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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 10m

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 5h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Mar 21

so proud of him

Photo of a bookmark featuring a grumpy frog. Text reads

Need to remember dis page?
FROGETTABOUTIT
I’ll have my boys look after your spot
Ey!
I’m in da freakin mafia!
Yo!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 7h

Headlines that read like you're having a stroke:

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Nature’s Labubu’: why are gen Z ‘unboxing’ conkers?

The traditional playground favourite is staging a comeback – without the threat of violence

www.theguardian.com

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 7h

It's okay to write notes in margins or make your own footnotes in books you own.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 8h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 8h

the least surprising news of our time www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 10h

Someone should start a nostalgia-bait account that's just pictures of the present day, college kids playing volley ball on the beach in Santa Cruz, leafy New England villages, cub scouts roasting marshmallows around a campfire. It's all still happening, you just aren't doing it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social · 14h

Core memories unlocked? A few words about revisiting SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

jtglover.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/m...

MyFirstHorror (TM)

Something Wicked This Way Comes wasn’t my first encounter with horror, but it did leave a mark. As I’ve written elsewhere, my earliest encounters with monsters came courtesy of Mercer M…

jtglover.wordpress.com

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Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 16h

this has been quietly incredible.

there's a weird aversion in the US to talking about the nuts and bolts of systems, probably the same fear of unexpected taint that drives so much else of our risk aversion.

but wow! a child's naive idea of storing extra electricity in a big battery now works!

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

It's very sad

people.com/archive/cove...

Starting Over

Margot Kidder opens up after she suffered a breakdown, disappeared and turned up filthy and battered in a stranger's backyard

people.com

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Welp Imma get some use out of this.

Brennan Lee Mulligan on Make Some Noise saying "over 99% of the town agrees that I've been a good mayor"

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

The demo for the upcoming monster fighter/dating sim I voice Mothman in is out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3701990/...

Bad Heroes on Steam

Save the world and romance misfit heroes in the first-ever dating sim and beat-em-up! When a crime wave grips Gloom City, you and your ragtag band of heroes-for-hire uncover shocking truths about the ...

store.steampowered.com

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

I, a child, had the movie tie in comic trilogy which had disquieting art and showed Breathless's origin where she arrived in the city and immediately had to shoot the pimp trying to force her to work for him.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Beatty still dresses up and goes on tv to secure the rights so he's playing the long game!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

On this Indigenous People Day, if folks are worried about the erasure of Italian-American culture and heroes, might I point you to Sam Porcello, inventor of the Oreo

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Por...

Sam Porcello - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Had the most middle aged-ass dreams about forgetting to pick my kids up from school and regretting a house purchase because of unresolved water issues.

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

Who amongst us has not turned their face to God and cried out "the whole world is covered in buttons and not one of them is mine!"

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 1d

I was 7 when my parents took me to see this in theaters and it's weird how targeted at kids it was. So much murder and horny weirdness! The original comics were brutal murderfests so it wasn't as if the source material was particularly kid friendly. Nevertheless I had the action figures!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 2d

It was huge! My parents took me as a 7 year old missionary kid to see it in theaters! They got me the action figures!

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Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com · 2d

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or
weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who
sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless
the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the
joyous; and all for your love's sake.

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Adam Bishop @adammbishop.bsky.social · Jul 7

My daughter asked where "eureka" comes from...then she saw the excitement in my face

"Oh no! The short version, the short version!"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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