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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy birthday and thanks for the DIE Deluxe Edition I bought with my birthday money last month.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What's it called when an MLB insider climbs a mountain? That's Passan Hiker.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Used to hear this on a daily basis driving MJ to daycare. It was the first thing I thought of when I heard the news, and it seems appropriate. "To make a rainbow, you must have rain/Must have sunshine, joy and pain"

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Dolly Parton - I Am a Rainbow (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's 2026; the punishment for people who try to put four separate values into one spreadsheet cell should be humiliation and death.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Guys, I think he might nuke Iran just to get Colbert's last show pre-empted.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Look upon your works, Mitch McConnell, and despair.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Best Show on Television is back tonight.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

File this under "Paragraphs I Wish Cat Was Still Around to Read"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/texas-gerrymander-redistricting-midterms-backfire/

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jadyn. @itsjadynnow.com · 18/03/2026

when you breakdown that venezuela players were sitting with buckets on their heads and team usa players were watching videos of us bombing another country to find inspiration for playing a game they all get paid millions of dollars to play, it was kind of obvious who was going to win.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I can remember a time when the World Series, a Springsteen album and a Springsteen biopic all happening on the same day would have been celebrated like the Fourth of July, Pt. II. #dadsky

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If a government only serves the interests of 10% of the population, it's not so much a "government" as it is an "occupying force."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you grab a 3-month Xbox Game Pass card now at the old price, then cancel the recurring billing, your subscription will end in January - right after the holidays - which is when you were gonna be making resolutions anyway. Set yourself up for success. #cancel #xbox #gamepass

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I was literally just talking to my therapist a couple of hours ago about how important X-Men were to my moral development, and why I've made a point to introduce my kid to the same principles.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I like how @davidmarquez.bsky.social put the speaker out-of-panel here to let you know that's @gailsimone.bsky.social 's voice, not the mayor's.

Comic panel depicting Wolverine, Gambit and Rogue reacting to a segmented dialogue balloon that points to the right edge of the panel, indicating that the speaker is off-screen. Dialogue as follows:

1. "We didn't forget you two! Gambit, Ms. Rogue--Through the roof with heterosexual women. Off the charts!"

2. "All groups, really!"

3. "And Ms. Rogue--I mean, I'm sure you know."

4. ROGUE: "Horny dudes?"

5. "Women too. Horny women!"

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karen @klsmd12.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

i was told that when it’s the end of the world as we know it that i would feel fine liars

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

From "Newsrooms Need to Get Tougher on All That Lying" by Richard Tofel. dicktofel.substack.com/p/newsrooms-...

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Nothing will remind you of the fragility of existence quite like having to wait two days for an A/C repair.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Replace "some users" with "Lex Luthor's monkeys" for a more honest headline.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Taking solace in baseball, beer, hot dogs and Hamilton today. It's important to keep in mind that we're more than just our shitty government.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I didn't make it, but this playlist is giving me life on this Third of July, which I suspect will one day be referred to by historians as America's last day.

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Anti-4th of July

Playlist · Noah Kirby · 187 items · 9 saves

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

What a privilege it is to live in a country where we have rarely known what it is like to fear being killed by any other government but our own.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I hope when we think of them years down the line, we won't have one good thing to say.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Boy, it's really starting to feel like it's time to go buy a gun.

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I know I'm not the only person doing this, but I pulled up the Declaration of Independence and these are stirring words of grievance...

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Roller coaster! Of stooooocks. Roller coaster! Ah hoo hoo hoo! The market's like! A roller coaster, baby baby! Don't wanna ride! (All apologies to the Ohio Players.)

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David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Any researcher who still thinks we all lived in egalitarian societies until the invention of agriculture started a species-wide “fall from grace” into inequality should really be in the theology department, as this idea simply has nothing to do with science or evidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I'm pretty sure "Cream of Wormtongue" was already in your lexicon, @cabanarama.bsky.social, but probably not for the same reason.

Screenshot of a post on the r/lordoftherings subreddit consisting of a still image of actor Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue in The Two Towers and the title "Until today, my sister thought his name was 'Cream of Worm Tongue.' A reference to his pallid appearance."

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every now and then I think about how confident we were about putting the words "Worst Year Ever" under a picture of a dumpster fire on the cover of our End of Year issue back in 2016.

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Cheekface – We Need a Bigger Dumpster (lyric video)

YouTube video by Cheekface

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Last night, I made my 9-year-old watch an educational video about the Irish Potato Famine. "It's always about money!" she voiced in indignation about 30 minutes in. Yes, m'iníon; yes. It's always only ever been one struggle, and it never ends.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A reminder that this entire Trans Panic thing is just another shitty step in a long history of fake panics completely invented by political hacks. Trans people are very likely not affecting your lives at all and they certainly are not the cause of any problems on a national level. It's BULLSHIT.

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Field Team 6 @fieldteam6.org · 28/02/2025

Friday, Feb. 28 - Economic Blackout! Don't shop online or IRL, do it from local small businesses & pay cash. Send a message that we are willing to fight to reclaim economic & political power from the billionaires & mega-conglomo-corps. A one-day blackout really WILL make a difference.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Example 4,210 of why no one who cares about our democracy should be giving any sort of quote or story to the NYTimes

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

America Has No King America Needs No King

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Had a long day of digging into various systems to diagnose and fix data problems, so I decided to pack up some baseball card trades right after work (as a treat). Only to discover that the trading site I use has a database problem. Blur was right: Modern life IS rubbish.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Still figuring out how much actual personal thought I want to put out on the internet anymore, considering what has happened to this former country and the inevitable, imminent persecution of dissent. I might just post Malazan quotes until the knock at the door comes.

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Bree Finwell @breefinwell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.” ― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I see a lot of people talking about how much damage has been done in just the first week. I think they're getting ahead of themselves. It hasn't even been 5 days.

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Thaddeus McCollum @wikkiwikkiwikki.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you liked Malazan, I can confidently recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by Wengrow & Graeber as something of a real-world exploration of some of the archaeo/anthro topics alluded to - sometimes unsubtly - by Erikson.

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