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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Couldn’t have happened to a better bunch.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe someone could explain the joke. I don’t get it.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That was one more blow in a lot of blows to the old Champaign downtown, but the area has seen a lot of recovery more recently. Kuhn’s just struggles because the clientele for a classic menswear store is a lot more limited these days for lots of reasons not just related to big box stores.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But also, connect it to the entire GOP. Trump fatigue needs to fully metastasize into GOP fatigue We wouldn’t be in this mess except for all of the GOP in Washington working for it, which means the whole party as an org as well Anyone w/ Trump fatigue needs to mistrust any candidate run by the GOP

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That’s the one! So far as I’m aware, there only has ever been the one store. It just used to be a much grander affair, aiming to be just as fine as places you could go in larger midwestern cities. Now the atrium is closed up and they just do business out of the majority of the first floor only.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Local history from my corner of the Midwest: “unmatched in 118 1/2 miles” Jos. Kuhn and Co. near-continuously selling clothing since 1867 even if it’s now a pale ghost of its heyday. www.champaignhistory.com/post/33-east...

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33 East Main Street - Jos. Kuhn & Company

Born in Greenstadt Germany on April 14, 1837, Jos. Kuhn arrived in the United States at age 19. He arrived by way of Louisiana where he worked five years buying cotton for his brother-in-law before b...

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Purcell Principle is subordinate to the Calvinball Doctrine.

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ukrainian artist, Olena Fujita

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I dislike Buttigieg intensely, but I do agree here. I wish for that kind of leadership. I hope that he actively works to find and empower some of them, and to help the party support them.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You sound like you’re not aware that your link continues to exist long after the article is buried in all of their other articles. You might as well delete the link now, it’s less helpful that just the name of the site and a web search.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Do you have an alternate assignment for total degens who have no mainline Persona games left on their backlog? I’m not sure whether this is a self-own or a humblebrag — probably both.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks for mentioning this series! I was looking for something to read next and now I have the first novel downloading!

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I get the sense we’re both hoping for “yes, some of that, but also something wider for it to add up to” I didn’t try Phoenix Point, but that’s another one. Wasteland sort of scratched the itch for me even if it was more RPG.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Very much same! I’m with you that I’d like more games in this style. It seems like these days the “intense simulation” trend toward things like Silent Storm which have a lot of tactical fidelity in stances and how you sweep an area but less beyond that level.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Have you tried Jagged Aliance 1 or 2? Those are some games that give me the fidelity tactical simulation feeling, albeit at a smaller scale. It’s very cool how especially the first game handles mercs disobeying orders and liking or disliking each other, though.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

So powerful and efficient of a productivity multiplier that in under 10 seconds it can generate (buffer overflow error —>) -75 person-years of productivity!

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

How do we not look weak and incompetent for the straight being closed? We can’t make a deal with Iran even though deal making is our supposed strength? Fine. Just say the strait is closed deliberately by us.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Also, that labyrinthine sentence structure in order to make it look like President Carter ever said the phrase “Department of war“.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

You want to blame the Dems for it? You already did that. We should be reasonable? We had weeks for that already. He has no cards. Emperor has no clothes. There isn’t any good faith, so don’t pretend there is. Take him to the bank. The lesson should be “deal faster next time”.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If he wants better than that, he can find a way to pass it in his chamber using his own loyal GOP votes alone.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Given how long Johnson took to agree to prior Senate deal, wish Dems would move the goalposts and tell him that was the deal for the last 3 weeks. Negotiate with this guy with all the good faith as he’s shown. Lock out all ICE agents hired in this admin pending further review. Wages of GOP delays.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Are insurance industry workers and workers hired by healthcare solely to handle insurance requirements and over complicated billing counted in healthcare jobs? I feel like my definition of healthcare has also not been growing.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Juno makes a lot of cool stuff to read, and like literally all people deserves to be housed and able to work and create. I try to stop by her tips sites when I enjoy one of her free pieces or see her posting cool stuff. If it helps you can thing of it as decentralized Patreon for a journo/writer.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Potentially they want a button that says “I’m potentially sensitive to loss of aisle space for mainstream goods or ethnic food visibility” but also a button that says “I’d like some specific European foods” or even Canadian/Australian import foods. Free response might not catch demand for vegemite!

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(I’m also always in favor of replacing ‘White’ in almost all surveys) Certainly for a grocery store looking to revise inventory, this survey can’t easily tell them if they have an especially strong customer base for specifically Russian ingredients or something.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I like this. If I were going to poke it with critique, I’d say that especially given how much breadth they support in range of answers for greater Asia, grouping Black American and the entire diaspora of the African continent as a single group might confound their data.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I get so much use out of this meme…

Maria twirling in the Alps from The Sound Of Music. Text: You’re blocked and I have already forgotten you exist

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

But that’s not the subject you’re opining into. I’d press that button too. But you’re talking about the step where we try to have someone who is at least marginally less feckless behind that button.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Start doing that for 20-30 years and maybe we get Roe back, sort of like the GOP doing that for 20-30 years got them to a point when overturning it sounded even vaguely sane.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

But that would require the party to ever even once learn a lesson about effective party coalition building and press strategy. Take a note from the GOP. Point to your left flank and say “they have a point. This may be the compromise for today, but we need to address those folks concerns.”

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Completely silent when the party establishment shits on its left wing; but resurgently in favor of party unity when they remember they need their left flank to turn out at the polls. Literally the party just needs to spend more time demonizing Trump than its own left flank.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Every act and message by moderates is heard clearly by the folks left of them. Moderates would have no trouble holding their left flank if they ever visibly carried water for it the rest of the time. Instead, the pour out of the woodwork like scolding termites every X years.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Sadly, I can’t confirm it sold me because I was already sold.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

"A new vision of “the people” can be offered to embrace the diversity and equality of a large and complex society without taking the side of the flawed institutions that made Trump’s presidency possible." -- @blmckean.bsky.social kettering.org/inclusive-po...

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Inclusive Populism: How to Defend Democracy Without Defending Broken Institutions

If populism stands broadly for a politics that speaks for the people against elites, perhaps another kind of populism is needed to help the pro-democracy opposition contest Trump’s claim that he speak...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12/02/2026

whomst amongst us

Screenshot of a press release from the group Public Health Watch ("a project of Protect Our Care") reading as follows:

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RFK Jr: “I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: February 12th, 2026
CONTACT: Jeremy Funk, jfunk@protectourcare.org

Washington D.C. – With his statement today that “I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,” Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power. Brad Woodhouse, President of Protect Our Care, addressed the remark in the following statement:

“Resign.”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/02/2026

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A overwhelmingly Moderate contortion.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

It’s not every journalist there but I personally know that the New York Times has in recent years published lies without any fact checking And I know this with complete confidence because the lies were about me and I know that no fact checkers contacted me This is a huge problem

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have a recurring dream where all ICE agents hired under this admin are immediately retasked to investigate political activity by evangelicals, and monitored to see if their use of force changes, dismissed if it does.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It really would be healthier for the whole world for men to experience more compliments.

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I hate this for you and for me. In other news: “OMG, you found it!”

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The failure isn’t in inability to produce instant results, despite all the willful misunderstanding. it is in 50 years of not even energetically trying to move the rhetorical needle because high minded compromise and triangulation is celebrated and got us to exactly today.

misunderstanding.it

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Instead of spending Dem messaging to go out and say that angry liberals are unhinged loons, moderate Dems should constant be saying “this is the evidence of a pure moral outrage that must be addressed” It worked on trans panic, could we at least try it for not having LEO murder people on the street

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Lorcan Murphy @wasdmatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

As a deeply pragmatic moderate, you should go talk to Republicans and say “look at what the party actually wants. Your people should take my deal and be happy with it” Just like the GOP does to rope-a-dope the Dems continuously for decades.

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