Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
@tomscud.bsky.social
Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. He/him.
Pinned
Adam the Golem was a calm, reflective soul
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.
Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.
Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.
Pinned thread with various creative works I want to be able to find later. First, Adam the Golem, the story of the golem of Prague set to a possibly familiar tune: bsky.app/profile/toms...
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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"My illegal occupation has made the locals angry, and then I shot the locals, and now the locals are angrier, and now I will expand my illegal occupation, and for some reason they're even angrier!"
What actually happened, with supporting detail. Also read the linked story.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
IDF said mulling expanded op in Syria if it finds Sharaa’s forces fired on troops
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www.timesofisrael.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"My illegal occupation has made the locals angry, and then I shot the locals, and now the locals are angrier, and now I will expand my illegal occupation, and for some reason they're even angrier!"
So attempting a random question. If we go to Bosnia next fall, aside from Sarajevo, where should we go and what should we see?
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
So attempting a random question. If we go to Bosnia next fall, aside from Sarajevo, where should we go and what should we see?
have to admit I didn’t think trump would pardon an actual latin american narco drug lord at the same time as he was going to war on the basis of fighting narco drug lords
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
have to admit I didn’t think trump would pardon an actual latin american narco drug lord at the same time as he was going to war on the basis of fighting narco drug lords
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He was a key figure in the largest drug cartel in Central America. He was taken by the US, indicted, tried and convicted and is now serving a lengthy sentence in a US prison. And now, for no apparent reason, Trump has decided to issue him an unconditional pardon.
Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran president serving 45 years on drug charges
Clemency for Juan Orlando Hernández comes ahead of fraught elections in Central American country on Sunday
on.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
He was a key figure in the largest drug cartel in Central America. He was taken by the US, indicted, tried and convicted and is now serving a lengthy sentence in a US prison. And now, for no apparent reason, Trump has decided to issue him an unconditional pardon.
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
Zebras
More zebras
God damn it yet more zebras
Wildebeests (hanging out with the zebras)
What’s black and white and all over the place?
Zebras
More zebras
God damn it yet more zebras
Wildebeests (hanging out with the zebras)
What’s black and white and all over the place?
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
African elephants
Giraffes
Hippopotami
Nile Crocodiles
Cottonmouths
African elephants
Giraffes
Hippopotami
Nile Crocodiles
Cottonmouths
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
bison
pronghorn
sandhill crane
gopher tortoise
manatee
bison
pronghorn
sandhill crane
gopher tortoise
manatee
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild.
Zebras
More zebras
God damn it yet more zebras
Wildebeests (hanging out with the zebras)
What’s black and white and all over the place?
Zebras
More zebras
God damn it yet more zebras
Wildebeests (hanging out with the zebras)
What’s black and white and all over the place?
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He is responsible for the deaths of countless American citizens, and will now be pardoned by Donald Trump.
Don’t tell me Donald Trump is killing people in boats in the Caribbean to stop drug trafficking.
Don’t tell me Donald Trump is killing people in boats in the Caribbean to stop drug trafficking.
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
He is responsible for the deaths of countless American citizens, and will now be pardoned by Donald Trump.
Don’t tell me Donald Trump is killing people in boats in the Caribbean to stop drug trafficking.
Don’t tell me Donald Trump is killing people in boats in the Caribbean to stop drug trafficking.
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Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
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BREAKING:
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Order – #196 in J.G.G. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00766) – CourtListener.com
ORDER: The Court ORDERS that the Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 a...
www.courtlistener.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
BREAKING:
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
Judge Boasberg orders the gov’t to provide declarations from every individual involved in the decision to allow planes to proceed on to El Salvador despite his order to turn them around last summer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741...
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just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
just a reminder that the current best explanation for why this was necessarily or desirable is that the President wanted to see some video of it
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If you think there's going to be a response to this other than Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere until midterms, you are sadly mistaken. The good news is, people seem to be sick of it.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you think there's going to be a response to this other than Little Reichstag Fires Everywhere until midterms, you are sadly mistaken. The good news is, people seem to be sick of it.
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I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
Welp that’s a mute
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Welp that’s a mute
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the only good counterargument to “they should be tried for war crimes” is “we are not at war so they should straight up be tried for murder”
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the only good counterargument to “they should be tried for war crimes” is “we are not at war so they should straight up be tried for murder”
Kodaikanal International School represent!
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) credited for key role in release of US teen from Israeli detention
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Kodaikanal International School represent!
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Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) credited for key role in release of US teen from Israeli detention
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
Holiday song time again I suppose
Adam the Golem was a calm, reflective soul
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.
Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.
Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Holiday song time again I suppose
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how is babby formed
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
how is babby formed
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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Not doing the family thanksgiving feast for various reasons so we decided to make a homemade Walker Brothers-style apple pancake.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Not doing the family thanksgiving feast for various reasons so we decided to make a homemade Walker Brothers-style apple pancake.
I learned something from this one! (Didn't know about her connection to the Bunker Hill monument).
Omitted from this story is that Sarah Josepha Hale in from New Hampshire. Thus NH gave this country not only the Constitution (by being the 9th state to ratify it...take that Delaware) but also Thanksgiving.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
Who is the mother of Thanksgiving? Meet Boston's Sarah Josepha Hale.
WBZ-TV's Paula Ebben takes a look at the remarkable life of Sarah Josepha Hale.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I learned something from this one! (Didn't know about her connection to the Bunker Hill monument).
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Happy Sarah Josepha Hale Day, everyone.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happy Sarah Josepha Hale Day, everyone.
Re-upping for Thanksgiving
Thoughts on Thanksgiving - spinning off of this Jacob Levy post (thread)
bsky.app/profile/jaco...
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Wrote this up on a comment thread at FB and decided to bring it over here too. Happy US Thanksgiving— or, as some of my Canadian friends call it, Yanksgiving, which is even more appropriate than they intend because it really is a Yankee holiday.
Weirdest day to be an American emigrant or expat.
Weirdest day to be an American emigrant or expat.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Re-upping for Thanksgiving