Stephen Skory
@stephenskory.com
🎓 PhD Astrophysics UCSD 2010
💻 Now I tell computers what to do; sometimes they do it
🏡 Boulder, CO
🚲 I like bikes, I ride them as often as I can
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💻 Now I tell computers what to do; sometimes they do it
🏡 Boulder, CO
🚲 I like bikes, I ride them as often as I can
🏙️ YIMBY
🕸️ stephenskory.com
Pinned
So strong and powerful this picture got me pregnant.
@pkrugman.bsky.social @crooked.com @podsaveamerica.crooked.com why are you on substack?
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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February 9, 2026 at 11:41 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social @crooked.com @podsaveamerica.crooked.com why are you on substack?
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
No, abolish ICE. They are already violating laws. Enacting more won’t stop them, they’ll just ignore the new ones, too. Get rid of the whole thing.
We’ve all seen videos of ICE’s lawlessness. It must stop. We must overhaul ICE now.
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
No, abolish ICE. They are already violating laws. Enacting more won’t stop them, they’ll just ignore the new ones, too. Get rid of the whole thing.
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
@neguse.house.gov I had someone come by my house looking for my signature to get you on the ballot. I declined because of your piss-poor opinions an actions (lack thereof) on Gaza and your acceptance of AIPAC money. Are you going to continue to accept their money?
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 6:53 PM
@neguse.house.gov I had someone come by my house looking for my signature to get you on the ballot. I declined because of your piss-poor opinions an actions (lack thereof) on Gaza and your acceptance of AIPAC money. Are you going to continue to accept their money?
Am I the only one who reads his name as "Ross Asshat"? Tell me I'm not the only one!
👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
February 6, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Am I the only one who reads his name as "Ross Asshat"? Tell me I'm not the only one!
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
Watch this. Watch it for the solar panels. Stay for the fire spitting in the last third.
January 31, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Watch this. Watch it for the solar panels. Stay for the fire spitting in the last third.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Slam Dunk Ideas vs. The Valley of Political Death
YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
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January 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
When it’s only available on pay TV (it’s already happening!) that will be the beginning of the end.
www.vox.com/podcasts/476...
www.vox.com/podcasts/476...
Football’s dominance will not last forever
The sport feels unstoppable — yet also doomed.
www.vox.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
When it’s only available on pay TV (it’s already happening!) that will be the beginning of the end.
www.vox.com/podcasts/476...
www.vox.com/podcasts/476...
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A minor thing, but I hope the NIMBYs who typically scream that safe streets and housing advocates are just paid shills or in the pocket of Big Bike or whatever understand that they're a lot closer to Trumpism than they probably care to admit.
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
A minor thing, but I hope the NIMBYs who typically scream that safe streets and housing advocates are just paid shills or in the pocket of Big Bike or whatever understand that they're a lot closer to Trumpism than they probably care to admit.
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In fact the law (which I don’t like in this case) says you can do just that and the law (which I like and we all depend on to survive every day) says the state and its agents cannot perpetrate extrajudicial killings and then refuse all investigation - that is the definition of lawless tyranny.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
In fact the law (which I don’t like in this case) says you can do just that and the law (which I like and we all depend on to survive every day) says the state and its agents cannot perpetrate extrajudicial killings and then refuse all investigation - that is the definition of lawless tyranny.
You don’t set a deadline, Congress already did, which has passed, you muppet.
WELKER: When will all Epstein files be released?
BLANCHE: Look, we've been working literally 7 days a week to go through them, but there is nothing more important than protecting the victims. We will not rush that process.
WELKER: How soon?
BLANCHE: I'm not going to create an artificial deadline
BLANCHE: Look, we've been working literally 7 days a week to go through them, but there is nothing more important than protecting the victims. We will not rush that process.
WELKER: How soon?
BLANCHE: I'm not going to create an artificial deadline
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
You don’t set a deadline, Congress already did, which has passed, you muppet.
Tonight my family went to a local restaurant for dinner. The kind of place that we see people we know from the neighborhood and community basically every time we go. Tonight was no different. It’s awesome that kind of place still exists!
January 25, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Tonight my family went to a local restaurant for dinner. The kind of place that we see people we know from the neighborhood and community basically every time we go. Tonight was no different. It’s awesome that kind of place still exists!
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This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
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So the “everyone should be armed” second amendment crowd is using the fact the a man was armed (maybe) as justification?
Is this right?
Is this right?
January 24, 2026 at 5:32 PM
So the “everyone should be armed” second amendment crowd is using the fact the a man was armed (maybe) as justification?
Is this right?
Is this right?
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If the majority doesn’t speak up, officials assume the majority is fine with the status quo.
January 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
If the majority doesn’t speak up, officials assume the majority is fine with the status quo.
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The guy in grey disarms the man on the ground being beaten—BEFORE shots were fired
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The guy in grey disarms the man on the ground being beaten—BEFORE shots were fired