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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

When nuclear war comes, I've already reserved my place in the Vault-Tec "older straight white guy" vault.

jun 27, 2025, 3:13 am • 368 7

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Ian D. Wagner @idwagner.bsky.social

I often disagree with you on AT40, I guess you’re out.

jun 27, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cathi B @grammacappy.bsky.social

Ah -this shit is very entertaining. ha ha

jun 28, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rooster @sillythecat.bsky.social

"hemp tower"?????

jun 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view
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compliancedivision.bsky.social @compliancedivision.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social

It this a "never trust anyone over thirty" (esp if they're white) revisited moment?

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Barb 🌵🇺🇦🌊 @figment2.bsky.social

good grief - we did that all ready! Do they have to recycle all boomer traits. I figure a remake of Soylent Green will come out soon.

jun 27, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Doc Ronnie Johnson 💊💉 @dawildboarcjd.bsky.social

I'm not sure how this person came up with you being comfortable. I'd say you've been rather uncomfortable for as long as I've followed you, which is why I follow you. Comfortable people don't point out that the slippery slope is rapidly becoming a cliff.

jun 27, 2025, 10:28 am • 3 0 • view
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nperezbowman @n9perez-bowman.bsky.social

not always the case, but I found this article interesting and thoughtful... but I will say you really bring out ire in people. I get that, but calling you liberal?

jun 27, 2025, 4:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Bicklebaum, Benjamin B. @bbbicklebaum.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 4 0 • view
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Jerry-ATX @jda5id.com

Hemp Tower is the HQ of the DC villian The Giggler

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 5 0 • view
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Dave Pounds @davelbs66.bsky.social

Tom, you really need to stop fucking with that guy. His head might explode.

jun 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
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William Walker @antelopelabs.com

I would like to build a hemp tower. Can you please post the diy blueprints you used?

jun 27, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
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bardasphocas.bsky.social @bardasphocas.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 8:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Shoshana Bee @shohanabee76.bsky.social

Wow. I don’t feel so targeted being called a f-ing Zionist for stating that the 90 million folks who didn’t vote likely ushered in the guy who will realize their worst nightmares about Gaza & more 🤔

jun 27, 2025, 4:09 am • 2 0 • view
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proudemocrat51.bsky.social @proudemocrat51.bsky.social

What a jerk this guy is. You have more moral Quandary in you earlobe that he does . Thanks Tom Nichols for what you contribute daily. I don’t miss it.

jun 27, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
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missmj.bsky.social @missmj.bsky.social

Is there one for older straight white ladies? Asking for a friend .

jun 28, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike @miked-up.bsky.social

And then you discover they only have vacuum packed Indian food.

jun 27, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Liberalettie @liberalettie.bsky.social

Will they take chubby women?

jun 27, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Alice Radley @alradley.com

I’m going to be in Vault 108. You can call me … Gary.

jun 27, 2025, 10:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Eric Hubbard ⚒️🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @nmgeologist.bsky.social

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jun 27, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 0 0 • view
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DavidNelsonNM @davidnelsonnm.bsky.social

Tom Nichols, liberal horseshit writer. Huh. Guess what they say is true - live long enough & you’ll see everything! 😁

jun 27, 2025, 7:08 am • 2 0 • view
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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social

you say that but you never know when you'll need that Confirmed Bachelor perk

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 12 0 • view
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Just when I get three levels of Lady Killer, shit goes sideways

jun 27, 2025, 3:16 am • 26 0 • view
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lewgoct.bsky.social @lewgoct.bsky.social

He called you a "comfortable older straight white guy" as if that's a bad thing!

jun 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Jace @rapturedemon.bsky.social

Watching people give you shit, Tom, actually makes me feel better about my day because I don’t have to put up with a bunch of haters because I’m just an average everyday nobody.

jun 27, 2025, 3:19 am • 12 1 • view
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lewgoct.bsky.social @lewgoct.bsky.social

Like Jesus, Tom is crucified each day for our sins.

jun 27, 2025, 3:41 am • 6 1 • view
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Jace @rapturedemon.bsky.social

So true!🤣

jun 27, 2025, 3:41 am • 1 0 • view
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lewgoct.bsky.social @lewgoct.bsky.social

He takes it on the chin for all of us.

jun 27, 2025, 3:42 am • 2 1 • view
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Jace @rapturedemon.bsky.social

He really does. Some people think he’s so terrible on here but he seems like the nicest guy on tv.

jun 27, 2025, 3:44 am • 2 0 • view
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lewgoct.bsky.social @lewgoct.bsky.social

He likes to play curmudgeon but (I suspect) it's largely performative. He's prickly. But most 60+ year old guys are.

jun 27, 2025, 3:47 am • 5 0 • view
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Jace @rapturedemon.bsky.social

I don’t think a true curmudgeon would adore cats so much, so I don’t think that label applies to Tom.🤣

jun 27, 2025, 3:49 am • 7 0 • view
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June Astford @june29.bsky.social

😽

jun 27, 2025, 4:09 am • 1 0 • view
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Barb 🌵🇺🇦🌊 @figment2.bsky.social

Wait until you hit 60 and older. Actually between 60-70 was pretty good, after 70 your body really start to let you know that you are heading for the rust heap. And it just keeps going downhill from there.

jun 27, 2025, 5:34 am • 1 0 • view
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voodoo54.bsky.social @voodoo54.bsky.social

Props to the the MySpace pic on his profile lol

jun 27, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
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notstevebutalan.bsky.social @notstevebutalan.bsky.social

Pack a gas mask.

jun 27, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alterdox @alterdox.bsky.social

I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them taking over other older straight white guy vaults, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do. Thus, knocking us out of these superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow an older straight white guy vault gap!

jun 27, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Harris @davidsp72.bsky.social

So much liberal horseshit, Tom. Come on, sober and informed analysis is commie crap.

jun 27, 2025, 11:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Molly Fisher @fisher-studio.com

Well, it builds a block list. I have yet to figure out how to share and use those in a way that concatenates them on this platform. I guess you’re either the most or least likely person to check in with about that.

jun 27, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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bskwitter.bsky.social @bskwitter.bsky.social

You might need to develop some valuable manual labor skills, like screwing tiny screws into i-Phones, in order to justify being retained and supported by The Silo

jun 27, 2025, 3:15 am • 6 0 • view
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Barb 🌵🇺🇦🌊 @figment2.bsky.social

I just started streaming that series. Think I’ll read the books to compare to the TV adaptation. So much of the science is wrong, but most ppl will not catch it.

jun 27, 2025, 5:37 am • 2 0 • view
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Gary Frank @1moregaryfrank.bsky.social

Is't that all the bunkers?

jun 27, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
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Jennifer Lee 📚 @uofagrad97.bsky.social

I’m hoping to become a ghoul. I’m claustrophobia.

jun 27, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
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gchance60.bsky.social @gchance60.bsky.social

Is there a not-quite-so-old-as-Tom vault?

jun 27, 2025, 3:31 am • 4 0 • view
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Beyond the Bedside 🚫👑 @thenurseisin.bsky.social

Tony had me at 'liberal' as a descriptor for you.

jun 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mark @markstacky.bsky.social

Like the thought of The Republic of Tom.

jun 27, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Mr. House and I have been talking

jun 27, 2025, 3:42 am • 6 0 • view
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Nathan Jordan @njphotography.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 8:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Will Furlong @willfurlong.bsky.social

Many board games? Risk, Stratego? Chutes and Ladders?

jun 27, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Dan Appalachia @danappalachia.bsky.social

I gotta know more about that hemp tower. Do you sell seeds? I mean it's growing season now, so I want to get started.

jun 27, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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Malcolm McGowan @malcolmkmcgowan.bsky.social

Now I have a picture in my head of you in a vault suit. Thanks,Tom. 🙄

jun 27, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
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williamfergie.bsky.social @williamfergie.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣

jun 27, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Pepsimon @peps.bsky.social

Lmao, I appreciate the wit

jun 27, 2025, 5:29 am • 1 0 • view
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lewgoct.bsky.social @lewgoct.bsky.social

He called you a "comfortable older straight white guy" as if that's a bad thing!

jun 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
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The Ghost of Mr Hand @theghostofmrhand.bsky.social

this guy thinks you're liberal??

jun 27, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
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chahliejones.bsky.social @chahliejones.bsky.social

the "hemp positive" side?

jun 27, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Anton Karidian @kandidanreal.bsky.social

I've always said, and my living room portrait of Dwight David Eisenhower can attest to this, that "Tom Nichols is such a goddamn commie pinko Red"

jun 27, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nathan Dickson @nathandickson.bsky.social

Just hope you don’t end up being in the vault where they made Super Mutants.

jun 27, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
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Dadib @dadib.bsky.social

Tom's safe. That was on the west coast.

jun 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Brian DelBuono @gr8day4bsbll.bsky.social

Be sure to bring some hemp from your tower; nobody rides for free, you know…

jun 27, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
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jeffd735.bsky.social @jeffd735.bsky.social

All from a guy whose profile pic is Tom from MySpace. Easy to be a gutless ahole hiding behind a keyboard.

jun 27, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
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Burning1Always @burning1.bsky.social

What's the twist. There's always a twist when it comes to vault-tec.

jun 27, 2025, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
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jamesstaal.bsky.social @jamesstaal.bsky.social

Ivory is unpopular? I’m never on trend.

jun 27, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Barb 🌵🇺🇦🌊 @figment2.bsky.social

I had an Ivory shirt I loved until my first cataract removal. It’s actually white!

jun 27, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social

Any room in that vault for women biblical scholars? 😃

jun 27, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Doug Smith @genejockey57.bsky.social

"Animals may be bred und SLAUGHTERED...."

Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove
jun 27, 2025, 3:18 am • 4 0 • view
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Jake @jacobwrecks.bsky.social

Great. They gave you a mo-ron.

jun 27, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
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wickit411.bsky.social @wickit411.bsky.social

What vault will Lily be in? I'm so confused about which vault I should reserve. Is there a book on Vault-Tec etiquette? And do we have to bring a blue suit? I have so many questions.

jun 27, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
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dr christina j johns @cjjohns.bsky.social

The cat. Dont forget the cat.

jun 27, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Rob Ellis @realrobellis.bsky.social

jun 27, 2025, 4:53 am • 0 0 • view
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reiserechner.bsky.social @reiserechner.bsky.social

With your stance on Led Zeppelin I doubt they will let you in.

jun 27, 2025, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
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Stan R. Mitchell @stanrmitchell.com

Tom from MySpace follows you?!?!

jun 27, 2025, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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The Dude of Some 🇺🇦 @somedude210.bsky.social

It warms my heart to know you're a Fallout fan. At least enough to make these jokes and not come off as a jackass 😁

jun 27, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
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arthurbill2013.bsky.social @arthurbill2013.bsky.social

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jun 27, 2025, 3:19 am • 9 2 • view
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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social

That's gonna be the gayest vault of all.

jun 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 4 0 • view
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JRyerson @jryerson.bsky.social

Lmao

jun 27, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Mike Donohue @mikeyd123.bsky.social

Have you even said Thank you?

jun 27, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
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RealJakeEast @realjakeeast.bsky.social

Is the vault stocked with garlic powder?

jun 27, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social

That's the one with the comfy leather chairs, right?

jun 27, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
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truecrit.bsky.social @truecrit.bsky.social

Bluesky is great! Lol

jun 27, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social

If it fills up, be sure to kick out the guy who owns left-handed stores. We won’t need those in the future.

jun 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Brannigan Has Arrived @brannigan.bsky.social

Me following Tom because he gets equal time abuse from the left and right. It's entertaining to watch these people who have nothing better to do than hate on a public figure they don't even actually know.

jun 27, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Digital Prophet @digitalprophet.online

"Tom Nichols: Liberal Horseshit Writer" is absolutely the funniest byline change you could ever make. Also a great book title.

jun 27, 2025, 9:06 am • 1 0 • view
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coloneltompeeping.bsky.social @coloneltompeeping.bsky.social

Phew! People laughed, but I knew being an older straight white guy would pay off one day. As the world ends, who will be laughing then?

jun 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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marymacdougall.bsky.social @marymacdougall.bsky.social

Easy block.

jun 27, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view