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almost not response after 14 hours is š
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i could build this for $3421
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where are the bean sprouts??!?š±?!
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Please contact Chuck Schumer for next steps
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a pre-wake for the anti-woke
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pre-wake for the anti-woke
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horrifying - though perhaps mainly unintentionally horrifying? - movie. undermines the very idea of love AND DATING, while pretending itās smiling about it.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
holy shit this could be good almost. what the fuck is this acting and this script
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
wild that a director could make one root against chris evans, just so he might stay away from Dakota Johnson?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
lol tonally shit.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
ok fully unsurprising that it has Dasha. nit sure thatās ironic or smart at this point
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to make a sex comedy with fairly dreary sex must be the point: life is a desert of dreariness
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
ugh. wtf. eric rohmer in reverse
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
is Dakota Johnson the best actor of her generation? no. is Dakota Johnson the best actor of ger generation at making you wonder if she or the script or the direction is worse?
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what the @jdcmedlock.bsky.social said, no?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
dong ding, the supreme court is the thing / early to celebrate when courts donāt enforce their own ruling
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
could not be more correct
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
uber but for countertransference
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
What we need more of
Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) reposted
this pointāthat this era is not forever and accountability can come in many formsāhas for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
ha yes unreal. and why would allowing 15 year olds into professional sports in the UK not be full of the risks of sending minors into the big leagues anywhere else
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true. this is why we hired you to WIN
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*implies
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
as you should be! political messages are not isolateable: as @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com inplirs, itās like other gestalt messaging ⦠like comedy. Donāt have Shor write your jokes!!!!! bsky.app/profile/adam...
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
āchasing the median sabotages your meanā is a good line, and an important crystallization of the point.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
iām standing here! (min wage/hr)
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
the metaverse is funny indeed. also letās take 99% of his money over $10 million, so we can at least try to allocate a tiny little bit better
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wut. more and more people are saying āuse potato chip bagsā for your official & non-official business
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
english words that donāt exist, based upon my examination of a 3x4 section of the NYTimes game āConnectionsā pendar pendra pedan cedra denra narden pec [too short] errund undar lerru runar rendar plerrundarnc word that does seem to exist: rund (chiefly Scottish variant of RAND)
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ābari weiss knows exactly what sheās doingā
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
i do the same with sociologists. they love it. made me their king. but now want to kill me and replace me with Carnehan?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
historians will read this and not-weep. they will salute and get rock hard and pass out from lack of blood oxygen
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
the role of james bond should go to whoever is 7th most hated in UK the previous year
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
the reaction to Nixon was the warning
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
Popo-Tate-oās
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Fuck Marry Kill? no just kill thanks.
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indicative that NYer publishes this, in Trump era
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
shockingly ill-conceived menand piece in the NYer on Baldwin. seems to be aiming for a blandly omniscient pov, but is weird and sad and limited, particularly on the subjects of race and sexuality. limited particularly by menandās imagination
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
wtf is this monstrosity why are we even alive
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
Human history: here is twenty billion more documents in more languages than even exist now what are you gonna do checkmate
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
yes. and d w a l l a c e w e l l s - is on bsky.social; are we just commenting or wanting to knew why he chose her to talk to?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
jesus christ, this is it, the whole ballgame
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essential part of a white mother-in-law dowry
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yes but bsky.app/profile/seth...
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
"A sandwich of a sandwich is a sandwich between two piece of bread." - Unknown
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
file under: waiting until itās too late to matter about anything
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
did NPR news have a come to Jesus moment after the stripping of CPB funding? wow what is this actually good, hard-hitting, anti-RFK analysis regarding mrna vaccines?
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comics HATE hāā(big hook like Gong Show)
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
waiting for hard left - one that will set up for freedom. āļø immigrants: we need them! need to work asap! especially if theyāre not criminal! trans: we cannot let them be less than full citizens! every slight against them is a slight to all americans! motherfuckers: need to fuck fathers!
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
hope the NYer article abt parents in Maine w trans kid moving to Mexico is just leading edge & indicative of whole set of later reporting theyāll do in style of deeply investigative & goddamned wordy stories that hold people to account. Thereās No Place at Home www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
itās dumb peopleās version of being smart about AI.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
disgrace after disgrace.
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yeah amazing how Fox News makes this true
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
assume the Greenland tourist places with the full blackout shades are overrun?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
ābeeedeee beeedeee, Buckā not neeedeeed
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
may John Roberts be treated like Alan Dershowitz from here on out
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
pet peeve: quoting Jonah Goldberg in oneās profile
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
hard hitting journalism;: āThe announcement, in the gold-adorned Oval Office, came after Mr. Cook presented Mr. Trump with a 24-karat gold gift and lavished him with praiseā www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Finally, a united nation.
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so close! thatās a camera.
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might have to watch it again to make sure I can be the role-model needed
Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) reposted
Young men lack positive models of healthy masculinity because they haven't seen Alec Guiness's portrayal of George Smiley in the BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
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uh no. for instance, why would this be described as āscramblingā as opposed to the long slow boring of hard boards that is & has been the GOP long-term strategy for minority rule, making deeper and deeper holes in the foundations of American republican democracy ?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
Cursed media environment, cursed country; the US really trying to catch up with a burst of awfulness here in 2025
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
Another political scientist w/ another incoherent analysis Yale prof explaining why minorities voting MAGA: ātheir political decisions are driven more by the realities their racial communities faceā Garbage analysis w/ no mention of media environment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
ICE not beating the racist blood money accusations.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
unbelievable whiteness
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ckrrext carrot correct
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thatās not how it works on the Vineyard. the rich will literally change laws as they need to make it so they have a proletarian group available; will make beds available at hostels; will create ferries; Iāve known folks to set up tents change needs to be in immigration laws & work permit laws
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has the composition of your students changed much?
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
regularization & non-prosecution of white collar crime might be most important meta-issue in America results are terrifyingly vast, represented in every element of Trump administration but the fact we didnāt prosecute DJT for insurrection is, still, jaw-dropping: twas treason, not money grubbing!
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Every gold medalist at the LA Olympic better be ready to have Trump preening.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
Rolling Stone has no problem doing proper headlines and reporting. NYT just can't seem to understand how to do it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
smith (@protanope.bsky.social) reply parent
interestingly āwhere is your ed atā was also the name frank herbert absolutely insisted upon
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pretty clearly just a bit of loubouillian moƫt-profiling of solid dark matter on ice
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
agreed. though letās spread at least some blame to NYTImes and PBS and WaPo and NPR the whole āweāre neutralā editors and managers and owners who absolutely allowed this messaging to happen l, while pretending theyāre still being neutral.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
popularists get fucked. but also: please for gods sake letās move the political goddamned needle sooner, especially for those that want to stake out a new vision of immigration.
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Borges correct as usual
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just got the windows down, armpits open to the breeze, waving to friends, citations piling up in the back
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
because when youāre done with them their body is gonna need two graves
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
goddamn. copy this message up to the stratosphere (financial journalists)
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lol jesus christ, this isnāt sarcastic, is it? because if not this is so so so dumb.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
want to repost this amazing point, but when did reposting @eschatonblog.com ever help???
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+ diligent young woman + a no-nonsense activist lens + responding vocabulary + most engagements with the world ka-pow. such force! go to France, I guess.
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a Door, say, to a new set of marks
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Thatās right.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
the lack of journalistic digging into Tiktok being actually truly bannedā¦. actually banned Banned by congress is like the lack of journalistic digging into the wild & off-range Supreme Court decisions allowing people to be sent to South Sudan. South Sudan. With no connections to the country
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this shit hits our faces
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: I will see them anywhere, in a heartbeat; one of my very very top Americana favorites. Parasocially (the past 15 years): š„²I hope theyāre ok.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
what are democratic governors doing??? whatās Newsom doing?
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benjamin ryan is both a transphobic hack and a PoS who doesnāt care about such principles.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
us military rolling over like puppies
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I was going to say: This is 100% a retread of the same article that you and others reprint every couple of years. Then I noticed the published date.
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white white house. black black christmas.
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
Billions and billions to the worst agency, the most heartless and illegal and anti-Constitution agency. Abolish it. āAbolish Iceā asap. Not just on the margins, not in scattered areas; everywhere. Abolish Ice. Body-block it, kick it down, grind it to nothingness.
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worse than that, complicity. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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not really feeling all the love & affection in the world
smith (@protanope.bsky.social)
NYT bizarre shitty headlines as crystal-clear as their bizarre shitty superimposed images
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āi will eat a burrito with my fingersā