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Zev زيف זאב
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Ivan the Terrible
Julian the Apostate
Æthelred the Unready
Ivar the Boneless
Yochanan HaSandlar (The Shoemaker)
Muhammad Abu Nabbut (Father of the Stick)
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Sometimes this reminder is helpful on Bluesky:

It’s good to oppose Trumpism. Trumpism is evil. But there are plenty of people who oppose Trumpism who are also petty, shitty, annoying people. Block them or ignore them and go back to opposing Trump.
January 31, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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she says my favorite line in all of 30 rock
January 30, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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While we’d need data to confirm, my impression is that the more conservative a Catholic is, the less likely they are to respect the Pope’s views and authority, and I feel like that’s weird.
January 30, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Reading Norman Mailer's The Quick and the Dead, and one thing that's really noticeable in early WWII literature is there's a lot of emphasis on, if you like, diversity. That a platoon contains many accents and backgrounds. NYC, Texas, California; Polish, Jewish, Mexican, Italian.
January 31, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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telling my adorable daughter i'm not putting the drawing she made on the fridge because it's toddlerslop
January 30, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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The wrong actor from Home Alone 2 died today
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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And in the end, every one of his neurons will be its own scheming vizier, and every ounce of his flesh, a boyar going bad
January 30, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Intrusive thoughts about Canadian fictional characters : at one point Wolverine and Anne of green gables were alive at the same time
January 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Imagine how big his beard would be.
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
If Marx was alive today he would be really old
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla.

sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...
Wily coyote who swam to Alcatraz gets ‘much fatter’ on prison island diet
Officials are monitoring if the canine is preying on the island’s seabirds.
sfstandard.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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One interesting thing you may not know about publishing is that at this point there are only 4 people alive who still purchase a book, open it, and read the words inside. All the stores and campaigns are to reach them. Famous authors like Stephen King sometimes reach as many as 2 with a single book.
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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This is honestly more-or-less how Saint Augustine begins CITY OF GOD.
It's 410 CE, and I'm your podcast host, Rossus Douthaticus. I'm here with Alaric the Visigoth, who recently sacked the Eternal City.

Alaric, why do you think people have lost faith in Rome? Is it a crisis of liberalism? Is it because of the feminization of the workplace?
January 29, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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MELANIA wasn’t made for the critics or the coastal elites, it was made for the fans
January 29, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms doesn’t need to be longer. You can read the whole novella quicker than the runtime of season one
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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no one knows what's in the Melania movie. and no one ever will. lost media currently playing in theaters
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Here’s a podcast…
Here’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.
Opinion | Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Going
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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You think YOU’re dramatic? The sages say that if you see a friend you haven’t seen in over a year, you should say a blessing to God, “who revives the dead.”
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Talk to people who aren’t addicted to news. I could barely explain to my wife why Charlie Kirk was an important enough person to assassinate
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
these people seem like idiots
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 AM