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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 7h

If you don't care whether the guy you're endorsing is at his own rally, is that a valuable endorsement?

thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 19h

This. Several states stated explicitly that they were mad the federal government didn't force Northern states to help Southern gentlemen get their property back when it was misplaced. Beyond that, what rights did states have under the Confederate constitution that they didn't under the U.S. one?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Murder is harsh. I'd rather that we all point and laugh.

Michael Tracey on X: "75% of X and all of Bluesky are currently threatening to murder me, which is cool"

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, besides "everyone," who could have possibly predicted this?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hawks... Hawkeyes... when you're accusing someone of perjury, does it really matter if you have your facts straight? Not if you're a Republican.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You'd have to be a special kind of gullible/stupid/masochistic to use any current AI agent, never mind one from Meta. It's cool that the agent is programed to act apologetic when it seriously fucks up, though -- that's a nice touch.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"It is disingenuous for you to repeat the president's actual words."

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is over more than 45 years of gaming, so there were plenty to pick from. (This list could very well look different from day to day.)

My 9 Games

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Elite
Grand Theft Auto 3
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Doom
Duke Nukem 3D
Halo: Combat Evolved
Deus Ex
Sam and Max Hit the Road

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

White people: "Center everything on us or you're just showing off to brown people, who don't matter culturally."

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone tut-tutting the reaction to the baseball game woman needs to remember that the expressed outrage exists for a legitimate reason. Men really do need to step it up, even if that particular man is already stepping up.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand having a fashion beat -- people spend a lot of money on clothes, so it's a thing. But people also spend a lot on video games, and it would be ridiculous for a "chief games critic" at NYT to cover what Zuckerberg is playing right now as if that had any kind of cultural significance.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Maybe don't murder children" = "pro-terrorist propaganda"?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Four score and seven years ago..." "...a date which will live in infamy." "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like the Moms for Liberty thing from a couple of years back, conservatives are perfectly welcome to let their freak flags fly but they should at least consider letting other people share that freedom.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Which party is dictating which news and entertainment organizations can operate and which would let the market decide? Which party wants to set interest rates? Which party is taking ownership stakes in private corporations?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why are these words coming out of the mouth of any government official?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you keep electing obvious racists, I might start to get the idea that you're a racist.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

All genders report that the feelings are mutual.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd love to see Trump try to get out on the ice.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Per the Piker Principle, American reporters are obligated to ask Paxton about every controversial thing Musk has ever said or done. Repeatedly.

CNN headline: "Musk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race?"

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This would have ended most administrations prior to this one, because the media would have gone apeshit.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

James O'Keefe is probably super confused by this Nigel Farage undercover video. Like that's the way it's supposed to be done?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think this means I was most influenced by television while developing language in the 70s, because I have never lived near the west coast.

Dialect map from https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cruz and Vance aren't even authentic enough to use their actual names. And "likable"? My god. Remember what Al Franken had to say about Cruz?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@microsoft.com: What the fuck kind of email address is this and why can't Outlook block it? 625SS44B@FX6YB3GB2MX2FL8IR6YTK7V8J2SR

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is finally enough to warrant a block. Saying stupid shit for the sake of engagement does absolutely nothing for anyone except him.

“America is an incredibly rich country with an enormous and growing pool of wealth spread across a huge middle and upper class” really shouldn’t be a controversial viewpoint.

It’s very hard to talk sensibly about policy problems and solutions if we can’t acknowledge this base-level fact.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Roman already launched. Under any other administration, I would have known that -- but Trump and crew have a way of eating up most of the available oxygen at any given moment. I've forgotten what it's like to live without the constant parade of mean and stupid. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

'A giant leap forward': Nasa launches powerful new space telescope

The US space agency's telescope is starting a multi-year mission to create a new map of the universe and learn more about dark energy and dark matter.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Compass directions. If you tell me that you live on the north side of a street, I am going to stare at you blankly.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Save me. C'mon and save me. Connections Puzzle #1178 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely no joke: I thought this concept was a little crazy when I heard about it, but my wife insisted. It's an absolute game changer and I can't recommend it strongly enough.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is both astounding and totally expected. He's "fighting for the rights" of people he obviously hasn't bothered listening to? Well, they obviously don't know what's best for them -- right, Graham?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The problem is that English doesn't offer a distinction between second person singular and second person plural pronouns, like most languages do. "Y'all" is a fix for that defect.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

>WCK is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."< In stark contrast to the IDF, right?

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oddly enough, if you do the same search for "hasan piker" on #Politico you get 27 pages of results.

Google search for "preston parra" at Politico.com: No results found.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Shorter Florida justice system: "Nobody confessed, so we can't charge anyone with a crime."

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, please -- nationalize the focus of midterm voters. That's a great idea. No notes.

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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Vote for me and I will make sure you are free to work yourself to death, the way it should be" is a reductio ad absurdum of the conservative vision of America that us liberals sometimes trot out. It's no longer absurd -- they're saying it with their full chest.

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