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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 7h

Fajitas. Grill the steaks (petite sirloins work better than the fajita meat you see at the grocery store), sauté some peppers and onions, toast the tortillas on the burner for a minute and you’re done. Garnish with salsa or guacamole. Looks and tastes like it took a lot longer than 20 minutes.

Anne Mo 😷 @toughestfrail.com · 7h

What's your favorite low effort meal?

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 9h

One of my friends’ moms was absolutely convinced of that and was still talking about it a year later.

It wasn’t a normal Democratic view the way “2020 was stolen” is a normal Republican view but it was common enough that I ran into it in my circles more than once.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 9h

This is something I thought about a lot when I was covering politics in Idaho, a huge factor in the GOP there getting pushed so far right was they ran for precinct committeeman seats no one was paying attention to. No reason people who want to change the Democratic Party can’t do the same thing.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 11h

The Colorado Rockies, with hopefully enough left over to fund my Epaminodas biopic.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 12h

I was a little surprised when I found out “The Fields of Athenry” was written in 1979.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 12h

Still one of the greatest movies set in New Mexico.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h

So, "Them!" as a game?

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 13h

If you’re ever in Santa Fe there’s a very easily accessible petroglyph site just outside of town called La Cieneguilla. It’s like a 15-minute hike to get there, bit of scrambling up the rocks at the end to get to the petroglyphs themselves but the approach is pretty flat.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 13h

I went to Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos a few weeks ago and found the same thing. You can still see petroglyphs depicting parrots there.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 15h

I have no idea if this is unhinged (it could be common for all I know) but “Blood Meridian” is too unrelentingly grim to be enjoyable. Even grim novels usually have the occasional uplifting scene but not this one. I’m halfway through and considering not finishing it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 16h

Varies by state in my experience. Most Republicans I’ve met in New Mexico aren’t like this but a pretty big chunk in Arizona are.

Arizona politics is a lot more racially polarized than New Mexico which I suspect plays a role.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 16h

Is this list from the alternate timeline where Robert Taft wins in 1952?

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 17h

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 17h

If I had a nickel for every Australian horror movie I’ve seen where a tween/teen boy tried to eat his own arm, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s one more in which their commanding officer makes sure they don’t get in trouble for stealing a pig.

A Col. Lord yells at his men to get back in ranks but when the drum major tells him he has a stolen pig hidden in his drum he lets them go. They later share the pork.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 2d

As you can see in the last excerpt they made an effort to target slaveowners and pro-Confederates. Here’s another where they steal some cabbages.

An excerpt from a Union soldier’s memoirs where he describes stealing cabbages from a farm in Virginia.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 2d

Last year I read the memoirs, written as letters to his local paper 50 years later, of an ancestor of mine who fought in the Union Army. A lot of them are about stealing food. Here’s one. (They get the tomatoes and killed the dog when it tried to attack them.)

An excerpt from a Union soldier’s memoir where he discusses planning to see tomatoes from a plantation owner.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 3d

It’s common courtesy to label your containers of hard drugs, that way the police know what they are.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a crab on mine, I could be a poacher.

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 3d

Driving around with a bottle of drugs labeled DRUGS in my center console as one does.

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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Baseball Highlights 野球のハイライト @baseballhighlights.bsky.social · 4d

The 2025 Tigers/Mariners ALDS Game 5 is the longest winner-take-all postseason game in Major League Baseball history (15 innings)

Second now is the 1924 World Series ended with the Washington Nationals, who defeated the New York Giants 4-3 in 12 innings.

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Eli, from the Bad Site @fuzzbeedeli.bsky.social · 4d

A meme of someone saying "stop giving me your toughest battles" and jesus saying "You're literally just staying up past 10:30 to watch playoff baseball"

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats to all my Mariners fan friends in Idaho. Beat the Blue Jays!!!

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Nathan Brown @natebrown.bsky.social · 4d

It seems lamb was more popular back then. Don’t know what changed — maybe price, maybe people nowadays are more weirded out by the idea of eating a baby animal, maybe it’s perceived as harder to cook.

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