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Talespinner

@talespinner.bsky.social
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Heya, I'm Josh. He/Him. Lefty, RPG guy, Bay Arean, cat dad, outdoorsy. Looking for a place to buy Kofola Cola, vegetarian XLB, and fresh huitlacoche in the Bay. One time Mara Wilson liked one of my skeets. Not bragging, just saying.

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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it just says so much that they think making literal Jesus a woman takes away from his essence more than making him ... y'know ... a fucking lion.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Honor the passing of a giant. And if you have never SEEN this marvel, nothing I say can prepare you. (It will seem at first that you know what you’re getting, but you do not.)
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Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare.
A screenshot of two Bluesky posts, the first announcing the death of power-rock legend Bonnie Tyler, and the second (unrelated) post, from the "William Shakespeare" account, saying "a good riddance," making it look as though Shakespeare was gloating over Bonnie Tyler's death.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/04/2026
"[Ben] Shapiro is an intellectual imposter of the grandest sense. What a waste of mind and life."
notesfromthecircus.com
The Most Articulate Apologist
A Crisis Dispatch
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alexandra @bigmoodenergy.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We’ve gone from “I don’t care if they reopen the Strait” to “we’ll destroy your civilization if you don’t reopen the strait” to “well if THEY don’t reopen the strait then WE are going to blockade it ourselves.” What an extraordinarily embarrassing moment for this country.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Guns didn’t help Minneapolis
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
When you drop a bomb on civilians, I think that’s murder. I don’t really care for any justifications. They’re people. The enormity of the loss is devastating and it’s easier for some people to look away. But for other people, that’s their family. Their children. It’s just sickening and so wrong.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
it cant be said enough that all tech smart guys and billionaires thought this guy would be great and now the world economy is fucked we're like a week from gas rationing and their guy is threatening nukes.
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I have to say, I miss the days when "liberal vs. left" was primarily about differing positions on political issues, not about which social media personalities you prefer.
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Marie in the Sky With Diamonds @murray6971.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🎶Do you hear the people sing? singing the song of Gentle Ben, Rawr roar rawr rawr roar roar rawr roar rawr roar roar roar rawr roar rawr roar🎶
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Reupping my list of Suggested Muppet Show Guests Chappell Roan Hugh Jackman Selena Gomez Jemaine Clement Quinta Brunson Ncuti Gatwa Timothée Chalamet Matt Berry Dave Bautista Jack Quaid Awkwafina John Hamm Idris Elba Tawny Newsome Kathryn Hahn Lin-Manuel Miranda Natasha Lyonne Stephanie Beatriz
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
One agonizing part of now is knowing that the gutter internet racists are seeing all their sickest dreams come true through Stephen Miller. www.thefarce.org/how-gutter-i...
Here’s the part that keeps nagging at me, the thing I think had confused me for years: the policies were never meant to work. Not in the way people who care about government and their neighbors want things to “work.”

Family separation was brutal yet inefficient. Slashing refugee admissions did nothing to truly change how America looks. “Invasion” rhetoric produced chaos, not control. I kept reading these failures as failures — as evidence that the people in charge were incompetent, or cruel for cruelty’s sake.

But once you run it through Brimelow’s lens, the confusion disappears. These policies weren’t meant to solve problems. They were meant to stage conflict.

The drama was the point. Every spectacle — the crime stories, the Confederate statues, the racist porn of the horrible French novel Camp of the Saints— was designed to do the same thing: spike identity. Remind white voters who they were, what they were losing, and who was to blame. Immigration policy became a storytelling machine.

Miller’s fixation on symbolic battles makes total sense once you see it this way. It always made sense. I just wasn’t looking at it right.

Our failure to stop Miller in 2019 — when his fanaticism was plainly exposed, when Hayden’s reporting laid it all out — reveals something uncomfortable about how ideas move from fringe to center. Miller didn’t need a revolution. He needed a bureaucracy.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They wheeled this Nazi asshole into court in a wheelchair and he was still trying to hide his face in shame 76 years after World War II ended. That's the kind of commitment I'm looking for.
nbcnews.com
Ex-Nazi guard, 101, sentenced for role in 3,500 murders
He was sentenced to five years in prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026
recorded this last week
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Why Congress Needs to Treat ICE Like the Ku Klux Klan
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/01/2026
“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...
After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them "cowards" and telling them to go home.
One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: "Boo hoo." Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car. Protesters dragged garbage dumpsters from alleyways to block the streets, and people who gathered chanted, "ICE out now," referring to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
"They're killing my neighbors!" said Minneapolis resident Josh Koskie.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
this is what happens when the regime, at the highest levels, sends the express message that it will defend any and all excesses
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MouldenBloodFountainable @gifsmooth.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Not to armchair psychologize too much, but just look at the way they fight compared to riot cops. They IMMEDIATELY fall in and encircle anyone they perceive as weak. Sort of like their primary training comes from beating on a guy until he names a bunch of breakfast cereal.
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There is no pit deep enough. There is no fire hot enough. Kidnapping a child and forcing them to knock on doors so they will be opened to you? That's grotesquely evil, like a vampire or a movie villain. Just rotting meat and cruelty where these people once had souls.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Worth every second
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12/01/2026
people will say the framers never could have predicted this, but that's not true at all, they absolutely *did* expect someone like trump, they thought congress would *stop* him, and they thought they made that clear
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I just think it's wild that the armed professionals who wander our streets are allowed to act in fear, but the untrained normal citizens are supposed to know exactly what to do under terrifying circumstances or die
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Law Boy, Esq.
@The_Law_Boy
if you think you're bad at your job, there's a Ronald Reagan biographer who didn't realize he was a racist until a week ago
Lois Beckett • @loisbeckett • 1d
"I'm kind of taken aback. This is stunning," said Bob Spitz, author of Reagan: An American Journey.
"In all of my very careful research into his...
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11:46 • 8/1/19 • Twitter Web App
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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
So one of the best tech-related books of the year was "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social a great read on the ideologies of the Silicon Valley, @davekarpf.bsky.social wrote the best review of it davekarpf.substack.com/p/book-revie...
davekarpf.substack.com
Book Review: "More Everything Forever"
A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 26/12/2025
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Stephen Miller • @St... • 13m Ø
Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids.
Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
And Schrödinger’s Tiny Tim, who both DID and did NOT die,
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Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even Tiny Tim may die.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/12/2025
if i had 300 million dollars i'd spend all of it making a gritty, ultra realistic movie about the WW1 christmas truce that's a 3 hours long treatise on the pointlessness of war. all so i can have the lead offhandedly call another soldier a grinch 50 years before the book was written
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
SCROOGE: you there, boy! what day is it? BOY: i don't know, i'm like six SCROOGE: well fuckin – can you ask someone
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/12/2025
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
He is the elemental personification of, "well, at least he's not Republican."
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Talespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Sleep forever in crocodile heaven, my sweet albino prince. 😭
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Everyone stop, this is important
A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.
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halloweentime goblin 👻 @sasscarpone.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
we’re looking up money laundering in a dictionary
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.
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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Watching the DNC is like watching a horror movie where the villian is right behind the cast members, and they ignore it, and also they can hear you screaming warnings from the audience at them, and they find it irritating.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
theatlantic.com
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach. Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
the real move if you want to be the presidential nominee in 2028 is to come out and say who did the vote swapping, air the dirty laundry, and say “our voters deserve better” imo. position yourself as the champion of the dem base against the crooked leadership they hate
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