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stosh machek

@stoshm.bsky.social

-believes everyone should have a manifesto, maybe even 2! -booted off every Meta platform! -uncomfortably squinting in the brite lite of your optimism! -thanx for likes, pls share

created February 17, 2024

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Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

he's there to craft catastrophies

3/9/2025, 5:51:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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undulating tops

3/9/2025, 3:41:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

The Democratic party leadership is only concerned with finding moderates who don't rock the boat too much – and that's the exact opposite of what we need and what this time demands.

3/9/2025, 2:35:21 AM | 1883 429 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 (@tabathasouthey.bsky.social) reposted

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

3/9/2025, 12:35:26 AM | 9677 3183 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted

The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.

2/9/2025, 12:11:37 PM | 993 220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

2/9/2025, 9:53:21 PM | 21735 5803 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

man i am ALWAYS getting stiffed by the Left

2/9/2025, 9:06:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

toads know

2/9/2025, 4:10:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

love that song

2/9/2025, 4:07:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

duck duck goose

2/9/2025, 2:28:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

& we dont need it

2/9/2025, 2:24:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

understandabubble

1/9/2025, 10:31:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

that makes entirely too much sense

1/9/2025, 10:24:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

certain events over the last week, & 'Weekend At Bernie-ing' is now a verb

1/9/2025, 8:44:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

"ok, sure, but what if the dictator had more taste than to embellish the Oval Office w/ cheesy golden filigree?"

1/9/2025, 8:41:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

okay, uh, sure: 'half a giraffe' ..well to be fair, it's really hard to rhyme almost any other fractions w/ animals at all ..like 'a third' & 'bird', but like, what kind of bird? ..& 'quarter', 'fifth', 'eighth', 'sixteenth'..? forget about it ..'half a giraffe' is the only one that really swings

1/9/2025, 5:15:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

okay, uh, sure: 'half a giraffe' ..well to be fair, it's really hard to rhyme almost any other fractions w/ animals at all ..like 'a third' & 'bird', but like, what kind of bird? ..& 'quarter', 'fifth', 'eighth', 'sixteenth'..? forget about it ..'half a giraffe' is the only one that really swings

1/9/2025, 5:14:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

wash that puppppp

1/9/2025, 4:16:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

take care of yourself

1/9/2025, 4:27:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

well, yeah, uhh.......

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1/9/2025, 4:21:57 AM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

it is more easily disregarded than one is generally led to believe

1/9/2025, 2:16:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

they hope to make enough $$ to amass enough resources to somehow ride out, in some semblance of the style w/ which they have become accustomed, the climate collapse that they themselves brought down upon all of us

1/9/2025, 2:15:26 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:38:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:14:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

hey you

31/8/2025, 10:56:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sean (@impossiblemachine.bsky.social) reposted

Take the time to watch this and follow @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

31/8/2025, 10:28:57 PM | 414 159 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 10:52:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

team tRUmp has never been big on those: 'there's only one way to solve this' approaches: -beat charges of tax fraud? submit your financial records -quash pedo rumors? release the Epstein files etc, etc, etc ..its almost like those sorts of things wouldnt work out all that well for him

31/8/2025, 10:45:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 8:18:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

please go & stand in the corner facing the wall & one of our representatives will be w/ you shortly

31/8/2025, 7:58:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

please enjoy the 'Last Known Photograph' quality of these 2 pics of the potus taken in the last couple of days

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31/8/2025, 7:56:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.

31/8/2025, 5:34:18 AM | 3582 1385 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 7:51:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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as i understand it, theyre quite musical

31/8/2025, 7:46:57 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

this horrid old geezer

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31/8/2025, 6:49:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ding dong n shit

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31/8/2025, 5:17:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 3:48:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a hex

30/8/2025, 10:35:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

Libs: 'thoughts & prayers aren't enough!' The Right: 'why do you hate Christians?'

30/8/2025, 10:17:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social) reposted

A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect. — W.E.B. DuBois

30/8/2025, 7:16:34 AM | 285 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

it must be chugggged

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30/8/2025, 7:26:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

'what's in the pipe, Chuck?' "Scoops!"

30/8/2025, 7:21:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

samesies

30/8/2025, 7:18:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

"..the shtrawberriesh!"

30/8/2025, 7:05:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

remember when young Christopher Walken wanted to eat America?

30/8/2025, 7:01:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

gout is a terrible thing Biffo...lay off the rich foods

30/8/2025, 6:01:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

Charlie "Scoops" Spundlemin couldnt agree w/ you more!

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30/8/2025, 5:59:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

seems par for the course

30/8/2025, 3:35:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Carlson (@danielwcarlson.bsky.social) reposted

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

29/8/2025, 6:24:12 PM | 16522 5232 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

we've all done it

30/8/2025, 2:47:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

'Flirty Chatbot' sounds like a drag name

29/8/2025, 11:56:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marxist-Glonzoist (@primaryschool.bsky.social) reposted

the thing that worries me is that basically all routes out of this mess involve some significant segment of our sclerotic, insane elite admitting, even obliquely via the sheepishly belated passage of necessary reforms, that they were catastrophically wrong in a way that cost everyone

29/8/2025, 12:28:45 AM | 771 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted

The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.

29/8/2025, 2:28:13 PM | 1782 360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

is that a dare?

29/8/2025, 11:16:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 9:50:34 PM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

they will blame who they are told to blame

29/8/2025, 9:45:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

i am in favor of this & related endeavors

29/8/2025, 6:50:54 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

29/8/2025, 2:05:06 PM | 1390 477 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

MJ: 'he needs to stop being mean to me w/ the truth' (translated from the original Butthurttoddler)

29/8/2025, 5:49:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 6:05:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

read the room, dude ..or at least the bio

29/8/2025, 5:05:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

rite ovah heah

29/8/2025, 4:43:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:35:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

thank you ..i have a whole lotta hats, it was hard to choose one to post

29/8/2025, 4:05:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

you're posting particularly poetically

29/8/2025, 3:54:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

strong, apt imagery

29/8/2025, 3:50:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)

Drop some hats...

29/8/2025, 3:15:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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samesies

29/8/2025, 12:52:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

i have always kinda felt that it is DJT's weird pro-wrestling, reality Tv cachet that holds much of this shiteshow together ..maybe im kidding myself, but i dont see the hardcore red hats getting all comfortably behind the guy in the eyeliner

28/8/2025, 11:04:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

hi..random dude here 😉

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28/8/2025, 11:00:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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one wonders how they'd react if it were painted like a n@zi armband?

28/8/2025, 10:19:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It was clear two years ago that Project 2025 and Trump planned to drain all monies from everything but Criminal Justice, Immigration, National Security and the Military, and that those formerly separate pots would in fact be one pot aimed at controlling the American population via government force.

28/8/2025, 9:40:07 PM | 374 102 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

You can't speak coherently about what has to happen in America now if you even allow for the possibility that Trump did not run the most deceitful campaign about what he planned to do as president that contemporary American politics has ever seen. Any attempt to legitimize his actions is grotesque.

28/8/2025, 9:16:23 PM | 742 88 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted

I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.

28/8/2025, 9:09:46 PM | 4027 830 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

prognosis= not good

28/8/2025, 6:54:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

from my 'zine 'The Orca':

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ghoulish

28/8/2025, 3:41:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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HEYYOOOO

28/8/2025, 3:25:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) reposted

The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens. by @camargy.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

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Profile picture Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted

Hit da hotline then hit da BRICKS

9/6/2025, 9:49:09 PM | 178 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

piddling away democracy

27/8/2025, 12:35:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

at first we thought fascism would sound like jackboots on cobblestones, but then we realized it sounded more like that awkward silence after we were all done laughing at a joke someone told about how horrid everything had become

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the problem:

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tactical landscaping

27/8/2025, 12:23:04 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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tactical landscaping

27/8/2025, 12:22:40 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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sick /encouraging/

27/8/2025, 12:21:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the stuff that military coups are made of..?

27/8/2025, 12:28:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Superdude has always been woke af

27/8/2025, 12:27:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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must be hard to say that w/ his tongue so far up tRUmp's ass

26/8/2025, 9:21:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted

This man has way too much power, and most people have no idea who he is.

25/8/2025, 10:40:54 PM | 826 378 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent

'bout the only thing i'd argue here is whether Miller is tRUmp's lackey as far as immigration policy goes, or if it's the other way around

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Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

Once again, the thing we need to spend more time worrying about is not the end of American power/hegemony, but rather its persistence & projection in far uglier, more unilateralist, & highly authoritarian form: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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'horrible deathbed'..? ..who writes the stuff? ..its him isnt it? he writes this stuff

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"you wanna win the game? may be dont play the game" -Ancient Ninja Knowledge

25/8/2025, 4:42:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.

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