Charlie Whisky
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Charlie Whisky
@brightapollo.bsky.social
· Dec 22
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-Frank Wilhoit
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-Frank Wilhoit
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Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family https://theonion.com/man-who-got-shit-together-5-years-ago-still-viewed-as-l-1819574386/
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family https://theonion.com/man-who-got-shit-together-5-years-ago-still-viewed-as-l-1819574386/
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Adiós, 2025.
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Adiós, 2025.
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In September, I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome: the illusion that you alone are going to have every answer or fix the world. [5/5]
You don't have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In September, I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome: the illusion that you alone are going to have every answer or fix the world. [5/5]
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Never accept a work meeting until you’ve seen the agenda and know what decisions need to be made. If no decisions need to be made, skip the meeting.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
December 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Never accept a work meeting until you’ve seen the agenda and know what decisions need to be made. If no decisions need to be made, skip the meeting.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
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This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.
NPR is dead
President Trump was a builder before he took office, but he has continued it as a hobby in the White House. n.pr/4b7NPwa
A 'very aesthetic person,' President Trump says being a builder is his second job
President Trump was a builder before he took office, but he has continued it as a hobby in the White House.
n.pr
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
NPR is dead
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Anything you get before you’re ready you will lose.
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Anything you get before you’re ready you will lose.
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GIANT PIZZA WARS (1993-1995): In the early 90's, the Big 3 in the chain pizza world entered an arms race, offering competing, giant pizzas in a bid for pizza supremacy. How did it shake out? Check this 🧵!
February 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
GIANT PIZZA WARS (1993-1995): In the early 90's, the Big 3 in the chain pizza world entered an arms race, offering competing, giant pizzas in a bid for pizza supremacy. How did it shake out? Check this 🧵!
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
Way to miss the point he unequivocally made: people make clothes cool. He doesn't mean groups. He means a person finds clothes that fit and communicate something intentionally. It's also a grown up way of thinking, so yes, not for everyone.
My point is letting groups define what is cool can not always lead to fashionable trends.
December 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Way to miss the point he unequivocally made: people make clothes cool. He doesn't mean groups. He means a person finds clothes that fit and communicate something intentionally. It's also a grown up way of thinking, so yes, not for everyone.
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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SUPERVISOR: I need to speak with some of you in my office
ME: [filling the water cooler with spaghetti] whomst
ME: [filling the water cooler with spaghetti] whomst
December 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
SUPERVISOR: I need to speak with some of you in my office
ME: [filling the water cooler with spaghetti] whomst
ME: [filling the water cooler with spaghetti] whomst
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
Let's be clear. The school administration ended the instructor's career. The 18yo doofus was just the latest tool used to push someone towards the sacrificial altar where the institution's courage and integrity were first burned as an offering to facists.
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Let's be clear. The school administration ended the instructor's career. The 18yo doofus was just the latest tool used to push someone towards the sacrificial altar where the institution's courage and integrity were first burned as an offering to facists.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
Where o where has Miss Holly Girlziplocked gone?
December 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Where o where has Miss Holly Girlziplocked gone?
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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
i know all words are made up but "malice" is already there for the taking but somehow "malignity" ended up here
To everyone following the Bari Weiss story and struggling with the question of whether this is rank incompetence or malignity: Doesn't matter, because rank incompetence plus arrogance IS malignity, so even if you give her the benefit of the doubt (btw, there's no reason to), that's where you end up.
December 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
i know all words are made up but "malice" is already there for the taking but somehow "malignity" ended up here
100% true. I rewatch old movies with an eye towards that "Time Machine" effect of seeing the real NYC. "Taxi Driver", "Fort Apache: The Bronx", "The Warriors" are all terrific examples of what what it was like for my generation growing up in that world.
worth watching a movie set in the 1970s, like THE NICE GUYS, and comparing to a movie made in the 1970s, like DIRTY HARRY
December 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
100% true. I rewatch old movies with an eye towards that "Time Machine" effect of seeing the real NYC. "Taxi Driver", "Fort Apache: The Bronx", "The Warriors" are all terrific examples of what what it was like for my generation growing up in that world.
It's a sport, just not for you.
It’s not really a sport, it’s a disgustingly brutal form of exploitation that should be banned.
December 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's a sport, just not for you.
That's exactly what a real boxer is trying to do... glad to see this finally get done.
Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
That's exactly what a real boxer is trying to do... glad to see this finally get done.
A thing that you know
A thing that you have
A place where you sit
A leg you raise
A friend
A quantum state of an electron in a magnetic bottle that your friend has
A silly walk
A pastry
Two beverages
The number 42
A thing that you have
A place where you sit
A leg you raise
A friend
A quantum state of an electron in a magnetic bottle that your friend has
A silly walk
A pastry
Two beverages
The number 42
Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A thing that you know
A thing that you have
A place where you sit
A leg you raise
A friend
A quantum state of an electron in a magnetic bottle that your friend has
A silly walk
A pastry
Two beverages
The number 42
A thing that you have
A place where you sit
A leg you raise
A friend
A quantum state of an electron in a magnetic bottle that your friend has
A silly walk
A pastry
Two beverages
The number 42
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Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again