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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦

@tomscud.bsky.social

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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. He/him.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · Nov 11

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...

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · May 27

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.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 7h

It’s my party & I’ll cry if I want to

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 8h

Philip D Kick, I assume

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 9h

If talia be jane you’re in for some pain

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 11h

We need woke PRI for a decade plus. Doubt we’ll get it.

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 11h

Fetterman is like your median Labour MP

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

bsky.app/profile/toms...

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Thoum probably a 5 seed even

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Muhammara ayvar and ezme in a steel cage match

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

People acting like this is liberals’ responsibility to achieve is insane though

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Need a ruling from the committee: is chimichurri a dip or a sauce

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Kajmak is a 6, sorry not sorry to labneh

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Lutenitsa is just ajvar, nice try tho

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Ajvar is maybe a 4? Might make it to 3 if the committee is trying to get the balkans into play

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Eggplant can’t score consistently with all palates, sorry not sorry

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Is kibbeh niyyah a dip? Greatest thread in bluesky history closed after 47,345 comments

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Labneh is a straight up 8 seed, sorry fans it’s just thick yoghurt.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Thoum probably a 5 seed even

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Muhammara is a 7 seed but it makes a run to the final four anyway

Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

baba ghannoush is a 3 seed even if you fire roast the eggplant

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Lebanese grandma hummus where she peels off the chick pea skins is a 1 seed.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 12h

Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness, 1969

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12h

They’ve finally invented the machine from legendary SF novel, Don’t Have Sex With The Torment Nexus

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 12h

I have mislaid my shocked face but at the moment I don’t need it

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17h

Israel has destroyed the "ceasefire" in hours.

It is murdering Palestinians, and maintaining its illegal siege.

Not a ceasefire.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-des...

Israel destroys ceasefire in hours

Today, Israel slaughtered Palestinians and resumed siege. Not a "ceasefire"

www.owenjones.news

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 12h

Fresh vegetables are back on the menu in Gaza!
WCK’s Shadi is at our Salam Kitchen, where the team is cooking fresh cauliflower & eggplant. 20+ tons of fresh produce have arrived at our Field Kitchens across Gaza, bringing more nourishment, flavor, and variety to every meal we serve. #ChefsForGaza

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12h

"Designed with gamers in mind" with a picture of the Nazi German Tiger tank, and "Designed with activists in mind" with a picture of the American Sherman tank.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 13h

go ____ lose ur ____

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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