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David Futrelle
@davidfutrelle.bsky.social
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Writer, writing coach. Thing for cats to sit on. The We Hunted the Mammoth guy.

Clips in NYT, WaPo, Slate, The Cut, Vice, among other outlets.

WeHuntedTheMammoth.com
Youtube.com/@HuntedTheMammoth
https://www.david-futrelle.com/ (Writing coach page)
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samthielman.com
the male loneliness epidemic is coming from inside the gender
tidbit.bsky.social Sin(éad) @tidbit.bsky.social · 7d
I would complain more about my experience on the apps but this is what my roommate deals with
A very Caucasian man’s feeld profile. 36 • Man • Straight 11 miles away If you think you can do better... you can't, if you have been triggered by my raw masculinity, sorry not sorry, I'm an asshole generally, but to old ladies and cute girls I'll make an exception... if you got this far do yourself a favor and swipe right, I'm just kidding...
December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
this music cue perfectly captures that feeling of when there's a cat and you see the cat
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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gregthemiller.bsky.social
incels be like "that sexbot ain't that hot"
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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jesseraub.bsky.social
every day logging on is a race to get a dumb joke off before you read the most terrifying news you’ve ever heard
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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flowerchildob1.bsky.social
In case you thought you were safe bc you aren't one of his currently identified enemies to kidnap and deport, take a look at this line:

"and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country..."

No one is safe when a bully is in charge.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.

Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Picture of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Don Jr., RFK Jr., and Mike Johnson eating turkey on a plane. This has been edited with AI Picture of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Don Jr., RFK Jr., and Mike Johnson eating McDonalds on a plane
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer

CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ramiismail.com
"People are poor and that's not enriching the rich"
An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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britculpsapp.bsky.social
check. mate.
@Cobratate X.com Let me make this loud and clear. If you're a straight man with a girlfriend in 2025, you're gay. 9:00 AM • 11/22/25
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
Fruity au-pair role in Caribbean Costa Rica Hello, we are looking for a special person to become a part of our family here in this magical jungle and fruity paradise. We are in the beginning phases of visioning and dreaming into existence a fruit-centred inter generational village. We have a 7 hectare piece of land, opposite a maturing and sometimes abundant 5 hectare fruit-forest, a short walk from a beautiful and swimmable river. We have great quality and alive drinking water. We are looking for an open, consistent, reliable and earthy someone to immerse themselves into our lives and support us with our 5 children (0,3,6,10&12 years old). We simultaneously run a retreat centre dedicated to fruit based healing and detoxification as a tools for inner and spiritual transformation. You would be housed on the retreat lands and have your own private room, a short walk from our family home, where we plant to be eating communally, fruits, raw vegan meals and simple cooked foods. We are looking for someone excited by and dedicated to accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our busy family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. accompanying children, as well as supporting us in our 2/2y family life as we dream into manifestation a big vision together. We already have support with cleaning and house support, so we look for someone primarily to become a part of our family rhythm, play, homeschooling, gardening, bedtimes etc. You should be comfortable with jungle living, resourceful, excited by community visioning and the prospect of being a part of this project, well educated and dedicated in fruit-based living. If desired, there are also opportunities to support and co-facilitate with our retreats. This is not a paid role, or a job advertisement. It's an invitation into something deeper, to become part of and co-create a wonderful vision, be in service to children, and immerse yourself into a beautiful fruity lifestyle, and being fully supported in transitioning to jungle life, and on your path of fruit-based living Message me directly or comment below
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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littlebadger.bsky.social
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
America 2025.
The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge's car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply. Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.l. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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mikeisaac.bsky.social
whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
Trump on Truth Social reposts someone who says of Democratic lawmakers, "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
600 Americans were fired in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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rincewind.run
“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale

good work, John Roberts
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 23d
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
dystopian ass weather report
chicago.suntimes.com Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 23d
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.

Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25d
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM