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@mirthfulisles.bsky.social

Exploring whether social media with fewer people is interesting.

created April 10, 2024

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...thorough writing...

2/9/2025, 11:06:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Duran is pretty active here. I find him grating at times, but he's been though writing about this topic

2/9/2025, 10:26:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rather than renaming, will proudly announce a facility called "Space Force Base von Bruan."

2/9/2025, 4:41:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just enough people in mid and upper management in US media who think when the American national discourse is Yglesias hosting a Sunday morning show with Bari Weiss debating some Bulwark guy all will be going well.

2/9/2025, 4:35:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Miller is really at the desk, the Loomer rumor and Katie Miller leaving with Elon theory are even stupider.

2/9/2025, 2:02:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So Yglesias, Chatterton-Williams and Smith will each post a few hundred word each on this happy development soon.

2/9/2025, 11:48:14 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Depending on what the present day USA Astronomican is and "wants" is XX,000 people killed daily worth it?

1/9/2025, 5:20:24 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can you just unsubscribe from all Google updates? Companies harass people in different ways that make no sense, it's hard to provide precise recommendations.

31/8/2025, 3:55:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boooo....

30/8/2025, 11:12:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I've done modest reading by and about the US ones. A couple may try to be antipope, but my guess is a dissatisfied settling around vague sedevacantism. The factions will fight over the characteristics of their ideal anti-woke antipope, but never settle and just continue to wreck stuff.

30/8/2025, 9:07:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not a shot at you, but even this is like "writer posted to personal Instagram that a writer for a different publication saw Trump but didn't formally publish anything" vague and indirect referencing. This is how we end up with Muslim/Orthodox Jewish NYC interfaith victory dance on 9/11.

30/8/2025, 6:58:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Though this administration might try to bring Thiel on as VP anyway for hand wave/try and stop us reasons.

30/8/2025, 6:04:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Franco going for the reverse of "I'm not anti-Semitic, I only fear Jews" pedantry.

30/8/2025, 5:37:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the Twitter account is the popular Pentagon pizza monitor (not sure of name), I'm sad that upon further observation they report unusual activity frequently so as to tell us nothing. I want silly indicators like this to work, but they often just don't.

30/8/2025, 2:59:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this the one who married... Huma Abedin! Very normal posting predicted .

29/8/2025, 3:22:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An experienced researcher does the nightmare grind analyzing of the recent Minneapolis shooter's writings.

29/8/2025, 1:58:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Increase in body mass (and heart disease) due to vice signaling via gratuitous consumption of things cooked in beef tallow and chicken fat?

29/8/2025, 1:15:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't like that I imagined if JD Vance takes power he is going to appoint Nerdrotic as Cultural Czar or something.

29/8/2025, 12:29:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some American needs to film themselves going to one of the dwindling number of newstands every day doing the Soviet obituary joke until....

29/8/2025, 2:18:16 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently also some Croatian because America.

28/8/2025, 5:27:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like this is the ongoing American version of Yoon Suk Yeol declaring martial law based on right wing delusions in his head. I have also heard that Hun Sen does a lot of angry Facebook dad style posting which may bleed into his actual political moves in real life.

27/8/2025, 5:27:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also terrified, I'm only going as far as the originally quoted skeet for now.

27/8/2025, 1:39:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look, I read an old European history book when I was 11 at my grandmother's home that framed things this way. The x- number of history books I've mostly chosen to read since didn't changed that. Surely if the history discipline debated this I would have known.

27/8/2025, 11:46:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't love that headline editors are just accepted professional trolls, but even I, an oft incurious dope, can think of more unsettling questions of our times than wondering if Gemini, Midjourney and ChatGPT are feeling pain.

26/8/2025, 1:57:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I did only just recently learn that Niemoller seems to have been a 1930s/40s German version of the leopard face joke.

26/8/2025, 11:50:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did he finally quit or get fired?

23/8/2025, 1:39:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've always feared CENTCOM would be the US military command to do that. Maybe if the national leadership is busy doing Operation Not Sicario that opens the door?

22/8/2025, 10:58:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cage fights over who gets to be poet or singer/songwriter at the communal farm will be the woke-commie UFC replacement.

22/8/2025, 6:28:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This seems adjacent to the Israeli branch of the cult of competence and efficiency that some Americans have about various other countries, like the ones who wank over how fast a hotel gets built in China.

22/8/2025, 6:01:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Also opinion piece in Politico, only worth reading for wrong takes.

22/8/2025, 3:00:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can want John Bolton, America's most influential enthusiast for the USA going to war against mid-sized nations, to be investigated for something and also fear that the USG is unjustly using this as a pretext for harassment of him.

22/8/2025, 1:01:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

So what's the Astronomican in Dilbert's office? Master circuit breaker and light switch in the boss's office?

22/8/2025, 12:36:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I liked the joke/guess that Stephen Miller's nephew owns a paint company.

22/8/2025, 12:13:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

What's the utility for Scalzi et al? These kids aren't practical and cheap like I was when I was their age?

22/8/2025, 12:03:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Can we blame a LLM for the hallucination or is this a more direct human oversight?

21/8/2025, 2:37:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's see if firstname bunchanumbers can be tricked into something useful huh?

21/8/2025, 4:24:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like the RF using Mig-31s to shoot Kinzhal's at Ukrainian ground targets. Maybe they're at that US state of mind during OEF when F-14s were doing bomb truck work, but it was known those airframes were going to be retired soon.

20/8/2025, 7:44:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Until relatively recently the border between France and Germany or what becomes changes. So obviously if your ancestors are from one of those areas it's going to be hazy by modern borders.

20/8/2025, 12:07:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Is a "reporter" from the Babylon Bee asking the original question?

19/8/2025, 6:39:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the "satirical" activist groups should do something similar and claim that they consulted YHWH, Amaterasu and Cthulhu for their lawsuit.

19/8/2025, 5:00:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

With the right connections, wealth and background this seems already feasible in the USA.

19/8/2025, 2:48:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Four days ago is a sufficient break for me these days.

19/8/2025, 2:27:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

For whatever reason I noticed the ketchup and the human skin colors before I saw the AI text on the bottle.

19/8/2025, 2:19:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsome's social media person (who to give credit, is trolling conservatives decently) ran this through Midjourney?

19/8/2025, 1:39:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

If that happens will Marc Andreesen start funding her and delete his fanfic about her and Xi Jinping?

18/8/2025, 8:06:35 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it's more that while Eight Sleep is expensive, it's easier than hiring a live in servant for these people but they've layered so much hope in these shortcuts to prosperous living they can't cope when the shortcuts break.

17/8/2025, 7:39:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think I can adjust the black contrast or whatever on the projector at theater as a regular attendee. This is my fault for seeing it in a theater.

17/8/2025, 4:37:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mainline Protestant pastor?

17/8/2025, 1:36:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

So Hanania is voting for Kristi Noem while Yglesias is voting for Christopher Rufo in the elections for Protector Regent until Barron Trump is old enough?

17/8/2025, 12:46:37 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Compare with all the other helicopter carrying destroyers with the ability to operate F35Bs and maybe have ski jumps?

16/8/2025, 12:37:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

If I confidently write about Dick Durbin types under age 80 I can redfine the brand! Given the author's pedigree, this is what we get.

16/8/2025, 12:27:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there a public story about the arrest?

16/8/2025, 3:02:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Will one or both sides organize a dance/singing/cooking competition to raise "community funds" to bid the other out?

15/8/2025, 7:11:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Acknowledging other posts on this, the Emperor's Spears and the Soul Drinkers are the only renegade but not Chaos chapters with any BL stories. As Chaos but not HH legion chapters go the Red Corsairs/Astral Claws of Huron Blackheart are the Imperial opponents in the Badab War and have lots of lore.

14/8/2025, 3:34:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I think this is Jordan Peterson broken clock situation.

14/8/2025, 1:11:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The DJ plays music, but generally isn't mixing them together into a like an EDM track or something.

14/8/2025, 3:47:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

None of the answers make sense with the question.

14/8/2025, 3:43:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm there's a glitch in his sentence database and when he's about to talk mineral deals with Putin he starts going full tariff otaku.

13/8/2025, 6:51:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I operate under the assumption the WH Press Corps is just Fox News, OAN and the like now and my low expectations are not disappointed.

13/8/2025, 4:41:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I was slightly surprised that Bret made relative peace with Vince (I thought Bret would hate both Vince and Goldberg until he died) but since that is a money and respect problem, it's easier to fix than causing an injury.

13/8/2025, 4:39:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

People I like share raw story articles, but the headlines and the few articles I've read have a lot of copium interpretations of things.

12/8/2025, 8:35:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I can see Vance effectively offering 'roll back sexual and racial civil rights' as his American flavored Eurofascism. Whether the audience sustains interest once the right returns to sell deadly cars, slur and harass a string of interns into unhappy marriages with the boss is unclear.

12/8/2025, 6:12:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

This smells like a 4chan bit.

12/8/2025, 11:45:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Is her "New Liberalism" like Spiked Magazine's origins as "Living Marxism?"

12/8/2025, 2:41:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

The various American Federales fear "lawless and dangerous" Montgomery County (comedic).

11/8/2025, 8:26:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Why isn't everyone talking about how much they hate waffles AND pancakes?

11/8/2025, 3:25:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone can win the internet or at least BSky if they can connect this with secondary virginity.

10/8/2025, 10:14:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now imagining a doughboy running around a hill, pulling the lapels of his jacket up as a shield and dual wielding M1911s.

9/8/2025, 1:14:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Setting up for Final Destin8ion!

8/8/2025, 11:33:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The FOMO marketing aspect of this, "don't blackpill now, the Storm is coming, the best is yet to come, be part of it" really sucks and seems like it would be a point to mock them.

8/8/2025, 11:31:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I think they just want to break off screenshots or text into memes and refusal to think of context or the rest of the story is a point of pride.

8/8/2025, 11:30:14 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm curious if the American NuSkyraider, which also has origins as a sprayer plane, will be a decent drone fighter?

8/8/2025, 4:52:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Not going out on a limb to guess the list creator probably thinks all wrestling fans are a bloc that shares their personal politics.

8/8/2025, 4:47:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hope we get some discussion on the podcast. I've been wondering what he's doing on ROH and haven't taken the time to get caught up and find out.

8/8/2025, 3:44:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Obviously not following that closely, but I thought whatever nominal paperwork and renaming of "Wagner guys in Africa" to "Africa Corps" had been completed within a year or the Wagner mutiny to Moscow.

8/8/2025, 3:19:28 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like that in the gallery there were three women named Daisy in two consecutive pictures and a fourth Daisy a couple pictures further.

7/8/2025, 12:06:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't bring Louise Mensch into this to make it a thruple.

6/8/2025, 11:24:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We've talked about The Blue Sword at Reactor before, specifically with this essay by Ellen Cheesemen-Meyer about the role horses play within the story 🐎 reactormag.com/a-horse-love...

6/8/2025, 5:59:16 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

At this rate perhaps looking into in person is an option?

6/8/2025, 3:14:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He'll follow the American anti-woke false Pope Mel Gibson supports for a bit until he joins the US branch of a 'in communion with Rome' national Eastern Church with a confusing English name. Everyone including himself will be too lost to remember him recycling Robert Spencer 2002.

4/8/2025, 9:25:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Classical liberal and [wacky adjective] libertarian phases coming up to be followed by getting baptized by a trad Cath group.

4/8/2025, 9:11:39 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For American futures I lazily borrow the 'Big Albania' & 'Very Large Hungary' from others as general pessimistic expectations. 'Continent sized Lebanon or Yugoslavia, but with nukes' is the darker version.

4/8/2025, 9:05:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's this guy, but he's all sports nowadays: bsky.app/profile/oldt...

4/8/2025, 3:18:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The movie slightly based on this is everything right and wrong with South Korean mass market film: www.imdb.com/title/tt1606...

4/8/2025, 1:47:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking it up, it was. I guess the early 21st American paleocon converts were just looking for an obvious body of water to turn a phrase.

4/8/2025, 1:16:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From what I've read, I would guess deleting BlueSky from any device you bring should be sufficient unless the NSA is already watching you for less petty reasons. I am not, of course your attorney, so....

4/8/2025, 11:23:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Trying to decide how I would bet on Polymarket on the endless annoyingness of left v lib v centrist discourse on the D US Prez campaigns of 2008, 2016 & 2024. If that energy could be harnessed for electricity we could build a Dyson sphere.

4/8/2025, 12:41:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should be Sten guns to be more WW2 British.

3/8/2025, 3:19:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If this were YouTube a year or two ago, could start a countdown to Hindutva bros poasting 'well akshully, hakenkreuz because the Brit bullying includes this.'

3/8/2025, 1:53:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Post pictures of you applying the make up, but like the meme.

3/8/2025, 1:49:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Breakfast burrito taxi, but with English muffin instead of tortilla.

3/8/2025, 1:48:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

According to Wikipedia, he's buried in Newton, UT. The population is supposedly only 700 some people.

3/8/2025, 1:47:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

Did the Baldwin folks try to flip you from Heathen to Christian?

3/8/2025, 2:45:41 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mirthfulisles (@mirthfulisles.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think Miller organized a primary challenger to anyone, but US conservatives aren't exactly short of psychopaths with enough money and cheap activist labour to promote Miller's view independently.

2/8/2025, 3:21:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the internet. Everyone is a polymath and auto-didact whose skills include some kind of engineering and with hand-waving that covers manufacturing and business consultant quality efficiency analysis.

2/8/2025, 2:16:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm softly in the school of thought that End Wokeness is Jack Posobeic's alt account. Don't follow either, but casually seeing them screenshotted I don't get what the difference is in output. But as another brain-cooked former US military intelligence officer, maybe he thinks there's a strategy.

2/8/2025, 1:52:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This doesn't have a clash, but got me thinking about Liberty Lobby/Spotlight vs the Moonies/their media empire. Does simple racism beat what's otherwise general philosophical alignment?

2/8/2025, 12:37:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pancakes and Waffles/Waffles and Pancakes - championship edition.

1/8/2025, 8:00:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not wanting to see if there is a weirdo, say in RFK Jr.'s orbit, who wants 'dill baby, drill' to include extraction and burning of peat for heating buildings.

1/8/2025, 6:27:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The colors, the font! Clearly the ancestor to Sydney Sweeney's recent denim ad.

1/8/2025, 10:07:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view