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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 4h

"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet!"

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DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Napier eats a KitKat while thinking about logarithms.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 15h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish physics history: James Clerk Maxwell has the lads around to show off his new Ooni tabletop pizza oven and gets ready to slice and serve which is great cos Peter Guthrie Tait is starving

James Clerk Maxwell statue in Edinburgh. In how hand is his colour wheel, which looks rather like a pizza cutter

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 21h

Legally, shouldn’t that be OpenSI now?

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 21h

Everybody knows SI stands for Situationist International. Guy Debord is suing.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 23h

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Actually you did vote for this, dipshit

Erick Erickson: Talked to a friend whose business has been hit hard by diesel and tariffs. He vented, "I voted for him, but I didn't vote for this." Real frustration out there.
1:16 PM • 9/29/26 • 5.5K Views

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Move fast. Break things. Oops, I broke the human race. My bad.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there should be a name for that consultant stink that dems get about them, the miasma of bad of advice, ill-considered knee-jerk centrism in the face of actual fascism, the reek of cowardice that only comes from abysmal advice

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jesus fucking Christ

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

André Breton. Sixty years gone today. “Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”

Black and white photo of André Breton in a herringbone tweed double-breasted jacket smoking a cigarette.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stephen H/Brooklyn comments: I had to laugh at "some ethics experts" have noted that paying for partisan political advertisements with public funds is against the law, implying that there other ethics "experts" who think that this is somehow legal. I would be interested in hearing their reasoning.

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Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1960. The year of Cain's Book. Later condemned in UK as obscenity - not for sexual content but for the lifestyle it supposedly advocated! 🙏 Trocchi. And those who defended him. Il est interdit d'interdire!

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"ethics experts said could violate federal law" “Some ethics experts have argued” “one expert argued” (These are signs that the paper of record is afraid of reporting observable incontrovertible truth without attributing it to others.)

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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)

The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

September 27, 1960: the Situationist International "calls in particular upon the cultural authorities of Britain and on all British intellectuals who value liberty to demand the setting free of Alexander Trocchi, who is beyond all doubt England's most intelligent creative artist today."

RESOLUTION OF THE FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONALCONCERNING THE IMPRISONMENT OF ALEXANDER TROCCHI

The delegates to the fourth conference of the Situationist International, being informed of the arrest in the United States of their friend Alexander Trocchi, and of his charge of use of, and traffic in drugs, declare that the Situationist International retains full confidence in Alexander Trocchi.
The conference

DECLARES that Trocchi could not have, in any case, traffic in drugs; this is clearly a police provocation by which the situationist will not allow themselves to be intimidated;

AFFIRMS that drug taking is without
importance;

APPOINTS Asger Jorn, Jacqueline de Jong and Guy Debord to take immediate action on behalf of Alexander Trocchi and to report upon such action to the Situationist International at the earliest moment;

CALLS in particular upon the cultura. authorities of Britain and on all British intellectuals who value liberty to demand the setting free of Alexander Trocchi, who is beyond all doubt England's most intelligent creative artist today.

London, 27th september 1960.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My alma mater, which only today offered planning services so I could remember them in my estate.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned

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The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Filming Jacques Deray's 'La Piscine' (1969). Domaine de l'Oumède, in Ramatuelle. Director Jacques Deray wanted Monica Vitti. The producers wanted Vitti or Angie Dickinson. Alain Delon wanted Romy. “You can use someone else, but if you do, count me out.” They hired Romy.

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Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Romy Schneider🙏 #BOTD (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) “At a time when there was no question of women's liberation anywhere, I undertook my own liberation. I forged my own destiny, and I don't regret it." Romy Schneider

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Christ! That’s an album cover from hell!

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bonta-as-savior 2026 turns out to be very much in the same bucket as Muller-as-savior 2019.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The shoehorning of ads into every square millimeter of real life and every pixel of online life is a scourge and should be regulated out of existence

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

October 21 at the American Library in Paris: Cinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. Rodman Paris friends, it would be a pleasure to see you there. Non-Paris friends: come on over.

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Cinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. Rodman

Rediscovering Howard A. Rodman’s novel, Destiny Express, of Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, and the final days of Berlin before the Nazi rise to power.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some of us grew up on Long Island.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will be spending the day fasting, meditating, atoning. But the convergence of Yom Kippur and Leonard Cohen's birthday seemed far too perfect not to note. He was the holiest of our bards, and I know to a certainty how he would look upon us were he here. Let us ring the bells that still can ring.

Leonard Cohen, black and white, looking at you, through you.

Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)

The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

on one hand this is good pushback and is needed. On the other hand, the political press being willing to play good lapdog and nod along while he abused literally everyone till such time as he started beating them too tells us a lot about the character of the people in that pool

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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