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Nick (derogatory) ✨

@slothropsmap.bsky.social

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Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Tallest Italian with chronic intractable migraine • What you fail to see, Mr Pope Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

I have blocked or been blocked by so many of the participants in the discourse that I only obliquely understand that today gumbo has crossed paths with antisemitism, which is a hell of a trick. I feel like I’m better off not knowing specifics.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

Helium and helium accessories.

IDtheMIKE aka Spooky Varian Skye @idthemike.xyz · 1h

Does Mahommes kinda sound like if Hank Hill breathed helium and got really excited?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1h

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2h

Hell yes

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

If you’ve paid any attention to Trump, you can plainly see he’s terrified of dying. His death marks the obliteration of the only thing he’s ever thought about.

This sudden obsession with the afterlife sure is, uh, notable. Doubly so now that he thinks he’s bound for hell.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 5h

It feels like a fever dream that just a few months ago, Elon Musk would routinely address the media in the Oval Office in a t-shirt and jacket while the president just sat there and looked at him.

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 5h

Browns/Steelers should not have been televised

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I always thought this was one of the best posts on this website.

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · May 4

a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · May 4

a lot of people want there to be Knowledge That Makes You Good and unfortunately that is not a thing that exists

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

This isn't all that wrong!

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I reasoned that women couldn't possibly have nipples like mine on those things, so as a little boy with access to my older cousins' action figures and video games in the late 90s, I decided they must be covered in spikes.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

It's not lost on me that I had the same problem as a 7 year old.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I've believed this for years but because the topic is so fraught, I needed the perfect example to illustrate it.

Accusing me of sexism because I don't want a fascist's useful idiot running one of the world's most influential news platforms is, uh, such an example.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 6h

"you don't want women running newsrooms? curious!"

ok

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I see here a tacit plea for Umamusume: Pretty Derby

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah that's basically what I mean.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

I've had entire dreams that are just spreadsheets.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 6h

Intersectionality in the hands of fools is a reactionary force.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 7h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...