Nigel
@sweetnigeyb.bsky.social
Too old to rock n’ roll, too young to die.
A Beautiful Mind
Late night question for the gang: what’s your LEAST favorite Best Picture winner that’s not Crash?
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A Beautiful Mind
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Mark Hamill: Well you know George is an amazing director but his only instructions for me on set were “be friends with this trash can you piece of shit” and “shut the fuck up”
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Mark Hamill: Well you know George is an amazing director but his only instructions for me on set were “be friends with this trash can you piece of shit” and “shut the fuck up”
Just got my first Trumpet of Patriots text message. Yay?
April 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just got my first Trumpet of Patriots text message. Yay?
Vance did a Liz Truss on the Pope 😢
April 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Vance did a Liz Truss on the Pope 😢
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but im a jeep
im a vehicle
what the hell am i doing here
beep beep honk honk steer
im a vehicle
what the hell am i doing here
beep beep honk honk steer
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
but im a jeep
im a vehicle
what the hell am i doing here
beep beep honk honk steer
im a vehicle
what the hell am i doing here
beep beep honk honk steer
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And it’s like the 9th graf before they even BEGIN the review of Our American Cousin.
Today is the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and also the 160th anniversary of the most buried lede in the history of journalism.
AP's dispatch from 1865:
AP's dispatch from 1865:
April 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
And it’s like the 9th graf before they even BEGIN the review of Our American Cousin.
I’ll be waiting until July or August to watch season 2 of The Last of Us because of my holiday, but I’ll be able to tell by when the internet explodes as to how much of game 2 this season of the show will cover.
April 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I’ll be waiting until July or August to watch season 2 of The Last of Us because of my holiday, but I’ll be able to tell by when the internet explodes as to how much of game 2 this season of the show will cover.
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"The best time to impeach the president of the United States was January 20. The second best time is now."
—ancient Chinese proverb
—ancient Chinese proverb
April 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"The best time to impeach the president of the United States was January 20. The second best time is now."
—ancient Chinese proverb
—ancient Chinese proverb
Just checked John Dahl’s IMDB to see how many times he’s been nominated for an Emmy because I figured he had been nominated for a bunch of Emmys. 😕
April 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Just checked John Dahl’s IMDB to see how many times he’s been nominated for an Emmy because I figured he had been nominated for a bunch of Emmys. 😕
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I wonder what my old friend the Chicken Man is up to these days. Does he still live in Philly? I hope he’s doing okay. Now to relax and listen to this new Bruce Springsteen album
April 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I wonder what my old friend the Chicken Man is up to these days. Does he still live in Philly? I hope he’s doing okay. Now to relax and listen to this new Bruce Springsteen album
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Sweeping tariffs announced by President Trump hit a remote Australian territory with a 10% tariff, despite no people living there.
Reuters footage from 2012 shows part of the territory, Heard Island, mostly covered by ice and home to penguins.
Read more: cnn.it/4ccK3jC
Reuters footage from 2012 shows part of the territory, Heard Island, mostly covered by ice and home to penguins.
Read more: cnn.it/4ccK3jC
April 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sweeping tariffs announced by President Trump hit a remote Australian territory with a 10% tariff, despite no people living there.
Reuters footage from 2012 shows part of the territory, Heard Island, mostly covered by ice and home to penguins.
Read more: cnn.it/4ccK3jC
Reuters footage from 2012 shows part of the territory, Heard Island, mostly covered by ice and home to penguins.
Read more: cnn.it/4ccK3jC
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Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest floor speech in modern Senate history, surpassing the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s speech lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, in which he spoke against the Civil Rights Act.
Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul
Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul
April 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest floor speech in modern Senate history, surpassing the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s speech lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, in which he spoke against the Civil Rights Act.
Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul
Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul
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Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, BBC
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, BBC
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Today in 1924 Hitler was sentenced to a pathetic 5 yrs for trying to overthrow the government.
He served 9 months. There might be a lesson here somewhere about being tough on people who assault democratic governance.
He served 9 months. There might be a lesson here somewhere about being tough on people who assault democratic governance.
April 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today in 1924 Hitler was sentenced to a pathetic 5 yrs for trying to overthrow the government.
He served 9 months. There might be a lesson here somewhere about being tough on people who assault democratic governance.
He served 9 months. There might be a lesson here somewhere about being tough on people who assault democratic governance.
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All genuine historical work is revisionist. It revises what we thought we knew, with new evidence & new interpretations, in the present, for the present, respecting the reality of the past AND the multiple things it can be made to say.
Everything else is self-interested myth-making.
Everything else is self-interested myth-making.
There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.
"It’s not that historians are distorting the past to make a point about the present. The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all."
March 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
All genuine historical work is revisionist. It revises what we thought we knew, with new evidence & new interpretations, in the present, for the present, respecting the reality of the past AND the multiple things it can be made to say.
Everything else is self-interested myth-making.
Everything else is self-interested myth-making.
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MFW child labour skeletons found
March 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
MFW child labour skeletons found
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George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist whose legendary rivalry with Muhammad Ali culminated in the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' title bout, died Friday according to a verified social media account. He was 76.
Read more: cnn.it/4iqsNKb
Read more: cnn.it/4iqsNKb
March 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
George Foreman, the two-time world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist whose legendary rivalry with Muhammad Ali culminated in the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' title bout, died Friday according to a verified social media account. He was 76.
Read more: cnn.it/4iqsNKb
Read more: cnn.it/4iqsNKb
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cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island
March 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island
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The fact that this tweet didn’t go viral proves that that site was doomed.
March 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The fact that this tweet didn’t go viral proves that that site was doomed.
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Average Bluesky replier.
March 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Average Bluesky replier.
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“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself”
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
March 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself”
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.