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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1m

Me. 😔 but only because my cyrano nose undercuts it I promise

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 3h

Quite literally yes.

words @words.bsky.social · 3h

maybe the real superintelligence is just being able to admit "I don't know"

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 3h

I think about Cain and Abel all the time but it’s not for smart person reasons I just like the idea of one guy killing another guy with a rock

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 20h

*bravely* they should have made the opening credits of the gene wilder charlie and the chocolate factory at least one third less sexy.

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spooooooky @deathofspeedy.bsky.social · 23h

taping slices of individually-wrapped deli meats inside the lid of my toilet's cistern

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

The most salient fact about Larry Ellison is that he's super normal looking.

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

I do not think we should have authoritarianism school.

Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

This is true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

I bet having a pint glass smashed against your face feels so good.

“I deserve this.“

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

You famously don’t know about books. “That’s Liz. She doesn’t know. About books.”

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Jed Haas, Drawler of Silly Comixes @jedhaas.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly the single best opening panel I’ve ever read in this one

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

swanboy.com

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

"This is a good hook and we should pin the piece to it." —every editor

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

If you, like me, have a habit of ordering the week-old egg salad the bagel guys line up to give you a kiss on the mouth.

I moved away.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

countdown until the scolding op ed . . .

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

tfw you've learned so much from history

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

I could watch 40 hours of this thing

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

Heart full of admiration for New Directions. Only got their Nobel announcement email blast out TODAY. That's what I like to see.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

and yet she didnt rt the grippy gooper

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

@xrayfm.bsky.social needs merch that just lets ppl know I would commit crimes for @djgilliflower.bsky.social

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 2d

weak lol sure they would

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "