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Toby Applegate

@tapplegate.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer of Human Geography UMASS-Amherst Teaching sufferers of Stockholm Syndrome where Stockholm is since 2005.

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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
T-shirt that says “I voted for affordable fascism and all I got was this stupid t-shirt.”
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will never give a dime to the Adult Day Care Center (MS ‘03) after this disgusting display of Fascism until there is a formal apology and mass resignation of senior administration up to and including Randy Boyd. All of this to appease Trump and Allan Jones, racist inventor of pay day lending.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bestern Massachusetts
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Massachusetts Info for voting has dropped. Here are my votes on ballot questions.
Cover of the massachusetts ballot questions information
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From a TN story on a measles outbreak in the state. Do not live in TN. Trust me. Don’t.
Amy Stone Kilroy • 10h
Unbelievable how "measles" has been weaponized at fatal. Watch the Brady Bunch episode. Benign most of the time.
And many doctors consider it to be cancer-protective later in life.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yup
I have a north carolina accent
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This makes me laugh.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Upside!
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You, sir, have been validated and can park your car anywhere you want with well-earned pride. Imagine getting this letter.
Letter from Dolly to Eminem

Marshall (Eminem),
Congratulations on your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Your performance was amazing and everybody said so. Even though I don't know a lot about rap music, I've come to know that you are the very best at it. Aside from that I hope what I have to say will not seem weird or strange to you but I have always felt some unexplained connection to you like I know you somehow. I had hoped to meet you at the show but you know how nuts those things are, personally I hate
*em and I missed my chance but maybe someday we'll meet. In the meantime, keep doing what you're doing because you do it so well and no matter how complex your world may be just know you are very special and touch people in ways you don't even know.
With love & respect,
Dolly Parton
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was so important to the people of Tennessee especially East Tennessee where I lived off and on for 15 years. I always said you could call anybody any damn slur you wanted and look like a fool, but cuss Dolly in Sevier County, TN and you might never be seen again. Titan of a human being.
Dolly Parton.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Graphic explaining the stupidity of the the beef import deal
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Today's announcement from President Trump unveiling the tariff-free importation of 300,000 metric tons of beef could not have come at a worse time for Nebraska's cow/calf producers. Right now, thousands of Nebraska ranchers are in the process of selling newly weaned calves and Nebraska remains The Beef State' with over 6.15 million head of cattle located in the state, second only to Texas. Unfortunately, the market's reactions to today's announcement are as troubling as they are predictable. At the producer level, this means lower prices at the time of year when millions of cattle producers are making marketing and herd retention decisions. At the consumer level, given that the United States imports around 2.5 million tons of beef product, most of it being lean trim for hamburger, it is doubtful this influx makes much of a difference on retail prices."
"At the same time, the strength of cattle markets is one of the few bright spots within agriculture, and even with strong prices, Nebraska cattlemen are making tough decisions given severe drought, wildfires, and higher input costs including hay and fuel. Temporary injections of tariff-free beef to 'maybe' address higher beef prices only creates short-term pain on feeder calf prices without long-term solutions for cattle producers. Supply and demand aren't a far-reaching academic concept, it is the real-world scenario our cattle industry finds itself in, and short-sighted government policy only serves to provide long-term damage to an unbelievably complex beef supply chain."
NEBRASHA
FARM BUREAU
Mark McHargue, NEFB President
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Satan waves good bye to Mitch McConnell.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Harry Kane as Matt Ryan.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I have the McConnell proof of life photo. Everyone can just hush now.
Satan bids farewell to McConnell
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Europe Vs American World Cup.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Where to start? @scruffycities.bsky.social
Feudal Serfs presented as living better lives that modern people.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
NB. Libero is a center-right newspaper in Italy.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Their greatest delight is to be exempt from
toil, their richest possession, the enjoyment of liberty. - Giralsus Cambrensis
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Not shaming McNally, but c’mon man.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A yeast-filled duck explodes.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
How to Read Ezra Pound
by Martín Espada

At the poets’ panel,
after an hour of poets debating Ezra Pound,
Abe the Lincoln veteran,
remembering
the Spanish Civil War,
raised his hand and said:
If I knew that
a fascist
was a great poet,
I’d shoot him
anyway.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Americans who support or believe in
Ghosts: 39%
Telepathy: 29%
New White House Ballroom: 28%
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Don’t forget maternal mortality mortality.
maternal mortality
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ballroom grift. Ballroom grift.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Duran agrees: “Sell the team.”
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Get bent, Bezos.
WaPo Being WaPo
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A esoteric joke about Medieval representations of daily life
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Rude”‘is the stupidest discipline category. What’s next? Sassy?
Rude poster.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Courtesy of a friend passing through Colfax, CA.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One: Tomi Lauren is so disconnected from things that she doesn’t realize you can’t go to a JoAnn’s closeout. They went out of business. Two: It’s classic “she’s just a housewife” rhetoric. “she sews.” Three: Those women would be a decade or so older.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Afro man
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Cthulhu agrees to help. USA make pact with beast to protect Strait of Hormuz.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“Feeling cute at Grant’s Tomb.”
Laura Loomer embarrassing herself in front of the Taj Mahal.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Mentat from Dune: “He who controls the spice, controls the universe."
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Lobsters on the Titanic
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hey yo!
Dunks on Kevin Smith.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Popeye as a sign of capitalism's oppression of the worker.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yes.
Cernac the Magnificient.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
IYKYK
Humorous picture of gangs squaring off over what to call a New Jersey processed meat.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In a world of confusion, be like Sue.
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
No doubt there are some people talking about this stuff who are genuinely quite fuchsia. But a large share of the people talking about their fuchsianess online are simply lying. They understand they exist in a community where fuchsia is a badge of honor
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Chuck Schumer
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Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Math works out for us.
Elon Muck doesn’t understand long division as he wants the federal government to return $711 billion to Americans.
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