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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 3h

Wtf? We're allowing foreign countries to build military bases on US soil?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5h

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 5h

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 5h

Happy birthday, to the originals' original, Thelonious Monk, whose music and life I've been dwelling upon for a couple of years now.

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 6h

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 9h

Bloomberg bubble charts the Bubble:

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 7h

I would be more annoyed with people giving Trump credit over Biden on Gaza on main if we didn't already do this in January its just everyone fucking forgot

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 9h

It's not just the US that is shutting down foreign language programs and funding. We are dismantling the tower of babel with our own hands and replacing it with the broken toaster of automatic translation.

Chinese Universities Abandon English Departments Amid Policy Changes and AI Disruption – Chinascope

English departments, once among the most popular programs at Chinese universities, are facing widespread closures across the country. Multiple factors including government policies, AI advancement, an...

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 10h

The median voter

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

lol, here's some incredible college football content. In the hype video Oregon posted after Penn State, Dan Lanning lectures his team on broken windows theory, but it's pro-breaking windows.

"Each time we get a stop on defense, that's a broken window." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSH...

a screencap of Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning standing in front of a projector screen displaying a slideshow. The current slide has a headline "BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY."

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 10h

Bunny Yaga

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah it makes perfect sense they’d done their homework in retrospect, but it had never occurred to me that it was something other than a sight gag.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 11h

I was today years old when I realized the Monty Python bit was based on a real thing

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 11h

Medieval manuscripts have inexplicable scenes of knights fighting rabbits, so I guess frogs is just our thing for some reason.

Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back

Vengeful, merciless and brutally violent... yes that’s right, we’re talking about medieval bunnies.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 12h

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

go ahead. keep flying blackhawks over my apartment. it only makes my opinions WORSE

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 11h

What in the fuck

Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 12h

Oh this guy ruled. Grandly aggressive Chicago accent.

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 1d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 14h

a woman says " i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you "

Alt: a woman says " i was rooting for you we were all rooting for you "

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18h

sitting my mainline ass down and holding space

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl I would let this house destroy my life

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1d

Real dark what AG is doing over there

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a purple shirt is standing on a beach looking at something .

Alt: a man in a purple shirt is standing on a beach looking at something . Or the real alt text: gob flings a dead dove into the sea

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1d

Really don’t regret that mute lol

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Che-boo!-rashka @leshij.bsky.social · 1d

130??

(Ok 131 but still wild lol)

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Oolong Musk 🇵🇸 @curtexplores.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably the best thread I can find to his old travel shots, since it features numerous break out threads to others he posted. If anyone has a more comprehensive one, feel free to share.

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · Sep 6

40 years ago today I walked across the Lo Wu Bridge 羅湖橋 into China for the very first time — into a world that a year's intensive study of Mandarin and Classical Chinese at SOAS University of London had woefully ill-prepared me for.

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