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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 6h

I assume you blacked out whenever you saw Marc Thiessen.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 6h

This might be the worst advertising for content I have ever seen.

I never read the WP Opinion pages, which was mostly bad. But I subscribed to the paper. I’m so glad I stopped last year. This proves it was the right thing to do.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 7h

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 7h

I'm not saying it makes a huge amount of sense, but I am saying a market melt-up is a distinct possibility. The bad stuff just isn't sticking - on.ft.com/48PHt3p

Brace for a market melt-up

[FREE TO READ] Some say this is a ‘good’ bubble, but investors should remember that all bubbles burst in the end

on.ft.com

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spookygorski @cpgorski.bsky.social · 7h

Confiteor Deo omnipotenti et vobis, fratres, qua peccavi nimis... mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa...

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

The True Theologian knows if his balls hang low.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

a group of priests are standing around a woman sitting in a chair and talking to her .

ALT: a group of priests are standing around a woman sitting in a chair and talking to her .

media.tenor.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

Also that the presence of the National Giard is an absurd way to stop or even reduce murders. We have the tools. We have successfully done this.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20h

It would be super cool if when they said this stuff, the interviewer pointed out that we don’t actually have to speculate. We have polling, and it says residents oppose these deployments by HUGE margins.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

There’s a shocking lack of bugs here in SF. At least up high. On the street / sidewalk there are a few more.

But they don’t have screens here.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

The True Theologian knows if his balls hang low.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 7h

I would simply send the military to pick up my groceries, and dry cleaning and get my car washed.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h

This is so dark

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8h

Mezerkis Law of Increasing Stupidity: Good damn it

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

Tomorrow Sean Davis of the Federalist is going to testify before Congress claiming Biden targeted him and I'm guessing he's going to claim the targeting involved Google "demonetizing" the Federalist. There are many problems with this (read along).

Sean Davis tweet: I’m very much looking forward to testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on this tomorrow, along with
@AlexBerenson
.

The Biden administration’s censorship-industrial complex, which targeted both Alex and me for destruction, was an illegal and unconstitutional abomination.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 8h

If you think that’s bad. Wait till you hear Tapper say he won’t say anything bad about Bari Weiss because she helped his young daughter when she was at the Times. I don’t think he understands how bad this sounds.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

There was a good question today by Charlie Sykes. Why did they choose her. It’s a very specific choice. And not the rightest / Trumpiest they could have gone with.

Maybe it doesn’t matter because Ellison is, and he’s in charge. But she’s also not the Yaccarinoist.

But this is one answer.

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 20h

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @vinminen.bsky.social · 9h

This is a good one if you like medieval stuff:
www.danielecybulskie.com/the-medieval...

The Medieval Podcast — Danièle Cybulskie

Danièle Cybulskie is the creator and host of The Medieval Podcast, a weekly show featuring interviews with some of the world’s top medieval historians in a friendly, informal format. Topics range from...

www.danielecybulskie.com

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Fog come rolling in

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Thread a list of YouTube Channels hat have absolutely nothing to do with American politics.

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures

Public facing , not cutting edge astronomy. But super in depth with all the background

youtube.com/@svastronomy...

SVAstronomyLectures

Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers over t...

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Thread of podcasts I recommend that have nothing absolutely nothing to do with contemporary American politics

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 10h

This is the most obvious choice. There’s an enormous back list. There’s a million different topics. They are British.

In Our Time

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

www.bbc.co.uk

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

Well. That ought to hold you for a couple of days anyway.

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

I haven’t looked at their stuff in a long while. But Santa Fe Institute ought to have some good things.

youtube.com/@sfiscience?...

Santa Fe Institute

Our researchers endeavor to understand and unify the underlying, shared patterns in complex physical, biological, social, cultural, technological, and even possible astrobiological worlds. Our global ...

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

The World Science Festival has some excellent lectures over a pretty good range of subjects.

youtube.com/@worldscienc...

World Science Festival

Watch long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth. We gather great minds in science an...

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 9h

I haven’t been there in ages. And things k think have changed. But Talks at Google is likely to have the author of any book that’s come out in the last 10 years present. And in the past I used to watch a great many of them.

youtube.com/@talksatgoog...

Talks at Google

Talks at Google is a leader in the corporate interview series space, providing a platform for influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers to tell us about their work, their lives and what drives ...

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