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Tom Pain
@tompain.bsky.social
He/him. Co-host of Ten Thousand Losses. Lefty educator and Philly native in exile. History, beer, language, and transit nerd. Go birds.
Charles II was at least a good hang, dunno about this dude.
January 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Keep it up, like I said you’re already sounding a lot healthier.
January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
maybe some sort of bureau in charge of politics need a catchy name for this too
January 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I spent 5 seconds trying to remember posting this.
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
You don’t have to like any of Russia’s governments but a take that reductive is the epitome of chauvinism.

Taking an entire nation and reducing it to a good/bad binary leads to some very dark alleys of thought.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
And for the record the Order of Lenin was a legit award, recipients are statesmen, cosmonauts, scientists, engineers, writers, directors, composers, even whole fucking cities for their resistance against the Nazi scourge in WW2.
January 14, 2026 at 9:23 PM
It only happened 35 years ago, it takes time for news to get out.
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
As a HS English teacher (and human) I empathize.
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
I believe they’re doing what humans refer to as “a joke.”
a man is holding a red object with the word joke written on it
Alt: a man is holding a red object with the word joke written on it
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:27 PM