four stop lights, and when the fifth was put in, it was a big deal. And I must reiterate: this town was the nearEST. The school was six miles away. In a different county. 1/x

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible Simon and Garlicbread

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I assure you, Mr. Vice President, the reason I'm calling you racist has nothing to do with what you've "noticed."

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favorite? Erase. No, wait. Another First Kiss. Or Til My Head Falls Off. Or Fibber Island. No, it's definitely Spiraling Shape. Unless it's Ana Ng. No. No, it's Experimental Film. Oh--Judy Is Your Viet Nam. AKA Driver. OK, it's Older. No, it's O Do Not Forsake Me. Or Dead. Acually,

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RS with your home river. The James is not exactly "mighty," but it's central to Richmond, which has been wise enough to make the river its defining feature AND to line it and fill it with parklands, so that the public can enjoy almost every bit that flows through town.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 09/09/2026

This “spoon rest” is gonna have its own AO3 tag by October

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This kind of white man is also seriously weak on math. Dudes, you ARE a minority; you always have been. Men make up slightly less than half of white people. In other words, white guys are only about 30% of the US population. My advice? Start treating other people decently while you can.

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LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Peter Cashwell @petercashwell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They're making me go back to work today. The bastards.

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