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• Post #4503637

  Also is it really such a mystery why efforts at diagnosis might have been more concentrated on young children starting their educations than middle-aged folks who've had decades to develop coping strategies? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e7gbntp2tzobn7cfi37viei3/post/3msstgws4lc2h

• Post #4503626

  It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mstl5wdl6o2v

• Post #4503621

  Apparently they've learned what you need to say if you want to establish a pretext to execute someone. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/post/3mstkokwpkk2r

• Post #4503243

  If you find yourself dooming, it's worth recalling that Trump has neither the legal nor (more importantly) the practical ability to effectively federalize & rig the midterms. But if you find yourself complacent, it's important to note he can cause a whole lot of chaos by illegally trying & failing. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mssw3mr5ek2n

• Post #4502957

  I think that gender authoritanism is why they’re *indifferent* to the burden on parents working outside the home, but the idea that it’s the true motive implies they secretly understand the medical rationale is nonsense. I think at this point it’s fair to presume they’re genuinely stupid. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eoxg5kzxq4iavkrzpffta7gr/post/3msshkwdlvc2d

• Post #4502295

  Which of course is the point. This whole administration is an excercise in authoritarian grooming. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mahcxbfhb2skcd2frksxx7qc/post/3mssxq6woc22f

• Post #4502263

  Sun’s getting real low big guy… RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mssptfbmps25

• Post #4498400

  If people think Dems need to present some kind of conception of masculinity they could do a lot worse than… adulthood. It’s not that hard to make the Hegseth/Tate brand of puffed-up adolescent machismo look like the ridiculous, childish pose it is. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lrlmw63dqlhqacs6pbu6ffzn/post/3msr2b2hots24

• Post #4496030

  A Trump quote from this piece makes a fitting motto/epitaph for both him & his enablers: “It will work out. It always works out.” When you take a minimal level of baseline competence for granted, it starts to seem like a law of nature, & it gets hard to imagine how bad things might get without it. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h6xbkw7bucg6ws3vqwnxqewp/post/3mssf4o5ius2d

• Post #4491275

  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 11th 2026 (Medium), in 04:14 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

• Post #4491183

  Obviously it’s never ideal to have a senile moron president, but having a senile moron president in the early era of AI seems especially dangerous. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i4lpgcshkgqnm7tsqn64d7zx/post/3msrmdymfb22h

• Post #4491137

  If only Chris Farley were still with us RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic/post/3msrhiijjn22d

• Post #4490746

  Just into Book 3 of On the Calculation of Volume & the most implausible thing so far is that the protagonist has never once mentioned the film Groundhog Day or that one TNG episode. Presumably because we are in the realm of Serious Literary Fiction where nobody is conscious of pop culture.

• Post #4490716

  Happily, I don’t think the sort of person who imagines the em-dash is some kind of sorcerous glyph invented by ChatGPT made up too much of the audience for the sort of stuff I write in the first place. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooapl6do2c6xxglfxuxgbxae/post/3msqzt2bmkk2a

• Post #4490690

  (And, of course, massively increasing the risk that busy or cash-strapped patients won’t infallibly keep coming back to the doctor’s office again and again for all those separate shots.)

• Post #4490668

  What, you don’t have infinite money and a small army of servants to raise your children for you? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6zvez7hu5b342xcystp5twq6/post/3msqunp53nk2o

• Post #4490564

  Been reading It Can’t Happen Here & Sinclair Lewis keeps taking little potshots at Upton Sinclair, which I can’t help suspecting is because he got sick of people mixing him up with the other leftish novelist with Sinclair in his name.

• Post #4489788

  I think there’s a tendency to frame this as a “Trump’s silly obsessions” sideshow story, but it’s a pretty grotesque corruption story. The administration squandered millions on a no-bid contract to an inexperienced company that botched the job, then indicted innocent people to cover their error. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2amnkge5a6hplfwyesmxqkfl/post/3mspxx62a7k27

• Post #4489464

  I do not love to see it. This is an awful legal path to the correct conclusion. The logic of this suit is that it violates the free exercise rights of parents for their kids to be exposed to information that contradicts their religious beliefs. That is a wrong and dangerous principle. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6wkmlbv4opeuwppxi73ozhna/post/3msdkvtqzm22t

• Post #4477548

  I think any sane person would dismiss that. I doubt that if the omnipotent creator of the universe wanted to send you a message, it would come in the form of a cheap parlor trick from a Victorian seance. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ownlsrdmnvwgzmcdi2bof6s/post/3msngd3x2722m

• Post #4476901

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• Post #4438472

  RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3msisp4sjw72u

• Post #4438467

  open.spotify.com/track/285ieo... RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wgfz5e3rv4mxgtcpypddfruu/post/3msiqpcaxk22u The Last of Us

• Post #4438360

  As one of these apparently vanishing men who reads quite a lot of fiction, I have never once found myself thinking that there’s some kind of paucity of contemporary novels by men. It’s absurd. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4wgc32lruykyqvmnculpihn5/post/3msiuns5z5s2s

• Post #4438340

  C’mon worrywarts, surveillance infrastructure is never deployed for purposes beyond the legitimate aims initially used to publicly justify it. (Hang on, I’m being passed a note…) RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/post/3msitmtgffk2n

• Post #4437806

  I grew up with mostly classical music and opera being played around the house (and in the car): The only pop album I really recall hearing regularly as a kid was Graceland, which my father would happily sing along to while driving. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ptdyhb37nf4rzedlghzuh3li/post/3msiusltdvf26

• Post #4437377

  So look, this was my initial reaction too, and Cornyn is certainly a coward. But what he actually said was that they can’t stop Trump from TALKING about how he wants the insurrection fund back. Which is true enough. That’s not the real problem with what Cornyn said… RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lzhoiqcmix7x4umnzrtxzd5h/post/3msgujbvfhc2r

• Post #4433375

  This is my shocked face. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fa3rwygrp2ebgwdiq6sjn2te/post/3msijn7goj22c

• Post #4425330

  QI doctrine essentially means that unless your rights were violated in EXACTLY the same way as someone else who won a case, the best you can hope is to spend outrageous amounts of money setting a precedent for the NEXT person who gets their rights violated in that exact way. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/post/3msh7rlyhbc2h

• Post #4425280

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