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David J. Loehr
@djl.bsky.social
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aka @dloehr on the bird site

Writer & performer, The Incomparable Radio Theater
Co-creator, Where or When?
Panelist, The Incomparable
Host, Afoot
Co-host, Magnum, podcast

Playwright, podcaster, father, cat bed, he/him

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bcdreyer.social
Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
djl.bsky.social
Literally no one else gives a damn about a ballroom, this isn't the 1700s.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
Trump: The Presidential Ballroom, which I am building at the White House, with all private donations and funding (ZERO cost to the American Taxpayer!), will be, at its completion, the most beautiful and spectacular Ballroom anywhere in the World! It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do - But I am, and as long as we are going to do it, we are going to do it RIGHT. It will be a magnificent addition to the White House, the most important since the building of the West Wing! 4 ReTruths 9 Likes 11/30/25, 2:58 PM
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14h
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
djl.bsky.social
So it was a clear violation then.

And yes, Hegseth is clearly foolish enough. Anyone so invested in being identified as a "warfighter" is not playing with a full deck.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
djl.bsky.social
Not in a single state.

gasprices.aaa.com/todays-state...
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Everyone who orders from our bookstore gets a free whistle. Everybody! Even if all you order is a $2 used paperback, you get a whistle. It's the perfect accessory for the winter months. You know—because of all the ice.
mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d
If you're looking for something delightful and unexpected for that film, TV, or music lover in your life (who may in fact be you!) check out the recently opened, ever-growing MZS.press magazine section. It includes some vintage titles & recent special issues. mzs.press/Magazines-c1...
Cover of the June 1979 issue of Fantastic Films, with Christopher Reeve in the Superman outfit. "Behind the scenes location report "and "Richard Donner interviewed" are advertised. Cover also promises pieces on "never before seeing photos of the Death Star trench", an interview with Dale Arden, and behind the scenes article about the making of Robert Altman's Quintet. Time magazine special issue on the "100 Must-See movies," written entirely by Time magazine film critic Stephanie Zacharek. The cover includes images from ET, Jaws, Gone with the Wind, and Psycho. May 2000 issue of Ebony Magazine with Tina Turner on the cover, keyed into an article about her turning 60. The cover of the special collectors edition "Mad Spoofs the '80s." The cover has drawings of Alfred Newman as various iconic characters, including Maverick from Top Gun, and Yoda, plus a Pac-Man, Max Headroom, plus Rambo, Ronald Reagan, ET: The Extraterrestrial and a Rubik's cube.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.
NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
djl.bsky.social
"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight." -- Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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gjmaupin.bsky.social
Know who’s a small business?
-Us
-Hell or High Water

Win/win!
gjmaupin.bsky.social Gregory Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 13d
(Still a couple of dates if you want us in your house, Louisville. Otherwise:)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Hell or High Water (112 W. Washington) December 2, 9, & 16 7:30 (door 7:00) $35-msg for tix! Adapted and Performed by Abigail Bailey Maupin & Gregory Maupin
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
djl.bsky.social
(flips a coin, raises a glass, narrowly misses crossing paths with a math tutor from several hundred years ago)
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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philipmichaels.bsky.social
If you read through to the article, Disney's solution for getting people off their phones is to move everything to AR glasses, like that's not another piece of rich man's tech built to get its hooks in to your attention.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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philipmichaels.bsky.social
This is rich coming from Disney, which has made it mandatory to remain glued on your phone so that you can manage Lightning Lanes, order meals, check ride wait times, etc.

It's like the guy selling you beer helmets telling you to drink responsibly.
grantmarek.bsky.social Grant Marek @grantmarek.bsky.social · 2d
“You’re there together with friends and family and people that you care about, and every time you have to look down at a device or a phone, it breaks that spell.”

via @sfgate.com
www.sfgate.com/disneyland/a...
Disneyland's new plan to get everyone off their phones
"Every time you have to look down at a device or a phone, it breaks that spell."
www.sfgate.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
djl.bsky.social
Zoo Fascist, Zoo Furrious
chrismohney.bsky.social Chris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 2d
really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
djl.bsky.social
"Is this your card?"
Image of two astronauts and their ship on the surface of Mars with the caption, "The year is 2035. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton and 4 words written on the wall. What are the words?"
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
djl.bsky.social
Per the Chief National Security Correspondent for Fox News, he was vetted and granted asylum by the Trump administration this past April.

Had nothing to do with Biden.
Screenshot of a long tweet by Jennifer Griffin of Fox News. "Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC ••• Alleged shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal worked for the CIA in Afghanistan out of Kandahar base, according to CIA director John Ratcliffe. Multiple sources tell me he was vetted before working with the CIA by the NCTC (National Counterterrorism Center) and the CIA. I am told that Lakanwal was with the Task Force in Kandahar. During the Afghan withdrawal, the CIA airlifted with the help of the US military many Afghan allies who had worked with the US government and took special care of those who were badged and worked with the agency. They were taken to bases in Qatar and Europe and then onward to military bases in the US where further vetting was supposed to take place. Having a CIA ID would have put him in the "vetted" category. I am told there was nothing in his background when he arrived in the US on Sept 8, 2021 that suggested links to terrorism. He applied for asylum last year and reportedly received asylum in April under the Trump administration. 9:42 AM • 11/27/25"
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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amandaweavernovels.com
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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ihnatko.bsky.social
TAKE DOWN THE ILLEGITIMATE REGIME THAT DROVE OUR BELOVED BULLWINKLE BALLOON INTO UNDERSERVED EXILE
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
People like Tricia McLaughlin going to prison for running a mass kidnapping/human trafficking ring once Trump is gone is the moderate position.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.

Your 70% number is just a fabrication.

And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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nightvaleradio.bsky.social
It's always Thanksgiving and never You'rewelcomegiving. Very rude.
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
djl.bsky.social
Thread.
editorialboard.bsky.social The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4d
1. The Dems wanted renewed Obamacare subsidies.
2. Trump said no.
3. Then he said actually yes, I want them. I *need* them.
4. *His* party said no.
5. Trump said he never wanted them in the first place.

Some 24M Americans are in a jam because of this fool.

www.editorialboard.com/trump-now-wa...
Trump now wants what the Democrats wanted on health care. Just one problem: his party.
Some 24 million Americans are in a jam thanks to his carelessness.
www.editorialboard.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
djl.bsky.social
This tracks.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d
No fan, but when they’re right they’re right.

Venezuelan Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello: “It is very difficult to find a more stupid American Secretary of State than Marco Rubio."
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM