Red Durkin
@daedsider.bsky.social
bookseller, book buyer, book scout, bookstore owner, horror & rare book collector. I don't read; it's my terrible secret, please don't tell anybody
Psalms 109:8
Psalms 109:8
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Red Durkin
@daedsider.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Don't let the Earth being a 13 septillion pound rock that's home to billions of people where objectively and subjectively important things happen literally all day, every day distract you from the fact that it's actually an elaborate psy-op where only one truly important thing happens at a time.
Never let them tell you there isn't money for food or healthcare.
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity.
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion for “AI and supercomputing infrastructure” for the US government
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity....
sherwood.news
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Never let them tell you there isn't money for food or healthcare.
Anyone who describes Alan Dershowitz as "charismatic" can simply not be tolerated in polite society.
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Anyone who describes Alan Dershowitz as "charismatic" can simply not be tolerated in polite society.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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thrilled and honored for SIMPLICITY to be on here. thank you NPR~
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
thrilled and honored for SIMPLICITY to be on here. thank you NPR~
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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"I have nipples, Charlie Brown. Could you milk me?"
“And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Charlie Brown. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.”
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"I have nipples, Charlie Brown. Could you milk me?"
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Nothing in the rulebook says a bucket of blood can't play basketball
January 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Nothing in the rulebook says a bucket of blood can't play basketball
What a unique question no one's thought of asking him yet
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What a unique question no one's thought of asking him yet
I really love If Books Could Kill because, as a longtime bookseller, I'm never surprised by the titles they pick but, even with my low expectations, am *consistently* surprised by exactly *how* dumb these books wind up being. I knew in advance this book was bad, but daaaaaaamn
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I really love If Books Could Kill because, as a longtime bookseller, I'm never surprised by the titles they pick but, even with my low expectations, am *consistently* surprised by exactly *how* dumb these books wind up being. I knew in advance this book was bad, but daaaaaaamn
Me: of course I'm paying attention, I've been taking notes
My notes:
My notes:
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Me: of course I'm paying attention, I've been taking notes
My notes:
My notes:
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After working in food service & kitchens for a long time, including managing a kitchen in Indiana, I applied to be a kitchen manager at a diner in Oakland where, upon being interviewed, they told me I was wildly underqualified for the job.
I then applied to be a cashier at Borders for the holidays.
I then applied to be a cashier at Borders for the holidays.
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
After working in food service & kitchens for a long time, including managing a kitchen in Indiana, I applied to be a kitchen manager at a diner in Oakland where, upon being interviewed, they told me I was wildly underqualified for the job.
I then applied to be a cashier at Borders for the holidays.
I then applied to be a cashier at Borders for the holidays.
Don't ever talk to me or my armful of cats again
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Don't ever talk to me or my armful of cats again
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every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
At one point when I was living alone in Indiana, I didn't have television or internet at home, but I did have a VCR and 3 films on tape: Casino, Forrest Gump, and the Fifth Element. I haven't watched any of those movies in YEARS, but I'm still nowhere near seeing anything else as many times.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
At one point when I was living alone in Indiana, I didn't have television or internet at home, but I did have a VCR and 3 films on tape: Casino, Forrest Gump, and the Fifth Element. I haven't watched any of those movies in YEARS, but I'm still nowhere near seeing anything else as many times.
While the perpetrators have never been identified, I'm personally a fan of the theory that it was Eric Fournier, who would've been 19 at the time, and went on to create the character Shaye Saint-John (google it, I dare you.)
Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
While the perpetrators have never been identified, I'm personally a fan of the theory that it was Eric Fournier, who would've been 19 at the time, and went on to create the character Shaye Saint-John (google it, I dare you.)
If you've got a better way to keep my health bar topped up than eating hams and roast chickens I find on the ground, I'd like to hear it
who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you've got a better way to keep my health bar topped up than eating hams and roast chickens I find on the ground, I'd like to hear it
Well, that's not ideal.
"Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal"
"The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal"
"The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal"
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Well, that's not ideal.
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We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.
Four of mine were in there.
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this has been the playbook for the human trafficking moral panic for years. big announcements, big shows of force, resulting in zero or near zero charges.
the whole thing is built on the media’s willingness to report cop’s statements as facts without real sourcing.
the whole thing is built on the media’s willingness to report cop’s statements as facts without real sourcing.
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
this has been the playbook for the human trafficking moral panic for years. big announcements, big shows of force, resulting in zero or near zero charges.
the whole thing is built on the media’s willingness to report cop’s statements as facts without real sourcing.
the whole thing is built on the media’s willingness to report cop’s statements as facts without real sourcing.
Ah, yes. State & local police. Who've done so little to abet this administration & are famously not abusive. Masterful take as always, sir.
ok I only saw the one dumb take but it turns out that was only a warmup
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ah, yes. State & local police. Who've done so little to abet this administration & are famously not abusive. Masterful take as always, sir.
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Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, I know that fast fashion is terrible and I try to buy nothing new and repair what I have whenever possible. But my normal resistance to Temu ads is utterly undone by this objectively incredible item