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Steve Hreczkosij, First Time Human
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Goldendoodle Wrangler. Airline Pilot. Former Air Force lame-o. CODA. Loud Amateur. Friend of Bill. Very much a work in progress.
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stevemetz.bsky.social
Trump has replaced the Deep State with the Derp State.
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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brentwaggoner.bsky.social
A fun fact about me is that I curse up a storm but don't feel comfortable saying "oh my god" so instead I say "oh my goodness" like some kind of pilgrim.
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
stevehreczkosij.bsky.social
This is tougher than I thought.

10 authors by whom I’ve read more than 5 books:

1. Stephen King
2. David Mitchell
3. CS Lewis
4. John Le Carre
5. JRR Tolkien
6. Jon Franzen
7. NT Wright
8. Rog Zelazney
9. Piers Anthony
10. Kent Haruf
brentwaggoner.bsky.social Pumpkinspacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · Jul 13
Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:

1. Graham Greene
2. Muriel Spark
3. Stephen King
4. Alice Munro
5. Joy Williams
6. Terry Pratchett
7. Philip K. Dick
8. David Foster Wallace
9. Tolstoy
10. Don Delillo
finnatic.bsky.social Douglas @finnatic.bsky.social · Jul 12
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books

1. Ann Leckie
2. Charles Stross
3. Martha Wells
4. William Gibson
5. Julian May
6. Terry Pratchett
7. Sheri S. Tepper
8. Alan Dean Foster
9. Andre Norton
10. Iain M. Banks / Iain Banks
July 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
On this call right now and it's funny because most of the guidance for combat vets in attendance is "PLEASE PLEASE do not pick fights with ICE agents at the courthouse."

This is, of course, important, but it reflects how incandescently angry veterans are over the treatment of our Afghan allies.
afghanevac.bsky.social afghanevac.bsky.social @afghanevac.bsky.social · Jun 26
#AfghanEvac + IAVA just launched Battle Buddies — a new national effort where veterans stand in quiet solidarity with Afghan allies in immigration court.

No slogans. No confrontation. Just presence.

Watch the video + join us: afghanevac.org/battle-buddies

#BattleBuddies #Veterans #StandWithSayed
July 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
stevehreczkosij.bsky.social
1) this is an objectively hilarious accounting of the situation

2) I initially read that the nurses had drugged the ICE agents and then sadly I read it again

3) we really need a new dark comedy sitcom about ICE, a la Sunny in Philadelphia, where the agents can’t ever seem to land a big mass depo
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
stevehreczkosij.bsky.social
Forget the stupid voting in DC. This is the only vote that mattered today.

Bless you Keith David!
thefilmupdates.bsky.social Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · Jul 3
Keith David reacting to the announcement that he will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
July 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
www.theatlantic.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
today i learned there is an icelandic exemption for bringing in iceland hot dogs thru customs as long as u declare u are bringing in iceland hot dogs for personal use
kagrox.bsky.social David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · Jun 7
I took hot dogs home! Had to fight with customs to get meat through, and made them look up the Iceland exemption.
June 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
A photograph of Tilda Swinton wearing Chanel and looking fabulous obvs
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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andylevy.net
we truly live in the golden age of resignation letters
iwashyna.bsky.social Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Feb 20
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Everything is Waiting for You
February 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
Your imposter syndrome should have died laughing at this point. You're doing great. You didn't author a bill to rename Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland." You can do anything.
February 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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peterbcounter.com
Between Severance and From and Yellowjackets it's clear that Lost is officially a foundational show in television history.
February 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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adamkeiper.com
MAGA/DOGE commentary about USAID highly resembles QAnon and Pizzagate, as I mentioned yesterday:

◾ Belief in a lurking evil force with tentacles everywhere.
◾ False claims spread and no amount of proof can dissuade believers.
◾ Anyone, even a purported ally, can be secretly corrupted by the evil.
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
The unintended consequences of Trumpism are ***almost*** more worrying than the intended consequences of Trumpism
February 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.
February 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
stevehreczkosij.bsky.social
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your photo library
January 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I recently bought a toilet brush and long story short, I'm definitely switching back to toilet paper!!!

🤪😜
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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dril.bsky.social
oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies
January 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Muslims don’t recognize Jews as God's chosen people, Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world, and Evangelicals don’t recognize each other at Hooters.
January 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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My message to Zuck
January 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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violanorth.bsky.social
I don't know how you guys wake up in the morning and immediately turn on a TV show about politics. We need to go back to when morning TV was mostly weather talk and also there was a chimp there sometimes.
January 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Cybertruck driver: Get in, loser, we're goin- (truck explodes)
January 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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kumail.bsky.social
Completely made up movies I enjoyed this year:

The Big Lives of Small Things
The Two Jasons
A Distracted Life
The Glass Hammer
Wet Shoes
Little Becky
Duck Duck Doom
The Breathening
Cole & Dusty
The Call of Night
My Favorite Day (Wednesday)
Elephant Man 2: Merrick’s Revenge
The Smell of My Date Tree
January 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM