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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do I text the "airborne operations POW camp" meme to Tom Cotton?

Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like there's a lot of blind spots about how men encounter this. Sexual assault, like every other crime, is primarily committed by repeat offenders. Most guys aren't around people bragging about violating current norms. (Which does not mean those norms are *good* - e.g. Revenge of the Nerds).

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an ex-Vox employee the combined audience for non-NFL professional football leagues.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rereading this article just makes me mad. We had folks working tirelessly for a ceasefire & we threw it away over a fantasy that there was a Bibi remote control on the Resolute Desk that Biden refused to use.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My take from this story is that Joe Biden was the only guy will to de-escalate and pretty much everyone else chose to kill people over any other available option and Biden's impulses lost.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They're just thieves who think the whole world belongs to them now.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Taking the time machine back to the 600s so I can go up to Mu'awiya and hit him with "yeah, I'm into Fitna, fitna delicious plate of rice and masgouf in my mouth."

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Especially since it would have probably been in line with the mainline game series and would have avoided Ron Gilbert's stupid meta bullshit.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

IMO the funniest way to do the Dawnwalker romances is Anca -> Lacra under the assumption that Coen was a virgin going in. The nicest young man in Vale Sangora basically being thrown into the middle of the ocean and being told how to learn how to swim.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still extremely funny when people who also purport to be housing specialists poast about how the bad economic vibes are just in people's heads.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Luthen's Shadow": a re-examination of Mon Mothma's actions during the days immediately leading up to the Battle of Yavin and her consolidation of power over the Rebel Alliance.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026

SKATTEBO: Skattebo Football Jaxson, Victory Football COACH: No, Cam, you can't play with Jaxon SKATTEBO: Good Skattebo Play Football Skattebo Depth Chart Quarterback COACH: Cam, he has a knee injury, he's not playing football SKATTEBO: Jealousy Harbaugh

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

IMO because the thesis in the 2010s was that kids succeed or fail primarily based on the resources expended or the median quality of their classmates. When the bleak reality is that (a) a lot turns on parents supplementing education at home and (b) it's not the median, but the bottom, that controls.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's a gut wrenching article, but I will also say that it unintentionally highlights the exact reason why some schools succeed and some don't, and it's not resources. It took *years* for NHJ to start checking her daughter's homework. That lack of parental involvement is pretty shocking.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

See also why Eastern Euro companies tend to put out larger games relative to the available budget.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would like off of Kaerdiac Kaelen's Wild Ride.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Emily Wilson might be the greatest physicist alive, because she has somehow found a way to warp 15 minutes into three months. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

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Emily Wilson Can’t Let ‘The Odyssey’ Go

The translator spoke about her desire to retranslate the epic—and her harsh review of the recent film.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI doomsayers think AI will kill us all because it's Skynetermute. But it's far likely to be because some moron slopguzzler cuts corners when he shouldn't.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mortgages 1.75x in cost for the same dollar of loan in the space of a year will do that.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you ever think that sometimes Xi feels like he wants take-backsies on his whole rolling purge of the Chinese military?

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Extremely funny that people dunked on Zitron for lacking a solid grasp of Glup Shittov algorithms and now the key AI players are suddenly panicking at their capex costs vs revenues, while NVidia is desperately calling in the president to keep the money cycle flowing.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is transparently a ploy for taxpayer funding. Revenues aren't developing as needed and the capex liability over the next few years is insane, so now safety is an excuse to go begging for a bailout. Wouldn't be surprised if "regulation" was also a force majeure play on datacenter contracts.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I get that the increase in DoorDash prices under Biden was bad, but I feel that this going a bit far.

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Lib Commoner @waterhurled.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

One paragraph in and this article is already insane. “Eh, Republicans don’t do that much damage to trans people, and we can undo it anyway. But DEMOCRATS on the other hand”.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We already spend 20% of the budget (and growing!) on interest payments and the median voter has demonstrated that he would send his neighbors to the camps if you promised him it'd reduce inflation by 0.005%. The reserve currency buffer is shrinking.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But I was repeatedly assured by smart tactics knowers that something something "air supremacy" something something "we're just built different" meant that the US did not have to be concerned about mid-level enemy powers.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reupping this now that the grant Hunter rehab tour turned out just to be a ploy to shill a memecoin rugpull.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Catching up on the news. Very funny that the current scandal in mathematics is that two people using the plagiarism bot got plagiarized by the owner of the plagiarism bot. No one could have seen that coming.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Starting Blood of the Dawnwalker and it's really refreshing how they didn't go with the usual snarker RPG protag in favor of Coen just being a good old lad.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I feel like a lot of the thinking re: MAHA ignores that it's mostly an offshoot of the crunchy-fash online media pipeline of the late 2010s that also heavily drove QAnon and (I'd argue) is very analogous to what drove Mumsnet's dominance in the UK.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Well that was absolute bullshit.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I don't know what's funnier. Underwood being a colossal bust, or Michigan getting blasted in the trenches.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm trying to avoid doing as much PvP these days, but woo boy are the "if you don't support Silicon Valley stealing everyone's shit to build the simulacra factory you would have stood with Bull Connor against the civil rights movement" freaks are testing my limits.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Randomly thought about this again. Fox was *wilding* on saturday mornings in the 1990s. Absolutely fantastic show.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My "Coyote v. Acme is both hilarious and also obviously written for people old enough to be on Bluesky" thesis remains undefeated.

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

DON'T SHOOT YOUR FUCKING GIRLFRIEND OR PEDDLE IN APOLOGETICS FOR IT

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is Pearl Harbor for moopsy posters.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Its funny but they sometimes really do nail it

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So apparently poor motor control as a kid is one of the biggest signs of autism and my inability to accurately throw a ball really should have alerted my parents.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To put things in perspective: one of the funniest gags in the film is a scene involving Road Runner chaos with "Nobody Speak" by Run the Jewels censored using "Meep Meep" instead of the usual beeps. If you got this joke you are old enough to be on bluesky.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The film is *hilarious*. However, this does go to the general problem Looney Tunes has had for decades, which is they were really cartoon shorts meant for general cinema audiences, not necessarily kids. (Contrast this to Disney, who has always been on demographic).

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

None of this is true. Arion Kurtaj wasn’t sentenced to life imprisonment; his own legal team argued that he was “unfit to plead,” which means that he was unable to understand the nature of the charges against him or to assist meaningfully in his defense. They requested he be evaluated.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Overall conclusion from Acme v Coyote is that Zaslav must pay for his sins.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So @bretdevereaux.bsky.social has wrapped his excellent series on raising forces and I wanted to offer a commentary and slight critique on it. IMO I think it's worthwhile to pull the curtain back a bit, because I think there's a bit of a risk of historical overfit. acoup.blog/2026/06/05/c...

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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It's a Lionel O Scale set, so 0/10, absolutely unloveable, would not purchase if it was on sale for $1.00.

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