Tom Cairney
@tomcairney.bsky.social
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I will never take the trans panic seriously when a huge chunk of middle aged white men are ‘roided out of their minds
The US Department of Health and Human Services just released this video.
February 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
I will never take the trans panic seriously when a huge chunk of middle aged white men are ‘roided out of their minds
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Weird Al doesn't have a single signature song, he crosses generations.
you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?
February 18, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Weird Al doesn't have a single signature song, he crosses generations.
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What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.
February 17, 2026 at 10:42 PM
What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.
I would sooner feed my testicles to a wood chipper
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 17, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I would sooner feed my testicles to a wood chipper
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So on my father's side, which I do not take my culture or heritage from as I'm not close to most of his people and they are largely weird and suck except for a handful
We have a family tree going back to the early 1400s. All very well documented.
Yes, they died all the time, from everything.
We have a family tree going back to the early 1400s. All very well documented.
Yes, they died all the time, from everything.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
So on my father's side, which I do not take my culture or heritage from as I'm not close to most of his people and they are largely weird and suck except for a handful
We have a family tree going back to the early 1400s. All very well documented.
Yes, they died all the time, from everything.
We have a family tree going back to the early 1400s. All very well documented.
Yes, they died all the time, from everything.
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Any Dem that comes in without a plan for court reform will effectively be a lame duck on day 1, who will spend 4 years giving orders to agencies that the Supreme Court tears up and reverses with the help of burrowed right wing bureaucrats.
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Any Dem that comes in without a plan for court reform will effectively be a lame duck on day 1, who will spend 4 years giving orders to agencies that the Supreme Court tears up and reverses with the help of burrowed right wing bureaucrats.
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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
Overnight, this probable ICE flight landed in Benin and is now returning to Senegal, likely for a crew layover.
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 AM
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
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Arendt suggests Eichmann is a clown *rather than* a monster. But why not both—a clown AND a monster? It seems to me a key part of the horror of fascism is precisely its pervasive clownishness. There's a mind-rending indignity in having to take seriously rulers who are fundamentally unserious.
February 17, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Arendt suggests Eichmann is a clown *rather than* a monster. But why not both—a clown AND a monster? It seems to me a key part of the horror of fascism is precisely its pervasive clownishness. There's a mind-rending indignity in having to take seriously rulers who are fundamentally unserious.
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been thinking about this a lot
February 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
been thinking about this a lot
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i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy
How many followers for a prominent Bluesky elder to host Jeopardy
February 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy
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Will you commit to voting for Donald Trump if he wins the Democratic primary?
February 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Will you commit to voting for Donald Trump if he wins the Democratic primary?
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FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
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What offends me about this is just that it's so fucking stupid. Every time some group brutalizes another, the brutalizers conclude the people they're brutalizing are inhuman savages. It's happened 100,000 times before in history. Congrats to Brianna on being 100,001st, what an achievement.
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
What offends me about this is just that it's so fucking stupid. Every time some group brutalizes another, the brutalizers conclude the people they're brutalizing are inhuman savages. It's happened 100,000 times before in history. Congrats to Brianna on being 100,001st, what an achievement.
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Robert Duvall did a fantastic turn as a Scottish lower league football manager in "A Shot At Glory" he based the character on Scottish club football manager Dick Campbell.
A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Robert Duvall did a fantastic turn as a Scottish lower league football manager in "A Shot At Glory" he based the character on Scottish club football manager Dick Campbell.
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
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You don't have to debate whether current concentration camps are actually concentration camps when the U.S. government called its own previous concentration camps, concentration camps...
February 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
You don't have to debate whether current concentration camps are actually concentration camps when the U.S. government called its own previous concentration camps, concentration camps...
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Open AI is stopping the new PlayStation has to be something people can use to mobilize
February 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Open AI is stopping the new PlayStation has to be something people can use to mobilize
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I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
One of the interesting things this time around is just how hollow the whole thing sounds. In the past, people have been able to use the empty concept of electability to anoint and position the person they demanded, but now that Republicans are getting obliterated everywhere, that doesn't work.
If I were a Democrat concerned about winning elections and was hearing that a significant number of voters wouldn’t support Gavin Newsom in 2028, I would simply stop pushing Gavin Newsom in 2026.
February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
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It's a freak show, all the way down.
Erika Kirk Faces Backlash Over Alleged 'Inappropriate' Texts With A 15-Year-Old: 'Absolutely Vile'
Purported Texts Between Erika Kirk And A 15-Year-Old Go Viral Sparking Backlash And 'Grooming' Allegations
www.yahoo.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:35 AM
It's a freak show, all the way down.
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“Not only will I pointedly refuse to hire a young journalist who objects to having AI write his stories, I will also write a self-righteous column about this in which I imagine that readers will see me as the wise and reasonable one here.” You are a dumbass.
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
“Not only will I pointedly refuse to hire a young journalist who objects to having AI write his stories, I will also write a self-righteous column about this in which I imagine that readers will see me as the wise and reasonable one here.” You are a dumbass.
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Charles Ephebophile Cheese
Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
February 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Charles Ephebophile Cheese
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Famously during the colonial period if you told an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman they shares a culture they would immediately start fighting each other over who got to kill you for such an insult.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Famously during the colonial period if you told an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman they shares a culture they would immediately start fighting each other over who got to kill you for such an insult.
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