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@troysch1.bsky.social
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One time rural Miss. teacher. Went to be a lawyer then thought better of it. Now back in education in various forms. Occasional speedrunner. They/Them. Chaotic good.

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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Obviously correct, and fascinating from that seemingly the same consultants and leaders who are constantly telling dems to focus on kitchen table issues instead of <insert popular progressive policy> are now telling them to spend all their time trashing trans folks. Huh
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Captain Falcon with some interesting new moves in the upcoming smash bros
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cricket software lol damn, now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Singers issued aside, a marvel that each EA iteration flipped this more to “what if you were a very special boy and no one else matters” Earn to give ignored donating now empowers others to contribute (bc how could they!) Animal rights, longtermism, ai- just ways to ignore present human suffering
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See also Sayed successfully redirecting conversations on Piker by pointing out what a non issue it is to the country only way out is through-media double standards for dems won’t die by appeasing the perofmarixw tut-tutting of tapper et al, they’ll die by saying to their face it’s bad journalism
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
After disc ep, would love one on Paul Blooms “against empathy”, which tried to promote compassion over empathy (already sus), but seems to have been basis for corporate/right pedigree of anti-empathy Topic seems to have broken containment-Katie just had *corporate training* on how empathy is bad
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Death penalty but it’s just for whatever monsters are responsible for the fact Dr Pepper blackberry and strawberries and cream are available zero sugar, but Dr Pepper & cream soda, objectively the best flavor released in at least a decade, is not ever stocked
A pic of Drs pepper illustrating the tweet
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As the joke goes. Every Dave weigel iteration is shitty. You just have to figure out if it’s shitty ableist, shitty transphobe, or shitty misogynist. www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/m...
cnn.com
The Washington Post suspends reporter David Weigel over sexist retweet | CNN Business
The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel for one month without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, two people familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My feelings on the OoT remake are that when it comes out it will get universal acclaim, fans will reappraise it as not that meaningful and overhyped within a year to 2, and then ten years from now people will come around to loving it
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Data below important, also good to examine motives of folks who tend to write these ‘be nicer to MAHA etc” pieces Have they ever encouraged conservatives to do better understanding trans kids, immigrants, etc? Ofc not this is just their political project not a good faith philosophy of tolerance
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Milwaukee wedding lewks
Rehearsal night Katie in black low cut top and sparkly skirt 

Troy in sparu short shorts and suspenders Troy and Katie in matching yellow and blue outfits
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Extremely cursed thought cast Page as Musk in a takedown biopic
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sure sure everyone fixated on te abstractly inefficient, unhelpful policy But how about 10 million Americans being ~3% of the population, the amount popularists like third way are constantly harping on as insignificant and worth sending to the meat grinders if they’re trans. Weird how that works
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am terrible about checking my mail especially on election season, but finally something worth remembering to go to the mailbox for—a postcard from @alexandragallant.com ‘s Frogby!! Im looking forward to the Fall too Frogby
A postcard in color of Frogby saying he’s ready for adventure with his friends Message from Frogby 

HELLO!
HOW HAS YOUR
SUMMER BEENGOING?
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THE
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh snap five star weekend with a broadsheet coffee sticker in episode one
Pic from show w the broadsheet sticker
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Incessantly complaining about the left: $0 Selling out my influencer besties: $0 Substack revenue: neglible and dropping AI spend: -$3600 Can someone who is good at the economy help me budget this, my career is dying
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Atlantic is not going to write a shitty “mean progressives betray values on generational change” piece on Seth Moulton. The Atlantic will flood the fucking zone with takes on it. chait, frum, tcw, everybody gonna get a piece. Probably Seth writes his own at the end
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Stick it queer in my veins
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It appears very briefly nyt admitted jd Vance pals around w antisemites (even if in the original they were at pains to try and explain it away). Not as bad as defending antisemites at cpac as having principled stands against Israel (a thing they don’t believe exists on the left) but pretty bad!
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gold finch attracted to our matching white and yellow building
Gold finch on a power cable Background of white building w yellow window
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At some point given the kind of low info person who votes for the gop, you’d think they might be worried going all in on a “actually the dems are the antisemitic party” might cost the gop more votes than it does dems
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Building on this—could Dolly have more directly antagonized the right? Sure. But would her public positions have made her a rw target for many other celebrities? obviously yes So maybe story is it sure seems the ‘culture war’ is less about ones views & more “does the right wing want to target you”
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
folks sometimes say yglesias doesn't believe anything, but really he has strongly held conservative beliefs, which is why he goes to such lengths to twist his silly popularism to fit these beliefs. see also eg when he decried action on extremely unpopular book bans as 'librarian identity politics'
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I went slightly more conservative and put stayed awhile at 3+ trips or 7+ nights, but more liberal w lived in (year+ time spent) I guess I’m due to live in the Midwest soon?
whereidlive.com
United States: where I've been
Fill in your own version and see where the two of you disagree.
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ideal working conditions
Troy siting w outstretched legs and a tortie sitting on their skirt. 

To the right a laptop is open to a Google doc but it’s clear there’s no real way to operate it from this positions

If you’re a real freak you can see my feet are just about ready for a new pedicure
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Terrible politics aside—does any data support this? This feels a lot like when the package stores fought to-go cocktails during the pandemic claiming they’d lose business . Like babe, ain’t no one deciding monetarily or geographically between a 12 pack of natty light and one 20 dollar cocktail
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Realizing that 2026 Troy has vibesnatched 2021 Katie’s haircut (a cut I encouraged, loved, and now wonder how much was projection)
Troy with undercut, curly red hair spilling over right side, Same hair but side view. Curls! Dyson air wrap baybeeePhoto of Katie w undercut and curled blodne balayaged hair spilling to the right
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@davekarpf.bsky.social re: your piece…Axelrod is being a great comms guy. For the gop. Basically using their own nad faith talking points and lending legitimacy to it, or as axelrod might say a “permission structure”, now for mainstream press to turn this on ossoff as they tried w walz’ ‘weird’ line
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As the educator of my peer group, been approached by multiple, well-meaning freaked out friends about the 'need' to incorporate AI into school 'to prepare kids for the future' and only response is that the only AI education crisis is how to teach and evaluate kids who will use AI to game the system
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If this includes potato as ingredient-potato flour If this involves unlimited access to type-latke Real world constraints on dish-hash browns, bc critical to breakfast burritos
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
is the first image probably just bad voice-to-text from my mom? probably. but is the second image also from my mother a few birthdays ago? yes. so.
a text that reads 'a naked good morning, honey bunny, an early shabbat shalom i love you very mucha memoji of a scantily clad woman in long gloves popping up at the foot of a bed saying "its your birthday"
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Has nyt ever run one (1) op ed about like “hey here’s why you need to not be a dick to your queer family during Thanksgiving” in the face of the ~bajillion they run in the other direction
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yea but you’ll be wishing you had pork w those folks
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Alternate universe where mcelwee actually had principles instead of just wanting to be With The Cool Kids and becoming a degenerate gambler
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Damn. Guess it’s time to update my….Baezian priors 😎
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
De Niro, Warren, and, extremely unfortunately, every one of the worst tech people imaginable
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@marchurboston.bsky.social has this place opening up in old Juliet social club spot been covered?
Papered up social club with “firsctrushboston
.com”
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My problem w this analysis, is it cannot explain, pre elon, why the media was so comfortable saying "twitter is not real life, this is a leftwing bubble", but after, incapable of saying "twitter is not real life, this is a rightwing bubble." i think that says something about the underlying beliefs!
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Grading (pre college) exponentially more a tool for helping teachers figure out what they didn’t teach than about Judging Your Kid All selective admissions processes are raffles-you can do things to buy more tickets but in the end still a raffle (& we’d all be better off openly saying this)
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have a lot of problems with this analysis (would more left support have helped Hong? is it good that we are taking an already mischaracterized aoc quote and further mischaracterizing it?) but nathan fucking robinson talking about left solidarity? the 🐍🐍🐍🐍 motherfucker? gtfoh
Francesca Hong nearly became the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin. The 37-year-old democratic socialist was running on a platform of universal childcare, a data center moratorium, and raising the minimum wage. And yet something strange happened as Hong's campaign picked up momentum: key political figures on the left decided not to support herWithout Solidarity, The Left Will Fail
Bernie Sanders and AOC had a chance to help elect America's first democratic socialist governor, but they chose not to By Nathan J. Robinson nG
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Soo Katie has to present some Reta results in October in Bangkok…conveniently during my 40th birthday…so officially taking recs of all kinds but esp food, drink, culture, outdoors
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
would be curious to compare the coverage (quantity, valence, etc) of say, this vs francesca gino
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Minimally, up their with the nyt discovering boba in 2017 in terms of a 'tell me you haven't seen japanese fashion culture/influence in the last what 30+ years w/o telling me..."
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
tough work but critical cognitive skill is learning when to push your limits vs work w/in them. imo more than reading aspect you see here (& eg hank green) ai convincing ppl to abandon that skill yea dude dont beach read tough books...beach-read beach reads! ai not a fix here its making you suffer
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@davekarpf.bsky.social listening to office hours and uh the pink and blue gun gotta be like a repurposed gimmick from some godawful gender reveal, right?
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Lowkey goated part of getting older is hitting the age (40) where people’s brains melts and learning it’s not inevitable, they’re just assholes
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We have a weekly Shabbat family thread, and if my mother insists on using voice to text then
My brother:

Shabbat shalom!

Mom
Yes shabacholo I love you all!

Me
Shabacholo bitches 🤘love you!
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
cooked enough to immediately wonder how much time and effort I would need to turn this into Loss
A cat is backlit basking in sun, a window frame creating a possible 4 panel comic
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
100% correct, but probably good if these folks feel iyts a “dodge” bc this is a case of “money as principles” not “money as money” (a thing you might see when trying to plan a wedding w family paying) but the operating principle is “I will pay money to stick the finger to gov not in support of it”
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Troy @troysch1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hey now, unless we run a control trial we can’t assume correlation is causation. Entirely possible that the uh…beginning of august…amidst folks’ vacations…is a natural driver of news ratings
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