Martin Guerre (real)
@albemuth.bsky.social
Tond of the Dead Star Balabo
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
@thewrongstation.bsky.social, “Palaces Below”
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@thewrongstation.bsky.social, “Palaces Below”
This is very true. I’m a union steward, and when I guide people to accommodations I am careful to frame it as being for “any disability or other health issue of any duration”. Employees are a lot more open to that framing than when I described it as a disability of any duration.
Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.
December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is very true. I’m a union steward, and when I guide people to accommodations I am careful to frame it as being for “any disability or other health issue of any duration”. Employees are a lot more open to that framing than when I described it as a disability of any duration.
Christian bracket: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Secular bracket: have yourself a merry little Christmas
Secular bracket: have yourself a merry little Christmas
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Christian bracket: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Secular bracket: have yourself a merry little Christmas
Secular bracket: have yourself a merry little Christmas
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I know it’s weird, but for years now I’ve found reminding myself that I’m going to die one day to be immensely liberating. Is this floral print insufficiently butch? Will it be weird if I skip this work happy hour? Who gives a shit, I’m a mortal man and the clock is ticking.
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I know it’s weird, but for years now I’ve found reminding myself that I’m going to die one day to be immensely liberating. Is this floral print insufficiently butch? Will it be weird if I skip this work happy hour? Who gives a shit, I’m a mortal man and the clock is ticking.
I’d failed as an academic and needed to get a new job to make rent. I applied because the posting specified the number of openings as “many.”
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’d failed as an academic and needed to get a new job to make rent. I applied because the posting specified the number of openings as “many.”
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Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Bill Ackman and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon watching this WH presser
The comics industry is fickle, ungrateful, and brutally uncaring. Help Mike Barr if you can.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The comics industry is fickle, ungrateful, and brutally uncaring. Help Mike Barr if you can.
Oh no not uhhhhh Stacey Plaskett, the non voting delegate from the Virgin Islands
November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Oh no not uhhhhh Stacey Plaskett, the non voting delegate from the Virgin Islands
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yeah. it sounds ghoulish but “the content must flow, i don’t care if he is rewarding someone who had my colleague bone-saw’d” is literally accurate
they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content
I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
yeah. it sounds ghoulish but “the content must flow, i don’t care if he is rewarding someone who had my colleague bone-saw’d” is literally accurate
There’s a kind of facile cynicism that is functionally indistinguishable from rank credulity
one genuine issue is that like, there's a sort of generalized cynicism that gets turned into "look everybody sucks so i'm going to support the demon at home"
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
There’s a kind of facile cynicism that is functionally indistinguishable from rank credulity
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It's Friday night baby
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's Friday night baby
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once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse
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It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
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Panels that go hard: “Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Panels that go hard: “Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.
I’ve said it a million times, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found all but exclusively among ordinary people like us. It’s far from ideal, but it might be enough.
In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again
America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.
www.inquirer.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I’ve said it a million times, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found all but exclusively among ordinary people like us. It’s far from ideal, but it might be enough.
In important ways, the tension between the Dem base and electeds (especially in the Senate, especially in leadership) amounts to the base taking rhetoric from electeds seriously, and judging the electeds accordingly. That is, are we fighting fascism or not?
I don't think people have ever hated the Democratic party's values, they've just hated the people who rise to the top of the Democratic pile.
In this the Republicans were pretty far ahead of us with getting Trump and his goons to replace the much-maligned Neocons. Jeb Bush is/was their Schumer.
In this the Republicans were pretty far ahead of us with getting Trump and his goons to replace the much-maligned Neocons. Jeb Bush is/was their Schumer.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In important ways, the tension between the Dem base and electeds (especially in the Senate, especially in leadership) amounts to the base taking rhetoric from electeds seriously, and judging the electeds accordingly. That is, are we fighting fascism or not?
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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it
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[guy who's only read one book by barbara tuchman reading a second book] This guy's really starting to remind me of Enguerrand de Coucy.
November 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
[guy who's only read one book by barbara tuchman reading a second book] This guy's really starting to remind me of Enguerrand de Coucy.
Pat is finally making his move
They're gonna kill Geno
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Pat is finally making his move
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
I was a small talk hater, and this is 100% true. It’s not hard. Like, if someone has kids you can ask about them and the parent will just carry the conversation. All you have to say is stuff like “oh, that’s a good school” or “what a fun age!” As a bonus, it doesn’t even need to be true!
people bitch about small talk, but small talk — and being able to shoot the shit with a stranger — is a key fucking social skill, and while i understand it doesn’t come naturally to everyone, it *is* one that’s useful and worth working on
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was a small talk hater, and this is 100% true. It’s not hard. Like, if someone has kids you can ask about them and the parent will just carry the conversation. All you have to say is stuff like “oh, that’s a good school” or “what a fun age!” As a bonus, it doesn’t even need to be true!