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i lied about being the outdoor type.

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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
has gavin come to kim's defense yet?
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
it me.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
she worked for scale so the practical effects team could work its magic. legend.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WOODCUTTER
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
listen to jeopardy man.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
je peux manger du sel de déneigement, ça ne me fait pas de mal.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is good, but "composite day" is sitting RIGHT THERE.
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026
this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...
washingtonpost.com
‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
pretty good resume: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aria_Gi...
en.wikipedia.org
Aria Giovanni - Wikipedia
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a sharp closing argument. A real benefit to his party heading into the midterms.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the 1 train's own julian hall.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
don't listen to anyone but me: digger's damn good.
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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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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
welp, looks like i'm going to 02138 this weekend.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
seriously, walkable suburban spaces. starbucks across the way opens at 4:30 a.m., but you can't get there from here.
it could be worse, you could be in rosenborg.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
yikes. over 1000 customers out in [redacted]. way too early for that.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
“mark halperin” is also the most nightmarish thing you could text me
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i moved to the bay area right when gavin was running for mayor, he's been in my head for over 20 years, and his inability to read this political moment is still jawdropping.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
these people went crazy today. i got the two pictured here and five of their friends over the course of an hour, all from scam pacs whose entire budgets go to payroll and buying more email lists.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What? A sudden 30% decline in national housing prices would be a sign we're in like a serious depression. After the housing bubble burst in 2006/2007, national house prices fell "only" 27% peak to trough fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSH...
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
good thing the whca threw a few parties for djt.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my personal trade deficit is out of hand, no more lingering will funkos until square starts paying me to post.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my kid's playing through gta iv so i get to listen to snippets of the radio content again & it is fucking hilarious that these chuds are just figuring out that these games aren't exactly maga safe spaces.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
a year ago i almost died and then i didn't. the second part lives up to the hype.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
for me the absolute dealbreaker about seth moulton as a politician is he was in my college class and I DON'T REMEMBER HIM AT ALL.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
douchechain.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
chewbacca delivers the last line of Star wars episode iv: a new hope
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
ted lasso real person
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
harry redknapp age
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
pochettino buyout clause
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this kid's going places.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
how many halloween costumes have just gone up in flames???
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
what have you done erling.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
holy smokes.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
nice to have utterly dismal soccer back in my life. #coys
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
a case of 210 pairs goes for $220, so depending on your copay ...
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the bronx is too good for the yankees, but we're stuck with them. let's at least get this fixed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Where Yankee Stadium once stood, a park — and a promise — have fallen apart (Gift Article)
The old Yankee Stadium site was meant to honor history. Now it’s a symbol of neglect to the people of the South Bronx.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
theonion.com/it-s-just-my...
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
djed spence was the future. #coys
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You know how bad shit has to get for Raffi to be like “the peace of death is too good for him”
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
it's a crucial waukesha county kind of night.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
ok THAT'S hilarious.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
leading off with alberto gonzalez discussing todd blanche is a fucking baller move, keep it up guys.
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's so good that the best thing about the pied-a-terre tax isn't the revenue it will raise directly (good!), but that it's outing so goddamn much tax/vehicle reg/(voter?) fraud.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And yet
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Scott Galloway: America Abandoned Its ‘Unremarkable’ Young Men
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withers @realwithers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
kim that is a weird typo for "1956." (and seriously, jesus f. christ)
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