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@tbone.bsky.social
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Always one step behind the braver and smarter but trying to catch up.

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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is so true. I never understood McCarthyism, for instance -- its appeal to anyone-- until I understood what you say above. Then everything else makes sense.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There's more. 5) Okay, it's racist. But racism is good, actually. 6) Okay, racism is bad (for some people). But we don't care.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Heaven Help us. I will fight all of you until you watch it.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thank you for sharing — I don’t know her works but your recommendation means a lot.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
At all of them: breakfast sandwich. (Usually with cheese and bacon, but some local variability there)
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
She had a great line in an interview on Conan O'Brien's podcast where she said, with all seriousness, that if you don't have funny eyes she doesn't really trust you comedically.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
My two cent is that it's not mean to "work in the South." I think AOC has correctly figured that nothing is going to work in the South. The South (those in power in the South) doesn't want to be persuaded. They want white supremacy, or they will fight. AOC distinguishes herself by pointing this out.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In 1989 DC (Friendship Heights) we could buy a case of Meister Brau for $5.99. And buy it we did.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Courtney Barnett’s second album has about a half dozen live tracks (Live at Electrical Lady Studios) that are pure perfect garage.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Hinds can be (almost too?) impeccably garage.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Paper mill town smell is special for sure.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I think your observation vies with Wilhoit’s law regarding a universal theory of politics.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Same dynamic for medicine and science at large - credentialed (looking at you Stanford) expert presents contrarian views as if they can’t get a hearing within the field — in fact they have been heard and rejected by that field. Gains following, rewarded by donors who benefit from said views.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Well it is true that logic and consistency are hostile to conservatism, I am pretty sure you can get you can get at least a non-driver's ID in New York without providing citizenship.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There were lots of charismatics with followers during this violent and traumatizing time. The innovation that took hold (Christianity) makes sense as a post hoc conflation of mystical and spiritual traditions on top of one of the many stranded cults.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Well, no. I think we can agree that the Greek pantheon didn't exist. And yet we have a ton of accounts of their exploits and involvement. Jesus ain't special. We got stories from 2,000 years ago. Same as the Greek pantheon, and sooo many others.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Started / going
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Eh. More like every historian of the time and place agrees that the legends around Jesus are an amalgamation of stories. That’s really the consensus.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is so f’ing true.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I don’t know you but this photo is so joyful — thank you for sharing.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Guns of August is just a gripping read. Tuchman is one of the great literary stylists who happens to write about history.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s not your fault that the package was stolen but I’m not sure why it’s the seller’s responsibility either. It’s unclear to me who is responsible for the security at the delivery location?
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Reminds me of this guy (son of Larry Ellison, whoever that is?), who also looks like he is about to be casually staked during the opening monologue sequence of a first season Buffy.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Dissent in the U.S. A History of Scientific Revolutions Late Antiquity Religion Class re the New Testament Constitutional Interpretation All great. Except Constitutional Interpretation, which was then, and has been underlined now, as a fabulous waste of time.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Every elected, non-progressive Democrat right now is the person who, during an emergency evacuation of a burning airplane, blocks all the passengers behind him by trying to get his over-sized bag out of the overhead compartment.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Yes “seems” doing work. More “imagine” I suppose. I think a lot of us who only know about you, and read your comments, imagine that you know who you are, and see the world as it is, and that makes us happy. Because you are alive in a breed that seems to be dying.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Lynda Berry had the perfect response to this -- in reference to the Kelly LeBrock (cosmetics?) ad of the late 1980's. Kelly LeBrock: "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful." Lynda Berry: "But that's not why I hate you."
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As I understand it The Great Filter isn't "evidence for" the Great Filter. It's an explanation (hypothesis) for what we can observe outside out solar system? -- and why we don't observe more advanced life.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/pix/...
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Guns of August. Goddamn Tuchman can write.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The perfect video clip to synopsize the time we live in.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We ship a TON of stuff in our small business -- USPS, UPS, and FEDEX. In my experience, it's MUCH easier to talk to a real person -- who has answers -- with the USPS than with the two private companies. And don't get me started about how difficult and backward Fedex's web interface is.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
What's amazing is that the author thinks that progressives continue to call out loathsome behavior -- even when he says it doesn't matter -- because they don't "know what else to do" instead of considering that progressives don't simply change what they believe because of shifting power dynamics.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Parsimmons are not in fact tiny pumpkins, but something else, called parsimmons.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Interviewer: "So what do you think your biggest weakness is?" Applicant: "Honesty." Interviewer: "Well, I'd hardly call that a weakness." Applicant: "I don't care what you fucking think."
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thank you so much for your tireless optimism. The fuckwads may very well win, but it means so much every time someone of your caliber calls them out and plants a flag. This is a drawn out affair, and you bear no shame for what others fail to recognize.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ha yes but don’t cut yourself short.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thank you so much for your tireless optimism. The fuckwads may very well win, but it means so much every time someone of your caliber calls them out and plants a flag. This is a drawn out affair, and you bear no shame for what others fail to recognize.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Best guess is that she thinks "peopling" refers to appealing to people like her by being your authentic self, and by excluding you from that group she is just telling on herself.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I'm from Buffalo. I lived in DC for one year. Once it snowed, and everyone acted like nothing had happened and it was still cool to drive 75 miles an hour into every turn and curve. Cars dotted the countryside like mushrooms on a woodland path.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The best explanation is that while the Republicans are bought and sold to do the oligarchs’ bidding, the Democrats are bought and sold to pretend to oppose the oligarchs' bidding. The oligarchs don’t pay just to exert their will; they pay to make their will appear legitimate.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Completely agree. An objectively insipid pushback on what appears to be not just unsupported claims, but doctored evidence.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Diner - Barry Levinson
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Which isn't to fetishize the DoI -- it's to say that we don't need to appeal to any outside authority to recognize when something is intrinsically wrong, abhorrently unjust. We can oppose it, and demand correction, on those grounds alone. As did others before us.
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It's quiet in here. @tbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
According to Our Foundational document, they simply can't be denied to anyone. Sic: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tim Walz: "You you claim to love freedom but want to restrict certain groups, you don’t love freedom. You love privilege." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #MomSky
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