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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I believe it is AFTER he blocked the ball first.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025

McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

These guys have surely read more sci-fi than me, how did they get the morals exactly backwards?

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

They're still trying to atone for "missing it" in 2016. Of course, they're wrong to try to rebuild any trust this way. Everyone missed it, but not everyone printed breathless headlines about "her emails".

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Radiohead - “The Bends” (1995)

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I think it's also a tell of how little or useless what they actual do is. Agree they're full of it, but I think there's also an aspect of them not doing anything of value that would pull on what they learned during their (likely) years in higher education.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

First song on shuffle this morning…

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A vast work of science fiction that stretches almost infinitely into the future, and the abstract, but gets to the core of worldly conflict.

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"So why is it that when human beings have built everything, life is suddenly meaningless? ...it seems to me that there is a relationship between the construction of a human society and this sudden feeling that nothing means anything." - Fredric Jameson, "The Years of Theory" (2024)

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Second book I closed the year with, You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. Always alluring, grim, and gleeful. Uniquely satisfying and sobering historical fiction.

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Translated by Natasha Wimmer

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Finished reading two books to close the year. The first was Aednan by Saskia Vogel. A modern epic whose style reflects how trauma stretches across generations with few words but massive space.

Aednan by Linnea Axelsson
Translated by Saskia Vogel

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What they're doing is also a huge scam! None of what they're offering should take 2-3 weeks with "AI" (questionable usage by them) and the price point is taking advantage of writers that don't know how to navigate the current self-publishing ecosystem.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Describing any Father John Misty song is like explaining the joke, so I'll just say: will be a great winter album. Love it when something is timed right with the season.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“transcend the culture wars” as if that is all there is so transcending is possible there. You can see why these people don’t want to give up X/twitter.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

An all-time late night show band. Always killed it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2024

people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sean Parker’s trajectory over us all.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The latest of the late whistles

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I think we've crossed a threshold with advertising in current media where it's just too much and too terrible that people are starting to tune out. It's only going to get worse (more ad-supported plans; more AI drek) and you're starting to see people jump off.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Why does the guy on the left look like he was made in Unreal Engine?

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's definitely uncharted territory. It feels like we could wake up one day and people can't get their lexapro, but be allowed as much ayahuasca as they want. There really isn't much of a consistent philosophy here beyond "I say they're wrong, therefore I'm right."

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Added bonus of better taste.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I switched to decaf when they told me it'd be better for my anxiety. Years later I realized that all of the cream and sugar I was using to make it palatable wasn't helping me and I, rebelliously, tried espresso. I can deal with 20 minutes of my heart racing better than half a day of nausea.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Yea, that feels like a way easier target than soda or junk food to me. Less publicly visible and Pharma is a fairly universal big bad to people.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Totally enhanced by the symbolist layout/compositing and illustrations by Victoria Sawdon.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just read: The Wood at Midwinter short story by Susanna Clarke. An alternate, supernatural take on “Stopping by Woods…” the reminds you of your personal freedom in the dark.

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Demiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Chicago style “pizza”

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is true and they tried to warn us. Name another food that literally makes you cry.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Not just casual readers. It's worth considering how AI's will ingest and train on this content and spit something back out with similar detachment.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

“I’m talking about Matt Gaetz the guy who wrote an amicus brief supporting the FTC’s noncompete ban.”

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

“I’m talking about Matt Gaetz the guy who wrote an amicus brief supporting the FTC’s noncompete ban.”

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Biden was wrecked after the Afghanistan withdrawal. Harris tried to claim we were not in war zones, and was called out for it. We’re all aware that we’re fighting wars even if we are not *at* war.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Maybe he’s a Target guy? Idk.

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Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Michael Scott definitely voted for Trump in 2016.

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