Suds Terkel
@sudsterkel.bsky.social
Baseball (Go White Sox, meh), BBQ, beer, books, Boston Terriers, bourbon. Begrudging user of the Oxford comma. Opponent of rampant enshitification who wonders whatever happened to authenticity.
Hailing from and still sequestered in ChiSuburbia.
Hailing from and still sequestered in ChiSuburbia.
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Suds Terkel
@sudsterkel.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Time for the US to Dump the Word "Homeland"
In 1934, at the Nazi party’s big coming-out event, they introduced the term “homeland.”…
truthout.org
Bskyers of a certain age may recall recoiling in horror when the Bush Administration took some existing chunks of government and rolled it into a new security apparatus called The Department of Homeland Security because the word "Homeland" was so Nazi-ish.
Now two decades later, here we are....
Now two decades later, here we are....
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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THOSE ARE NOT CONCESSIONS!!
REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
THOSE ARE NOT CONCESSIONS!!
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people don’t realize this but ‘tri-state area’ can refer to any three states. NY-NJ-CT? sure. IL-WI-IN? you bet. FL-TX-CA? those states are tri and they have an area. HI-KS-RI? just ‘tri’ and stop me.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
people don’t realize this but ‘tri-state area’ can refer to any three states. NY-NJ-CT? sure. IL-WI-IN? you bet. FL-TX-CA? those states are tri and they have an area. HI-KS-RI? just ‘tri’ and stop me.
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In “every Trump accusation is a confession,” it says a lot about the current Pentagon that simply starting the longstanding, unambiguous, and nonpartisan rule “don’t obey illegal orders” sets Hegseth off on a spiral of “hey, don’t talk about our illegal orders!”
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In “every Trump accusation is a confession,” it says a lot about the current Pentagon that simply starting the longstanding, unambiguous, and nonpartisan rule “don’t obey illegal orders” sets Hegseth off on a spiral of “hey, don’t talk about our illegal orders!”
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Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
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Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
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“Zohran Mamdani wants people to prosper, even those who didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump wants to execute everyone who disagrees with him. Could this represent a new coalition in American politics?”
ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION
ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Zohran Mamdani wants people to prosper, even those who didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump wants to execute everyone who disagrees with him. Could this represent a new coalition in American politics?”
ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION
ME, AFTER SUFFERING A MASSIVE CONCUSSION
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If Donald Trump was the Answer.
How stupid was the Question?
How stupid was the Question?
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If Donald Trump was the Answer.
How stupid was the Question?
How stupid was the Question?
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These are the topics Child-Rapist Trump ran on. He hasn't fulfilled one promise to the American people. Not One! How his ever shrinking base haven't had enough of his bullshit, is astounding.
November 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
These are the topics Child-Rapist Trump ran on. He hasn't fulfilled one promise to the American people. Not One! How his ever shrinking base haven't had enough of his bullshit, is astounding.
Post a movie from where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Post a movie from where you're from
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So, the Russian dude whom Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff, Trump's crypto business partner, met with in Miami to hammer out this "peace" proposal is head of Moscow's sovereign wealth fund. It sure leaves one to wonder whether Trump's true agenda was his long-coveted Trump Tower Moscow.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
So, the Russian dude whom Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff, Trump's crypto business partner, met with in Miami to hammer out this "peace" proposal is head of Moscow's sovereign wealth fund. It sure leaves one to wonder whether Trump's true agenda was his long-coveted Trump Tower Moscow.
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Pure, unadulterated sociopathy
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Pure, unadulterated sociopathy
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Does the scent of crazy happen to smell just like Axe Body Spray, perchance?
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Does the scent of crazy happen to smell just like Axe Body Spray, perchance?
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“trump is ecstatic to meet the muslim socialist immigrant mayor of new york while MAGA’s strongest soldier from georgia-14 resigns in disgust” is a fucking coalition-breaking disaster for the hard right
no, it’s fucking terrible for trump, lol
I don't know if it makes sense to describe what happened today as "good PR". The Fox crowd doesn't seem terribly thrilled about the meeting either.
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“trump is ecstatic to meet the muslim socialist immigrant mayor of new york while MAGA’s strongest soldier from georgia-14 resigns in disgust” is a fucking coalition-breaking disaster for the hard right
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MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
Trump is the Joe Rogan of presidents
I do not think this is a good sign, actually. A fascist smiling and patting a socialist on the back and saying “yeah it’s ok you can call me a fascist” is not good!
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Trump is the Joe Rogan of presidents
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need to dismantle the department of incel insecurity asap
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
need to dismantle the department of incel insecurity asap
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Quick, get me a snarky gamer who continually owns people on Call of Duty, we have a country to run.
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Quick, get me a snarky gamer who continually owns people on Call of Duty, we have a country to run.
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It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
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a great man is an average woman.
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and says `` did i stutter ? ''
Alt: a man says "did i stutter?"
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
a great man is an average woman.
This is some major fuckery. If you want to keep your GMail tabs you're gonna have to do some work unless you're willing to let their LLMs/"AI" read your shit.
Helps explain why I'm 60th in line for this book, I guess....
Helps explain why I'm 60th in line for this book, I guess....
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is some major fuckery. If you want to keep your GMail tabs you're gonna have to do some work unless you're willing to let their LLMs/"AI" read your shit.
Helps explain why I'm 60th in line for this book, I guess....
Helps explain why I'm 60th in line for this book, I guess....
So my client work has been slowing as professional services firms increasingly look to AI for generating "content" (that word still makes me wanna vomit), and now it appears that AI is quickly coming for consultants, lawyers, and accountants tool.... #HereComeTheRealHungerGames #LateStageCrapitalism
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So my client work has been slowing as professional services firms increasingly look to AI for generating "content" (that word still makes me wanna vomit), and now it appears that AI is quickly coming for consultants, lawyers, and accountants tool.... #HereComeTheRealHungerGames #LateStageCrapitalism