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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 6h

Hardly an obscurity but

No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 21h

I worked as a contractor in Senate (and some House) offices of both parties between 2008 and 2013 and virtually every white male in Republican offices had the "smartest guy in a land grant frat" vibe; the idea that they weren't little grubby racist pigs is very silly

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 23h

In fact, I look more like a predatory bird than a rat but any person with small sharp features that are bunched in the center of his face can expect to be called a rat about three times a year

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23h

I was very happy to have had a chance/excuse to revisit Charles Portis's incredibly funny and good Dog Of The South, and to talk about it with the Defector Book Buddies. defector.com/the-blog-of-...

The Blog Of The South | Defector

Brandy: Giri, one of the first things you note in your lovely introductory essay yesterday about this book is Portis’s absolute control and precision. This was my third time reading it and I am always...

defector.com

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

CNN via KXLY: Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts

h/t @BakerRL75

https://www.kxly.com/weather/predictions-for-deadly-alaska-storm-may-have-suffered-due-to-doge-cuts/article_03a756cc-ceee-591d-b0f1-ac9609cb1b66.html

#akwx #doge #disasters #typhoonhalong

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts
Andrew Freedman, CNN
5–7 minutes

(CNN) — The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

There is a gaping hole in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska — a critical shortage bedeviling US forecasts and the National Weather Service since layoffs hit the agency as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s push to shrink the federal government back in February.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who ingests so much Huel that he no longer needs the lead apron when getting dental X-rays:

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

THE DUMBEST ASSHOLE YOU EVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE: Artificial general intelligence is just around the corner. I’m going to develop it. I’m afraid of it.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Ceasefire Holds as Only Palestinians Die

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 2d

Camus Present Day: "he goons and parlays"

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 4d

I finally understand what Allan Bloom was weeping about in the Closing of the American Mind

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 6d

The correct answer is the quasi recolonization by British commercial interests in the mid 19th century right

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 6d

I had an Argentinian friend in college who told me this old saying: "what god does at night, Argentinians undo during the day"

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 9d

I deplore modern innovations (stealing body parts from a medical school) we must RETVRN to tradition (stealing body parts for a medical school)

WBUR @wbur.org · 10d

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the medical school for students to learn from.

'Extraordinary failure': SJC says lawsuits against Harvard over morgue thefts can move forward

The Supreme Judicial Court says Harvard failed to adequately supervise its former morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, who admitted to stealing skin, brains and bones of bodies that had been donated to the m...

www.wbur.org

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 10d

Damn Osbert Lancaster my mom loves him

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 16d

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?"

GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 17d

Interrupting the War on Halloween to declare a hayseed anathema on the Mormons

Blue check tweet from three days ago that says

The problem with evil Halloween decorations is that they are real, they summon real monsters, they bring forth real beings. It’s not a game. Festivities matter.

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 17d

They're calling it the purest formality they've ever seen. Unbelievable purity of formality folks

A Pure Formality (1994) starring Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 19d

EXCUSE ME but I have tenure because I am the world's most special boy and it's my just reward

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 19d

We used to be a proper country

FEMA publication "COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season"

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · 29d

When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 16

Life in Baltimore:

Himbo Deluxe @verylarge.bsky.social · Sep 16

Tomorrow they're hitting me with a Nissan Altima

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Sep 14

Breathless reporting across the industry on unconfirmed reports that Kirk's killer may have once breathed same air particles expelled by a trans person, meanwhile no interest in ironclad proof that yet another school shooter was a Nazi.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Sep 11

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oi that's me Bri ish parentage leakin out innit

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

I would wear a boiler suit at the circulation desk

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No Joyman @nojoyman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Sages in the past tried to convey this experience

George Plimpton in a Bruins goalie uniform

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