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gnoahphungate.bsky.social
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Political venting/void-screaming, nerd stuff
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gnoahphungate.bsky.social
The Most Powerful Man in Masonry
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
The thing is, if you cropped out a close-up of his neck in that photo and posted it, it would get flagged for nudity/adult content and that's not a joke, it's just literally true and he knows it and it makes him so mad
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
In a quarter century of working full-time in the music business I've avoided succumbing to drug or alcohol addiction, but goddamn will I ever stay up all night playing XCOM and achieve what I'm pretty sure is roughly the same toll on my aging body

#SundayMorningCominDown
#VH1BehindTheMusicSadPart
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
Dr Venture be like: Brock is this true
jessehawken.bsky.social Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Sep 22
The Mandalorian be like: Grog is this true
jcsalterego.bsky.social Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Sep 22
emily dickinson be like: bog is this true
September 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
Putting aside the implausibility of a forgery in a 20yr old bound book, obviously identical signature, use of a sharpie, & everything known about their relationship, the big tell is Trump working in a compliment to himself. The narcissism is too spot-on to be fake.
September 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
I made a thing
Iteration of the Drake meme in which he disapproves of fascism, but approves of embolism (ie the possibility that Trump may have suffered one)
September 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
Tired: following in the footsteps of Grover Cleveland
Wired: following in the footsteps of William Henry Harrison
September 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
OK so I don't think he's dead but 1000% he is not well at the moment
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
So everyone has observed how the garlic clove scene in #Sinners is a huge nod to the blood test scene in Carpenter's #TheThing, but has anyone commented on how Remmick showing up at the cabin fleeing the Choctaw is just like the dog/Norwegians?
August 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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jamellebouie.net
gonna be streaming around 9:30 if you want to join in. it's mostly a hang out and chat situation, where you can ask me anything. www.twitch.tv/jbouienyt
jbouienyt - Twitch
New York Times columnist. Photography enthusiast. History reader. Gamer?
www.twitch.tv
August 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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theonion.com
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mrose.ink
I think about this constantly
Tweet from user Jason C: “I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.” Quote from user Max Dubler: “That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties”
July 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
Bugs Bunny greeting card meme wishing all Andrew Cuomo a very Fucking Off Forever
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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moxiest.art
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
I just left a comment.

If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.
wolvendamien.bsky.social Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · May 20
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
My son (8 yo) just described the Trojan Horse as a "mech" and I am so proud of my cool little kid
May 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · May 8
The entire administration is going to be staffed by Fox News hosts
May 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
This movie is truly special and I would absolutely see it in a theater given the chance
hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social Hundreds of Beavers Movie @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social · May 2
if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
May 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
gnoahphungate.bsky.social
Mango Migraine, hell yeah
manelcamacho.bsky.social Manu 🌊🐋 @manelcamacho.bsky.social · Apr 27
Pineapple ureteric colic
April 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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robertmaguire.bsky.social
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.” Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges. “I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’” Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.” The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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mattjay.com
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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utopia-defer.red
American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere
geoffdeburca.bsky.social Geoff @geoffdeburca.bsky.social · Apr 16
Here's the odds over time in Australia
April 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM