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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 17h

Courbet's The Desperate Man painting. Man in 1800s clothes with long dark hair and goatee looking frightened or harried or something like that.

Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 1d

So good and quite different from the general pop culture sense of it (from the movies mostly)

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the classics are incredibly boring and some are riveting and someone should tell me which are which (beyond everyone telling me Moby Dick is great actually)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 1d

With the computer coming next season they gotta go out showing us what we'll miss

Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in. I hope you're happy.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 3d

Before Trump began dismantling USAID, polling showed that the average American voter thought that ~25% of our federal budget went to foreign aid. But that figure was only 1%—and our foreign aid contributions represented a much smaller share of our Gross National Income than other wealthy countries.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 3d

Thank God because if they agree to this I'm mailing my diploma back to them and telling them to throw it in the trash

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lot of bummers, man.

(side note: I was happy John Oliver talked about the various ways presidential libraries are fucked up)

Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 4d

The issue is with youtubetv

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 4d

The books make it clear that they often just had one fuck up (one even left key secrets on a bus!), making them pariahs but not useless (for the most part)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 5d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d

Slow Horses has replaced The Blacklist as the show your gen x coworker has most likely "been getting into". the blacklist held onto the title from 2021 to today. it is the first time an apple tv show has held this honor, and joins ted lasso as the second apple tv show to earn broad coworker approval

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 5d

back from the grocery store and bummed out that one of the few things in a locked cabinet was the baby formula

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LovelyDeep @midnightviolets.bsky.social · 6d

why are there threesomes only for sex, why can’t I join in a couples argument if I want to

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the plan is for his dad to buy out that section?

Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 5d

Flyer | Lance Stroll (derogatory)

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Mediocre White Man @prestemon.bsky.social · 6d

does Usenet count?

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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phil @philjamesson.com · 6d

you take the blue pill, and you'll become drowsy, then wake up in your bed. in addition to relieving your headache, fever, and cough.

you take the red pill, you experience relief for those same symptoms. but you won't get sleepy

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 6d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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B-Side @benmsmith.com · 7d

hear me out: what if instead of this, we turned NYT _Connections_ into a US gameshow.

you could even make it so that a few of the rounds expanded the way things could be connected - what comes fourth in a sequence, that sort of thing. Add a buzzer round at the end to keep things exciting.