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I never ever ever ever ever want to hear another conservative say the word "originalist" or claim that we need to respect the "plain meaning" of the words of the constitution. That there were 3 dissents on birthright citizenship is a travesty.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

But my prose is so much stronger when it's coruscating. Like cardboard.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

He's just gonna bulldoze the Kennedy Center some night before that tarp ever comes down, isn't he?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Remember that one time Obama put his feet up on his desk in the oval office?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Uncle Pecos has entered the chat

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

But only for toll roads, I thought? On I-80 we just called them rest stops

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.  

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Each of the accepted pronunciations of the word "banal" sound more wrong and pretentious than the others, somehow. There's just no way to say this word out loud.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Rereading this little gem of a book in anticipation of my fourth (fifth?) viewing of Stalker. Where are the Tarkovsky nerds on here?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 artists you've seen live Jethro Tull The Who B.B. King Buddy Guy Nancy Griffith Barenaked Ladies Tracy Chapman Violent Femmes Adrian Belew Bela Fleck

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Oh cool they've decided which font to use when they print out copies, the hard part is over

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Doing a rewatch of The Good Place last week and was delighted to discover that apparently Tab (in 16 oz glass bottle!) was the only thing available to drink in the Medium Place

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book. The Wizard of Tsp

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I feel like I've got a genre-transcending episode of Cleopatra 2525 in me

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

TIL I share a birthday with one of my all-time favorite actors.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

9/11 TRUTHER WHO FREQUENTED MY FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP AND WAS A VERY NICE MAN BUT FOUND A WAY TO BRING UP "BUILDING 7" IN EVERY CONVERSATION

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I knew the word and thought it unremarkable but then remembered that I probably learned it because of the brief vogue for this game during my childhood, with its confoundingly coincidental name

A Carrom game board sitting in front of the box it came in

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors costumed as robots in a still image from the Saturday morning live-action series The Lost Saucer

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just noting that "I feel like I have closer views with liberals than more conservatives at this point" seems to be an example of an Escher sentence #linguistics

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I kind of pity any Paramount executives who've convinced themselves that the Venn diagram of "Paramount+ subscribers" and "Star Trek fans" isn't a circle

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

He's...bragging about taking the dementia test AGAIN?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Did I say 20 years? Harve Bennett first touted a SFA movie around 1989 or so. Yes, I'm Gen X and the 80s were twenty years ago.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The fact that I was skeptical of the idea of an Academy-focused show for like 20 years, and then it completely won me over within 3 episodes. Holly Hunter. Tig Notaro. The chemistry among all the cadets. Yum.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Nice observation, I can't think of any. And now I'm wondering if it's because we don't expect dudes to want to feel things? Like, we see male characters engage in all those same behaviors and WE know it's cuz they need to feel something, but they don't, so they don't say it?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Can I guess the species of the individual to whom you were speaking?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"Incredibly valuable energy source on which our whole economy depends must be shipped through a single narrow passage directly under the weapons of our enemy", if it were a sci-fi plot, would be a credulity-killing cliche

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I have just this moment learned that Ish Kabibble was not, in fact, a Yiddish phrase dropped on random occasions by people on television during my childhood, but the name of a person. I have also just a acquired a new viewing mission.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

How else can we be expected to win the arms race with the murder hornets?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

A publicity photo features five men playing Doctor Who and one robot dog

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Cast photo of "Coupling," the UK effort to copy Friends, which was then in turn made into a forgettable US version itself

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Yes! But also that's the weirdest expletive infixation I've seen. Incofuckingmprehensible.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Tuning into the POTUS press conf on the tariff decision, in an act of either schadenfreude or masochism, not clear which yet

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

La La Land. A movie about humans in a city should have more than two characters, especially if the two characters it does have are both insufferable

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Imagine Tig Notaro doing intake at the counter of a guitar repair shop. That's what my brain did last night, in a dream. I'm sorry I can't share it with you, it was hilarious.

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So we got NASCAR, the NFL, Budweiser, the Chamber of Commerce, and apparently the 2nd amendment? And they got ... the Kennedy Center? What is even happening?

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Stop that rockin' up there!" I hear it in my head every time I see her face

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Between AI server farms and these, I foresee a huge opportunity for somebody who comes up with a business model requiring a ton of vacant warehouses in about five years

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

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the cool s @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

after exhaustive research I present to you the most Dickensian name on almost every MLB roster (*indicates non-roster)

Arizona Diamondbacks: Merrill Kelly
Atlanta Braves: Hurston Waldrep
Baltimore Orioles: Reed Trimble
Boston Red Sox: Garrett Crochet
Chicago Cubs: Dansby Swanson
Chicago White Sox: Wikelman Gonzalez
Cincinnati Reds: Spencer Steer
Cleveland Guardians: Jack Leftwich*
Colorado Rockies: Chase Dollander
Detroit Tigers: Dillon Dingler
Houston Astros: Jax Biggers*
Kansas City Royals: Bailey Falter
Los Angeles Angels: Walbert Urena
Los Angeles Dodgers: Dalton Rushing
Miami Marlins: Fenwick Trimble*

Milwaukee Brewers: Easton McGee
Minnesota Twins: Kody Funderburk
New York Mets: Tyrone Taylor
New York Yankees: Jazz Chisholm Jr
Philadelphia Phillies: Garrett Stubbs
Pittsburgh Pirates: Beau Burrows*
Sacramento A’s: JT Ginn
San Diego Padres: Xander Bogaerts
San Francisco Giants: Hayden Birdsong
Seattle Mariners: Emerson Hancock
St. Louis Cardinals: Tink Hence
Tampa Bay Rays: Cedric Mullins
Texas Rangers: Wyatt Langford
Toronto Blue Jays: Myles Straw
Washington Nationals: Clayton Beeter

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James Lyle @radgrammar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Coming soon: These evil big government democrats won't let us abolish ICE!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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