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In no particular order: Baltimore - Disney Parks - reading / writing - bread baking - baseball - reliving Warped Tour and / or old Ottobar shows - cats
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the kid writes
@thekidwrites.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Starting a running thread of new music I’m listening to. Goal is one new album a day.
First up, Architects’ first album Hollow Crown. Great stuff. If I’d snagged it in 2009 when it released, it would have become a sizable part of my personality. I can see why Architects has the following they do.
First up, Architects’ first album Hollow Crown. Great stuff. If I’d snagged it in 2009 when it released, it would have become a sizable part of my personality. I can see why Architects has the following they do.
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One of the big asymmetries in politics is that billionaires etc are perfectly happy if their electeds give them 5% extra each year for two decades while if progressives don't get everything they want three weeks before the person takes office they start a protest vote movement
February 17, 2026 at 11:02 AM
One of the big asymmetries in politics is that billionaires etc are perfectly happy if their electeds give them 5% extra each year for two decades while if progressives don't get everything they want three weeks before the person takes office they start a protest vote movement
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they should make a Star Wars that's about the Baby Ewok, raised in a family of artists, their earliest memory being their parents playing wild rhythms on the heads of decapitated Stormtroopers, who becomes a promising yet directionless and troubled artist in their 20s.
ok a new star wars ranking
babies in star wars
1. Pipey
2. The Baby Ewok
3. Baby Yoda
4. Stinky the Hutt
babies in star wars
1. Pipey
2. The Baby Ewok
3. Baby Yoda
4. Stinky the Hutt
February 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
they should make a Star Wars that's about the Baby Ewok, raised in a family of artists, their earliest memory being their parents playing wild rhythms on the heads of decapitated Stormtroopers, who becomes a promising yet directionless and troubled artist in their 20s.
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New personal work! I took my time with this one but if felt so good to get back at some personal work, hopefully more coming soon!
February 17, 2026 at 11:27 AM
New personal work! I took my time with this one but if felt so good to get back at some personal work, hopefully more coming soon!
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“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines
-NYT ethical guidelines
Not a single mention of America’s first female president. For shame.
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Not a single mention of America’s first female president. For shame.
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“I love to know who she hates and to hate them as well. I love that she is good at making plans, and I am good at staying calm when plans get all fucked up on account of weather or mechanical failure.”
This is so romantic what the hell
This is so romantic what the hell
The nice people at Playboy asked me to write something about the good parts about being married, and I was happy to. :)
Love Can Look Like Anything, Even Marriage
Comedian and writer Josh Gondelman on choosing a "structurally vanilla" life.
playboy.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“I love to know who she hates and to hate them as well. I love that she is good at making plans, and I am good at staying calm when plans get all fucked up on account of weather or mechanical failure.”
This is so romantic what the hell
This is so romantic what the hell
Being an adult means leftover homemade pizza for breakfast
February 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Being an adult means leftover homemade pizza for breakfast
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bill watterson was so good he drew a six year old smoking and everyone was like 'goddamn that's incredible'
February 16, 2026 at 3:08 AM
bill watterson was so good he drew a six year old smoking and everyone was like 'goddamn that's incredible'
“Budget secondary” is an astounding combination of words to read in regards to a Disney parks project
RUMOR: Initial Villains Land Plans “Scrapped”, Imagineers Told to Dream Bigger
RUMOR: Initial Villains Land Plans "Scrapped", Imagineers Told to Dream Bigger
Walt Disney World has reportedly scrapped the initial plans for Villains Land as Imagineers were tasked to dream bigger
blogmickey.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“Budget secondary” is an astounding combination of words to read in regards to a Disney parks project
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Most of them are quite proud of this fact as it is the only salient detail about themselves
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Most of them are quite proud of this fact as it is the only salient detail about themselves
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Progress is inherently liberal.
February 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Progress is inherently liberal.
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"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.
February 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.
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"the economy" is the language of modern politics. this is why reactionaries who are mad that a woman didn't smile at them tweet endlessly about how the economy will be so based and chad once we institute breeding camps
"I'm sad all the time and I don't know why" isn't a polling category and also doesn't sound serious, but "the economy is bad" does.
February 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
"the economy" is the language of modern politics. this is why reactionaries who are mad that a woman didn't smile at them tweet endlessly about how the economy will be so based and chad once we institute breeding camps
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Arguing about Gavin Newsom is just bluesky’s enrichment activity now. Just drop it in our little terrarium and watch us go.
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Arguing about Gavin Newsom is just bluesky’s enrichment activity now. Just drop it in our little terrarium and watch us go.
While we’re on the subject of hypothetical presidential runs, “compassion without limits, courage without borders” is a pretty good slogan for our time
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 8:49 PM
While we’re on the subject of hypothetical presidential runs, “compassion without limits, courage without borders” is a pretty good slogan for our time
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with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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One of the big lessons of this is that if the federal government gives states funding for housing, job training centers, community centers, & libraries, it barely happens & the feds get no credit. Trump 2 is a weirdly strong argument for the value of big government, if run properly
huh, was there any time recently when a reconciliation bill devoted a giant amount of money towards investments like that
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 7:18 PM
One of the big lessons of this is that if the federal government gives states funding for housing, job training centers, community centers, & libraries, it barely happens & the feds get no credit. Trump 2 is a weirdly strong argument for the value of big government, if run properly
Yeah she’s running
Mentions Steve Bannon working with the global right: "we have an obligation to be part of an internationalist movement to defend democracy globally."
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Yeah she’s running
Popped into the comments on a facebook post and saw a Trumpy facebook troll in the wild and man, posts like that really do feel like the sign of something diagnosable.
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Popped into the comments on a facebook post and saw a Trumpy facebook troll in the wild and man, posts like that really do feel like the sign of something diagnosable.
Daily reminder that there is no rule that says you have to comment on what Chuck Schumer says. We understand you think he is an ineffective coward. You have made your point clear numerous times in exactly the same way.
February 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Daily reminder that there is no rule that says you have to comment on what Chuck Schumer says. We understand you think he is an ineffective coward. You have made your point clear numerous times in exactly the same way.
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on the Maine senate race, we’re somewhat paradoxically in a situation where I think the candidate who has been lukewarm to cold on nuking the filibuster is more likely to be a reliable vote to do it than the candidate who is enthusiastically saying he will
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
on the Maine senate race, we’re somewhat paradoxically in a situation where I think the candidate who has been lukewarm to cold on nuking the filibuster is more likely to be a reliable vote to do it than the candidate who is enthusiastically saying he will
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the thing is that when a guy does an insurrection and is still able to run for president four years later the people not paying a ton of attention don't think it matters, because it it did, he'd be in jail, right?
The thing to understand is that we are in this mess because a great deal of this country refused to believe Trump tried to commit an insurrection, despite it being televised.
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
February 15, 2026 at 8:59 AM
the thing is that when a guy does an insurrection and is still able to run for president four years later the people not paying a ton of attention don't think it matters, because it it did, he'd be in jail, right?
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Everyone thinks that Nazism is just boots and braces skinheads and 14/88 chuds but the esoteric variant that dresses itself up in new age spirituality, health neuroticism, and woke blood and soil nationalism is far more pernicious.
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Everyone thinks that Nazism is just boots and braces skinheads and 14/88 chuds but the esoteric variant that dresses itself up in new age spirituality, health neuroticism, and woke blood and soil nationalism is far more pernicious.