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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦

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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. Aeneid hater. He/him.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 43m
Welp another case of “this is the most productive thing this particular justice department could do”
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1h
Anna Komnene (1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, hospital administrator, and historian. #CelebratingWomen
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 3h
Nice
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 16h
welp, see y'all in a decade after bagwell finally gets canned
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 18h
TONIGHT! Is the start of the annual reread of A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER, for anyone who wants to join in. The Prologue tonight, then one numbered chapter for each day of October!
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 16h
still.
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✨Andry✨ @gaiaxyswitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I Wanna Be The Guy (2007)
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(for example, I think this is the intellectual error in "Bullshit Jobs" as well)
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super Intelligence
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Wile E. Coyote's Genius Business Card
Alt: Wile E. Coyote's Genius Business Card
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hice curso de mitologia pero de mi les dioses se reian
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
youtu.be/NktpP-LYGc4?... claro que si
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Maté a la Maestra
YouTube video by El Cuarteto de Nos - Topic
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TNG Oil Monster @toohotintheair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dril: "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026
This is about open LLMs that can haxxor and I agree; said this in replies but repeating it: I have seen a lot of step functions as far as pwning shit and the hype usually is both correct and sort of irrelevant. Biggest increment to cybercrime I’ve ever seen is cryptocurrency, second biggest is APTs.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump's ICE thugs are breaking apart families and building a reign of terror in our communities. We need to abolish ICE now.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Save us Lucas you’re our only hope
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has anyone ever re-used the bit from The Demolished Man (1952) where the guy deliberately gets a super annoying song stuck in his head to shield his mind from telepaths?
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lucas Spence to the postseason
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I did not expect the landing page to be a picture of a child face down (unsure if alive) on a frozen lake and a suggested prompt of “how can I invest in my child’s future”. This is higher level comedy than I am capable of on my own. This is incredible.
America.gov landing page showing a dead child and a chatbot prompt to figure out how to help them
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
High trust society
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ok, fine, post-Raro Cuarteto es mejor.
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dkhunter, Reluctant 🇨🇦 Nationalist @dkhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think what's going on is that these people like him were essentially ridiculous marginal figures at one point, which made it easier to treat engaging with them as an intellectual game Guess what, they're not so marginal anymore
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech: www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee... The question recurs, what will satisfy them? Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone. This, we know by experience, is no easy task. 1/6
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Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
one thing that isn't accounted for in the SuperPAC discussion is that it changes the economics for partisan media firms from "pick the ads most likely to elect your principal, donald trump" to "pick the ads which are most likely to induce further donations by your principal, elon musk"
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am making this recommendation because generally this genre of critique tends to over-index on 1) grand sweeping but unworkable ideas 2) "we must change society" 3) vague gestures at a solution in theory-speak 4) arcane technical fixes etc
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Honestly in no lose territory with Astros-white Sox. Astros winning is great, and if pope bob & my dad’s team wins, also great.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I deeply resent that “rationalists” have associated that word with rank lunacy.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They're doing the migrant caravan right before midterms for the 5th time in a row
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion)
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtu.be/ACQ4KEcIRL4?... this video is adorable
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Fin del Mundo - El próximo verano [Video Oficial]
YouTube video by Fin del Mundo
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(gap between number 1 ops and number 2 ops is equal to the gap between number 2 and number 21)
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With under a week remaining in the regular season, Yordan Alvarez holds the top spot in the AL MVP Poll 💪
American League MVP Poll
Chosen by a panel of MLB.com experts
1. Yordan Alvarez, Astros
2. Junior Caminero, Rays
3. Bobby Witt Jr., Royals
4. Cam Schlittler, Yankees
5. Ben Rice, Yankees
Pictured: Yordan Alvarez, Junior Caminero, Bobby Witt Jr., Cam Schlittler and Ben Rice in various action poses.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so Yordan Alvarez is AL MVP, right? Technically Cam Schittler and Kevin McGonigle have slightly higher WAR but I don't see it going to a pitcher or a guy on a non playoff team.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
anyway, go astros! beat the popes!
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Astros playing with house money this year. Should have been year two of the collapse & moving toward the rebuild.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lucas Spence.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should probably figure out how to organize my life where I don't go down rabbit holes where literally no one in my work, nonwork, and online social circles would find this nearly as funny as i do. youtube.com/shorts/ikZgA...
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Cuarteto de Nos AHORA VS ANTES | #musica #musico #humor #cuartetodenos #cdn
YouTube video by Juli Martins
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
two stick figures conversing.

Figure 1: "El Cuarteto is second nature to us latecomer fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Ya No Se Que Hacer Conmigo and one or two songs from Porfiado."

Figure 2: "And Yendo a la casa de Damian, of course."

Figure 1: "Of course."
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fuck, i might have to actually pay full price for this one en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_St...
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Baby Steps (video game) - Wikipedia
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Baby Steps starts as an elaborate shitpost before slowly revealing itself to be a sincere game about male insecurity. A deconstruction of the kind of idealized picture of manhood that video games helped create wrapped in a terrific slapstick comedy. My review. www.polygon.com/baby-steps-r...
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You will not survive Baby Steps' open world, but you'll laugh
QWOP goes open world in 2025's funniest game
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Chandler Rome @chandlerrome.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Peter Lambert will start for the Astros tomorrow.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
welp looks like the Al west qwop-inspired race is coming down to the last day.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
beltway reporters find it deeply unfair that the death of a young black man should matter at all to the trajectory of an actual important person
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the 8th major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald. Here’s what he told the Senate, about the teen’s murder, during his Senate confirmation hearing in 2021. “That tragedy sits with me, as it has, every day and every week for the last seven years.”
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Musk, Official Trailer See it before Youtube takes it down! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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