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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 06/10/2026

The attraction of the quiet and splendor of an infinite horizon with its quiet night skies and its horror as the wind begins its song? The fast, and even potentially slow, death wrought by the majestic terror of nature? Big mommy sea waves 'n step on my lungs with 22 ft waves mommy mommy pls

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 01/10/2026

when you get the little popcorn kernel detritus between your teeth you can shout, "OW MY BALLS."

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 01/10/2026

smae and impostin bot it in byob

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 01/10/2026

Are we really this old? This was yesterday.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 16/09/2026

Oh death, Oh death, Won't you spare me over for another year? The big rock candy mountain is calling!

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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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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 10/08/2026

EU games are a continuation of the CK games, but take the scale to nascent nation building and the age of imperialism instead of the noble family lines. They're all different styles of 4X games that will each earn over a thousand hours of game time.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 10/08/2026

Victoria III has better political simulations, better socio-economics. EU IV and V have better colonization and war mechanics. In short: Imperialism the Simulator vs My Workers Hate My Capitalists and The Capitalists Hate my Taxes.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 10/08/2026

They offer different experiences and similar depths. I really enjoyed both, but Victoria II and III is more of an economics and industrial revolution simulator; EU games are grow-and-conquer 4x games.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 10/08/2026

Both will take up hours upon hours of your time that you never knew you lost spending it trying to min-max your prosperity until it's too late. You look at the time and it's 2am, but you have a revolution to win.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 24/07/2026

I have strong memories of seeking out water as a dehydrated little person and getting unhappy that the water fountain was out of order (it had been out of order since Reagan).

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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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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 02/06/2026

How do you keep doing these outstanding bangers that make me laugh every time? I'm in public sir. I am laughing maniacally in public. It's not good!

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 01/06/2026

oh my god this is so fucking good.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 12/05/2026

Hang in there, three-eyed hellbeast from Kepler-133b!

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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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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 08/04/2026

Deinonychus spent half her morning running after Zephyrosaurus, for almost a whole 5k, soon after a morning thunder storm got her feathers all wet and sticky. She has NO chill regarding this passive-aggressive bs.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 08/04/2026

OP. Why!? This is terrible. I love it.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 08/04/2026

I am not a fan. Babadook is a physical manifestation of grief, of trauma; you push it away, it gets stronger. You integrate it, it no longer rules over you. Babadook doesn't deserve to be happy, it needs a therapist!

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 07/04/2026

You're a sitting senator. Strongly worded statements are basically satire at this stage.

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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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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 01/04/2026

GOD DAMN. PERFECT IN EVERY WAY.

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taswell_ @into-the-void.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

for your consideration:

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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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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 24/03/2026

Look, if I were a trained zooarchanogist/cryptozoologist I’d have a better answer for you, but as a layman I read a conjecture that it’s because Maggie likes their optimum scream-to-crunch ratio? A fifth grader is median approximately 70-100lbs of flesh and bone; optimal for an adult female Maggie.

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 24/03/2026

Well that's the rub: she prefers them most of all, but will go for dogs and the occasional baby or five when the opportunity presents itself. You also gotta understand the need for blood and/or iron intake. Think of our light rail infrastructure!

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Phil in the Blanks @sketches.foo · 24/03/2026

Maggie, an obligate carnivore, has a caloric intake of between two to five 5th grade classes per week, depending on flight needs and whether she naps in between versus needing to stay vigilant against other would-be predators/suitors. The ecology can only handle so much Maggie!

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