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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 13h

I think if you’re invoking the actions of Watchmen characters in the context of a discussion of eschatology you should consider that they take place in a world where what is for all practical purposes a god is unquestionably real and personally intervenes in war and politics.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton was so cool she singlehandedly turned an otherwise unwatchable Woody Allen movie about Woody Allen having sex into one of the greatest movies of all time.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2d

It is finally time for somebody to say CITIZEN KANE is a good movie: defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many hundred...

defector.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is why you put the guy who owns that cafe you like in charge of Starbucks. The idea of getting memos from and one on ones with everyone, rather than direct reports and key personnel, in an organization the size of CBS News is visionary!

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

The same guy was, oddly, at an impromptu rally after Nick Fuentes was denied entry to a TPUSA conference last year, and according to a lawsuit personally did vetting interviews for top-level FBI positions

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

One Battle After Another really is at least as good as everyone says, but the many extreme closeups on Sean Penn’s extremely grizzled face have unfortunately introduced invasive thoughts about how perfect he would be for an RFK Jr. biopic.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

The actual article here, by the way, which is more weird than bad, is accurately represented by the dek (🎁):

Essay | It’s Finally Time to Give Johnny Cash His Due

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took years for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

www.wsj.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 3d

There was literally a big-budget movie last year about how during his one brief period of trying to be cool, Dylan got so anxious about it that he had to get advice from the coolest man alive (Johnny Cash)

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

The administration truly is making America healthy again

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

It’s appalling … and yet one of the few things I’ve gotten a craving for while not eating meat for the last year

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

CORRECTION: It’s on Friday.

Scrapple & Apple Festival 2025 | Philadelphia Event | Reading Terminal Market

Upcoming Philadelphia Event - Presented by Reading Terminal Market Merchant’s Association Scrapple Sculpting Contest | Friday, Oct. 10 at 12pm | Arch Court Attention Sculptors,

readingterminalmarket.org

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

Please be aware that there is a scrapple sculpting contest at the Reading Terminal Market tomorrow at noon. (If you don’t know what this means you probably don’t want to.)

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6d

(If we had inexperienced coders who may or may not even have been subject to proper security checks doing God knows what with AI and the most important systems in the federal government, I might be kind of worried.)

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: AI is a great way to introduce security vulnerabilities into your systems and give engineers fun problems to solve like figuring out what broke and why! This is from @lhn.bsky.social

Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

As developers increasingly lean on AI-generated code to build out their software—as they have with open source in the past—they risk introducing critical security failures along the way.

www.wired.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 7d

There are many things here that demand explanation and that’s definitely one of them.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 7d

Well I finally found the one subject that turned Evelyn Waugh’s ear to lead

In that minute, with her lips to my ear and her breath warm in the salt wind, Julia said, though I had not spoken, "Yes, now," and as the ship righted herself and for the moment ran into calmer waters, Julia led me below.

So at sunset I took formal possession of her as her lover. It was no time for the sweets of luxury; they would come, in their season, with the swallow and the lime-flowers. Now on the rough water, as I was made free of her narrow loins and, it seemed now, in assuaging that fierce appetite, cast a burden which I had borne all my life, toiled under, not knowing its nature--now, while the waves still broke and thundered on the prow, the act of possession was a symbol, a rite of ancient origin and solemn meaning.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 8d

Sort of an Occam’s razor thing—”Is it likelier that this person wrote a story after their brain was caved in with a hammer or that they’re trying to reduce the attack surface?”

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 8d

Before complaining about some tortured description of something’s illegality in The Media, a good question to ask is whether the person apparently violating the law is a multibillionaire with a habit of filing frivolous but extremely expensive to defend against defamation suits

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Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 9d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

defector.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 9d

I 've had people yell at me for noting that Donald Trump is world-historically charismatic and it's like, look, I don't find his vaudeville routine particularly entertaining myself but all of this isn't an accident.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 9d

“My job is to go for the jugular against the Irish media and I will do that until I end up like Charlie Kirk" — Eddie Hobbs

The speed at which US far-right talking points cross the Atlantic and are weaponzied by Irish figures on the right is now almost instantaneous

www.wired.com/story/conspi...

At a Conspiracy Conference in Rural Ireland, Charlie Kirk Was the Star

The increasingly tight links between far-right groups in the US and Europe were on full display at the Rebels Across the Pond conference in Ireland. The star of the show? Charlie Kirk.

www.wired.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

slate.com/news-and-pol...

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 10d

I’m pretty sure it is.

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