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@kcimt122.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
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It’s finally here! The day known as Cat Christmas, Boxing Day!
It’s when all cats get to choose from all the boxes left over from you humans, best day ever! ~Depot Cat
It’s when all cats get to choose from all the boxes left over from you humans, best day ever! ~Depot Cat
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s finally here! The day known as Cat Christmas, Boxing Day!
It’s when all cats get to choose from all the boxes left over from you humans, best day ever! ~Depot Cat
It’s when all cats get to choose from all the boxes left over from you humans, best day ever! ~Depot Cat
"The theory that this administration & Trump’s entire career is based on is that our darkest impulses should be the ones that reign... the most bigoted, the most corrupt, the most angry & hateful... our truest self is our worst self."
- @paulwaldman.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
- @paulwaldman.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
Transcript: Trump White House Rages at Pop Star Who Nailed MAGA “Evil”
As Sabrina Carpenter condemns the White House for using her song in a vile new video, triggering a furious response, the writer of a piece on MAGA discusses the centrality of sadism to Trumpian cultur...
newrepublic.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"The theory that this administration & Trump’s entire career is based on is that our darkest impulses should be the ones that reign... the most bigoted, the most corrupt, the most angry & hateful... our truest self is our worst self."
- @paulwaldman.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
- @paulwaldman.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2038...
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In a country of 340 million people we could absolutely find a dozen bleached blonde ladies named Pam who killed someone, which proves that all bleached blonde Pams are vicious killers and should be expelled from the country. Someone should get on that.
Fox & Friends and Pam Bondi are now sensationalizing specific instances of Somalis being charged with crimes in Minnesota to demonize the whole population
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In a country of 340 million people we could absolutely find a dozen bleached blonde ladies named Pam who killed someone, which proves that all bleached blonde Pams are vicious killers and should be expelled from the country. Someone should get on that.
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This is an administration committed to sadism in politics and policy. But that’s not what most of us want.
Don't forget, Colonel Jessup was the bad guy, not the hero.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-few-bad-...
Don't forget, Colonel Jessup was the bad guy, not the hero.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-few-bad-...
A Few Bad Men
The Hegseth murder-on-the-high-seas scandal is only part of the story. This administration has put sadism at the heart of its policy and its politics.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is an administration committed to sadism in politics and policy. But that’s not what most of us want.
Don't forget, Colonel Jessup was the bad guy, not the hero.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-few-bad-...
Don't forget, Colonel Jessup was the bad guy, not the hero.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-few-bad-...
I spent Christmas Day on my own, & didn't feel like cooking for just one.
So I thought I'd treat myself. Problem is, just about everywhere is closed today.
Except one place.
I'm very lucky to live a short bus ride from a Palestinian takeway that does a great shawarma. And it was open today.
So I thought I'd treat myself. Problem is, just about everywhere is closed today.
Except one place.
I'm very lucky to live a short bus ride from a Palestinian takeway that does a great shawarma. And it was open today.
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I spent Christmas Day on my own, & didn't feel like cooking for just one.
So I thought I'd treat myself. Problem is, just about everywhere is closed today.
Except one place.
I'm very lucky to live a short bus ride from a Palestinian takeway that does a great shawarma. And it was open today.
So I thought I'd treat myself. Problem is, just about everywhere is closed today.
Except one place.
I'm very lucky to live a short bus ride from a Palestinian takeway that does a great shawarma. And it was open today.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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This dude: the problem with women is they won't endure abuse anymore.
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This dude: the problem with women is they won't endure abuse anymore.
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors.
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
“Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”
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won't somebody think of Australia's six most successful Olympic sport!
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
won't somebody think of Australia's six most successful Olympic sport!
Dan seems to think Olympic medals are more important than people dying of gunshot wounds.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi has hit out at the NSW Labor government over its new gun laws, saying it means he "would no longer be able to compete in all my Olympic events"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Dan seems to think Olympic medals are more important than people dying of gunshot wounds.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
Using Dan's logic, why don't we bring back live pigeon shooting? After all, it used to be an Olympic sport. Damn those animal rights people who got rid of it. Dan could probably win us a few more medals, ay.
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Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
Federal Labor MP Dan Repacholi has hit out at the NSW Labor government over its new gun laws, saying it means he "would no longer be able to compete in all my Olympic events"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
"When you rush things through it has unintended consequences...shame on the NSW Government"
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Putting community safety before sport?! Outrageous!
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threade
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
threade
I'm with the judge. This is torture of inmates, dressed up as concern for their welfare.
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
‘Idiotic, cruel, boneheaded’: Judge slams police over sleep-deprived inmates
A Supreme Court judge has warned that regional courts may no longer be able to hold some criminal trials because of hourly welfare checks being conducted on inmates.
www.theage.com.au
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm with the judge. This is torture of inmates, dressed up as concern for their welfare.
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
I work in aged care. Our nurses/carers manage to do regular checks on sleeping residents without even shining a torch in their face, let alone deliberately waking them up.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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23 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Maria Troeder, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
23 December 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Maria Troeder, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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23 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Max Adolf Frits Cohen, was born at The Hague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
23 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Max Adolf Frits Cohen, was born at The Hague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in December 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Americans are starting to realise how cactus their international tourism industry is now, and finding it hard to fathom how much worse it will get.
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Americans are starting to realise how cactus their international tourism industry is now, and finding it hard to fathom how much worse it will get.
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After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/toHvGtS
On faith and the exit ramp
satpa.pe
December 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/toHvGtS