BeDeeP
@bdp501.bsky.social
World-traveling geek in my 50s. Far too much of my luggage is taken up by books and dice. Yes, I also own a Kindle, but sometimes a fella's gotta have books.
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If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Yo, @vaspider.gay ... I never like to assume that folks are still as I remember them, but time was we used to talk about how your brother was a giraffe afficionado, so...
Restock on Gofraidh, our slightly tall barbarian warrior, is en route! 140mm of towering stabby dude is back in the shop.
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yo, @vaspider.gay ... I never like to assume that folks are still as I remember them, but time was we used to talk about how your brother was a giraffe afficionado, so...
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Teacher with medium-length hair talking to students at desks.] TEACHER: Modern physics rests on three main pillars: General relativity, which describes very massive objects, (2) TEACHER: quantum mechanics, which describes very small objects, (3) TEACHER: and hyperacute interdynamics, which describes objects 10-30cm in size and 200-700g in mass. (4) STUDENT [from off-panel]: That last one seems kind of limited. TEACHER: Yeah, but over its domain, it’s *really* precise. Absolutely *nails* squirrels and grapefruit. Someday we hope to unify it with the other two.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiafobst5ppqa3jchutqacu7lzalrmtw3djlf5oprwn57fzzrfpv4y@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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How Charlamagne tha God, Joe Rogan, and the “just asking questions” crowd turned misinformation into a business model—and why the rest of us can’t afford to play along.
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-hot-ta...
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The Hot-Take Economy and the Death of Informed Opinion
How Charlamagne tha God, Joe Rogan, and the “just asking questions” crowd turned misinformation into a business model—and why the rest of us can’t afford to play along.
www.lincolnsquare.media
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How Charlamagne tha God, Joe Rogan, and the “just asking questions” crowd turned misinformation into a business model—and why the rest of us can’t afford to play along.
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-hot-ta...
Read the latest from @kmezdoesit.bsky.social for Lincoln Square
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Read the latest from @kmezdoesit.bsky.social for Lincoln Square
Potato Salad '28! And I don't even like potato salad.
🔥 @rolandsmartin.bsky.social : “Black women voted highest against Trump, Black men 2nd highest— so yeah Donald, you’re right. We know a scam. We know a crook. We know a con man.”
@desilydic.bsky.social : “You only won 13% of Black people. My potato salad polls higher with Black people.”
@desilydic.bsky.social : “You only won 13% of Black people. My potato salad polls higher with Black people.”
December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Potato Salad '28! And I don't even like potato salad.
Alan Rickman as Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under > Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard ... and I will, myself, Die Hard on this hill.
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Alan Rickman as Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under > Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard ... and I will, myself, Die Hard on this hill.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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Tina Peters, a former official from Mesa County, Colorado, was found guilty last year of seven criminal counts for letting Trump’s allies illegally access the county’s election system.
Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Desperate Demand to Free Supporter
Former election clerk Tina Peters had filed a petition to be freed on bond while she appeals her felony conviction.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Tina Peters, a former official from Mesa County, Colorado, was found guilty last year of seven criminal counts for letting Trump’s allies illegally access the county’s election system.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.
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choo choo, motherfucker
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
choo choo, motherfucker
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Disabled people do not owe you their medical history.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Disabled people do not owe you their medical history.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
They do not owe you their diagnosis.
They do not owe you an explanation.
Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing.
No one is doing it for fun.
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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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If Hegseth's "declassification in my mind" legal theory held water, then all of their complaints about Hillary's e-mail server were for show. Like Hegseth, Hillary was an OCA at the time she sent and received those e-mails. Under Hegseth's legal theory, Hillary had the power to "declassify" them
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If Hegseth's "declassification in my mind" legal theory held water, then all of their complaints about Hillary's e-mail server were for show. Like Hegseth, Hillary was an OCA at the time she sent and received those e-mails. Under Hegseth's legal theory, Hillary had the power to "declassify" them
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It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.
Noooooooo!
A legendary Fort Lauderdale restaurant will close after nearly 40 years of delicious ribs, pulled pork, and cornbread, marking the end of an era.
Fort Lauderdale Bar-B-Q Institution Closing After Nearly 40 Years
A legendary Fort Lauderdale restaurant will close after nearly 40 years of delicious ribs, pulled pork, and cornbread, marking the end of an era.
www.miaminewtimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Noooooooo!
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Hi I'm Bex! I'm based in the UK and I make "Palaeoplushies" - Palaeontologically Accurate Plushies! I also make other animals (mostly fish).
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hi I'm Bex! I'm based in the UK and I make "Palaeoplushies" - Palaeontologically Accurate Plushies! I also make other animals (mostly fish).
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
Check out my work here: www.palaeoplushies.com
So, basically, we can start comparing Elon to *Thanos*, not just Hitler. Got it.
December 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So, basically, we can start comparing Elon to *Thanos*, not just Hitler. Got it.
Yup. This.
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September?
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yup. This.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Bluesky, where some are singing about opening up a window while others sing for independency.
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Bluesky, where some are singing about opening up a window while others sing for independency.
@vaspider.gay, I believe we have specifically discussed this very topic before.
one real problem with contemporary evangelicalism is the tendency to try and appeal to the Hebrew proof texts without reading any Hebrew outside of specific concepts used in sermons
The brief discussion of the Hebrew is also just not true. It treats the prepositional כנגדו (comparative prepositional prefix; נגד, also a preposition meaning opposite, corresponding to, in front of, facing, etc; then the third person possessive suffix) as if it were a noun without any citations
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
@vaspider.gay, I believe we have specifically discussed this very topic before.