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Warren Terra

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Warren Terra is a pseudonym. @warren__terra on Twitter (inactive) @warren__terra at mastodon.online Apparently bluesky doesn't like underscores?

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 7h
theguardian.com
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The logo for Pete Hegseth's new Project Meridian shows a sword that extends from one pole to the other. In order to be a Meridian, that sword would have to follow a line from one pole to the other ON THE SURFACE, and be uselessly bent. If this sword is an effective weapon it must be: an Axis Power.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At least she still has her $150 million signing bonus.
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Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million
Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The reason I never made a Facebook account is that ~20 years ago they suddenly created a system to spy on their users' purchases elseweb and then, without asking, run ads to the user's friends saying "(user) bought this, you should too" and that freaked me the fuck out. This is so much worse.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're worried about the reviews your book or record might have on the internet, remember the Himalayas have a 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Google Maps.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I realized something about Trump's sniper obsession. People assume it's a reaction to the Butler assassination attempt, which was stopped by a sniper - but maybe there's a hidden hand at play here: what if Mark Penn is subtly working to restore the reputation that Ezra Klein so memorably destroyed?
A paragraph from maybe the best work Ezra Klein ever did, his 2007 defenestration of Mark Penn's book "Microtrends", which Klein published in "In These Times" the year before Mark Penn was the chief strategist and pollster for Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, a role in which Penn was widely blamed for basic errors made from ignorance and arrogance that contributed to Clinton's unexpectedly losing the nomination.

The whole thing is worth a read, there's a link at the bottom.

This one paragraph, transcribed:

This isn’t an isolated example. In a chapter called ​“Aspiring Snipers,” Penn explains, ​“It’s the rare moment when a poll stops me in my tracks and reorients my understanding of things.” One such poll was conducted last fall, when Bendixen and Associates asked 601 young Californians what they’d be doing in 10 years. About 1 percent – so, a handful – said they’d be snipers. Certainly, that’s an odd reply. But Penn never mentions that the Bendixen poll had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percent–four being a larger number than one. Additionally, it’s meaningless without further study. Anyone in the age bracket would attribute it to video games, or snipers being, let’s admit it, quite cool. Yet Penn, based on no follow-up interviews, detects a ​“new patriotism,” and a desire ​“to master complex mathematical formulas like how distance or wind might affect the path of the bullet.” This simply isn’t professional work. (It is bitter, though. Penn concludes the chapter by complaining, ​“Ask anyone in politics and they will agree – they face ​‘snipers’ every day who are trying to find one flinch, one out-of-place word to put on Drudge or YouTube.” It takes a special sort of self-regard to compare the danger of being embedded on YouTube to being hunted down in urban warfare.)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trending-towards-inanity
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have NEVER, in more than a decade in this field, heard of the Board of Immigration Appeals deciding a complex case like this in 24 hours. And neither has Charles Adkins-Blanch, who served on the Board for two decades, and knows its processes inside and out. This whole thing STINKS to high heaven.
Immigration judges work for the Justice Department, not the independent judicial branch, meaning they can be hired and fired by administration officials. By law they are required to decide cases using their “independent judgment and discretion.”
Former appellate immigration judges said that even if the Serrano case had been fast-tracked, a complex appeal like his would normally have taken weeks to decide, not a single day.
“I can’t recall a case ever moving that quickly,” said Charles Adkins-Blanch, who was appointed to the immigration appeals board under President George W. Bush and later served as its vice chairman. “It’s highly unusual.”
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reagan, suffering from dementia in his second term, received the Lebanese foreign minister in the Oval Office. Reagan asked no questions as the the minister briefed him at length about the difficult security situation there. Reagan finally spoke: you know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 11/09/2026
daughter: hey dad, this is ella, my new beastie me: don’t you mean “bestie” daughter: i know what i BOTH: MEAN daughter: and i know what i BOTH: SAID daughter: question me again and I’ll whack your BOTH: HEAD
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Text which says "It's weird. I used to LoVE the Law of Diminishing Returns."
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gift link. — The NYT has started giving me infinitely many free links, and I am terrified that they will somehow go away. I’m glad they stck around for this story, which is amazing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Senior NIH official: “When the public hears that NIAID funds biodefence, they think we’re developing bioweapons, and we’re trying to get out of that business” Only conspiracy nuts think the NIH develops bioweapons, but: moving these projects to the "Dept of War" will seem to *confirm* their belief.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Posterity will ne'er survey A nobler floor than this. Here was the firm of Matheson: Stop, toddler, and piss!
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good god
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For many years, ICE didn't have its own medical claims processing for detainees, running 3rd party medical bills through the VA's system. Last year, right-wing influencers convinced the Trump admin to abruptly cancel this contract. With no replacement, ICE specialized medical care has gone unpaid.
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.

Hospitals and ambulance services told the Chronicle they are owed millions of dollars, while many detainees have had appointments for lifesaving medical care delayed or canceled. Medical providers say they have continued to provide care out of moral obligation, although some observers worry that fear of nonpayment could deter them from offering services to detainees.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I never got over flicking through a Very Man Coded Thriller while shelving fiction in a bookshop and seeing that in the front, instead of a dramatis personae or a family tree or even an endpaper map, it had a page entitled GUNS AND CARS USED IN THIS BOOK.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The real problem in selling galaxies, the challenge for the salesperson and for the responsible buyer, is the lack of recent photos. All these pictures I have show what the galaxies looked like billions of years ago!
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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Street art in her honor from SE Seattle
A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Quack Flock
Stylised drawing of a flock of ducks
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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nanopticon
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Things To Do With Potatoes Throw a potato on the ground behind a stranger, then say "Excuse me, you've dropped your potato!". If they deny ownership, pull another potato from your pocket, saying "Well it's definitely not my one". Hide a potato in a pair of shoes at a bowling alley.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My commute was interrupted by encountering a mobile home enthusiast on the path.
A snail moving along a paved surface, with broken bits of twig and bark and grass scattered about
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ah the 51st Strait
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Crazy solution. Still wasting medicines but now making 75 swimming pools unusable #burnhamsbritain
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/08/2026
You know how we laugh at Chinglish menus featuring such dishes as “fuck the duck until exploded”? Well menus are not literally TATTOOED PERMANENTLY AND IRREVERSIBLY UPON YOUR ONE AND ONLY SKIN
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jeanine Pirro has made Washington DC safe for vampires. So much for the party of Abraham Lincoln.
A poster for the 2012 film "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter", film described at wikipedia link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln:_Vampire_Hunter
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
On a... different note, it’s also the 12th birthday of the Profanity Embroidery Group
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/08/2026
Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/08/2026
Guys I just got this marketing email and I'm scared.
My name is Mary Walter, and I do not offer marketing. I offer velocity. I specialize in transforming overlooked masterpieces into unavoidable literary sensations. I have curated a suite of seven aggressively effective services, each engineered to dismantle obscurity and forcibly insert your book into global conversations. Crucially, I have integrated Amazon's proprietary ecosystem, from Kindle distribution to Audible, to ensure we are not just visible, but dominant where it matters most.

Below is not a list. It is a tactical blueprint for your dominance.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sounds like otter chaos.
Mugshot-style photo of a woman with curly hair in a tan collared shirt standing against a plain cinderblock wall.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
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John Hodson @mgcroadster.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh, come on! Start the day with some *spectacular* sweary missives...
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
TERMINATOR: Come with me if you *really* want to live. [montage of them going to art galleries, swimming with dolphins, sky diving etc]
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Apparently, something happened 57 years ago in, like, space or something? I think the best take on it is still probably that of Dinah Hall...
Letter to the Guardian: There's nothing like teenage diaries for putting momentous historical events in perspective (Banalities and bathos, 31 December). This is my entry for 20 July 1969. "I went to arts centre (by myself!) in yellow cords and blouse. Ian was there but he didn't speak to me. Got rhyme put in my handbag from someone who's apparently got a crush on me. It's Nicholas I think. UGH. Man landed on moon."
Dinah Hall
Lustleigh, Devon
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
bostonglobe.com
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I've just gotten 3 of a new sort of spam bot: 1) account I've never seen before gives a like to two recent replies I did, neither one interesting, in completely unrelated threads 2) the account follows me 3) they have 15-30 followers, follow 100s or 1000s, few posts, recently quote-posted an AI ad
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Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My first wife and I met Sam Neill backstage at a comic-con about 9 years ago and he was superb. He found out I was a comedian and after about three hours of signing his name, he walked backstage and said to me just as I was going out to do my show, “I’ve warmed ‘em up for you.” What a legend.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 09/07/2026
Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
England is insane.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
sometimes i’m just out & about enjoying myself & i think, this is what they’re trying to take from us. this beautiful moment, having a traditional ethiopian coffee service at a tiny restaurant in a strip mall in a little appalachian town, this is what those reactionary freaks want to take from us!!
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I'm worried that with so many cops deployed protecting people from the Algae Biotic Eau* the Kennedy Center Tarp may be unguarded. *And during Pride, too!
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Happened to be walking past the local student bar right before Germany scored the winning goal
A crowd of people clustered together around the outside seating area of a bar and dance club in the middle of a cluster of giant student dormitories, with a large projection screen showing the game visible in the background. A big German flag being carried by one of the spectators is in the foreground.
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