Carter Wickstrom
@carterwickstrom.bsky.social
globalist. rooted cosmopolitan. situationist, groucho tendency.
The funniest Thanksgiving disaster was when we brought my 2? 3? yo son to my folks'. When my dad gave the toast, my son bellowed "Cheers!" and enthusiastically smashed his tiny antique goblet of sparkling cider through the equally antique wineglass of whoever was sitting next to him.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The funniest Thanksgiving disaster was when we brought my 2? 3? yo son to my folks'. When my dad gave the toast, my son bellowed "Cheers!" and enthusiastically smashed his tiny antique goblet of sparkling cider through the equally antique wineglass of whoever was sitting next to him.
My own personal best Thanksgiving fuckup (so far!) was our first Thanksgiving that we hosted ourselves.
We were in DC, in a fantastic duplex that, being young and dumb, we treated horribly, but it had an awesome first floor and garden for entertaining.
We were in DC, in a fantastic duplex that, being young and dumb, we treated horribly, but it had an awesome first floor and garden for entertaining.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
My own personal best Thanksgiving fuckup (so far!) was our first Thanksgiving that we hosted ourselves.
We were in DC, in a fantastic duplex that, being young and dumb, we treated horribly, but it had an awesome first floor and garden for entertaining.
We were in DC, in a fantastic duplex that, being young and dumb, we treated horribly, but it had an awesome first floor and garden for entertaining.
Watching Burns' The American Revolution, and it strikes me that there's a real Cold War-esque, West Berlin (or pre-Wall Berlin)-style series of novels that could be set in Philadelphia c. 1777-78.
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Watching Burns' The American Revolution, and it strikes me that there's a real Cold War-esque, West Berlin (or pre-Wall Berlin)-style series of novels that could be set in Philadelphia c. 1777-78.
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I feel weird every time I agree with Joe Walsh, and I agree with Joe Walsh.
In the end, it didn’t cut government spending, and there was no promised “savings.” In the end, DOGE destroyed countless lives, ravaged American soft power, killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world (soon millions), & stole your data.
Elon Musk should be on trial.
Elon Musk should be on trial.
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I feel weird every time I agree with Joe Walsh, and I agree with Joe Walsh.
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my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
Providence Swedish to eliminate nearly 300 positions
The cuts will affect jobs at Providence Swedish’s First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard and Issaquah hospitals and nearby clinics.
www.seattletimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
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i do not think it is a good idea to use chatbots which are trained to be sycophantic to give tax advice to non-expert consumers
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
i do not think it is a good idea to use chatbots which are trained to be sycophantic to give tax advice to non-expert consumers
fwiw
Going forward, we will be more careful with our posts to avoid signal boosting misinfo or bigotry.
We apologize to anyone who was harmed by that video’s insinuation, and we hope to rebuild that trust by continuing to resist against all forms of oppression, especially anti-Semitism & Islamophobia.
We apologize to anyone who was harmed by that video’s insinuation, and we hope to rebuild that trust by continuing to resist against all forms of oppression, especially anti-Semitism & Islamophobia.
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
fwiw
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tech is a financial instrument that builds products using capitalized labor to reduce the tax burden and relied on cheap interest to maintain “profitability” but now that’s gone so we’re witnessing a straight up tech derivatives market emerge
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
tech is a financial instrument that builds products using capitalized labor to reduce the tax burden and relied on cheap interest to maintain “profitability” but now that’s gone so we’re witnessing a straight up tech derivatives market emerge
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So @50501movement.bsky.social is circulating a video of a guy saying candidates "are being paid to be Israel first, to be loyal to the Zionist project and not to their constituents, not to the American people." Which is just a hairs breadth away from saying "Zionist Occupied Government." Not great!
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
So @50501movement.bsky.social is circulating a video of a guy saying candidates "are being paid to be Israel first, to be loyal to the Zionist project and not to their constituents, not to the American people." Which is just a hairs breadth away from saying "Zionist Occupied Government." Not great!
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Absolutely the fuck not.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Absolutely the fuck not.
Period drama stop using modern boot soles, challenge level: impossible.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Period drama stop using modern boot soles, challenge level: impossible.
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we, uh, appear to have had a visitor this morning
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
we, uh, appear to have had a visitor this morning
we, uh, appear to have had a visitor this morning
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
we, uh, appear to have had a visitor this morning
Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane
And I've lost all sense of the world outside
But I can't forget so I call your name
Lipstick on the window pane
And I've lost all sense of the world outside
But I can't forget so I call your name
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane
And I've lost all sense of the world outside
But I can't forget so I call your name
Lipstick on the window pane
And I've lost all sense of the world outside
But I can't forget so I call your name
Dismantling DHS is the moderate position.
This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dismantling DHS is the moderate position.
Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
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KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
Watching Death by Lightning on Netflix, and Garfield's speech for Sherman?
Fuck me.
I know it's edited and staged, but still. Fuck. Me.
Fuck me.
I know it's edited and staged, but still. Fuck. Me.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Watching Death by Lightning on Netflix, and Garfield's speech for Sherman?
Fuck me.
I know it's edited and staged, but still. Fuck. Me.
Fuck me.
I know it's edited and staged, but still. Fuck. Me.
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Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Bazooka has awesome roll-for-initiative ears.
It's not the holiday season until Santa gets his Bazooka
Bazooka 🐶
Young male Bulldog mix
Adoptable from Mid America Bully Breed Rescue (Kansas City, MO)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bazooka-79312705/mo/kansas-city/mid-america-bully-breed-rescue-mo750/
Young male Bulldog mix
Adoptable from Mid America Bully Breed Rescue (Kansas City, MO)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bazooka-79312705/mo/kansas-city/mid-america-bully-breed-rescue-mo750/
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Bazooka has awesome roll-for-initiative ears.
prepare to steam for Manila, lads (gender-neutral)
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You're not ready for what's coming
Aircraft carrier named USS George Washington with hull and superstructures covered in gold paint and ornate golden decorations including filigree patterns on railings and towers docked in blue water near a skyline of tall modern buildings under a clear sky with several gray fighter jets parked in rows on the angled flight deck.
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I really think what’s needed here is more gold.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
prepare to steam for Manila, lads (gender-neutral)
Oath Keepers & similar groups simply don't have the same membership as the Freikorps and such, but this is still a troubling development. I think Rhodes' mostly in it for the grift - but he could also be looking for redemption.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Oath Keepers & similar groups simply don't have the same membership as the Freikorps and such, but this is still a troubling development. I think Rhodes' mostly in it for the grift - but he could also be looking for redemption.
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man, if i didn't need another reason to dislike sig
“in honour of Charlie Kirk we are advertising more stuff that could have killed him”
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
man, if i didn't need another reason to dislike sig