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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 12h

And *every* Republican is cool with working with Nazis

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 15h

Contemporary literature is awful because the CIA ran a psyop through the Iowa Writer's Workshop to wreck the revolutionary potential of fiction.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 15h

I'm taking a little break from the apps to focus on gaining Occult Power, but godspeed brother

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 16h

If I were a data scientist with no ethics designing an app to make lonely people miserable while taking money out of their wallets, I'm not saying I'd make Hinge.

But what I'd make would be indistinguishable from Hinge

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 1d

Most "epic" fantasy is just six bad novellas in a trench coat.

None of them has been improved by multiple points of view. Keep the focus on one main character, maybe two.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 3d

As a history knower, I can confidently say there are no issues with Not Paying The Legions and The Troops Are Hungry is a smart move for those in charge

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 5d

Great family story about Robert A. Heinlein getting a (deserved) slap in the Soviet Union!

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

also @matthewclaxton.bsky.social, going to reshare my family encounter with RAH

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

Heinlein is one of my favorite raconteurs who explored a lot of interesting ideas.

Unfortunately, the fixed points in his fiction are busty redheads, twins, and turning little girls into wives in a way which is technically consensual and technically not incest, but feels really squicky

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 5d

Canonically diaperfur

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

Don't laugh. These are veterans of the Battle of Burgertown.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

"Yes, we'd like to put in a winning bid for that WMD"

Which my assassin character then stole. I escaped by jumping through hard vacuum from a starship to a waiting space taxi

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 7d

My group is playing Eclipse Phase, and we're breaking the adventure with the power of mind-hacking, stealth, and very large sums of money.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 8d

Finished @chrisdeville.bsky.social "Such Great Heights". It was excellent!

If you have good taste in music, you have to read this book.

If you don't have good taste in music, you *really* have to read this book.

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/53b5...

Review by mburnamfink - Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

As someone who loves indie music deeply, this is a great book, one that chronicles the rise an...

app.thestorygraph.com

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 8d

Remember that Panera lemonade that kills people?

Pepperidge Farms remembers

Mitskimask The Slump God @mitskimask.bsky.social · 8d

The Millennial version of this is:

"In my day people were dying from Four Loko having caffeine, and we loved it."

Which is true. We did.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 9d

Of all the Sundays anyone has ever had, this is the Moast

GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 9d

Okay now we’re really poasting

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 9d

ICE agent's room clearing shits about to push frontiers in 3rd Amendment law

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

sending this image to Secretary Whiskey Pete so he has a pretext to do the jelly donut monologue from Full Metal Jacket he's been practicing in the bathroom for the last three months

Senor Gato 🐾 @kingpachuco.bsky.social · 11d

It's a wild world out here in the Rose City.

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

Committing hate crimes right now

A single tortilla warming in a convection oven

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

eating the $1500 NIST peanut butter just to feel something

a small jar of peanut butter. The blue and white label says is Standard Reference Material 2387, as specified by the National Institutes of Standards. The price is $1528, down from $1910

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

Blueskyism is when you literally cannot stop posting Bad Takes even though you're the boss of this hellsite

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 11d

I love the internet and hope it never goes away (derogatory)

cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 11d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 12d

Kid A was three years prior

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mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · 12d

There was a period of time where every night I'd put on this album and get high

Still hits via flashback, just a little. #saddadband

Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 12d

Kid A came out 25 years ago today. It was one of the most important albums of my life. Five years ago, I wrote this retrospective: www.stereogum.com/2094039/radi...

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