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Derek B

@tanpants.bsky.social
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delightful, Oregonian, delightful Oregonian

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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Now bring me my flournoy, you layabout. You slugabed."
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TV promo: "Brought to you by ChatGP-" Me, blurting involuntarily: "Fuck you"
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Always remember: If others find you off-putting, you can always blame it on being cursed with a "specialized mind."
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pretty sure it's protected.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The best and the brightest.
The Kennedy Center
Members Appointed by the President of the United States
Brian D. Ballard
Maria Bartiromo
Pamela Bondi
Mary Helen Bowers
Hannah F. Buchan
Robert Castellani
Elaine Chao
Pamella Roland DeVos
Patricia Duggan
John Falconetti
Emilia May Fanjul
Jennifer Fischer
Lynette Friess
Sergio Gor
Pamela Gross
Lee Greenwood
Kate Adamson Haselwood曲
The Kennedy Center
Kate Adamson Haselwood
Laura Ingraham
Dana Kraft
Mindy Levine
Lynda Lomangino
Barbara Long
Allison Lutnick
Douglas Manchester
Laura Perlmutter
Catherine B. Reynolds
Denise Saul
Dan Scavino
Cheri Summerall
President Donald J. Trump
Susie Wiles
Andrea Wynn
Paolo Zampolli
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My god. Lee Greenwood.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Men used to have ROMANCE Men used to be SPONTANEOUS Men used to come home and surprise their wives with COORDINATED OUTFITS and say YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE DRUMS, WE ARE IN A BAND, we are called THE WHITE STIPES, you are now my SISTER
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In that clip from the Nathan Fielder doc, she has a real Pennywise thing happening. Hadn't seen that before.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Call me "grunc" then I guess
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I assume it's where I live because we're currently run by a collection of oppositional defiant disorder-having maniacs.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oof, dude
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just a shot in the dark but starting an unnecessary war with Iran that has resulted in severely disrupted gas/oil shipments via the Strait of Hormuz *might* have an impact.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oof. Those photos of his screen really undercut the "someone sent me a link and I mistakenly clicked it" defense.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Christ, she's probably going to be the next Press Secretary
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s so weird how these guys will be like ding dong pobodies nerfect about this and then a Cheerios commercial will have a gay guy and it will be six months later and they’re still talking about it
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You'd think she'd be nicer to a guy who could write her a Vicodin prescription.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Done!
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Interior design is my passion"
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 31/08/2026
Donald Trump if he isn’t interior decorating
Sick ET
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kushner's input is clearly indispensable when you're trying to combat *squint so hard I pop a blood vessel* the affordability crisis?
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🎶I'm in the mood For pug🎶 will be playing in my head for a good couple of days now
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tell me again history doesn’t matter
nytimes.com
Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Billions were paid to kill wind projects & now this. Do *any* of this admin's policies make sense to non-criminals? wapo.st/4zFDSA0
wapo.st
Trump seeks vast, potentially costly U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry
A deal, which may come as early as next week, would be contentious and could cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm renaming Lake Ontario "The Kennedy Center." Then I'm renaming the (current) Kennedy Center "Trump Lake." Then I'm tearing down Trump Lake and building The Ontario Center for American Lakes. Then I'm flooding it and renaming it Lake White House. Then I'm renaming the movie "The Lake House" "Ontar
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I figured we'd get to the "snake eating its own tail" phase eventually.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yeah, they at least shared a baseline reality.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Selective exposure seems like it was less of a thing back then, what with the whopping 3 TV networks.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Art
"...Carney isn't fleeing the table, he's letting the clock run because the other bloke's shot clock is nearly done. Come November, if the map goes the way it's trending, he won't be negotiating with Trump at all. He'll be walking all over that flatulant flubberfuck like a used Persian rug, the kind that's seen too many spray tans and too much foot traffic, rolled up and left out the front for hard rubbish collection."
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
How on Earth does anyone take seriously an academic who uses the term "wokesters"?
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It's an amazing feat to turn every IG position into a no-show job in less than half a term.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
forever-wars.com
The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Any prick that uses the term "open borders" is not worth listening to, and this particular prick is the effing house minority leader.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 10/02/2026
I looked her up because it mentioned book publishing and...I need someone else to read this bio. I can't be alone in this experience. shelleylewis.com/about-shelley/
shelleylewis.com
About Shelley Anne Lewis | Author & Conscious Leader
Learn about Shelley Anne Lewis, author, spiritual entrepreneur, and founder of Sacred Space, focused on conscious leadership and purpose-driven business.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dude got a BBL. It's part of his recent obsession with renovation.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When he was a kid, my dad thought that BM stood for body manure. That man sired me.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Packaging for a garbage can. The image on the box is of a lower body. A foot is stepping on the bin opener. The carry holes in the box itself are at crotch level of the figure, making it look like he has an enormous wang
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"I think those suckers can make it to the midterms," he added just before blasting a fart and blaming it on a duck he swears has been following him around "for longer than any duck has followed any President."
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There's a series on BBC called "Secrets of the Human Body" and, honestly, I'd rather not know any more than I already do. We're pretty gross.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It seems that *every piece* of new tech is so rushed to meet benchmarks that these nitwits can't be bothered to consider potential downsides to what they've created.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Derek B @tanpants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How is this possible for an upright human?
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