Vlad K.
@porcupunk.bsky.social
Wandering (ex-Soviet) Jew
Content (architecture and ecosystems) product manager, xennial, anti-fascist, neurodivergent, cPTSD, OCD, disabled, luddite.
pfp by Eduardo Robledo.
Content (architecture and ecosystems) product manager, xennial, anti-fascist, neurodivergent, cPTSD, OCD, disabled, luddite.
pfp by Eduardo Robledo.
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This is my first NFL game in a while, are they all like this now? 😳
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is my first NFL game in a while, are they all like this now? 😳
Classic!!
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Classic!!
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We are lucky to have an amazing indie bookstore nearby, but if you don't this is a great alternative to Amazon
This holiday, I'm buying books from bookshop.org, which funnels all profits to local privately owned bookstores. You get to choose the bookstore that benefits. Suggest you do the same. Beats hell out of putting more money in Bezos's pockets www.bookstores.com
Bookstores.com | Buy New & Used Books Online
Shop at employee-owned Bookstores.com for new and used books at unbeatable prices and get free shipping on every order. From new releases to best sellers, we have it all.
www.bookstores.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We are lucky to have an amazing indie bookstore nearby, but if you don't this is a great alternative to Amazon
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We're speedrunning the Andropov-Chernenko era aren't we
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We're speedrunning the Andropov-Chernenko era aren't we
If anyone needs personalized holiday book shopping recommendations 👇
I used to do a thing on the other app where you describe a person you're holiday shopping for and I tell you a really good book they would like (usually history but other ones too). Y'all want to do that this year? Comment if so. 🎄
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If anyone needs personalized holiday book shopping recommendations 👇
Tankies will always be tankies.
Russia's invasion made a tremendous amount of sense if you actually listened to what they said - it was about NATO expansion - and not the BS about grand imperialist ambitions rooted in the slavic psyche. It's fair to ask whether Israel's actions have any similar internal logic (I doubt it).
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tankies will always be tankies.
UPD the future Bidet Party now has 3 issues on its platform:
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
3. Mandatory subtitles for every screen.
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
3. Mandatory subtitles for every screen.
With thanks to John Oliver and especially Bob Ross, the Bidet party now has two issues on its platform:
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
UPD the future Bidet Party now has 3 issues on its platform:
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
3. Mandatory subtitles for every screen.
1. A bidet for every toilet
2. A squirrel for every pocket
3. Mandatory subtitles for every screen.
💯 this 👇‼️
If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers*
*not all men**
**but most of them
*not all men**
**but most of them
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
💯 this 👇‼️
Try this in #Philly, why don't you cowards!
Also, as a huge pedant, Chekhov is the last/family name not a first/given name, though it might be the only one to have a chance to survive in Philly.
Also, as a huge pedant, Chekhov is the last/family name not a first/given name, though it might be the only one to have a chance to survive in Philly.
Delivery robots are taking over Chicago sidewalks, sparking debate and a petition to hit "pause." blockclubchi.co/3KmCRIu
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Try this in #Philly, why don't you cowards!
Also, as a huge pedant, Chekhov is the last/family name not a first/given name, though it might be the only one to have a chance to survive in Philly.
Also, as a huge pedant, Chekhov is the last/family name not a first/given name, though it might be the only one to have a chance to survive in Philly.
Absolutely genius even if it feels like the ghosts of Xmas past and future...
Because I just looked it up for someone else and realized some of y'all might not have ever seen this absolute genius: A Complete History Of The Soviet Union Through The Eyes Of A Humble Worker As Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris:
youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...
youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8?...
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
YouTube video by pigwiththefaceofaboy
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Absolutely genius even if it feels like the ghosts of Xmas past and future...
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Doctor, it's not insomnia, I'm just not in the mood to sleep until the wee hours in the morning.
August 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Doctor, it's not insomnia, I'm just not in the mood to sleep until the wee hours in the morning.
December 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Last load of laundry is in the dryer. Everything, cept the tree itself, has been decorated and the yard was finally winterized. Can I haz a weekend now please?
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Last load of laundry is in the dryer. Everything, cept the tree itself, has been decorated and the yard was finally winterized. Can I haz a weekend now please?
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
I will die on the hill that PEDs weren't responsible for the offensive explosion in the 90s. Bonds' 73 is as legitimate of a record as any in sports.
That said, Roger Clemens does not belong anywhere near the hall of fame and it has nothing to do with on field performance.
That said, Roger Clemens does not belong anywhere near the hall of fame and it has nothing to do with on field performance.
Roger Clemens has a reasonable claim as the greatest pitcher of all time. Alas, his legacy is clouded by suspicions that he used PEDs.
@jayjaffe.bsky.social digs The Rocket’s career and explains why this might be his last chance to get into Cooperstown:
@jayjaffe.bsky.social digs The Rocket’s career and explains why this might be his last chance to get into Cooperstown:
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Roger Clemens
As with Barry Bonds, the Rocket’s stratospheric statistics and achievements have been overshadowed by his links to PEDs.
blogs.fangraphs.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I will die on the hill that PEDs weren't responsible for the offensive explosion in the 90s. Bonds' 73 is as legitimate of a record as any in sports.
That said, Roger Clemens does not belong anywhere near the hall of fame and it has nothing to do with on field performance.
That said, Roger Clemens does not belong anywhere near the hall of fame and it has nothing to do with on field performance.
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An attack on the intent of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would be a really good time to hire some historians to write things for you (those historians include me)
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An attack on the intent of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would be a really good time to hire some historians to write things for you (those historians include me)
Picture of the staff who operates my Bluesky account..
December 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Picture of the staff who operates my Bluesky account..
Top of the morning, said my usual panic attack while suffocating me.
Well, there goes another night I wanted to sleep.
Well, there goes another night I wanted to sleep.
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Top of the morning, said my usual panic attack while suffocating me.
Well, there goes another night I wanted to sleep.
Well, there goes another night I wanted to sleep.
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really tired of everyone acting like it’s all just fine, this will just be over soon. and slightly less tired of everyone acting like it is all just horrible, and will never, ever end.
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
really tired of everyone acting like it’s all just fine, this will just be over soon. and slightly less tired of everyone acting like it is all just horrible, and will never, ever end.
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
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I complain like once a month about how men assume that you can’t be lonely if you do intimate labor, which goes a long way toward explaining why so many of them can’t connect with women
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I complain like once a month about how men assume that you can’t be lonely if you do intimate labor, which goes a long way toward explaining why so many of them can’t connect with women