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Rob Dawdy

@rdawdy.bsky.social
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Casual runner of games and lover of RPGs. Iranian American He/Him

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Rob Dawdy @rdawdy.bsky.social · 23m
Gorgeous week not to drive.
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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 2h
For the DC Week Without Driving, @janeese4dc.bsky.social joined @ggwash.org organizers (and @elissasilverman.bsky.social) for a bus ride from Petworth to downtown. JLG emphasized her desire to get projects like the Georgia Ave dedicated lane done quickly: “We don’t need to study the study.”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 27/09/2026
I apologize to Rolling Stone for not, to my knowledge, having heard “Choosin Texas”, the most popular song in history. I will do better next time
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
STOP THE COUNT!
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Rob Dawdy @rdawdy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
God I love sports.
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Christian D'Andrea @trainisland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cobie Durant falls victim to some of the most dastardly friendly fire i've ever seen
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
3 panel comic titled “Logging into Bluesky”

Panel 1: 
A Pink Guy bursts into Bluesky wearing a t-shirt that says “Fun”. His little face looks so happy.

Panel 2: 
Six Bluesky users turn to look at the Pink Guy. They all look dour and angry because they have been overdosing on the discourse. Having the current state of the world mainlined into their veins for 22 hours a day has left them real grumpy.

Panel 3:
Pink Guy slowly removes his t-shirt and quietly says “sorry”. He won’t soon forget that Bluesky is the home of Serious Discussion. If he wants “Fun” maybe he should log into the Barney the Dinosaur forums.
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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 17/09/2026
Warren buffet saying freak the fuck our and panic sell everything right now it's fucking over
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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
fascinated by the modern narcissus, the fool that makes language that can write itself and ascribes it to some animating spirit
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Panel Per Day @panelperday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cosmic Knights: "Space faring failed to liberate mankind, instead it brought about an age of neofeudal diviinity. Kings and Lords who's vassals raised them to the status of petty gods, filled with such ravenous faith they did not fear explosive decompression, but welcomed it."
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every single one of these people should be in jail for the rest of their lives
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can we please stop doing this? I made a comic about it and everything!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It's the weekend
Robot flipping a switch on his body from "mad about politics" to "mad about football"
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ms. Rachel cooking you and then telling everyone to clap because you tried hard
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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
she's going to sign with the steelers as a slot receiver
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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Rob Dawdy @rdawdy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Socialistly: Walk 10,000 steps a day and aim to strength train 3 times a week.
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Defector @defector.com · 04/09/2026
Defector has a new NFL podcast, and it won't have any gambling shit in it: defector.com/defector-has...
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Defector Has A New NFL Podcast, And It Won’t Have Any Gambling Shit In It | Defector
If you’re as horny for football as I am, you’ve probably noticed that a vast, vast majority of NFL podcasts have some unwelcome amount of gambling/fantasy chatter in them. Corporate pods are often…
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/09/2026
That was response to
Another coyote just went viral in SoCal for being the first known coyote to capture a roadrunner. How does that make you feel?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
you should wear a bike helmet
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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canyon.mid @canyondotmid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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in the pocket of Big Tenant @allezlesboulez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Metro DC DSA @mdcdsa.org · 21/08/2026
MDC DSA has voted to run a Yes on All 3 Campaign in Northern Virginia in support of ballot measures to enshrine reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and restoration of voting rights to the formerly incarcerated in the VA state constitution. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/823-y... (1/2)
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026
so this is what it felt like for catholics when kennedy won
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Rob Dawdy @rdawdy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The $5 for this game is worth it for the character creation alone. Counterspells are functionally magic DBZ beam struggles it rules!
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Natural Causes is a podcast about the politics and practicalities of going outside in a world on fire, hosted by @jamesstout.bsky.social. It approaches the outdoors, conservation, agriculture, food sovereignty, fire management and Indigenous land rights as interconnected issues.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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Rob Dawdy @rdawdy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today I watched an SUV speed through a red light on a busy road near a daycare. They immediately slowed down the next two blocks, where a camera is, and then started speeding again when out of its range. Road calming measures are needed more than cameras. The camera only works for short ranges.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Gemini: If at first you don’t succeed, try giving up and going back to bed.
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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 15/08/2026
if you're somehow still alive, and you're seeing this, please - pokemon go to the escape pods
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Fan of Buff Coach Dan Campbell Team @motowncatscrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Shaun Doctrine.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I heard Spider-Man 4 was the best MCU movie in a while and it turns out it's because Spider-Man learned what a script was and shared this discovery with his coworkers.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The obsession with making elections a referendum on Hassan Piker reminds me of this
An Onion poll on "Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character?"
Columbine 0%
Scaramouche 0%
Pulcinella 0%
Pantalone 0%
il Dottore: 0%
Don't know: 100%
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026
Mayor-Elect Janeese Lewis George Please Please Please Do This For DC Government I Will Be Your Strongest Soldier I Am So Serious
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’m much more afraid of people not from here walking around with guns than I am of any of my neighbors the delusion they want me living in is that my neighbors are to be feared
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Anger Angry
Alt: a man speaking into a mic emphatically says you have to pick one, you can't have it both ways
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
also, why be so fucking afraid of local experiments!? if the nyc grocery is a policy failure let it be an instructive one and until then let mamdani sell cheap milk and eggs to struggling new yorkers.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder
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