Phil McDuff
@mcduff.bsky.social
Legitimate businessman
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Phil McDuff
@mcduff.bsky.social
· Nov 8
The Unbearable Weight of Small Absences
This morning my dog Jingles wasn’t in the kitchen while I was making coffee.
open.substack.com
I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️
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"Urgent Appeal from Mahmoud in Gaza
I had surgery on my left foot, and now urgently need surgery on my right foot ($3000) Without it, I could lose my foot or life. You are my only hope to stand again. The pain keeps me up at night.
Your donation/share could save my life💔"
chuffed.org/project/omsham
I had surgery on my left foot, and now urgently need surgery on my right foot ($3000) Without it, I could lose my foot or life. You are my only hope to stand again. The pain keeps me up at night.
Your donation/share could save my life💔"
chuffed.org/project/omsham
January 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
"Urgent Appeal from Mahmoud in Gaza
I had surgery on my left foot, and now urgently need surgery on my right foot ($3000) Without it, I could lose my foot or life. You are my only hope to stand again. The pain keeps me up at night.
Your donation/share could save my life💔"
chuffed.org/project/omsham
I had surgery on my left foot, and now urgently need surgery on my right foot ($3000) Without it, I could lose my foot or life. You are my only hope to stand again. The pain keeps me up at night.
Your donation/share could save my life💔"
chuffed.org/project/omsham
Quite something to be claiming other people are "Russo-American" when your guy is a photocopied Euston Manifesto Atlanticist currently debasing himself before Trump.
Accusing everyone who dislikes the Prime Minister of being a paid-for Russian Bot and Reform Voter, which is a healthy coping mechanism.
January 17, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Quite something to be claiming other people are "Russo-American" when your guy is a photocopied Euston Manifesto Atlanticist currently debasing himself before Trump.
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Airplanes are already oppressively optimized, it is effectively a solved puzzle, you are not squeezing any more juice out of the seating plan. The sheer hubris in thinking that the greedy bastards who preceded you simply didn't think to add another row.
January 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Airplanes are already oppressively optimized, it is effectively a solved puzzle, you are not squeezing any more juice out of the seating plan. The sheer hubris in thinking that the greedy bastards who preceded you simply didn't think to add another row.
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This whole saga has been both infuriating and hilarious because it was simply never worth it: WestJet started re-configuring planes to add another row, but this is the thing: it's only one more row. Anyone without a middle manager brain slug puppeteer them can do the math.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
WestJet reversing move to install tight seating layout | CBC News
In the wake of a backlash sparked by a viral video, WestJet has cancelled a new seat configuration that squeezed an extra row on board many of its planes and left passengers with less legroom.
www.cbc.ca
January 17, 2026 at 6:26 PM
This whole saga has been both infuriating and hilarious because it was simply never worth it: WestJet started re-configuring planes to add another row, but this is the thing: it's only one more row. Anyone without a middle manager brain slug puppeteer them can do the math.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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im going to say this. im genuinely very proud of most of you. the people out there trying to impoverish, jail, and/or kill us drove themselves insane on much less than we are enduring right now, while most of you have not yet gone insane. very good work. treat yourself to pizza or somesuch today
January 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
im going to say this. im genuinely very proud of most of you. the people out there trying to impoverish, jail, and/or kill us drove themselves insane on much less than we are enduring right now, while most of you have not yet gone insane. very good work. treat yourself to pizza or somesuch today
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Shout out to the neighbor lady who baked cookies and is driving around bringing cookies to people on ICE watch. We all have a role to play
January 17, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Shout out to the neighbor lady who baked cookies and is driving around bringing cookies to people on ICE watch. We all have a role to play
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I know this isn't an original thought but it'd be insane decribe the presence of any other type of woman other than trans women as "violating [women's] dignity" or creating a "hostile, humiliating and degrading environment".
Literally just swap "trans" for anything else. It's discrimination.
Literally just swap "trans" for anything else. It's discrimination.
The court ruled the NHS trust did indirectly discriminate against and harass the nurses by allowing Trans+ people to use single sex spaces
www.wearequeeraf.com/darlington-n...
www.wearequeeraf.com/darlington-n...
Darlington Nurses not harassed by trans colleague but trans women in single-sex spaces "violates dignity", court rules
The court ruled the NHS trust did indirectly discriminate against and harass the nurses by allowing Trans+ people to use single sex spaces
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
I know this isn't an original thought but it'd be insane decribe the presence of any other type of woman other than trans women as "violating [women's] dignity" or creating a "hostile, humiliating and degrading environment".
Literally just swap "trans" for anything else. It's discrimination.
Literally just swap "trans" for anything else. It's discrimination.
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I am Aboud from the Gaza Strip 🍉
I have autism & special needs, and I suffer from epilepsy
I need medicine😭
I need medicine😭
I need food😭
My family urgently needs a tent to live in
I desperately need your donation🤲
We need $200. Any donation will be a blessing
chuffed.org/project/1580...
I have autism & special needs, and I suffer from epilepsy
I need medicine😭
I need medicine😭
I need food😭
My family urgently needs a tent to live in
I desperately need your donation🤲
We need $200. Any donation will be a blessing
chuffed.org/project/1580...
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I am Aboud from the Gaza Strip 🍉
I have autism & special needs, and I suffer from epilepsy
I need medicine😭
I need medicine😭
I need food😭
My family urgently needs a tent to live in
I desperately need your donation🤲
We need $200. Any donation will be a blessing
chuffed.org/project/1580...
I have autism & special needs, and I suffer from epilepsy
I need medicine😭
I need medicine😭
I need food😭
My family urgently needs a tent to live in
I desperately need your donation🤲
We need $200. Any donation will be a blessing
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Khalil feels so helpless and embarrassed by how much help he has to ask for every day.
January 17, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Khalil feels so helpless and embarrassed by how much help he has to ask for every day.
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He thinks he is! That's what all the hamfisted policy announcements are about. We're gonna cap credit card rates. We're gonna steal oil from another country to make gas cheaper. This is all just a more elaborate version of the PR scams he's done his whole life
I don't think that's true. If he cared about public opinion, he'd do more popular things.
January 17, 2026 at 5:50 PM
He thinks he is! That's what all the hamfisted policy announcements are about. We're gonna cap credit card rates. We're gonna steal oil from another country to make gas cheaper. This is all just a more elaborate version of the PR scams he's done his whole life
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If you guessed that “The Left” here comprises an unspecified number of unidentified people, mainly online, with no effort made to explain why they might be in any way representative of anyone - in other words, business as usual with articles scolding “The Left” - you wouldn’t be far off
As the Islamic Republic massacres protesters, exiles are dismayed by the lack of sympathy from the American left, @galbeckerman.bsky.social reports. He spoke with the Iranians who feel “betrayed” by their peers:
The Silence of the Left on Iran
As the Islamic Republic massacres protesters, exiles are dismayed by the lack of sympathy from the American left.
bit.ly
January 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
If you guessed that “The Left” here comprises an unspecified number of unidentified people, mainly online, with no effort made to explain why they might be in any way representative of anyone - in other words, business as usual with articles scolding “The Left” - you wouldn’t be far off
Please continue to help this family.
January 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Please continue to help this family.
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Why is nobody testing if animals got accents? I just know a cow out of Pennsylvania and a cow out of Louisiana sound different
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Why is nobody testing if animals got accents? I just know a cow out of Pennsylvania and a cow out of Louisiana sound different
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One of the core rules of doing what I do is that if something confirms my bias in check it harder. His single citation for these claims is a dodgy website which looks like it’s using AI generated copy
maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...
maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
One of the core rules of doing what I do is that if something confirms my bias in check it harder. His single citation for these claims is a dodgy website which looks like it’s using AI generated copy
maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...
maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...
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Not the guy I would’ve expected to put his head above the parapet, so fair dues.
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Not the guy I would’ve expected to put his head above the parapet, so fair dues.
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What a timeline we are being graced with
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump says much of Europe will be charged a 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
What a timeline we are being graced with
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Yeah I've had enough from this prick now.
Gavin Newsom is a presidential frontrunner in part because he not only talked the talk about fighting Trump, but came up with and executed a plan to actually do it. Other Democrats should take note. Words and stern letters ain’t sufficient.
January 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Yeah I've had enough from this prick now.
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"if I can't have the ID cards, at least let me go back to the East End of the Mediterranean to do some murdering."
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
"if I can't have the ID cards, at least let me go back to the East End of the Mediterranean to do some murdering."
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Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor
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If this sounds like “the lesser races are a cancer that is eating away at the Reich, here’s how men of will will eradicate this disease” then that’s because that’s what it is. Chuck in a bit of encirclement, decadent art, historical grievance and Bolshevik intellectual menace, and it’s 1934.
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 PM
If this sounds like “the lesser races are a cancer that is eating away at the Reich, here’s how men of will will eradicate this disease” then that’s because that’s what it is. Chuck in a bit of encirclement, decadent art, historical grievance and Bolshevik intellectual menace, and it’s 1934.
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i find it very cool that two of the greatest movie soundtrack songs of all time - We Don't Need Another Hero and Goldeneye - are Tina Turner tracks. legend
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
i find it very cool that two of the greatest movie soundtrack songs of all time - We Don't Need Another Hero and Goldeneye - are Tina Turner tracks. legend
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Sure, so a lot of so-called “people” might die and we might turn a country of ninety million into an ungovernable nightmare ruled by local warlords, like everywhere else we have done this has. Who knows? Who gives a shit, what’s for breakfast
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Sure, so a lot of so-called “people” might die and we might turn a country of ninety million into an ungovernable nightmare ruled by local warlords, like everywhere else we have done this has. Who knows? Who gives a shit, what’s for breakfast
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"The best way to keep pets safe is to smoke or vape outside the home; to keep pets out of rooms used for cooking, smoking and vaping; and to ventilate homes well after these activities. Vapes and their accessories should be stored well away from inquisitive pets."
Doing this in your home could be making your pets seriously ill
Owners have been urged to keep an eye out for symptoms
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM
"The best way to keep pets safe is to smoke or vape outside the home; to keep pets out of rooms used for cooking, smoking and vaping; and to ventilate homes well after these activities. Vapes and their accessories should be stored well away from inquisitive pets."
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BRILLIANT
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 AM
BRILLIANT
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One really cool thing you realize when you go fan-funded is that when your revenue doesn't depend on google, you can just talk about whatever. Like people don't care. You can talk about a game from six years ago. Go for it, Doesn't even have to be an anniversary. Timeliness is kinda made up.
January 16, 2026 at 1:53 PM
One really cool thing you realize when you go fan-funded is that when your revenue doesn't depend on google, you can just talk about whatever. Like people don't care. You can talk about a game from six years ago. Go for it, Doesn't even have to be an anniversary. Timeliness is kinda made up.