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@farwent.net

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Me, my thoughts are flower-strewn. Mystic, McLuhanite, left-handed copy editor. Madison, WI. (Previously: Fargo, CA, NYC.)

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · Nov 13

The left/right schism is fundamentally a rift between people whose extensive training in literacy has insulated them from the disorienting effects of the internet, but only through a process of detachment; and people without all that, plus some sociopaths.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

This is AI.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Really truly, this is the kind of thing a responsible news media would be doing all the time these days.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3d

That the networks don't have a live feed from Portland running in the corner is journalistic malpractice.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 3d

I just remembered that in uni I wrote a paper about cultural references in THE MATRIX and as an aside, I was like, "isn't it interesting how often Neo is compared to/evokes female characters (Alice, Dorothy, Sleeping Beauty)? Anyhoo, back to the real meanings of the references in this movie..."

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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 3d

While providing tech support for my FIL:

FIL: What's that screen?

ME: The terminal. You should never use it.

FIL: Never?

ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself?

FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

I was working at a women's publication when this happened, and a bunch of the ladies looked at him and were like, I get it.

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Was listening to Sabrina Carpenter sing about how she just wants to bang a responsible man, and it occurred to me that it's probably even harder at her level to find a guy who isn't a useless fuckboy, and then it occurred to me that maybe that's why this:

Eileen Joyce @sadandbritish.bsky.social · 4d

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Like, if this were a really sweet, special deal for the Qataris, I feel confident they would choose nearly anywhere to be other than Idaho. It is famously not a hotbed of multiculturalism.

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

I mean, if this stuff pisses off some racists and they stop supporting Trump, that's fine. But it's better for the rest of us to be accurately informed than outraged at this administration for a normal thing that Biden actually did.

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

I've spent a lot of time with a lot of middle schoolers lately, and feel confident they are no more and no less annoying than those who preceded them. (Which is to say: Still pretty annoying!)

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Terrible people, just terrible

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Reupping this because I'm still seeing lots of outraged posts.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

The most important thing to know is that it's annoying.

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Do people without middle schoolers know about 6 7 yet?

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

i saw people saying '6 7' and didn't get the reference so i searched for it on here and the first thing i saw was a picture of two buff furry wolfmen jacking off into a urinal. good night

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

How did such a subversive iconoclast come to support an authoritarian government

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

Guy in private plane doesn’t like that he has to hire more security to address his personal concerns about crime so he is happy to have the president push guardsmen into the city at taxpayer expense.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

It's awesome, in the sense that the power of God is (can't be described in words, might melt your face off)

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Ohhhhhh, I thought, like, Matt Frewer was related to the guy who played Subzero or something. This makes more sense. (The guy in the suit is Automan, and he doesn't have any uncles because he is *living software*.)

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 3d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

I've seen it, I'm just missing the uncle part. I will rewatch it when I am not in a room full of sixth graders (literal but also sort of existentially metaphorical)

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

I'm not opposed to a backdoor-pilot type deal.

jw 💀 @farwent.net · 3d

Wait is there a real-world relationship being referenced here

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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