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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 20h

Motherfucker, the rural blue collar workers here can't AFFORD to stay at home. Both parents work, they lose a huge chunk of one paycheck to daycare, but the small remainder keeps them floating from paycheck to paycheck. Get out of your fucking bubble. Honestly.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 23h

This. It's in tension with my belief in large, small D democracy. But I don't think I fully appreciated what "average" meant with humanity until now. By definition, half are below average. In morality. In virtue. In intelligence, etc. You need 2/3 to be a small D voter.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Having a toddler who loves dancing means I have danced more in the past 3 years than my entire life x5. It's a bit dangerous tho, bc once you start, the barrier to entry is low. Like when Pink Pony Club comes on in a public space and suddenly you're moving before you know it.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026

and in that sense among a few others THE WIRE, while clearly a better show imo, would’ve been discordant. that may be who we want to tell ourselves we are. but we are not that. we are heisenberg saying “you’re goddamn right” and everyone whooping and hollering

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 25/09/2026

and fittingly what the less astute fans of both shows fail to notice is that giving power to a narcissistic strongman with a chip on his shoulder doesn’t lead to good things but actually rather leads to bad things.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty sure I know this guy. (The guy who would make this list, not the poster)

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John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Calling Republicans weirdos and saying why worked in 2024! Then, incomprehensibly, Democratic politicians stopped doing it.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ross Douthat unable to leave his chair after the focus group concludes until someone brings him a cigarette (derogatory).

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're...going to deregulate tobacco now? What year is it Also: they really are neo-Confederates, huh

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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My first story set in my home of San Diego! The inspiration for this was a Twitter post I saw from a white pagan years ago who said with all seriousness “you can’t accuse me of oppression because I was a Black slave in a past life”.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people can't create good art for the same reasons most people can't make good 3 pointers or play good guitar: they haven't invested the time, effort, and skill accrual to get there. Not surprised that absent that investment they would have poor taste barometers and find this "art" attractive.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a good position. The fine will have to be prohibitively large (perhaps 18 month jail sentence) so OpenAI or Anthropic don't just shrug, but yea if it keeps happening then there's something going on that we should worry about and if it doesn't then we know it was backdoor greed.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I didn't realize that the Trump meeting was, at least in part, a huge gift from Mamdani to Gov. Hochul lolll

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thread. Nonviolence always - but don't mistake our commitment to democracy and this nation for weakness.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jeffries needs to step down as Leader when the majority arrives. He can be the Whip (he seems much better at getting folks in line for votes than Schumer), but he's too entwined into the dysfunction of DC.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026

if what’s alleged in this story is true, not only should collins lose, she should also go to prison

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 21/09/2026

That 2025 stint when every institution scrambled to bow before the eternally beloved god emperor's million-year reich was weird at the time and only looks weirder and weirder in hindsight. Way way way weirder than any of the alleged excesses of Woke 1

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This didn't happen. What actually happened is that Russia deliberately bombed several American businesses in Ukraine. The Bunge oilseed plant was hit right after Senator Blumenthal's visit in a twisted demonstration of power.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're not doomed, but this is hilarious yes. (Not doomed doesn't mean sunshine and roses, we asked for it & we're going to get it good & hard, but history is replete with reversals. Fuck, for a few months Trump was relegated to the dustbin of history, but the weak dipshit didn't stop. Will we?)

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Please don't be fooled. They've had (very conservatively) almost two years to stand up for the constitution and they refused. They're only doing it now out of solidarity for members of their little incestuous tribe of access journalists.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yea I witnessed firsthand some testing with voice recognition and the improved NLP meant heavily accented English second language speakers were better understood than with live human. (embarrassing at how much better it was during the conversation in understanding actual verbiage used)

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A heavy, but necessary read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DRAGONFLIGHT (1978)  Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30"   For the 1st book in Anne McCaffrey's legendary Dragonriders of Pern series, I wanted to create a literal visualization of the title. I selected an aerial POV and tilted the horizon to simulate the dizzying sensation of flight. #art #booksky 🪐📚

A flight of dragons swoops past a rocky mountain peak down that mostly obscures the sun. The light tints green sky yellow along the ridge. With wings spread wide, the lead dragon pulls up from a dive with beak open to expose teeth and tongue. The arc of its climb intersects a red striated planet. The female dragonrider raises one arm up as she glances back over her shoulder.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hardknott Roman fort 360. #RomanFortThursday but on a Sunday.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump and Vance to Zelenskyy 18 months ago: You are losing this war. You have no cards. Meanwhile, while Ukraine is kicking a much larger country’s ass who invaded it, Trump and Vance are losing to Iran.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If Spurs get relegated after that transfer window, difficult to see how they aren't so fucked financially that the tailspin continues beyond the Championship. (We're only in September I know, but does anyone see any sign of hope so far?)

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

article quotes him saying "I'm a Republican, but I'm probably going to vote a split ticket", so. wearily loading up the welcome wagon for this dipshit. climb on, you fucking moron. starter pack: u are peeling off as many fascists as humanly possible before it's too late

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Need to read these books now, damn it.

Fan of Reacher series references a book where Reacher takes out a white supremacist militia. Alan Ritchson replies that he had it approved until someone got reelected.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW: People’s Republic of China (PRC) entities likely linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly sold Iran satellite images of a US air base in Jordan that Iran later used to kill three US soldiers and injure another four. (1/8) Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

one fun thing is that this bankrupts almost all of the silicon valley oligarchs simultaneously unless they can get the board to convert their shares to nonvoting stock

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We can't fix the Dems, we need a new left wing party" is the political version of "we can't fix Earth's environment, we need to colonize Mars" in that however hard the first one is - and it may be very hard - the second one is an order of magnitude harder

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Need to read these books now, damn it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hesitate to over-learn anything from a single example, but Ossoff is a good argument for theory that people want a liberal who fights and this often gets missed in the spineless centrists vs. unelectable leftists discourse.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There's really no good argument against it, especially if Dems take the Senate. A distraction? Futile? As opposed to what, passing bills that you can't get past a veto anyway? Oversight? You get more attention and stronger legal tools with impeachment. Just do the right thing, it's good politics!

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Almost any show that goes past 5-6 seasons (with 15+ episode seasons) with a few exceptions. Like Modern Family as one generic example, peaked around 5 and then clung on like stale grim death for another 6 seasons.

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Ryan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Need the "Thank you, Trump" stickers for every nozzle.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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