Adroitly Absurd
@adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian, interpreter, educator, reenactor, now #Skystorian, etc. born a century or so too late. Randomly purveys wit, wisdom, & waffling. Opinions = mine, R/T ≠ endorsement
Pinned
Since Bluesky apparently deleted my pinned post (hey, wtf?) hi, it’s me, that guy from Twitter w/ the history & weird humor
Yes, not all the tweets made it over cleanly; if you find a broken 🧵, it’s something we all (especially my OCD) have to live with
Anyway… howdy howdy howdy
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Yes, not all the tweets made it over cleanly; if you find a broken 🧵, it’s something we all (especially my OCD) have to live with
Anyway… howdy howdy howdy
/1
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I’m so jealous. Must be nice having a functional high court.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I’m so jealous. Must be nice having a functional high court.
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Don’t ask me ‘bout the 2026 NPS Park Pass thing I’m currently cracking my phone’s cover from clenching it too hard
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Don’t ask me ‘bout the 2026 NPS Park Pass thing I’m currently cracking my phone’s cover from clenching it too hard
Given molten salt solar systems & sun-tracking gimbals, “NO”
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Given molten salt solar systems & sun-tracking gimbals, “NO”
Really gotta listen to this - can’t afford to chew through night guards at the current rate
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Really gotta listen to this - can’t afford to chew through night guards at the current rate
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Never vote for anyone John Brown would've shot.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Never vote for anyone John Brown would've shot.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
AND WE WERE BETTER FOR IT
Study: Average 19th-Century American Spent 93% Of Time Waving At Trains, Boats https://theonion.com/study-average-19th-century-american-spent-93-of-time-waving-at-trains-boats/
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
AND WE WERE BETTER FOR IT
Bless me father, for yea I walk willingly into the valley of the shadow of death
*about to call tech support for my laptop*
*about to call tech support for my laptop*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Bless me father, for yea I walk willingly into the valley of the shadow of death
*about to call tech support for my laptop*
*about to call tech support for my laptop*
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Perfect single color piechart.
What are the odds that these ICE folks who can’t risk unmasking now were complaining endlessly about having to wear a mask during the peak of COVID?
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Perfect single color piechart.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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It's never been more 2003 than it is right now.
137 More Oil Wells Liberated For Democracy
RUMAILAH OIL FIELDS, IRAQ–The U.S. continued to make progress in its fight against totalitarianism Tuesday, when 137 more oil wells were liberated for democracy.
theonion.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It's never been more 2003 than it is right now.
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Quiet part, meet out loud.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Quiet part, meet out loud.
Between this & the mirror routine alone Duck Soup may have been his finest hour
Remembering the late 🇺🇲 American actor and comedian Arthur "Harpo" Marx (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964), seen here in the pre-Code comedy classic film "DUCK SOUP" (1933)dir. Leo McCarey
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Between this & the mirror routine alone Duck Soup may have been his finest hour
“Listen, you wouldn’t know them, they’re from Canada, but I assure you they’re really real & they make legal rulings for me all the time”
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“Listen, you wouldn’t know them, they’re from Canada, but I assure you they’re really real & they make legal rulings for me all the time”
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
And it’s another banger thread, to boot
Gotta be honest, did not have the Menswear Guy quoting a Doctor of the Church on my expectations for the day
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And it’s another banger thread, to boot
Please - we don’t need AI to tell us what whales are up to…
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Please - we don’t need AI to tell us what whales are up to…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
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The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.
*Talmudic voice* “It’s a metaphor for wider media, I say - A METAPHOR”
genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
*Talmudic voice* “It’s a metaphor for wider media, I say - A METAPHOR”
“While deceptively transparent, the wave plates of an optical isolator restrict transmission of light in one direction via…”
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“While deceptively transparent, the wave plates of an optical isolator restrict transmission of light in one direction via…”
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YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*