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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder that, during his rise to power while overthrowing the Second French Republic, Napoleon III banned beards for university students due to their association as a symbol of republicanism (& thus, the opposition)

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Just had the sudden inane idea to grab the break room bagel slicer & slap on a sticker reading “this machine causes autism”

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

My love for the ol’ Tech remains justified

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Go birds (in every sense of the word)

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve any doubt this is true remember half of Philadelphia gathered on an abandoned pier to watch a dude eat his 40th rotisserie bird

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7J...

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still waiting on those taco trucks on every corner

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

CORRECT

Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 1d

Panel 1: Shen is stoically holding up a sign with his right hand that says "W O R C E S T E R" on it.

Panel 2: A man clearly from Boston, in a black Red Sox cap and Bruins jersey and holding a Market Basket bag slung over his shoulder, says "WOOSTER!" Under the cap, he has messy brown hair, and is smiling innocently.

Panel 3: Shen, still stoic, now holds up a picture of a rooster with both hands.

Panel 4: The man from Boston smile lights up, sparkles in his eyes, and says "ROOCHESTER!!!"

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

I mean jeeze yeah 1620 helluva date for that sentiment

Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 1d

Eight years ago today I went to Southwell Minster to interview a bookshop owner and took this pic in the graveyard. Stuck it on Twitter, and it went viral for years in various forms. I still see it, shorn of connection to me, doing its stuff, living its best life out in Internetland.

Tombstone in Southwell Minster graveyard with the bas relief 'WTF 1620'

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Historically Argentina has been very popular for “retired” fascists

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Why?

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Sewed a colleague’s pants & they made me pumpkin bread

The system works

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 1d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Still no word on their go-to Dunkies order… www.wbur.org/news/2018/12...

View of a Viking longboat prow carved into the adornment of Boston’s Longfellow Bridge piers

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Dis heah ting is wicked pissah - well woith a peep

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"When they fought, the Vikings fought hahd! N’ some’ah the ones that got the most famous fahr fightin’ the fuckin’ hahdest were the Varangians who fought in Constantinople befoh r’it turned intah a Turkish caliphate ah whatevah." #LeifEriksonDay

A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians

Art by Matt Smith - - -Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go...

buff.ly

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

Reeeeeeally hard not to get deeply, DEEPLY discouraged over this

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose that solves the Tylenol question 🙄 bsky.app/profile/adro...

Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 18d

So how do I explain my touch of ‘tism if I’m allergic to acetaminophen? Am I supposed to blame my mother? Cause my brother & I both required surgery so she was on that GOOD shit & not the low-level stuff, so that don’t fly

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