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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the worst thing you can do is to base your values on what you think the public wants, the second-worst thing you can do is convince yourself that the public really shares your values and is being betrayed. People are simply not consistent enough or knowledgeable enough en masse to say this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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

We've wreaked generational damage on the US, killed millions worldwide, & crucially killed countless Palestinian civilians by electing Trump & all because Joe Biden revealed certain folks fantasy-version of middle east relations weren't real.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Atlantis on the Pad - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/a3feXb

The shuttle Atlantis awaits on Pad 39A after RSS retraction on July 7, 2011. It successfully launched the following morning at 11:29 am for the final flight of the shuttle program.

© Jason Major
www.lightsinthedark.com

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perpetually amazed at how so many people can be deeply invested in defending someone they don't know from allegations from people who do know them and yet... Can't understand how someone like Trump can "fool" so many people who don't follow the news. It's all hard-wired people!

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 19/09/2026

three people involved here, two randos in a screenshot and one moderately famous one quoting them, none of whom are actually “the democrats” because that’s not how any of this works, but i hope everyone’s dopamine receptors are having fun

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The problem with Blue Sky isn't that it's an echo chamber, but it is that if lacks significant conservative voices. There must be an Enemy on social media, the entire free engagement model relies on the Two Minutes of Hate, so we just make them up as @whstancil.bsky.social on LLMs or Piker, etc.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You are one post away from being declared a winner and send a trophy by Blue Sky

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is it from destroying the only known location human life can be sustained with their massive power use?

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Kellan jett @kellanjett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really cant emphazise enought how much Star Wars Zero Company has grabbed me. Again, im totally biased but I think the game is really special. It has gotten me excited about star wars for the first time in 15 years. Go pick it up, dont wait for a sale.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please, for the love of God, if Dems win the House elect a speaker who delivers legislation the majority regularly votes for and helps widen the majority in the next general election. That's it. That's the Speaker job.

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This makes a lot of sense when you remember S1 and 2 included nonbinary characters, otherness defended in court, the ethics of keeping a loved one alive to try to heal them and so on. And S3 was released in 2025. Wonder what happened then and if the owners of Paramount cared?

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So my only complaint about the Strange New Worlds puppet episode was you could feel corporate attorneys hovering over set hissing "don't say muppet, that's Disney IP" when the episode was obviously intended to be "muppet" (and, of course, were muppets)

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You guys realize you've already killed Strange New Worlds right? You did it, they tore up and trashed the set. You don't have to complain about it anymore, it's dead. Star Trek can live as an ideal type in your brain and you don't have to worry about a new audience causing them to make bad

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Taco Bell continuing to get bad press for being the only organization aware of and reporting this when it was happening. Real Spanish Flu vibes

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If we don’t sweep up DraftKings and FanDuel in the wake of destroying Kalshi and Polymarket, what the fuck are we even doing?

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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He’s also claiming that it was ‘the first adjournment vote in decades’. Not only is that not true, but…

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

… Baked Mike Lee could have forced a vote by simply objecting on any UC to adjourn, and BML+19 could have forced a recorded vote. So his bragging "I secured an agreement to vote on adjournment" is like saying, "I secured an agreement with Costco to get a hot dog combo for $1.50." 9/

Display sign at a Costco, showing a large Kirkland hot dog in a bun, with a Pepsi, for $1.50.

Mike Lee selfie in from of the Capitol at night.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.

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Rosemary Braun @rosemarybraun.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi @wamu.org, was expecting Hot Jazz Saturday night, but your livestream is playing All Things Considered. What happened? #HotJazzSaturdayNight

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pet peeve: "vote blue no matter who" being treated as a serious thing real people say, and not a slogan tossed around by people engaged mostly with their keyboards

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'll be disappointed if Stevens wins, but mostly what you should take away from tonight is that the coalition really is divided between factions with lots of genuine support, we can't wish the other side away, and we're all going to have to learn to live with each other if we want to win.

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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.

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R'lyeh Precinct Captain Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Senate appropriations bills, which I am sure most posters have read

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Army Mountain Warfare School looks gorgeous inside

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The amount of agitprop on @bsky.app is so alarmingly high, I wonder if they are doing anything at all to try to track and flag foreign influence campaigns.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/07/2026

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is basically the defining feature of huge swaths of our politics now

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is potentially a very big deal - hoping we see a bunch of papers with really old aDNA from Africa soon! Access to that information could answer a lot of outstanding questions about migration back to Africa, admixture with archaic humans, population structure, and much more.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My hot take is that Lindsey Graham did many contemptible things but if you’re furious that his Senate Democratic colleagues are posting nice things about him today you need to put down your phone, get some fresh air, and remember a time when a colleague you disliked departed this mortal coil.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

What I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion in life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it to find a different line of work than electoral politics.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

total and utter mystery what the primal social ethic of the early church was

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children forever.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Most people don’t realise South America is this big

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Sherman Patrick @shermanpatrick3.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think there's a lot to discuss here, but I think we are discounting a simple "I'm the captain now" arrogance on the part of many of his prominent supporters. Platner was appealing because he promised to be their ally in fighting Schumer to take control.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i am once again vindicated in thinking that the vast majority of nominees should make it past a state level election before running for federal office

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mamdani is performing. He is a former artist from a family of directors. He is putting on a character. You think that he is authentic because he is good at it, and is extremely disciplined and never/rarely breaks character. This is not an anti-mamdani post: it's a reason he's an effective politician

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing

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