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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 22m

This is where he lost me.

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 4h

Whoop whoop! My team from the (sadly, now defunct) Hazelwood Health Study won the Dean's Award for Team of the Year! More here: www.monash.edu/medicine/new...

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 7h

*screaming impotently into the void*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a celebrity, he’ll let you grab him by the neck.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 2d

The Gravy Seals. Meal Team 6. Army Grazers. The Marine Corpulent. The Green Buffets.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 6d

Ralph Wiggum meme where he goes on an endless, embellishing rant

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 6d

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · May 28

I’m American but was studying in England when I got married and did my stag do in Tallinn. When the backpackers we booked found out we were a bunch of mostly men coming from the U.K., they asked if we were a stag do. They said normally they don’t accept such parties but since our booking was in,

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 6d

Nah, then it’s the British.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 7d

Worst moment for any indigenous tribe or any youth hostel.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 6d

Wilhoit’s law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 7d

As I keep saying to people who say Americans need to come together, they all, and compromise: what are we to compromise on, closing 10% of their concentration camps?

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 9d

Plus, what exactly can we compromise on?

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 22d

This is something that I’ve struggled to make others understand, particularly those who didn’t grow up in America. They often invoke “both sides coming together”, “compromise”, but I keep saying that it’s not possible. Like, what will MAGA concede to, closing 10% of their concentration camps?

Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 10d

Obviously need to share this so everyone else can know what a deliciously deep cut this is.

Japanese attempt to make American-sounding names for a baseball game.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 13d

The boy and I were surprised by a sting ray while swimming in the Jervis Bay Territory.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15d

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 19d

Americans will do anything to avoid cooking vegetarian.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19d

It’s the “Hamburger Helper” economy.

Sales “up 14.5 percent ..

“.. Distressed shoppers are also buying more cans of tuna, salmon and sardines.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 19d

And here I thought he was in it for the for the racism.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 19d

Reliving a key moment in Australian history

(I’d only consumed non-alcoholic beers)

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 19d

Usually when Republicans pull a chord, it’s A minor.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 21d

Klein doesn't seem to recognise that a university is intended for the free exchange of ideas while evangelical churches are decidedly...not.

Given that progressive values dominate where free exchange is permitted and conservative ones where they aren't should tell us something.

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 22d

Did Karl Rove - yes, THAT Karl Rove - write in the WSJ - yes, THAT WSJ - what ABC fired Jimmy Kimmel for saying?

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 22d

Dark times getting darker.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 22d

This is something that I’ve struggled to make others understand, particularly those who didn’t grow up in America. They often invoke “both sides coming together”, “compromise”, but I keep saying that it’s not possible. Like, what will MAGA concede to, closing 10% of their concentration camps?

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Tyler Lane @tylerlane.bsky.social · 24d

He’s celebrating that everyone stopped asking his involvement in child sex trafficking.

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