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Potempkin Village Idiot

@ixak.bsky.social

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Baltimore climate dad anthropologist fighting existential terror w/ existential counter-terrorism. The soft underbelly of the cutting edge. Working on resilience, local governance, urban gardening, tool repair, fermentation. https://medium.com/@ixak

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · Sep 7

Conversation w/ my son:

Him: What was your favorite movie when you were a kid?

Me: Short Circuit

What's it about?

A robot who comes to life.

What was your favorite movie when you became a grownup?

Blade Runner

What's it about?

A guy who hunts and kills robots who have come to life.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4h

Pastor friend of my dad walked in the room one time while I was listening to "Suffer" and tried to sing along because he liked the chorus.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 7h

Me too, Tammy. Me too.

Electrical box on an outdoor telephone pole graffitoed with the words:

I ♡ U BMORE
-Tammy

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 21h

Made this wonderfully bright lightly fermented aji pepper sauce today. It's like if funky lemons were happy and on fire.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 22h

Single best rendition of Hamlet in any medium.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 1d

Why I Hate Saturn is one of the greatest comics ever written. Almost as good as The Cowboy Wally Show.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a pepper ball launcher.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 1d

Reflecting on the historical nature of the term (((globalist))). It seems painfully apparent that Globalism and Zionism represent two opposite poles on one of modern Judaism's key ideological (and even ontological) axes.

Jonathan Alters @pangelico.bsky.social · 2d

They’re coming for the globalists now too? Who’s next, the politically correct?

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 1d

You know, posting this the day that Pynchon releases a new book could be confusing to some.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 2d

If I was going to write a biography of my dog, I think I would call it "Pooping in Shadows and Tall Grass"

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 2d

On first pass I misread the headline as "Feral Agents", but it's not that much of a misread, really.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 3d

It's World Teacher Day.

Thanks to all of you who are, were, or will be teachers - you perpetuate civilization.

But special thanks to my favorite teacher, my wife, who is an inspiration to all of us who know her: students, coworkers, and friends alike.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

Comic book panel of a TV film crew videotaping a superhero speedster as he runs away. The cameraman shouts, "That guy is faster than 10 fast men!!"

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

Screenshot from space quest 2 right after the protagonist is swallowed by a giant mushroom.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

This is the opposite of those Russian human wave attacks where they give one gun to 10 guys.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, yea, Lilith. She's lovely. We still keep in touch.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

It actually wasn't supposed to be, but when the racist and sexist nerds didn't get pushed out in the 2000s the rest of us left because it wasn't worth fighting for.

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

First rule of Quaker Fight Club is you don't talk during Quaker Fight Club, unless you feel yourself to be in a presence which commands your reverence.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

Playing Star Wars Clone Trooper Legos with my son, and he loves it when I do my characters with a New Zealand accent. But for some reason I always feel like I sound more like Murray from Flight Of The Conchords (@rhysiedarby.bsky.social)
than like a badass clone of Temura Morrison

A picture of a clone trooper with the face of Rhys Darby crudely pasted over it.

Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

My son wants to play spooky board games for Halloween. Any recommendations?

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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 4d

True story: Once when I dropped my son off at day care one of the other kids said "boo!" to me, and I asked if he was trying to scare me, and a five year old girl said, "he's not saying boo to scare you, he's booing your outfit."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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