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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Now to take a quick look at Dow aftermarket trading...

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸‼️🇨🇳 Trump imposes new tariffs on China.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

I, uh, wondered about that.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

I've said this before about the SECDEF, but it seems like you'd want to avoid actions that seem like the things that appear in the "Popular Revolt, Overthrow, and Death" section of a Wikipedia article about a minor eighth-century Roman emperor.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine being a National Guardsman who had a paying civilian job but got involuntarily mobilized to deploy to Memphis.

He is a) away from his family, b) an object of fear or ridicule by his fellow citizens, c) not being paid by his regular job and d) not being paid by the government either.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

I have to say--even as someone who has found Jimmy Carr funny in the past--that he is perhaps the least surprising name on this list.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

True, but hard to hire when you can't tell anybody when their next paycheck will come--and the guys doing the hiring aren't being paid either.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

They say--many people say--that the government is a *Leviathan.* Such a nice word, *Leviathan.* Some people say I'm not supposed to say it, but I do. I like it. You might even say I'm a Leviathan--it's a fish, you know; many people don't know it's a fish, but it is. No fish is as beautiful as the Le

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows what's going to happen with the Nobel, right?

A MAGA group from like... Noble, Iowa is going to make a "Noble Prize," award it to him, he'll issue an EO saying it's the real prize and we'll have to endure CNN and WaPo pretending there's "questions" about which is the real one.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

This... not how the ICC works, I regret to inform you.

No one is coming to do anything to hold Trump accountable unless Americans do it ourselves.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Going to a protest whose explicit unifying principle is that in America, there are "No Kings" is somehow a "hate America rally"?

The Speaker might want to go to the Library of Congress and check out literally any book on American history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever else terrible we have going on in the world--and there is plenty--at least the Eagles, Flyers, and Phillies all lost.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone knows what's going to happen with the Nobel, right?

A MAGA group from like... Noble, Iowa is going to make a "Noble Prize," award it to him, he'll issue an EO saying it's the real prize and we'll have to endure CNN and WaPo pretending there's "questions" about which is the real one.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's soundtrack:

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever writes Black Eyed Peas songs?

Max Martin?

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Let's start with *In Search of Lost Time.*. I'll check back up on everyone sometime next year.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

It's out--you should get a copy! It's great, because @quotidianwriter.bsky.social is an amazing poet and I'm a good one!

David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · Jun 29

My debut poetry collection, alongside the wonderful @quotidianwriter.bsky.social releases in September!

THE SHIP AND THE STORM is a conversation in poetry, as we delve into subjects ranging from loss and memory to war and nature, and I really hope you'll give it a read.

Cover of THE SHIP AND THE STORM, my debut poetry collection with Diane Callahan. The cover is a spiral collage of a painting of Adam and Eve intercut with an image of a ship at sea, with flowers and foliage in the background. "THE SHIP AND THE STORM" are in white lettering on a blue background.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and making an ok sign .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and making an ok sign .

media.tenor.com

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

So they yearn for Pol Pot's Year Zero, huh?

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Wait... in all seriousness, some distinct branch of strict anarchists are anti technology? Like in a 19th century pastoralist romantic sort of way or "we should all be living in caves" sort of way?

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

God, I hope not.

David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 1d

Damn my typos!