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Red Durkin

@daedsider.bsky.social

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bookseller, book buyer, book scout, bookstore owner, horror & rare book collector. I don't read; it's my terrible secret, please don't tell anybody A transgender or something. She/Her, but just to annoy you. Psalms 109:8

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · Jun 9

Don't let the Earth being a 13 septillion pound rock that's home to billions of people where objectively and subjectively important things happen literally all day, every day distract you from the fact that it's actually an elaborate psy-op where only one truly important thing happens at a time.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 2d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 12h

I'd try it. I think it looks fire as in "should be thrown into one," but I'd give it an open minded nibble

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 23h

The New York Times is an institution of right wing propaganda, example # infinity of infinity

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

Opinion
Guest Essay

That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 23h

I originally read this as "Dad books" like these were hallmarks of a genre

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 23h

I quit drinking in June and it literally just occurred to me this morning that an unexpected side effect is that I've been more dehydrated

Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 6d

technically dehydration is also a drinking problem

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 23h

average cuomo bot

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

I've posted this picture before but I do find it interesting that the police here arresting Carlo Gambino, at the time one of the most dangerous men in America with dozens of killers at his command, didn't feel the need to cover their faces because they are not ashamed of their work

Two men in long coats and uncovered faces escort a smirking Carlo Gambino, who wears a hat

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Nate @thenatewolf.bsky.social · Sep 18

Started calling the middle of a loaf of bread “the king’s bread” and saying things like “a cheddar this fine demands the king’s bread!”

This is just one of the many ways I have scraped joy out of a cold and unaccountable universe.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we acting like it's 1858 and there's no way to confirm from the East coast whether or not the city of Portland is burning to the ground? Send a camera crew to Portland and broadcast it NOT on fire. Stop asking the love child of Pickle Rick and Grima Wormtongue to clarify his bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 1d

fuck, man, you are tedious.

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 1d

I once lived in a house with 7 other people where flushing toilet paper down the toilet caused the basement where multiple people lived to flood with sewage. I won't be called "elitist" by someone whose name is in the Epstein files because I think healthcare is a greater public service than policing

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

stop drinking alcohol and switch to weed

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote about the entertainment industry trades trying to will this nonsense into existence

The Verge @theverge.com · 3d

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

buff.ly

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

Never, ever, ever let these people talk about "meritocracy" again

NPR @npr.org · 2d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

Brother, you might want to return to your lane on this one.

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

How do you define "human?" What does it mean to be "alive?"

No one has ever thought to ask these questions, so there's simply no way to know

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 3d

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

hailey @hailey.at
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, no one ever thought to ask before

Life - Wikipedia

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

Then go home.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the take away isn't "there wasn't anything to be up in arms about in 2013, but there is now." The takeaway is "if you did not take action in 2013, it's not too late to correct that mistake and take action now."

Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

If I were Tom Bombadil, I would simply keep the One Ring safe in my domain and not forget about it, but I guess I'm built differ-iffer-illio.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 2d

You'd need to eat about 20 eggplants to get a single cigarette's worth of nicotine, so you can understand why people fill their mouths with the taste of burning leaves instead.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

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Federal officers were flanked by videographers, toting professional equipment and wearing high-visibility vests.
They filmed from behind the lines of officers, capturing the show of force. At least two drones swept over the scenes.

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