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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 1d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

i would describe it as a "romp"

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illy bocean 🏝️ @illybocean.boontavista.com · 11d

Hmm

Spotify’s ‘Audiobooks for you’ recommendations featuring The Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 8h

i love my city and my city loves me www.youtube.com/watch?v=54mo...

La Revacholiere

YouTube video by Sea Power - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 8h

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

come to beautiful austin texas

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

Also just to hazard a guess, the company that's handled the biggest portion of my returns has been Endicia, so I'd check with them first.

Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

A big chunk of my work is sending stuff to people and I've had to deal with a lot of returns, what I will say is that based on personal experience, the chances are on your side that it's more likely to turn up than to get completely lost. It's just probably going to take like a month though :/

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

hell yeah

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

I'm in Austin, I go to DFW like 3-4 times a year though because my partner's parents live in Cedar Hill.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 8h

I would tend towards posting them all back to back, on the grounds that I think it'd be easier to keep people attached to it if it's fast and constant.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 9h

out on the dungeon floor infinitegossip.ghost.io/out-on-the-d...

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19h

10/07/2025

a crude drawing of a trash bin with a large human face sticking out of the top of it, surrounded by trash, with the caption "early testing for the public trash bins with human faces that beg to be fed garbage indicated that most found them too unsettling to use. However, the small number of participants, including some investors, who said they found the bins deeply erotic, and attempted to form romantic relationships with the bins was considered promising enough to continue funding the project."

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19h

The success and reach of work that I've done that requires reading more than three words and doesn't involve using characters from pop culture has declined steadily the longer and father LLM based work has proliferated. Surely there's other factors, but I think that's something to consider.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19h

if you look at this and think "that's too much text"

fuck you

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 19h

10/07/2025

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 21h

for those having trouble parsing this, "voluntarily leaving your job" is "getting canceled"

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 21h

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Not all cases of campus censorship are created equal, apparently.
With so much going on right now in the world, you would think that there'd be less focus on a handful of college students at one campus or another protesting a speaker.
At very least, you might expect that instances of conservatives shutting down progressive speakers would be discussed with the same regularity as those about liberals.
Instead, readers are treated to a full-on case of free speech hypocrisy.
One example of this involves progressive Jewish political cartoonist Eli Valley's recent trip to Stanford University.
Days before his scheduled appearance, the Stanford College Republicans posted flyers around campus containing some of Valley's work alongside clippings from Der Stürmer, a Nazi-era German newspaper known for publishing vicious anti-Semitic propaganda. The group acknowledged that it did this in retaliation because posters for one of their events were covered up by posters of the group sponsoring Valley's appearance.
The groups bringing Valley to campus, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, took some of the blame for the backlash. In an op-ed for The Stanford Daily, the groups apologized for including Valley's work, which is meant to be a grotesque and provocative political criticism, without the proper context. In response, The Stanford Daily published an opposing op-ed comparing Valley's work to the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels, writing, "To apologize for the flyers but insist on continuing with the event is equal parts absurd and appalling."

This seemed like precisely the kind of campus controversy that would grab the attention of Weiss, Stephens, and the rest of conservative media: Here was a student group trying to intimidate a speaker out of appearing on campus as scheduled. On the principles of free speech and academic freedom, taking a stand for Valley seemed to be the obvious call. Instead, Weiss praised the article calling for Valley's cancellation on Twitter, thanking its author.
"Bari Weiss's attempt to get me de-platformed at Stanford, and her smear that my celebration of non-Zionist Jewish culture, politics, and art is tantamount to Nazism, should put an end to the myth that she is interested in a free exchange of ideas," Valley said in a Twitter direct message.
"She is interested [in] silencing the Left and in mainstreaming far-right ideology."
Valley's view of Weiss is in line with her own history of activism and protest against pro-Palestinian Columbia University professors during her time at the school. Far from a proponent of across-the-board freedom of expression, she and the Times' other columnists have been extremely selective about which stories get heard.
The idea that no-platforming and other efforts to control campus speech are tactics carried out primarily by students on the left is almost undoubtedly the result of outlets like the Times' opinion section giving such incidents excessive amounts of coverage -- while essentially ignoring the many examples of conservatives trying to shut out speech they don't like. You're unlikely to read Bret Stephens' take on the efforts of conservative students to use the court system to cancel a panel discussion about Palestinian rights at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. David Brooks isn't likely to weigh

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 21h

They say you only serve two days in prison, if that’s how many you were sentenced to

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 21h

Some people (including me) said one billion americans was a bad book though :(

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 21h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 21h

Being in my 30s now, without even meaning to, when I say kids it includes people in their early 20s

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 21h

That or like, that in school I maintained a B average because I had hobbies and interests outside of doing school work and prioritized those, and subsequently didn’t hold on to academic achievement as a big part of my identity and sense of self worth decades after the fact

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 22h

I was in a bunch of advanced classes in high school and got great test scored and I don’t have the problem described and I think that comes down to being largely motivated by a deep well of resentment

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe what former gifted kids really need is an adult bully, maybe having a buff dumb guy be mean to them will motivate them to try their best again

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