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Richmond Eustis

@reustis.bsky.social

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Reclusive Swamp Druid. Associate professor, Nicholls State: World Lit, Wilderness, and other "Waste" lands. Senior field & Wilderness Medicine instructor at NOLS. Wilderness EMT. Oud, bees. Fulbright Jordan 2015-17. South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · Nov 9

Obligatory pinned skeet. Behind the scenes with my oud at last year's Arabic Music Retreat.

Point of view shot holding an oud in front of a music stand, with sheet music for a sama'i in maqam hijaz kar kurd.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 9h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 8h

Bluesky will be more fun when there are more sports fans sports posting through sports. That is what is fun.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8h

The sheer joy of sports BlueSky right now is making me smile. This is what social media is supposed to be.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

I also acknowledge that this is a very Baseball Fan thing to have written.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

There are four MLB teams I like. And one I wish well and have some affection for. In order:

1. Red Sox. Easily. Since forever. Can't change.
2. Mariners/Braves (tie) Because of Junior and TBS in my youth
3. Detroit. Because Detroit.

Affection? White Sox: my father's favorite.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

Hell yeah. Go Mariners. What a game.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

Notice to both bullpens: I have like a 45 mph kind-of slider. Just saying. For when you're both out of pitchers.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

At this rate, so will we all!

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

Notice to both bullpens: I have like a 45 mph kind-of slider. Just saying. For when you're both out of pitchers.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

Fourteen. Innings.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

This Mariner/Tigers playoff is among the best I have ever listened to. I have a long bike ride scheduled for early tomorrow morning, and I've just accepted I'm going to be tired as hell because I'm not going to bed.

(I prefer to listen to baseball if I'm not at the game. But that's a whole essay.)

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

Also, should specify that I'm 99 percent sure the scrreenshot is a joke of some kind.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

I canNOt believe Bazardo got out of that jam. What. A. Game.
(Seattle/Detroit ALDS)

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, that's good.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

Also, 99 percent sure this has to be parody.

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

Is it the shellfish or the pork sausage that make it Israeli?

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

Louisiana online types will welcome this.

The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 10h

Colonizers be like

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10h

It's one of the best games I've seen all season. And it helps that I like both teams (but favor Seattle for several reasons).

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

So the absolute insane stupidity of this is the idea that he could set up a theocratic state and also get a 'significantly smaller government.'

The folks on the authoritarian right do really seem to be believe there is a secret government liberalizer ray they can just switch off to change society.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 11h

I haven't blocked them. Heh. Must have seen my post.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

This Newsmax host compares the ordination of a PC(USA) pastor to a Universal Life Church online ordination.

PC(USA) ordination requires a three-year masters of divinity, passing an ordination exam, and a host of presbytery requirements.

The Presbyterian tradition is older than the U.S.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 19h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15h

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard ... under capitalism, 'peace' is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms."

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as 'peaceful' are, in reality, quite violent."

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 16h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15h

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 15h

I think it may be bottery at hand, but who can tell these days?