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skepticicist.bsky.social

@skepticicist.bsky.social
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retired architect, secular humanist. I try laughing to keep from crying, works sometimes. Occasionally vulgar, sorry. I don’t suffer fools well. The definition of a pessimist is a well informed optimist

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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maybe it’s just the Trailer for a new season of Parks and Recreation?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Then, he also thinks he’s the sane one and all the rest of us are dim. That can happen if the bar is set below grade.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Makes a lot more sense than epoxy. Don’t know/care about the chemistry but a liquid polymer membrane is a good strategy. Durability is only as good as substrate prep. Can’t skip steps or rush it. Long tears in a properly cured membrane may suggest excessive movement. Tidal Basin is reclaimed swamp.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maybe flinched?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Surely you jest. Sir. This is the Post Consumer Economy. They go by “Tech rules” now. Tesla beta tests all of its models with a “Screw It” customer relations attitude. Why is loss of service their problem? They expect you to change carriers for the new device promo anyway.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Oh sure. Every Real American should just hop in their vintage English luxury car and See the USA In your Chevrolet? Next thing they’ll come up with is a new GOP Jobs Program by banning self service at the gas pump.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Guess they aren’t taking the hint.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Thx. I’m humbled and flattered.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Chain gangs were the extension of chattel slavery after the 14th Amendment. Justice was replaced by “Just Us”. Their songs were more call and response to set cadence. This tune isn’t sufficiently weary.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And I’ve restored early 19th century stone breastworks. Expediency can be the enemy of function and beauty. Knowing how Romans engineered the world, my bet is they were avoiding some related surface runoff and further erosion. Or, they could have been bored.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Unless you had nothing but hands and carts to move what gravity did to what remained.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Better than even odds he’s a solid YES on tax dollars paying for Shitler’s Bunker.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Who knew?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“What a fool believes… No wise man has the power… to reason away…”
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Don’t you despise living under the thumb of such mental midgets?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Like all who confuse shouting for reasoned discourse, he spends more time in front of a mirror than any book. He’s overmatched by accomplished and modest men. Like every frightened bully, he lashes out aggressively when questioned. A jester in the mock king’s court of fools.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
He’s a pugilistic little man who diminishes himself and those around him every time hr opens his mouth. The kind of pop dick who thinks shouting “Praise the Lord” somehow automatically grants him absolution for his depraved ignorance.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Is “oxy(contin)moron” an adequate summation?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Could this be why Vlad was a No-Show at the WHCD last night?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Are we being prepped for another J6/Bastille Day celebration?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
STFU Mini Me!
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Unreal! Far more newsworthy than the latest Trump assassination plot.
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Avi Scharf @avischarf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel
A Haaretz Investigation Reveals How Grain Stolen From Occupied Ukrainian Territory Has Been Sold to Israel. The Profits of the Shady Operation Are Financing Putin's War
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The problem with our current ‘journalistas’ personified.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It’s obvious Unless they think it may come in handy for exfiltration after the midterms.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Well finally! Join my world.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A true polymath! One of these terms is essential for understanding the universe; the other is essential for understanding our politics.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mastering the non-response.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Is he talking ICE raids?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Looks like “Militias and Slave States against reality”. Sort of a Gatlinburg production of Dawn of the Dead in red hats and camouflage.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Translation: What’s happened to all of the people who used to pay attention to whatever I randomly spouted?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Tied with Marc Thiessen?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Brilliant. Visceral.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
That Con-fidence thing only works for the clueless.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Working title: “Hold My Beer”. Just the leading edge of the “Fuck You So Sue Me” GOP faction. They don’t need a party platform with a judicial hit squad this reliable.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Never doubted his sincerity, he definitely wasn’t the mental midget that Trump is. For my generation, he was the consummate pitch man. Sold the hell out of soap flakes. Pre-82, his cabinet wasp pretty solid. If you leave out Haig and Meese. Iran-Contra? Stupid move and they were guilty.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Sorry. Boston is a dealbreaker. Check your polling.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Trump’s claim is both meritless and unsupported by facts.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Toss up, leaning Clark. The candidate pool is large, though.
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thank gawd, and Glenn Greenwald, we did not elect Hillary the hawk.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can the DC circuit laugh at them after the ruling? Otherwise, how can they balance audacity and bad faith against the rights of criminals?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Any interpretation of our Constitution predicated on the interests of an industry that didn’t exist in the first 150 years of our country isn’t exactly “originalism”. Just more capitulation by weasels like Hassett and his toady pals.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
God deliver us from this earthly bullshit. The original did enough damage furthering her own ambitions, the world is a better place without her self appointed spawn.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We must have missed the reporting where ICE/CBP agents invaded Zorro Ranch.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rules for thee but not for me
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Doesn’t want to be confused with V I Lenin?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The source of our nation’s strengths and “soft” power lies in our many contributions to science and the humanities. This is something a spokesman for our autocrats and oligarchs view with contempt. The wealth of goodwill accumulated over generations holds no value to avaricious fools.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Doubt he would have show n up then, either.
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Cuts into her new gig headlining at Mar al Lardo?
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skepticicist.bsky.social @skepticicist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Poor JD. Can’t hide from his own feeble attempt to make himself relevant.
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