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tariq maketab

@trqmktb.bsky.social
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Malaysian, Magic/EDH player, erstwhile lawyer, perennial debater & coach. #YNWA

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 13h
Lol...🎶😅🎶🤣🎶
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 13h
🤣🤣🤣
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"NOT IN OUR TOWN!" Brave woman speaks truth to power, calling out Camarillo tire shop for servicing ICE goons vehicles. Watch her defend the community!
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026
not at all surprising that we would lose metallica and the crue in the national divorce but still bewildering that we kept guns n roses
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I Love Animals @petsanimals.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
THE PHOTO MY SISTER JUST SENT ME OF HER GREAT DANE AND THE NEW PUPPY THEY JUST GOT. LOOK AT IT.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 10h
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h
some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16h
Attempted assault by kitten: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h
Due respect but this entire framing is a category error. Institutions are structures, but they are also equilibria, & the far right authoritarian party & the Wizards In Robes have defected completely in the game theory model that is democracy. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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tariq maketab @trqmktb.bsky.social · 9h
Nightcall is mainstream enough to be played at my neighborhood McDonald's RIP Kavinsky, for all you did
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 13h
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a little dog is sleeping on a couch, kicking its paws. A person says, “look! The little kicks!” Panel 2: in awe of the cuteness, the person continues, “what do you think he’s dreaming about?” Panel 3: in the dog’s dream, the pup is wearing a captain’s jacket, holding tightly to a wooden ship on stormy seas. In his other paw, he is gripping a harpoon as an enormous vacuum cleaner breaches violently from the water.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h
appears that hegseth impulsively blurted this out to look tough, but had not discussed it with others prior, causing admin to scramble. he did not think through the consequences of livestreaming. these do not seem like good qualities for someone making war-related decisions.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h
👇🎯 There is no democracy equilibrium when only one party abides by the equilibrium. That train left the station a very long time ago. A good date to pinpoint it is December 12, 2000, when the game of democracy was broken by the authoritarian Wizards in Robes, who decided not everyone’s vote counted.
Bush v Gore 2000
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Americans, Season 45, & the showrunners are not even trying anymore
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hey @MarshaBlackburn looks like Stella Parton has a question for you
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fox is garbage.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A stray cat kept visiting for love, then found a clever way to reach me when my hernia recovery made the stairs too painful to climb
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Commander's Herald @commanders-herald.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because proxies are always better, here's your opportunity to make a God Pack celebration card yourself!
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Make Your Own God Pack Celebration Card | Commander's Herald
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Herny @herny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gurl actually got a leash
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e.
Me:| can train a voice model.
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aLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
looked up mine and this is killing me lmao
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Em, Rat Queen 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @ratqueenem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism
NYT "The Interview" with Curtis Yarvin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Faux News enlists another bully for the pulpit
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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FIX MOJANG BEDROCK ANTI VIRAL SPIRAL @adventurewetpaint.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 04/10/2026
The hatred men have for women in this country is out of this world. And everyone sees it but them. Smh. Absurd. These tools aren’t lonely enough.
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
mockup wikipedia battle graphic - Battle of Fairford
w/dates, location Whelford just outside RAF Fairford
Result: Total rout of US forces

Belligerents infobox
One side: US Air Force, RAF, NATO
other side: 5 lads looking for red diesel
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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
NYT front page 10/4Hassett and Tapper on CNN today
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a high school basketball game. The home team is down 9 points, and some players are looking discouraged on the bench. The coach points to a player just out of frame and says, “flippers, you’re in!” Panel 2: the away team attempts a deep 2-point shot, possibly to beat the buzzer, which is blocked by Flippers, a whale who doesn’t even have his arms up. Panel 3: the game ends and the home team excitedly crowd around Flippers, who won them the game. A player from the away team looks stunned, with his hands on his head.
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