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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An ironic thing about Trench Crusade is that “World War I where you have to shoot demons” feels less grimdark a setting than the actually existing “World War I where you have to shoot the 19 year-old you played soccer with during the Christmas of 1914.”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimiste: The cup ys halfe full Pessimiste: The cup ys halfe emptye Alchemiste: The cup [sleighte of hande] ys GOLDE!

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Academic friends: I emailed local folks this morning about a graduate student teaching gig, but this is also a possibility for students from farther-afield universities if they happen to be physically located in New York this fall. Details below.

One of the TAs for my Islamic Spain lecture course was reassigned to teach a Spanish language class, so I'm looking for a replacement TA, ideally someone in comparative, Spanish, Arabic, or Hebrew literature;
Islamic or Jewish studies; medieval studies; or history. Because this is part of the core curriculum rather than a departmental course, we're able to hire students in NYU programs or from outside NYU as adjuncts as long as they can be physically present in New York for the class meetings. The lecture component of the course meets on Tuesday and Thursday from 11-12:15 and the TA will lead two discussion sections on Wednesdays, 12:30-1:45 and 2-3:15 and will be responsible for grading student written work. I don't have pay information right at hand but I will touch base with the core curriculum office to be able to provide a figure to students who might be interested in this role.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

@profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social look what The Bright Ages was placed next to. Needless to say, I am rescuing the book from the shop.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tory Legacy 6.15m people awaiting 7.27m hospital appointments in England. 3,000 a day treated in corridors. 300,000 a year die awaiting hospital appointment. Good health not seen as investment. Healthy life expectancy declining. Govts obsessed with fiscal rules and 'mustn't tax the super rich'.

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NHS waiting list falls slightly despite record demand

The waiting list fell to 7.27m from 7.28m in May despite a record number of patients being referred for treatment. Health and social care secretary Yvette Cooper...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

England's water companies to hike customer bills by an extra £3.4bn. Over a trillion litres of water lost to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers No new reservoirs since 1989 Exec pay and dividend bonanza Over 1,200 criminal convictions Still allowed to trade Captive customers fleeced.

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Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding

Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So fucking tired of Clanker slop polluting my feed on everything. Now more than ever I want to become a little forest goblin who gets to enjoy trees and nature while avoiding capitalist hell.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Bear is the best example of the food service industry I have seen in film. No show has made me love food and wine more, and no show has reinforced the trauma of working in the industry. It is an uncanny experience, watching the show and knowing everyone the show is discussing at the same time.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@sanders.senate.gov the problem with your speech in Portland tonight is that your colleagues who claim to love America do love children. Just not in a legal or healthy way. Release the unredacted Epstein files. Burn the system down.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I cannot wait until this Government is paraded through the streets like Mussolini. Or until they kill themselves in a bunker while we come for them.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.... Donald Trump and his rogue government need to be replaced. Vote out all collaborative democrats and demand change.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This morning at 26 Federal Plaza, I'm relieved to report that I saw no ICE agents roaming the halls & no abductions. On Monday, a federal judge confirmed what we’ve said for a year: ICE's arrests in NYC immigrant courts are lawless. (1/4)

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am not a student in the United Kingdom, but I have been. Shutting down the humanities is the single stupidest action a university could take. If you want to make society better fund the humanities. Cut billionaires from society not education. England it is time to remove your societal leeches.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I read today that more than 60% of Americans are in credit card debt. We need massive banking reform. We need a new deal. We need to tax the rich. We need to remove the social security tax cap. We need to restore the Glass Steagall act. Banks shouldn't use your money for speculative markets!

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thomas Massie shouldn't have lost his primary, but AIPAC apparently can spend money to spend money, at this point they own most of congress. We must overturn citizens united. Money isn't speech!

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 24/04/2026

Today marks 110 years since the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic. This copy of the 1916 Proclamation, owned by Dr. Kathleen Lynn, features the names of eleven of the women imprisoned in Mountjoy Gaol after the Rising, signed on 19 May 1916: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I long for the day when I can't name a billionaire nor recall what they look like. Can I call a mulligan on my life?

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If Raskin is telling the truth about the 950k instances of Trumps name being redacted. Then I say we are a lawless nation, and our government is false. The rule of law is dead, and will be until the government is dust. End the rich, burn the pedophiles, and prosecute all collaborators.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

No Bruce, I replay it often. Thinking that it is "cringe," "what a grand and intoxicating innocence." But it should be remastered. If you're doing oblivion and fallout. Go back and return to the game that made Todd Howard cool. Give us Kirkbride's lessons of vivec. In the interim to OpenMW I go!

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IGN @ign.com · 31/01/2026

"Go back and play Morrowind and tell me that’s the game you want to play again," said Bruce Nesmith, who worked for Bethesda for over 17 years, adding that playing The Elder Scrolls 3 "would not stand the test of time." bit.ly/4q4GoKh

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Is there a way where we could build a separate internet framework using the wayback machine, so like If I was running say Wifi I am on an old internet that doesn't support AI or AI content. Or can someone deploy emps at AI data centers? I am ready for it to keel over and die.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

But on the note of Stranger Things, everyone is emotionally invested in the Max plot and the Kate Bush song. But my metalhead is more upset about Eddie. They gave him Master of Puppets, but his final scene should have had Holy Diver or Temple of the King playing. My boy deserved it.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

So I bit the bullet and marathoned Stranger Things. Only to discover I have to wait until New Years to get the final episode. Streaming services suck, they have just become the cable companies they sought to challenge.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Petition to begin calling the Perry x Trudeau relationship Perrydeau.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

100 a month is outrageous. You find 100 documents and read them only to realize you asked the wrong question and only got 6 decent sources. Do the JStor people even research?

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

No taxation without representation. Massachusetts needs a militia

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Hot take, the government shouldn't be able to "shut down." If you are part of a shut down, you don't fucking work for me anymore. Fuck these vichy fucks. This congress does not speak for me, my peers, nor my wife.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I like how people trust AI inherently and I don't trust the automatic sensors in public bathrooms. Just because I shifted a fraction of an inch doesn't mean flush. Frantically waving does mean turn on the sink/ dispense soap/ give me a paper towel.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Welp, looks like portland needs to get some fucking ICE melt.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Vichy democrats at it again.

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Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Just under a week left to submit a proposal for our sessions at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next year and to apply for a bursary! #Skystorians #MedievalSky

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

There is a dangerous message being sold across the UK media that right wing extremism is inevitable and all we can do is offer up its desired victims - migrants, all people of colour, disabled people, trans people - in advance. But people's actions tell a different story.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Everyone in power in every country in which his businesses operate should condemn him. And pull support from him.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/09/2025

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena

Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

In case this needs to be said, in light of recent conservative news, unhoused people are perople too. Furthermore, in the USA the majority are former service members... lets hope they are armed when the government comes to kill them.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I understand what living in the warhammer 40k age of apostasy was like.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

No one Nobody Nothing Nada Elite journalist: let me tell you why I liked that guy you hate

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"Is the mythical transgender link to the killer in the room with us right now?"

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Trans rights are human rights. Human rights are not negociable.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Erek @sommandmooch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

On the nature of Groyper behavior, a term I just learned, I see how it pervades the internet. I remember my brother and I discussing CS2 with my wife. Our literal pitch for her to play was, "you might hear an incel call you the N-word." At the time, years ago, I thought this was standard.

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