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Dan McKinley
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"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Just saw a TikTok lady claim that George Washington had a “signature scent”
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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sadvil.bsky.social
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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goad.bsky.social
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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posts belonging to the Emperor
suckling pigs
fabled ones
posts that tremble as if they were mad
brenthor.bsky.social Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 13d
Here some fun bluesky labels I made

This User Is/Has/etc

- Thin Red Aura
- Full of Hate, and Starving
- Been Dead for 11 Years
- Enjoys Flat Soda
- Tears of Genuine Loss Heal Most Wounds
- Defies God in a Cunt-Serving Fashion
- Can Drink A Whole Juicebox In Just One Suck
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Did NuzzI ever do a profile on Vermin Supreme
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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My post tech industry dream is to be one of those micro specialty produce guys that shows up in every Chef’s table episode. ”The mushroom guy is here” they say and everyone runs out back to look at mushrooms out of the back of a sprinter van.
sodomymcscurvylegs.bsky.social Crash Bandicooch: The WAP of Cumsex @sodomymcscurvylegs.bsky.social · 13d
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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justkelly.bsky.social
If you would like to help this family (Maribel's children who are still without their mom and caring for their baby brother), there is a GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/children-i...
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Best Mountain Goats album in a bit IMO
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask:

What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔
www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...
There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference’s papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the—I’ll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are—the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis. The second is what I would call different availability of aptitude at the high end, and the third is what I would call different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search. And in my own view, their importance probably ranks in exactly the order that I just described. Another way to put the point is to say, what fraction of young women in their mid-twenties make a decision that they don’t want to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week. What fraction of young men make a decision that they’re unwilling to have a job that they think about eighty hours a week, and to observe what the difference is. And that has got to be a large part of what is observed.
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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justkelly.bsky.social
New story about our law clinic's client, who was in the US legally and was cruelly deported "inadvertently" and separated from her young child, despite a Homeland Security spokesperson claiming ICE "does not separate families." (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 10d
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.

I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
all kinds of guys in this country with too much money and no idea what to do with it and not one will pay a john goodman impersonator to follow larry summers around with his blown-up epstein emails on a placard going "is this your homework, larry? is this your homework, larry? is this your homework,
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12d
Just a couple of days ago, the Moral Avatar on the Charles (and Jeffrey Epstein pen pal) was trying to get an investigation launched against Harvard’s excellent student newspaper
Lawrence H. Summers & @LHSummers| Follow 9 ... I found this article by a former Harvard Crimson President very disturbing. The moral bankruptcy that led the Crimson to endorse BDS some time ago, without subsequent withdrawal, appears to have spread to the news pages. (I have shared Stoll's article to several at the Crimson without substantive response and this tracks with the things I have observed.) Many of the student I have engaged with at the Crimson have high integrity and smarts but I do hope alumni trustees will investigate and take any necessary steps lest a problematic situation deteriorate further.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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edgeofsports.bsky.social
Nine NFL players under 48 have died this year. NINE. And twenty under the age of 65. I'm looking into it for a longer article. But I'm taking to bluesky to say that I cannot believe - or maybe its just too easy to believe - that in our NFL obsessed sports media culture, this is not a bigger story.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Happy 80th birthday, Neil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEh...
After the Gold Rush
YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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katz.theracket.news
Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same
whitehouse.senate.gov Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14d
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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merovingians.bsky.social
you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.

to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.

anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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This is literally what catastrophic failure to fight united looks like
whitehouse.senate.gov Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14d
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM