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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gil Duran nails the philosophical underpinnings of the extreme practicality of this cut-rate batch of enlightened despots:

Longtermists round out the TESCREAL bundle. They view the “trillions” of humans yet unborn as more important than the billions currently on Earth and argue that decisions should be made in the interest of those future humans. Taken to its most extreme conclusions, it’s a philosophy that justifies sacrificing present populations for the sake of hypothetical future ones. Of all the TESCREAL ideologies, longtermism is perhaps the most important because it provides tech elites with a moral justification for just about any action.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My local weekly from the 1890’s is filled with stories of diphtheria deaths and the subsequent all-stops-out funerals. These obits are from the December 14, 1892 Red Bank Register. (Apologies for the challenging readability.)

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Same as it ever was. Just read this tonight and had thoughts along the same lines as yours. From one of John Aubrey’s quick takes on notable men of the 17th century:

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Put on your seatbelt because you’re going to be shocked by how much Rygel looks like that guy.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Today in the Times. I practically never read the paid obituaries. That picture and this date forced today’s exception.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I’m thinking this is more along the lines of wake role play.

Photo of a Black woman sitting at a table with a can of beer off to the side and a wine glass in front
of her with her right hand on its
base. She is wearing sunglasses and her outfit is complemented with an apricot rose and matching scarf. She is very much dead and this is how she asked to presented at her wake.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I have a thousand of these so maybe not precisely on point, but what the heck

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hey, Mar-a-Lago just last weekend.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Imagine being the owner of a late pup named Daisy.

Sweet piebald dachshund lounging on a bed.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I usually don’t know why I am standing in front of an opened refrigerator door, but this one was easy.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

So many easier ways to enter into the exciting hobby of cat-skinning.

George Booth cartoon of a gentleman in a seedy hotel room racing from the edge of the bed with the intention of lifting himself into a pair of trousers suspended between 2 chairs.
Thwarted in this attempted by the unexpected entry of the maid.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

First thing that always comes to mind:

After introductions, Moore asks Cook when he started his restaurant, "The Frog and Peach."

Cook replies, "Shortly after World War Two." And then continues, "Do you remember that? Absolutely ghastly business. Absolutely ghastly." Pauses and adds, "I was completely against it."

Moore agrees, "Well, I ... I think we all were."

A bit indignantly, Cook replies, "Yes, well, I wrote a letter."

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It’s that subtle twist of the screw that tells you that your dog isn’t safe.

The classic Spy magazine cover of a cautious dog assessing the danger presented by a gun pointed at its head. The caption is “If you don’t buy this magazine we’ll kill this dog.”

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Almost perfect, but a parenthetical “No shoes. No shirt. No service.” would not be amiss.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

For me this was the pivotal assessment made by those vying to be VP:

A note to myself before Trump
picked his VP: No doubt as you move up the food chain there are increasingly Jesuitical twists to it, but their basic question is “What’s in it for me?” For a huge swath it’s that warm feeling of white superiority, i.e., how Jesus intended. For the the more refined, e.g. Vance & Co., it’s the cold assessment that this guy is way past al dente and why pass up an opportunity. Sorta like when Trump tried to slip that new will past his demented father.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

And now for something completely shameful:

Front page of New York Times with 2 small photos below the fold on the left side and above a story about too many restaurants in Palermo.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It’s the inspired use of bulletproof fenestration that sells it.

Transcript of a Monty Python sketch in which an architect proposes a residential block of flats modeled on a slaughterhouse.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Look out for this cute kid. My nephew, who was re-upped from American Utopia as he is excellent.

Picture of percussionist performing with fellow musicians in David Byrne’s American Utopia.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Saddam’s palace. Just sayin’.

Picture of the crumbling entrance to Saddam Hussein’s palace. Photo’s caption mentions that bulldozers are at the ready.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is such a shame. He was such an up-and-comer at the EPA.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

They will also get bonus points for maiming a few. My nephew was born with bilateral congenital cataracts and maternal exposure to rubella during gestation is a cause.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

He’s one quick change shy of this:

Robbie Coltrane dressed in a
nun’s habit from “Nuns on the Run.”

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Pretty sure you were going for this:

Sci-fi chephalopod sitting in interior of a Dalek’s armored exterior.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Peter Falk and Alan Arkin at lunch counter from “The In-laws.”

Robert De Niro & Charles Grodin at a pay phone from “Midnight Run.”

John Candy with his classic smile and Steve Martin with a look of existential distress in a snowy publicity shot advertising “Planes, Trains & Automobiles.”

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Aged hippie here—well not so much a hippie as a retired IT professional who knows a lot about Henry James and clearly remembers the shock wave when Dylan went electric.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You know how the Smithsonian has a special place in its heart for pop culture, e.g. Julia Child’s kitchen. When it gets to curate this demonic moment, you can count on this being in the display:

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Get ready for a boatload of this

Gold (not really) medallion affixed to Oval Office entrance doors to give the room needed whorehouse cachet.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

These people would happily trample each other a’la the Black Friday door-opening at Wal*Mart for the honor of lighting the first crematorium.

Clip from The Daily Beast about Trump and Kristi Noem’s attendance at the opening of an immigrant detention center in Florida that is being dubbed Alligator Alley.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“The Rewatchables” has this category called “That Guy” for the actor in a movie who you’ve seen so many times, but you don’t know who his name. Emil is the epitome. He’s in every Scorsese, every Tarantino.

A picture of Emil Bove suited up and looking very mob attorney.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Not necessarily thrilled by this, but the first photo beats the second. The modern counterpart will be a toddler in a Bluey t-shirt. In spite of everything, do we all think people are good?

Picture of a burning police car in background with young shirtless man atop another cruiser hurling a skateboard.

The unforgettable photo of the round-up of Jews after the Warsaw uprising.

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My less temperate thoughts prior to the inauguration:

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

From Tim O’Brien’s “TrumpNation”:

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Nancy White @squanner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The gold standard for any Trump portrait is how close to his mother’s image is the portrayal. We each year she looks more like him in drag.

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