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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reposting just to observe that no matter how bad the 2026 forecast for Republicans is, in my view it’s not bad enough…

Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senator Eric Schmitt called Jack Smith a “dirtbag” in a hearing today. And Senator John Kennedy said that Smith made him “throw up” a little in his mouth. Interesting, since the moral rot of both Senators is metaphorically enough to gag a metaphorical maggot.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I honestly believe that Trump has it within his power to achieve a 22% approval rating by one or more respected polling outfits.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Journalist Katie Phang is suing the Trump Administration for some unredacted Epstein files, including the raw FBI “302 files of interviews with an underage victim who claims she was sexually abused by Donald Trump.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The expressions on the faces of world leaders listening to Trump talk—somewhere between incredulity and, I’m not sure…depression?

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guilty pleasure (occasional): the “overwritten” AI revenge narratives on YouTube. I must remember not to use constructions with any form of the verbs “set” or “sit” any time I set out or sit down to attempt to write prose. Pros avoid that sort of thing.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why are the captions to several of my youtube channels defaulting to Bengali? It’s an elegant script, but I cain’t read it—at all.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So now I’m hearing Hegseth’s Dod is going to be asking the troops about their morning erections. And apparently testicular support injections are back on the program. Hilarious, crazy, crazy-making and somehow a portent of evil…Will the guys (well the white ones) have to prove they made babies

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So Haberman is talking about the prospect of the Trump Administration ignoring or slow-walking subpoenas from a Democrstic Congress and the DOJ refusing to act.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I confess I get a kick out of the AI-generated narratives of “rough justice” on YouTube. Okay. *Revenge* narratives. Freddie Nietzsche would not approve. But like I always say. Fuck Nietzsche.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gosh. The moral foulness of Trumpism is so odiferous that even Karl Rove has vowed to vote for the Democrats.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@philosophypills.bsky.social Just read about Princess Leonor, heir to the Spanish Throne. Seems like she may be planning on being more than a figurehead—a Good Thing, I hope…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Third Reich goons had enough competence to seize power, but not enough to avoid self-destructing. My not terribly informed opinion is that if Germany had had a more robust tradition of democratic governance, they wd not have been able to (seize power).

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Little tells that suggest AI literary style: “sit with this,” “the room fell quiet” (someone) “went pale,” “here’s the thing” “didn’t need to explain,” etc. etc.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gawd. He’s slready plunged the mideast into an intractable war. Guess he thought he wd spark a civil war in Ireland & the UK.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I spend possibly too much time poring predictive polls for the Senate 2026 midterms. The Dem House can do a lot on its own. But if the Dems can take the Senate by at least 52-48 (I don’t trust Fetterman),

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t drive much and even if someone else is driving, I find trips more than an hour long tedious and only a little shy of actual discomfort. Still, there are places I wd like to be without the bother of having to travel. If expense was no object, I guess Pullman sleeper cars wd be a solution.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ran across a youtube video claiming that unknown primate dna was recovered from the environment in those areas where there have been reports of Bigfoot sightings in the Pacific Northwest. Claude was a complete skeptic about Bigfoot and knew nothing of the purported study.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I believe it is possible that in the lead-up to the midterms Trump will be successful in achieving a below 30% overall approval rating-though it might go up a point or two right on the eve of the election.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Joe Rogan’s face on any mainstream news show triggers my revulsion. As if he had anything useful to say about any thing…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Airlearn is a language app I’m messing with. There is an Airlearn Language Show on youtube that has interesting discussions of various languages. The presenter is an attractive blonde woman with an upbeat, earnest manner that’s almost too much. But I don’t think she’s AI.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New from me: The NY Times piece criticized Mamdani for using influencers to share his agenda. But negativity bias means that legacy media like the Times does not cover substantive government stories about Mamdani trying to make the government work better. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...

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Mamdani, media, and negativity bias

Is it possible to get credit for focusing on implementation?

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have two earworms on loop: Randy Newman’s “Burn On” and Buddy Holly’s “Maybe Baby.” I get a kick ouy of “Burn On,” but enough is enough. “Maybe, Baby?” Meh. And maybe a little embarrassing. There. Maybe I’ve exorcised them. Or at least changed the selections.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That’s an area roughly that roughly totals the size of Oklahoma. I assume those acres are not all contiguous…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After a long hiatus, I went back to playing the NYT “Connections” game, this last Wednesday and Thursday. Got them both right somehow. One of them did seem easy. The other felt like pure guesswork.

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BCredeurLMT @bcredeurlmt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Without question. Biden is a better HUMAN BEING than #ConvictedFelon

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It seems to me that Trump is spoiling the authoritarian brand for many…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In a portent for Trump’s shitty economy, I’m reading that Trump’s trade war with Canada is going to send toilet paper prices sky high…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One possible take on the CIA’s mission to Russia per me is that Trump wants his old buddy Vlad to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine so that Trump can claim he stopped a war in time for the midterms. The quid pro quos? Probably pretty horrendous. If that’s the plan I don’t think it will work…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was transfixed a few years ago by a French Canadian detective noir drama called The Sketch Artist. I’m thinking about watching it again, even though, psychologically, it’s grittier than my usual fare. Any y’all see it?

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watching an excessive amount of YouTube videos about anti-Nazi intelligence operations. A thing which I have also noted in the reels that come up on FB: being operationally anti-Nazi seems conducive to long life.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A staggering amount of Trumpian damage needs to be undone—and not just with the nation’s landmarks.

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Checked on the latest YouTube offerings om the Voynich Mss. (Actually, this one was several months old)—but maybe the Mss is a Buddhist thing? I doubt it. I bet the back story for that one is fascinating, though honestly I didn’t watch enough of it to tell…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I continue to check in on Lei’s Real Talk—a channel on YouTube. Now she is saying speculation is rife that Xi Jinping may step down. I’m sure she wd see it as a sign the CCP is in for a rocky ride. But return to slow growth of rational politics, perhaps tempered by corruption? Still, reason is good.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

YouTube Rabbit Hole: Sadly, after several weeks of casual intermittent attentiom, I conclude the Voynich Manuscript is indeed a clever 15th cent. hoax designed to part wannabe wizards from their cash, in such amount they might happen to have.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There is something oddly vacuous about Natalie Harp. I wonder how she got that way. I have some idea from news reports, but they don’t seem quite explanatory. I mean, her brother escaped….

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Check out this video, "song of wandering aengus donovan" Because you’ve been Good—at least for you…

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Donald Trump hates women. He gets off of humiliating, abusing, and degrading women. He prefers young girls because they are easier to abuse. Trump's only real sexual attraction is towards men. That's why he seeks "good looking men" for official positions. If you agree, share or like this post.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Watching youtube channel Canadian War Stories—mostly grisly accounts of partisans and guerillas creatively killing fascists and Nazis. Most satisfying.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As soon as we get a legitimate DOJ this thing of punishing blue states for their voting history should result in prosecutions to effect maximum punishment for all those involved or complicit in the offenses.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I listen to a number of anti-Trump podcasters & I agree with them totally, but sometimes it’s soothing to listen to the litany of facts and stats on the Military Channel as they lay out whatsup on the Ukraine-Russia war.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m annoyed that Elon stole the Grok catchphrase from Robert Heinlein. I can kinda see why given Heinlein’s mossback ideology. Still, I don’t think Heinlein wd be happy about it.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Though he’s much less innocent, Josh Hawley looks like a teenaged dweeb lately escaped from Archie comics into our reality…

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trump’s anti-immigration policy is a not too well concealed form of ethnic cleansing. He would really like to include native-born black people too, but the PR lift wd be just too heavy.

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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump’s agenda?, Trump’s policies?, Trump’s foreign policy? Whut? All just a succession of often self-contradictory iron whims—the main throughlines of which are greed, racism and xenophobia.

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