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Tom McCudden

@tbmccudden.bsky.social
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Itinerant attorney, midwestern native marooned in New England. Very boring in person. No Kings. Go Cubs. Enjoys king shaming.

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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think he means "save it for later; don't use it up all at once." Ration it! Too much democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. is bad for you. Like an ice cream headache, but for freedom. If you just submit now, maybe later you can have a little speech later, as a treat.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Bow to my Lizard offspring."
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Is not”
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You will never convince me that the “Hartford Bone and Joint Institute” is just a permanent orgy on the campus of Hartford Hospital.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Have you not seen "The Producers"??
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rewatching The Good Place right after you retire - transitioning to a world that is supposed to be care- and consequence-free, may have side effects like a paranoid delusion/insight that you are being judged, and/or a fugue state worryfest about which character your are. I'm well ... isn't obvious?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They’re slowly gilding him, as they ran out of space on the wall of the Oval Office.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So I guess that means he came to you via the Underhound railroad?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think I know why: Chip City: So ...what experience do you have in the cookie biz? Job Applicant: Tons. Been in industry for decades. CC: Why are you dressed in blue fur? A: Me not dressed, that is just the way me am. CC: Are you Cookie Monster? A: "Monster" is insult ... also, yes. Nomnomnom
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whatever happened to "de-alerting," the idea that all nuclear weapons would be disabled or hidden behind the sofa so nobody could launch them in less than 24 hours, as a firebreak in case of mistaken warnings, idiots in the Oval office, ketamine psychosis, or a divorce papers from Melania?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Triangle Shirtwaist Diplomatic Reception fire was in retrospect a real win for Darwinian selection.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's a UK slur for AI bots. Very rude, like "Clankers." Which brings to mind the Question: are there AI fans so dumb that they think clocks have a concept of time and therefore are sentient?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Given his god-king mindset, maybe a pyramid named Ramesses’ sporting goods.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If I awoke in that scenario, and the records said I was the Captain of anything, I would call foul immediately.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did it "break down" or did Steve put sugar in the gas tank?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
CEO of Colt Arms reports that one of its persuasion machines went rogue and shot an ICE demonstrator.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about the insane developments in Chris Duncan's case. He was exonerated by the LA Sup. Ct. in June. But the local DA vowed to re-try him. Yesterday, cops showed up at the home of alleged victim's mother, demanded her DNA, threatened to arrest her, and said they would exhume her daughter.
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Breaking: DA demands DNA from Chris Duncan and Haley Oliveaux’s mother
Louisiana continues to persecute a wrongly convicted man
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Coroner did a great job there …
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran explains to fans he cannot disobey Robert Kraft, the real writer of his songs and the real voice of his music. Sheehan does so in his real voice — the squeaky voice of Lena Lamont from Singing in the Rain.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Published September 2025, so we’re all already toast. I guess this is what The Bad Place is like.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Absolutely not indifference or carelessness. It’s a calculated show of force, and the imminent physical demolition is a deliberate threat. It’s a show trial but for a building.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Billionaires, prestigious law firms, venerable universities him, and every GOP office holder but the Governor and SOS in Georgia were all happy to bend the knee, but every Irish band in the country is doing a gear-up-for-war montage??
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He’s dialing the demolition firms now.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is how I passed the bar exam—pith helmet, cargo shorts, safari shirt, and nobody noticed I used my binoculars to read other People’s answers.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Mupp Finn.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Withing three months there will be an active insurgency holding sway in the Green Room and the cargo elevator landing, and the CIA and State will be arguing about which side we should be furnishing drones to.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
OMG! "The package is inside the building"!!
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Spike Milligan!!!
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's cognitive dissonance--Whitehead looks and feels like an interstate, so of course it can't be required to yield to anyone or anything, but making in-circle traffic yield would make no sense... they really need speed bumps and "freeway ends" signs ... can you get a flash mob together to do that?
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, maybe not a stop sign for traffic in the circle itself. "Yield" is a fine idea, if it were observed.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you mean exiting the circle to go North on Hudson? No, but there should be. There is a a yellow yield sign there (you can see a little solar panel in the picture, so maybe it'll have flashing lights too). What role the opening of the new apartments had in this change is an open Q.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Analysts aren't just missing how a blend of panicky threat perceptions and authoritarian gender dynamics can generate wild gambles, they haven't quite adjusted to how the waning of US power might lead former US allies into much more aggressive military behaviour than was once the norm
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Minor good news: blinking stop sign at Pulaski Circle.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can’t put out a grease fire with water…
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There is no way the dog would know how to release the safety catch on my kitchen shotgun. Sure, the gun smells like bacon grease, but … hold on I just heard that clacking noise meaning it racked a new round. BAD Dog!
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When there were four sets of footprints, that was me and the three sununus carrying younu.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They were about to get the Bomb through their Manhattan “project”; he had no choice …
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
1st rule of Bluesky Posters Who Write, Perform, Edit and Produce Old Time Radio Parody Audio Drama Series with No Budget and a Cast of One Club is you do not talk about Bluesky Posters Who Write, Perform, Edit and Produce Old Time Radio Parody Audio Drama Series with No Budget and a Cast of One Club
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dude is 63 and he's dealing on the streets? How much you want to bet he's a retired civil servant, dedicated NPR listener, and he's just doing it to "stay active."
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The answer is staring us in the face: Temple Grandin's hug machine, slightly modified, and without the messy part after the hug.
Fuzzy image of child sitting in "hug chair" modification of Temple Grandin's "hug machine"
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mannheim Construction Company
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I cannot believe Biden gambled away my paycheck this month!
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Bartleby the Media Aide. “Get a security clearance!”; “I would prefer not to.”
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kim now looking to see which subordinate was given the figure of 57 nukes while stroking his pet cat and watching his henchman setting up the anti-aircraft "reeducation" guns.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Baiting people into committing crimes is common in drug cases. It's legal as along as the prosecutors can show the defendant had a "propensity" to commit crimes, which can be proven by ... showing that the defendant went along with it. Dollars to Donuts that agent had worked drug stings before.
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just like The Office, Jane Eyre was remade in America. From the Wikipedia article about Grover Cleveland’s very young First Lady: “Folsom was also permitted to ascend the Washington Monument before its opening, where she met former first lady Harriet Lane.”
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Tom McCudden @tbmccudden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ill take that bet. If the nonsense pantomime of cricket can endure, baseball can too.
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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stop sacrificing your human agency to narratives of inevitability.
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