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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 17h

"The Gang Tries To Accuse Jack Smith Of Collusion."

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20h

Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 20h

One other thing about that Schmitdiot and the Hawks game "gotcha," beyond him getting the teams, the city, and the game wrong: why would it be an issue if Jack Smith was in Atlanta? In what way would that be incriminating or scandalous? It's guilt by association, but without the association part.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21h

I don't believe in reincarnation in part because I am a high school teacher, and I do not want to have to live through the ridiculous drama of those years ever again.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22h

Welp. Even the "cheap" gas station on my drive to school is over $6 a gallon as of this morning. What a brilliant idea to start a war. I can feel the winning and the return to greatness, as promised.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22h

This whole thread is fantastic. Set boundaries for your sons and hold them accountable. Let them experience the consequences of their actions, big and small.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean Jesus Christ, this is a clown show, someone drag him out of there so we can go back to being a country again

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Dr. Amuly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough how college students were 6 years old when Trump first entered the presidential primary. Our rising adults, our next wave have experienced nothing other than Trumpian Republicanism. That's it. That's the party.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He's a 10, but he's an effective altruist "rationalist."

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He has moved on to a slow, minor-key version of Wonderwall.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Street Fair outside my window today. Muffled music drifting in. I don't think this singer is performing a slow as molasses version of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," but it's definitely the same chords. Clocking in at about 30 bpm.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to invent a technology that will allow young people to live as an old person for a week, so they can see just how much you do not have to care about popular culture when you get to a certain age. You absolutely do not have to keep up. It's fine.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh wow the magazine I haven't read in decades is flabbergasted that I also haven't listened to the radio in decades.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can your Teddy Ruxpin feel love? He at least behaves as if he does.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Conversation at lunch yesterday: “Your husband was Jewish, right?” “Yeah, but he wasn’t observant. He didn’t get Bar Mitzvahed as a kid. His parents were card-carrying communists.” “Did he grow up in Russia?” “No, in Queens.”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People stop bitching about top N ranking lists because they're all complete bullshit, challenge level impossible.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gulf of America. Lake America. Superior Intelligence. The never-ending "trying to make 'fetch' happen" presidency.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a student who has started writing "you just lost the game" on all of his quizzes and homework assignments. His classmates get irate, but I am secretly loving it.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Student: Is it better to be too optimistic in life, or too pessimistic? Me: There's no such thing as being too pessimistic.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

i understand the temptation to gaze into the abyss that is the mind of the undecided regretful trump voter but i think doing so via those nyt panel articles actively takes a year off your life. like you come out of reading it exactly one biological year older

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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Does anyone else have distinct memories of Pueblo, Colorado being some kind of center of gravity for sending self-addressed stamped envelopes to get more information on any manner of things and services being advertised on television in the 1980s?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Decent way to preserve the social hierarchy, though

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know I'm not the first to say this, but it's becoming quite clear that giving a group of people an unlimited budget for weapons, then giving them qualified immunity from prosecution when they kill people using those weapons, has proven to be a really stupid way to "keep communities safe."

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

30 years later, it’s time for us all to recognize the truth we fought against for so long: Not only is Wowee Zowee a GREAT Pavement album, it is in fact the very best one

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

every fuckin morning

cartoon that is just a self-insert character saying TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Like cancelling people's car insurance if they haven't been in an accident.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Super Mario Bros. The coin-op "Vs." version, which I played almost every day during my lunch period at the ISU student union. Fun fact: It was just last week that I learned it has slightly different levels from the NES version, which I never owned. I thought it was the exact same game.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wanna become an op-ed writer, because it seems like all you have to do is think of something infuriating that didn't happen and write a column saying "this infuriating thing didn't happen, but wouldn't you be infuriated if it had?" and cash a paycheck.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The war we started with no clear objective has made people angry because fuel prices are skyrocketing. How can we repair this before the midterms?" "Let's throw hundreds of thousands of people off their healthcare coverage for no reason. That will cheer them up." "Brilliant!"

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If everyone on here could stop being so much younger than me, that'd be really nice. Mentioning events that happened when I was in grad school and casually saying you were in elementary school is absolutely unnecessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 21/09/2026

people took a joke too seriously a bluesky story

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your kid not wanting to talk with you because you're a giant piece of shit is not a political problem for the rest of us to solve. Look inward.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if the founders wanted us to have a free press they should’ve written it down somewhere

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

pumpkin spice raktajino

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sunlight and wind don't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz. Just sayin'.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

El Niño is growing up. Eventually it will be El Hombre.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's empty study hall time again! Favorite thing about this study hall is having to send in the attendance every week. Gotta confirm that all of the zero students on the roster are here.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My school campus smells like wet dog today. The petrichor is mixing with the funk of 400 teenagers, and it's not pleasant.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

A problem I have about the pervasiveness of GenAI outside of the basic ethical nonstarters is that I… I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me. I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fall weekends on Bluesky, where half of my feed becomes completely incomprehensible (i.e. football). Helps me build empathy with folks who read my Phish posts and can't understand what I'm blathering on about.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My retirement plan is to open a sledgehammer rental place in Washington DC near the triumphal arch.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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