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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This photographer understood the assignment.

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Comic book logic at its finest!

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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GPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This discourse definitely shows that there is a real audience, at least online, for weightless Tom Taylor stories. It's not even like he's an awful writer or anything, he just can't commit to conflict and has to end with "and then they all decided to go to therapy and volunteer to end capitalism."

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They really were the best dice bags for tabletop 😢

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why would this need to be a Batman story? Like the world of Gotham actually is overrun with insane and violent superhuman villains, and Gotham’s crime problem is the result of that not like a history of housing segregation and underinvestment in disadvantaged communities

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cotton can say the parts “vanished” but maybe Trump was just giving away free samples.

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He should make it so that Sleeping Beauty is Charlize Theron in cryosleep and a Yautja prince wakes her to do battle.

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They have a scanner at the entrance to CVS that erases one item you came here for from your brain instantly. No one will report on this.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Something this episode reminded me of is that when Sauron takes Minas Tirith (the first age one) he renames it the “Isle of Werewolves” and fills it with werewolves and vampires and to be completely honest you used to be way cooler Sauron you used to do cool shit my guy

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Keep an eye on new Kalshi bets for spoilers

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You want to use FARA to go after the Russians I want to use FARA to go after these guys We are the same person

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Drone videographers in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei are posting farewell messages on their social media as new regulations ban drone use in the area. A big media team could relocate, I suppose, but hobbyists are done.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks, John Roberts.

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky could certainly do a lot worse, in the extreme short term, than simply banning everybody with “punished” in their handle or display name.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.

Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The lineup is white like mommy’s milk, to boot.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

can you report the murder of an entire brand

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Older dog: Here is my list of places to sleep all day. <a few hours later> It is time to discuss the effects of younger dog privilege. In this essay I will— Younger dog: <posted within 5 minutes> I’m asleep. I’m awake. I’m asleep. I’m awake. Run run run run. I’m asleep. Hey I heard a funny noise!

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Sean Bertollo @ollotreb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I was a kid was likely around the Dolly and Kenny duet era and I always thought they were married.

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Real scorpion and the frog things are happening in midterm politics.

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Doing the NYT list thing. I wonder if it’s good I’ve seen so many of the shows or bad that I’ve used so much of my life for TV. 🤔

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Made one of these, though honestly just 9 games is impossible. 😅 I could plug the entire Sierra library in here! my9games.com/s/6da6dcaf18...

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On a related note it’s hard to find an anti-Putin gif on KLIPY. Bobby Jr. gifs are also largely propaganda.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the movie is called You Can See Everything

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yud totally wants to build the silos from Silo, doesn’t he?

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

VPNs have been extremely wonky for the last few days and my working theory is they don’t want Chinese to see unfiltered news about the trip including unfiltered Trump. 😅

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Minister Denby @tjmzj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who didn’t have a crush on Firestar back then?

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a turboprop light attack aircraft with a bunch of apkws is about the right price point; a low-performance jet seems in the neighborhood too. attack helicopters also fit the bill unless the shaheds are jet powered

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