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@musicalhistorian.bsky.social

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Didn't have anything on my Bio Description when I was on Twitter, but I guess I may as well have one now. Studied music, dabbled in history, love film. He/Him, in case the kilt wasn't a giveaway.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 17h

They're insulted by the appropriation of their toadying culture.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 19h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 21h

Get out the cleaning crew before it leaves stains!

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 21h

Well…yeah.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

That's what we're all referencing, yes.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I mean...I love Toby, but that's mostly down to Richard Schiff.

Everyone's politics in West Wing are terrible.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a vampire costume is saying i was having a daymare

Alt: Leslie Nielson in Dracula: Dead and Loving It says "I was having a daymare...."

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

A recent improvement to sunblock for vampires?

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, doesn't sound like Churchill.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't be surprised. They'll want to induct the "right sort" of Hispanic into the racial bribe that is Whiteness.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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e.g. Alice Roberts @sirstewart.bsky.social · 1d

Newsnation anchor guy short-circuiting as Kat tells him she’s giving him a history lesson. His lips are pursed and his entire head is squinting.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Most of the 30s-40s crew were also incompetent clowns. I take no comfort in the ineptitude of this current set; ineptitude can be as deadly as efficiency.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. The international community thought once might have been a fluke. Voting in a second presidency means we are fundamentally untrustworthy partners. Anyone with sense will go elsewhere.

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry if I'm talking in a stilted way...I don't know how active BlueSky's auto-mod features are.

musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

The numbers they've talked about are incomprehensible—larger than the Shoah. Even if you could manage to deport that many, there *would be* atrocities along the way. The deaths in the 40s did not begin in the camps, they began in the long path to the camps, through active and passive atrocity.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

When I say "deport," it's important to note that no deportation has ever been accomplished at anything close to the number of millions they are promising. If they do continue down this path, the destination of the "deported" will be a new final solution.

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musicalhistorian.bsky.social @musicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

This was always clear to anyone who could count. The number of people they've been claiming they'll deport cannot be filled by only deporting criminals.

It cannot be filled by only deporting immigrants.

To make their campaign promises come through, they will need to deport whole races.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Get it now?

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 14d

Game theory: all this rapture talk was part of a viral marketing campaign for Bioshock 4 but they already paid the influencers before delaying it and had to let it ride

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

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Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 11d

Good morning, and rememver, no matter how bad a day you may have, you’re not Samuel Pepys who, overnight, had shit in the chimney. Twice.

Gary Brannan @garybrannan.bsky.social · 11d

From the diary of Samuel Pepys today in 1665

So I to bed, and in the night was mightily troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 11d

Pushing AI into everything right now makes sense because we’re in the thick of an anti-expertise era, and everything it “makes” relies on malicious dilettantes believing that whatever it spits out is good enough for whatever industry or consumer base to which it’s parasitically affixing itself.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16d

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

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