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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
jackstamper.bsky.social
Annual tradition
ryannorth.ca Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · Dec 16
*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
jackstamper.bsky.social
Ich…weiß nicht genau, ob ich selber ein Fax verschickt habe, und aus ner Bibliothek hab ich nur DVDs geliehen, also…2 Punkte?
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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docomega.bsky.social
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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celestelabedz.bsky.social
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
c0nc0rdance.bsky.social c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 17d
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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xkcd.com
Geologic Core Sample

xkcd.com/3171/
Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 5
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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suede.bsky.social
Even without the mass murder machine that would be the elevators after a game, It's also stupid because the only reason to have it that high is the view, AND EVERYONE IS FORCED NOT TO LOOK AT IT
caesarflunk.bsky.social Caesar Flunk @caesarflunk.bsky.social · Oct 27
This will 100% not be built.
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
this random shakespeare appearance might beat my previous favorite, "yo mama joke"
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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gizmouse.bsky.social
academy award contending tiktok
September 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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elysiatatsu.bsky.social
🎃
September 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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yobencohen.bsky.social
Jerry wanted you to hear this from him.

We built Ben & Jerrys to stand for peace and love. It was needed then and it’s needed more than ever now. Which is why Magnum must #FreeBenAndJerrys

See Jerry’s full message at freebenandjerrys.com and be part of the campaign.
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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medusaswink.bsky.social
Me: i’m Autistic

Them: Oh you take things literally

Me: No that’s kleptomania
July 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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thedevil.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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donutdogface.bsky.social
Well that one just killed me
September 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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coil.bsky.social
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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wyattswickedgoods.com
I for one.

Love Roman numerals.
August 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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klimwandel.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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xkcd.com
Grounded

xkcd.com/3124/
Comic. [airplane connected to airport terminal by jet bridge] VOICE FROM PLANE: This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea.
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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nintendousa.bsky.social
THE song of the summer. #MarioKartWorld
August 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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kicker.de
Verfahrene Situation beim FC Barcelona rund um Marc-André ter Stegen. Weil der deutsche Nationaltorwart einen medizinischen Bericht an die Liga nicht unterschrieben hat, haben die Katalanen ihre Rechtsabteilung eingeschaltet.
Barca leitet ein Disziplinarverfahren gegen ter Stegen ein
Verfahrene Situation beim FC Barcelona rund um Marc-André ter Stegen. Weil der deutsche Nationaltorwart einen medizinischen Bericht an die Liga nicht unterschrieben hat, haben die Katalanen ihre Rechtsabteilung eingeschaltet.
dlvr.it
August 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM