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Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school Hoosier living in southernmost California Etiam si omnes ego non

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is the one and only good thing that George W Bush did as president. It has saved millions of lives at very little cost. Why pause it—for a period long enough to cause major damage and death? Because you want (those) people to die.

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

www.nytimes.com

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 42m

Do not serve the Father of Lies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 49m

I mean, this is the simplest explanation, so absent some compelling alternative explanation by Donald Trump, I’m assuming this is correct.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 55m

Just to remind people, the reason that Trump wants to blow up CDC is pretty easy: they want people to die.

The combination of destroying rural areas to centralize population and removing weak populations seems to be part and parcel of their strategy to remake the welfare state.

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1h

It’s impressively brazen.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 11h

One might also say "hiring committees".

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1h

It fits in with my favorite types of horror. I want, mostly, to be creeped out.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 2h

Watched The Inheritance and Oddity last night. Both from 2024. The first was predictable and derivative but still a fun little horror. The latter was a creepy little Irish film.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2h

Indiana Jones And The Undisturbed Garbage Dump

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 10h

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think you RSVP’d to the Google Calendar invite.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 2h

None of us ever emerge unscathed.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 12h

Look, I’m not gonna take my theology—or moral code—from Petey Thiel, but I do wonder, with all the money he has, why he’s looking like Dorian Gray’s picture.

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 13h

even for a border patrol you’re quite gullible and resistant to reason

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 18h

Obscene wealth poisons the soul.
There was a lesson in the myth of Midas.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 21h

Fajitas are a very western food, too.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 21h

Shoes!

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 21h

Correspondingly, we will have reduced prescription drug prices by every multiple of 5 between 0-2,000%

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22h

by 2028 we will have at some point imposed tariffs on China for every multiple of 5 between 0-200%

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 23h

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 1d

If she wins, she’ll be sworn in at the youthful age of 79.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1d

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is supposed to announce a run for U.S. Senate next week, in an attempt to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

via @mainemorningstar.com

Gov. Mills to announce Senate bid next week

This story will be updated. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is supposed to announce a run for U.S. Senate next week, in an attempt to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

www.newsfromthestates.com

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Making the Integralists seethe.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Nada y nadie

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Because of a new contract, I have to make a new CV—I don't really keep an updated one because I'm pretty much a nobody who isn't going anywhere—and it's making me remember a lot of stuff that's happened in the last two decades of my puttering along. I've given a lot of talks!

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 1d

He is, of course, more of a traditionalist that his critics are.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

"Shut up and pope"

WaPo headline: As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church'

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, why not some foreign-flagged fighter jets in Idaho?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

The face really is the image of the soul.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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