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Qais
@quincunx.bsky.social
Freelance raconteur, professional disappointment
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Causing Jeff Bezos to flee our state should be a point of pride for Washington.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.
February 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Watching Heated Rivalry all
January 31, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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If they're going to complain about an influx of anarchists, perhaps they should stop creating them with their actions.
January 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Apparently all the humor of “I’ll have what she’s having” is lost at the pharmacy. Smh.
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
@regretagarbo.rip Apparently this is a whole thing that is happening latitudetheatre.org/a-klingon-ch...
A Klingon Christmas Carol -- November-December 2025
by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom & Sasha Warren  Translated by Chris Lipscombe Directed by Christopher Kidder-Mostrom
latitudetheatre.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Mayor Katie Wilson! Seattle elections are exhausting!
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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It just hit me that Hakeem Jeffries looks exactly like the bald elf from DRAGON AGE
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jeez
September 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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been going down this waterslide for over an hour now and i'm starting to get worried
March 30, 2024 at 6:34 PM
A merry “Fuck the Blue Angels” to those who celebrate. Love to have my pets randomly terrified multiple times a day for a week straight, sponsored by the state.
August 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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I keep seeing people using "luddite" with little understanding of its violent history, and I really want people to do more reading.

I did not know much about it myself until I read this post by @swordsjew.bsky.social but damn, do I sympathise with the Luddites now. Their cause is ours.
Fuck You and Your Word-Stealing Machine
The Luddites: Man vs Machine This week, The New Yorker, an august magazine from which I resigned in national disgrace five years ago, dedicated its entire...
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July 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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You don’t need to prove to strangers on the internet that you have correct politics. And the people demanding you prove it might be Feds trying to get you to say something that you will regret saying later.
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
May 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🤠
April 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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One of adulthood’s most painful things is realizing someone you think of as a friend doesn’t consider you a friend. There is no malice or acrimony or anything bad about it. It’s just a difference of some apt “German” word I don’t know.
April 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
April 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM