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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃

@smotus.bsky.social

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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 11h

Make neural tubes defective again

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12h

Kennedy says adding folic acid to tortillas is “waging war” against poor residents. Folic acid has long been added to cereal and bread and the CDC website currently says it’s safe for those with the mutation mentioned in the thread Kennedy is replying to.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12h

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to The Odyssey, staring Michael Caine as Alfredius the Butler

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 16h

Trump: It’s a hoax! It’s a distraction! Or rather it’s real but only for Democrats! No wait it’s a distraction! I repeat, it’s a hoax!

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 17h

Crusade
Raiders
Pitfall Harry (Intellivision)
Dial of Destiny
Pitfall Harry (Atari)
Pong
Temple
Kingdom

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Also not for nothing but where does he think Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Christianity, and Judaism came from?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine watching a classic Christmas special with your family and being unable to think about anything other than your hatred of immigrants

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Make a Bond Movie academic

Octography

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

they wouldn't lie about something like that

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to a future where everyone is wearing a cell phone that only operates in speaker mode

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that makes total sense

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Bigus Dickus, Able Seaman

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

This is the opening shot, and I assume I wasn't supposed to giggle

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958). Hell of a cast! Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Don Rickles, Jack Warden, that guy from half the Twilight Zones.... It's a similar setup to "Crimson Tide" only smarter and less annoying.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Make a Bond movie causal

The World is an Insufficient, but Necessary, Part of an Unnecessary, but Sufficient, Condition

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. McClane, you once called me a warped, frustrated old man. Well what are you but a warped frustrated young man?"

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Byronic Commando @wench.bsky.social · 2d

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

johnny rico in starship troopers saying “kill em all!”

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Right?

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Ole Abe is looking pretty rough

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

The entertainment is better

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday!

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

New at tusk: My favorite Christmas entertainment, ranked.

"It's Christmas, Theo. It's the time of miracles. So be of good cheer"

The best in Christmas entertainment, from a non-observer

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

You will be visited by three spirits

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

You will be visited by three spirits

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

New gender just dropped

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” host Chuck Redd stated.