FAFO Schwarz
@wehrmanm.bsky.social
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Philadelphia, PA
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FAFO Schwarz
@wehrmanm.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Probably won't convert this to a wrestling account for a few reasons.
Stay here for sardonic takes, self-deprecation, top-shelf music recs and absolutely unhinged political raving.
I do want to still follow wrestle friends and see/support your stuff, however!
Stay here for sardonic takes, self-deprecation, top-shelf music recs and absolutely unhinged political raving.
I do want to still follow wrestle friends and see/support your stuff, however!
I think about Qui Gon Jinn a lot. He's annoying because he's constantly imparting life lessons nobody asked for (or needs).
"There's always a bigger fish." Shut up, dork.
Anyway, I think a lot of leftists sound like Qui Gon to the people they speak to.
"There's always a bigger fish." Shut up, dork.
Anyway, I think a lot of leftists sound like Qui Gon to the people they speak to.
It’s true that the right is trying to kill you and the left is just annoying sometimes.
On the one hand, it doesn’t speak well of the people who can’t tell the difference.
On the other hand, it does say something about how annoying we all can be sometimes.
On the one hand, it doesn’t speak well of the people who can’t tell the difference.
On the other hand, it does say something about how annoying we all can be sometimes.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I think about Qui Gon Jinn a lot. He's annoying because he's constantly imparting life lessons nobody asked for (or needs).
"There's always a bigger fish." Shut up, dork.
Anyway, I think a lot of leftists sound like Qui Gon to the people they speak to.
"There's always a bigger fish." Shut up, dork.
Anyway, I think a lot of leftists sound like Qui Gon to the people they speak to.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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It's stunning how calmly we've accepted the "papers, please" federal government and deign to consider ourselves yet still a "free society."
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's stunning how calmly we've accepted the "papers, please" federal government and deign to consider ourselves yet still a "free society."
Laffo the gift cards I mailed our niece and nephew were missing the included gift card and not delivered (respectfully).
I handed both envelopes directly to a person at a post office, meaning there's a 98% chance USPS stole both of them.
Pathetic.
I handed both envelopes directly to a person at a post office, meaning there's a 98% chance USPS stole both of them.
Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Laffo the gift cards I mailed our niece and nephew were missing the included gift card and not delivered (respectfully).
I handed both envelopes directly to a person at a post office, meaning there's a 98% chance USPS stole both of them.
Pathetic.
I handed both envelopes directly to a person at a post office, meaning there's a 98% chance USPS stole both of them.
Pathetic.
Bondi Beach shooting happening on the anniversary of Sandy Hook is not a coincidence.
There are so many shootings in this world that it's a matter of probability at this point that we must mourn multiple mass shootings on the same day.
Because our leaders do nothing about it.
There are so many shootings in this world that it's a matter of probability at this point that we must mourn multiple mass shootings on the same day.
Because our leaders do nothing about it.
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Bondi Beach shooting happening on the anniversary of Sandy Hook is not a coincidence.
There are so many shootings in this world that it's a matter of probability at this point that we must mourn multiple mass shootings on the same day.
Because our leaders do nothing about it.
There are so many shootings in this world that it's a matter of probability at this point that we must mourn multiple mass shootings on the same day.
Because our leaders do nothing about it.
TV hosts who are ideologically indiscernible from the politicians on their programs - a hallmark of the right-wing media that has convinced a large majority of the public that the media has a left-wing bias.
‘This Affordability Issue Is a Hoax.’
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo insisted that all is well and good in the economy of President Donald Trump.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo insisted that all is well and good in the economy of President Donald Trump.
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
TV hosts who are ideologically indiscernible from the politicians on their programs - a hallmark of the right-wing media that has convinced a large majority of the public that the media has a left-wing bias.
There's no reason to improve on perfection - and there's no reason to make the worst possible adaptation of a movie you can think of, either. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJv...
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
There's no reason to improve on perfection - and there's no reason to make the worst possible adaptation of a movie you can think of, either. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJv...
One of my wrestling trainers once responded to someone who didn't like getting hit by saying "there's always time to quit and be an architect."
Glib, sure - but accurate. Fluid life lesson: recognize and accept the signs that maybe the job you're pursuing isn't the job you should be doing.
Glib, sure - but accurate. Fluid life lesson: recognize and accept the signs that maybe the job you're pursuing isn't the job you should be doing.
Is your presence on the job harmful to the customers, your colleagues, and the company that’s paying you? Ok. You need to find a different job. Ideally one without a lot of interpersonal interaction. Your workplace is not therapy.
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
One of my wrestling trainers once responded to someone who didn't like getting hit by saying "there's always time to quit and be an architect."
Glib, sure - but accurate. Fluid life lesson: recognize and accept the signs that maybe the job you're pursuing isn't the job you should be doing.
Glib, sure - but accurate. Fluid life lesson: recognize and accept the signs that maybe the job you're pursuing isn't the job you should be doing.
Being racist, pointing to your crotch and saying "suck it" to customers should only lead to you *not* being fired if your primary employer is the World Wrestling Federation
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Being racist, pointing to your crotch and saying "suck it" to customers should only lead to you *not* being fired if your primary employer is the World Wrestling Federation
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🗣️ KISS ON THE BEACH
🗣️ READ A NOVEL
🗣️ BE SUNBURNT
🗣️ READ A NOVEL
🗣️ BE SUNBURNT
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🗣️ KISS ON THE BEACH
🗣️ READ A NOVEL
🗣️ BE SUNBURNT
🗣️ READ A NOVEL
🗣️ BE SUNBURNT
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If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.
Oh god in heaven oh dear lord
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Oh god in heaven oh dear lord
Well, I'll be. You did it, Hirooki Goto.
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Well, I'll be. You did it, Hirooki Goto.
laffo this stinks
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
laffo this stinks
Dang, Philly has multiple Paul Georges and they all stink
A veteran lawyer in the Philly DA's Office has been disbarred after a panel of judges concluded he “lied repeatedly” while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man who killed an East Mount Airy couple.
A supervisor in Philly DA Larry Krasner’s Office has been disbarred in federal court
www.inquirer.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dang, Philly has multiple Paul Georges and they all stink
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is Pluribus worth finishing? The first episode didn't click with me the way I'd hoped it would after the trailer drew me in.
Ready to move on unless it eventually gets better.
Ready to move on unless it eventually gets better.
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Is Pluribus worth finishing? The first episode didn't click with me the way I'd hoped it would after the trailer drew me in.
Ready to move on unless it eventually gets better.
Ready to move on unless it eventually gets better.
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
"I'm looking for a guy named Santa"
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"I'm looking for a guy named Santa"