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ScipioAsina

@scipioasina.bsky.social
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History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband to an amazing wife and dad to many cats and one large dog. Liberal, humanist, and Episcopalian.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h
meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
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You know who could have easily brokered a reasonable, amicable solution to the Cornell fiasco? I'm not even kidding: he would've done an exponentially better job than the imbecile Title IX bureaucrats and Keystone Cops campus police
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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 8h
Do you want progressive Christian churches to exist? Then we need your help. (If you don’t cool this post doesn’t apply to you no need to respond k thx bye)
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11h
I fully believe that this is Wayne's culture, because it's recognizably lower class white culture of the kind that JD Vance correctly excoriated in Hillbilly Elegy. However, it's not American culture or even PMC white culture. It's just hick culture.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 16h
as funny as the brooklyn dem stuff is, it really is the kind of thing that makes me think like well yeah no shit people hate dems, we run most of the major cities in the country and a huge portion of those parties are just social clubs for people to embezzle from.
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 14h
the reason why it is so important to go after high level guys is because it’s completely unviable to get every random goon or sympathizer. you hit the leaders so you can convince all the low level guys to pretend they were against it all along, which is how you get the consensus to move on
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 14h
"Bi Hispanic men in parking lot maintenance between 31-33 with some college are 0.25 points lower with dems than they were 2 hours ago, it's so fucking over" vs.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Literally this meme
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think it's pretty clear by now that there is nowhere near a majority of voters, anywhere, who inherently see far-right authoritarianism as extrinsic to the success or survival of democratic systems.
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every. Single. Time. #FML
South American election meme showing “Diego Hitlerio” beating  “Gabriela Rosa Sympatica” by .0001%
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ScipioAsina @scipioasina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cover of the book Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 by Clifford Putney. The image on the cover shows a group of young men in athletic attire singing around a man playing a piano.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let him at 'em again
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026
Come on
Hegseth cosplaying a NaziJudgement scene from Wolfeinstein.
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To paraphrase @diplomatofnight.com, behold the American shoot-and-cry mentality come home. He has learned nothing, his sadness means nothing, because he will do nothing different
He was beginning to believe that the Trump administration was "a joke," and that the Democrats were no better. "Everything is broken," Jack said.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The parish newsletter should have 1990s clip art as nature intended
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ScipioAsina @scipioasina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's fun to watch both conservatives and liberals try to square their desire for more conservatives in academia with the fact that conservatives are mostly incompetent swindlers whose beliefs and actions are incompatible with academia.
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"So I said it looks like you're just feeding priceless artifacts to the Ukrainian frontline and his Patriach of Moscow and all Rus started crying"
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FDR v. Stephen Miller
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians tried to transport a Mi-2 helicopter on a pickup truck, but overturned along with it. The incident happened in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026
I mean, sure, our Secrety of Defense is an overcompensating, alcoholic, terminal lieutenant bro with the strategic vision of a coma patient, but, have you seen his jump shot?
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
so many conservatives owe their success to the very liberal institutions they scorn
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses
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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Nazis inarguably sacrificed expertise, manpower, scarce resources they could not resupply, lots of time, and significant logistical capacity - all in the middle of what they realized was an existential war - to kill Jews. They deliberately chose genocide over military victory.
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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter
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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
> Be MAGA > Try to "undo 40 years of globalization" > Fail to develop an alternative philosophy for a consumer society that has grown accustomed to cheap products > Lose midterms
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 02/10/2026
1) no the corporations are paying more in interest to build DCs bc of this too 2) jesus christ 3) jesus effing christ
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Expecting men to understand the media they choose to consume is itself misandry
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Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954)
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you do not hate newspaper editors/publishers enough
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 02/10/2026
Alright, someone's gotta GIF this, it's got too much utility
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you have to do good policy because it's the right thing to do, and then you have to find a way to sell it* to the public because democracy and accountability are important, but you can't go chasing the public. *or, frankly, to do it without them noticing.
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/10/2026
Always happy to help with costume ideas for your #cats.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this word "nearly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
jesus christ, the hood is off
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🎃Vita💀Breva🪦 @vitabreva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Slop (mass-produced, disposable, formulaic, poor-quality media that exists solely to fill a base desire, lacking artistic value) and kitsch predate AI. The danger is AI makes them more abundant and eliminates even the potential for human creativity to shine through the cracks now and then.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.
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It's a beautiful sight.
This and 250,000 visa revocations.
U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE
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