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Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school Hoosier living in southernmost California Etiam si omnes ego non

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is the one and only good thing that George W Bush did as president. It has saved millions of lives at very little cost. Why pause it—for a period long enough to cause major damage and death? Because you want (those) people to die.

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

www.nytimes.com

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 1h

even for a border patrol you’re quite gullible and resistant to reason

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 6h

Obscene wealth poisons the soul.
There was a lesson in the myth of Midas.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 8h

Fajitas are a very western food, too.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 9h

Shoes!

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 9h

Correspondingly, we will have reduced prescription drug prices by every multiple of 5 between 0-2,000%

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9h

by 2028 we will have at some point imposed tariffs on China for every multiple of 5 between 0-200%

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 11h

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 12h

If she wins, she’ll be sworn in at the youthful age of 79.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 12h

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is supposed to announce a run for U.S. Senate next week, in an attempt to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

via @mainemorningstar.com

Gov. Mills to announce Senate bid next week

This story will be updated. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is supposed to announce a run for U.S. Senate next week, in an attempt to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

www.newsfromthestates.com

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 12h

Making the Integralists seethe.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 12h

Nada y nadie

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 12h

Because of a new contract, I have to make a new CV—I don't really keep an updated one because I'm pretty much a nobody who isn't going anywhere—and it's making me remember a lot of stuff that's happened in the last two decades of my puttering along. I've given a lot of talks!

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 15h

He is, of course, more of a traditionalist that his critics are.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

"Shut up and pope"

WaPo headline: As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church'

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 15h

Sure, why not some foreign-flagged fighter jets in Idaho?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16h

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

The face really is the image of the soul.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

“Baby in her placenta” is pretty bad for a HHS secretary but it’s arguably worse for a guy with six kids. It’s impossible to not learn this stuff as a dad if you’re even remotely paying attention just once.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

They should give the peace prize to JD Vance just because that would be a funny dynamic

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Plata quemada

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Additionally, the US “directly” purchased Argentine pesos, Bessent said, a move that marks the latest step in an attempt to stabilize the country’s financial market.

Bessent says US purchased pesos and finalized framework for $20 billion lifeline for Argentina | CNN Business

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday via social media. Additionally, the United States “directly”...

www.cnn.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Ah!

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure why contrarian.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Drink your tar water.

👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀 @tylerhower.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously, there’s no good reason—apart from very bad American 19th- and 20th century views about sexual pleasure—for our rates of circumcision, but this is just unhinged internet slop.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

In Douglas Wilson's disastrous New York Times interview, he simultaneously affirms limited government while prescribing a codification of fundamentalist sexual ethics that would require a vast statist apparatus to police and enforce. Incoherent.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
—Hannah Arendt, possibly on Ross Douthat

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me...He has sent me to proclaim freedom for prisoners...to set the captives free" - Luke 4:18

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