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Writer, banjo player. Author of Ghost in the Club (Metatron, 2016), Chirp (Ursus Americanus, 2018) and How to Wear Makeup In A God Honoring Way (Pitymilk Press, 2025) https://zorknogg.tumblr.com/

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Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

Awww yeah "Libertarianism"

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m haunted by the idea that this is probably him toning it down for an audience too

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

the director of HHS doesn't know what a placenta is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

it feels absurd to call something a "ceasefire" when one side has reduced an entire area to rubble, overwhelmingly killed civilians, induced famine, and the other hasn't been able to conduct significant organized military operations basically at all.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

You can't design a program more anti-rural than this outside of just bulldozing whole towns. Ironically it's cities are the only places that are going to be able to recover from this!

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

Devastate rural hospitals, accelerate the destruction of universities which draw young people, businesses and investment, shut down immigration and resettlement to low population areas and use tariffs to crush agriculture. It’s crazy how rhetorically focused they are on cities.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 1d

Even as Trump sends troops to cities and targets them, by far the greatest damage is being done in heavily R rural areas. It’s like an all out assault using every tool to make rural life impossible.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

Death Wish 7 just make sure the main character turns to the camera at the end to say the now legally required “Libs are evil” line

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatives mad about “wokeness” or liberal biases in popular culture really missing the main problem for them, which is that making art from a MAGA perspective nearly guarantees that it will suck.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatism is truly culturally dead in a way that I think is going to harm it politically in the long term. His example of someone who could perform at the most watched sporting event in America is…someone who had one hit in 1984. That’s bleak.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

The USSR had state control of film and TV but they actually did succeed in making some very watchable and entertaining films with good production that supported regime ideology often with some real subtlety and storytelling. I don’t think MAGA is mentally capable of doing that.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

People are going to be passing around dvd box sets of Mad Men like samizdat novels

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

Eventually they will have to figure something out and compete on that terrain imo. I think they’ll probably do it through control of major media and mergers and consolidation has already done a lot of the work there. But man it’s hard to see anyone tuning in if there are literally any other options

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatism is truly culturally dead in a way that I think is going to harm it politically in the long term. His example of someone who could perform at the most watched sporting event in America is…someone who had one hit in 1984. That’s bleak.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

When I hear “broad appeal” I immediately think Lee Greenwood

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

the world series of America

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 2d

i'm gonna say it: the Brewers are going to win the World Series

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah that was a pretty fun weekend..I mean…. Wow really? I didn’t know that that’s crazy! 😮

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

well now I wouldn’t want to speak ill of the dead

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine seeing this chart and then still being like “this is the best economic system we can come up with”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

Osama bin Laden may have: played Counterstrike, watched Anime, or both, while he was hiding out in Pakistan.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

Man it must be absurdly weak. There’s like a 99% chance they face plant on this

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 3d

Am I crazy? Am I a total crackpot for thinking this might be a serious problem?

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 4d

damn they really did the thing where you can make hyper realistic video and audio of anyone doing anything. feel like this might be an issue for uhhh living together in society

Zork @zorknogg.bsky.social · 4d

damn they really did the thing where you can make hyper realistic video and audio of anyone doing anything. feel like this might be an issue for uhhh living together in society

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin