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Phil in the Blanks

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I'm just some guy. Illinois dad. I write (rarely) on my blog: sketches.foo A song for you to enjoy: music.alcocerfamily.com/share/4frBI…

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Man, shit like this is genuinely hurting my soul. youtu.be/N5YDkQ6oFcE
youtu.be
I Visited a Railroad Museum that was all AI Slop - and this is why it's so bad
YouTube video by Great Basin Car Shops
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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This was one of my favorites as a kid.
Far Side cartoon. A fish is upside down, rising tail first to the surface, its feet in white cubes. The caption explains: Embedded in Styrofoam "shoes," Carl is sent to "sleep with the humans."
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/06/2026
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
washingtonpost.com
Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport
Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A man is in a coffin dressed with relish, mustard, onion, tomato, a long slice of pickle and sport peppers. One mourner mentions to another "per his will, he is being buried Chicago-style."
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Iran's 10-point plan, which President Trump agreed to, includes the complete removal of all sanctions imposed on Iran, but does not include a commitment to give up its nuclear stockpile or to completely halt uranium enrichment.
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.
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taswell_ @into-the-void.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
for your consideration:
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serpy @dogmouthed.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/03/2026
being honest about what Republicans actually are upsets Republican sources, readers, event sponsors, and ownership, costing corporate media money so you get this bizarre kayfabe where Republicans are given bottomless credibility they never had to earn
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
WARIO: haha i just drank your lemonade MARIO: that was a urine sample WARIO: a what MARIO: itsa wee wario
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fullyspectrumed.bsky.social @fullyspectrumed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Same
Elmo says: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters."
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Spillane @spillanetp.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife
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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, a rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born
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Schmrrrlex @schmrrrlex.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Particle Man: *jolts awake in a cold sweat* I dreamed of him again
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 09/02/2026
Not beating the Nazi allegations over there
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
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Robin SPOOKS! @assumptionprime.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
hey wanna see 39 seconds of perfect video editing?
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this is some fox's book of martyrs shit. jesus christ.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/01/2026
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Conrad 🙂 @shitpost.expert · 17/01/2026
every time someone talks about how good obama was i think about when he drone strike executed an american citizen child and when the admin was asked to explain themselves they said the kid "should have had a more responsible father
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 15/01/2026
GOP: We will come to your home and kidnap you. We will kill you if you object. We will cleanse the streets of you. You are like rodents. We laugh as we squish you beneath our feet. You are not even human. Ours is the Fourth Reich. Democrats: Ignore that, we are only talking about the economy.
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
GOP: We are sending armed perverts to assault families. Even babies. We are in open warfare against all things good. Schumer: People call him TACO, but these days it's getting hard to afford one! Can you chip in $5 today to help us hold Mr. Trump accountable for these soft shell economic policies?
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 31/12/2025
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A VINTAGE WOODEN CATHEDRAL RADIO AGAINST A STRANGE TEAL BACKGROUND
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The image is of a comic.
Panel one depicts a young girl in bed. She hears "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.
Panel two depicts the same girl with an excited expression. She thinks, "That must be santa on the roof!"
Panel three depicts the girl smiling.
Panel four depicts a possum on the roof in heels making the "CLOP CLOP CLOP" noises.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
Tweet by Jason
@longwall26

My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can't I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 04/11/2025
Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder."
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/10/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id.  To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/09/2025
We're seeing the Uber rich start to low key refer to themselves like a separate species. They are delusional and haven't thought the end game of this through. Billionaires are the greatest existential threat to the world and humanity that history has ever seen.
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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 18/09/2025
Next week: Welcome to the resistance, Zombie Hitler.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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