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david farthing
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Maybe tomorrow, I’ll wanna settle down
Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving in
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atrupar.com
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
For any NHL GMs here I have some stats for you to look at as you contemplate your need to upgrade at defense for the playoffs.

(I feel bad but the @evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com guys will understand the Jets need some extra picks this summer)
A lightly edited advanced stat card for Logan Stanley
February 5, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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mattielubchansky.com
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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rodger.bsky.social
An NFL team can lose. (Trust me, I'm a Jets fan.)
But NFL owners are essentially guaranteed success — no matter how bad their team is, no matter how blatantly they disregard their fans, no matter how odious they are personally.

My feature for @prospect.org's Sports Issue!
The Permanent Overclass - The American Prospect
The NFL’s billionaire owners literally can’t lose when it comes to making money. On the field? That’s another matter.
prospect.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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davidfarthing.bsky.social
CHOTINER: You love sitting outside, reading, with your cats in a stroller?

ME: They love to watch the birds it’s great.

CHOTINER: And you work from home, correct?

ME: Well, yes…

CHOTINER: Do you ever post photos of your cats watching the birds during business hours?

ME: Now wait a damn minute
Cats in a pet stroller watching birds eating birdseed
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social
The sincerest apology of all-time
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
Heard a dull thud from the spare room. Investigations are underway.
A car resting on a knocked over chair Two cats proud of their mischief
January 31, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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aavcocup.bsky.social
If the Jets do trade Schenn and Stanley the tank might take a hit
January 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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icdave.bsky.social
Dear Mama
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
Every time a #nhljets fan insists the team needs to re-sign Logan Stanley they should be forced by law to watch that shift where he coughs up the puck to jack hughes twice in 5 seconds and gives up mini-breakaways
January 28, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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thejackofkingfield.bsky.social
Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
The mendacity of Kristi Noem is of world historical level - just a thoroughly vile and worthless henchwoman of evil.
January 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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maxnesterak.bsky.social
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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startribune.com
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it
3 panel comic Panel 1: Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500” Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign. Panel 2: Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected Panel 3: Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
Current conditions in Winnipeg where it is a brisk -30 degrees celsius this morning
January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
> @therickwilson.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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baldiepete.bsky.social
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
Good of TSN to stay on the game during the commercial break to show the whole Toews tribute video and reaction #nhljets
January 20, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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pbump.com
Every hour of the past year has been another Republican offering up the post-2020 “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” quote in some new context.
January 19, 2026 at 4:57 AM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
i see this year somebody said 'yac' in a game on tv and now they all say it constantly

like a couple of seasons ago when someone said "bumper position" in a hockey telecast and it became mandatory
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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cstross.bsky.social
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.

They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".

But really, all they are is spam generators.

We have hit the spamularity.
January 16, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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abbij1961.bsky.social
This guy says it all! He’s here to stand with and protect his community while ICE is harming and hurting it.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
davidfarthing.bsky.social
Extend Toews now #nhljets
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM