Nate
@ngs.bsky.social
Socially awkward bon vivant. I’m just here to talk sports, bikes, music, maybe bitch a little bit, and make jokes. I hate bullies and punching down.
Opinions are my own. RT is not an endorsement.
Opinions are my own. RT is not an endorsement.
'neo-fascist hobbit camps outside of Rome' is not a phrase I ever thought I'd see. WTF...
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
'neo-fascist hobbit camps outside of Rome' is not a phrase I ever thought I'd see. WTF...
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I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.
Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.
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Either Abe Lincoln or Mark Twain.
Do you have a historical figure you most wish got to be a poster? I feel like you must have a better answer than mine, which is Churchill. The guy started autobiography when he was 19 I think. And just never stopped. True poster.
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Either Abe Lincoln or Mark Twain.
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This looks like the cold open to an SVU ep, I'm waiting for Ice T to open that dumpster and gasp
January 6, 2026 at 8:12 PM
This looks like the cold open to an SVU ep, I'm waiting for Ice T to open that dumpster and gasp
That guy who just laid down on the sidewalk in Radiohead's video for Just had the right idea after all...
what if we all just tried lying down on the floor
January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
That guy who just laid down on the sidewalk in Radiohead's video for Just had the right idea after all...
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Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.”
PSA: It was an insurrection.
PSA: It was an insurrection.
January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Noticing that CNN is calling Jan. 6 a “riot,” not an “insurrection.”
PSA: It was an insurrection.
PSA: It was an insurrection.
I will never stop being white-hot angry over the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
January 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I will never stop being white-hot angry over the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
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rowan atkinson is going to win an oscar for this role
January 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
rowan atkinson is going to win an oscar for this role
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The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
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Portland: In the absence of leadership on the transit funding crisis, @trimet.org now proposes VERY serious service cuts, with possibly more to come. These are a mixture of some restructuring ideas from our previous work, and some bad losses of frequency. 1/n
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Portland: In the absence of leadership on the transit funding crisis, @trimet.org now proposes VERY serious service cuts, with possibly more to come. These are a mixture of some restructuring ideas from our previous work, and some bad losses of frequency. 1/n
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Call the sheriff.
January 5, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Call the sheriff.
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“Immediately after the interview finished.”
This is wild. Local police arrest demonstrator for… marching in a street.
This is wild. Local police arrest demonstrator for… marching in a street.
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
“Immediately after the interview finished.”
This is wild. Local police arrest demonstrator for… marching in a street.
This is wild. Local police arrest demonstrator for… marching in a street.
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I feel like we’re underreacting to the Trump regime kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation. If another country did that, we would think it’s totally unhinged.
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I feel like we’re underreacting to the Trump regime kidnapping the leader of a sovereign nation. If another country did that, we would think it’s totally unhinged.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
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In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
In a nutshell.
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“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”
Toni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding Meaning
YouTube video by CTFORUM
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”
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final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars
Excellent presentation of the facts leading up to and around January 6, 2021 by @npr.org. This is what good, fact-based journalism looks like. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
apps.npr.org
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Excellent presentation of the facts leading up to and around January 6, 2021 by @npr.org. This is what good, fact-based journalism looks like. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
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Dear news media,
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
January 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Dear news media,
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.
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it's almost like having your media controlled by corporations and billionaires is actually bad when you want the actual news.
CNN commentator just now: "You have to congratulate the administration on keeping this quiet".
The news media is a huge contributor to the rise of unlawful tyranny.
The news media is a huge contributor to the rise of unlawful tyranny.
January 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
it's almost like having your media controlled by corporations and billionaires is actually bad when you want the actual news.
CBS is now state media instead of a news organization. Cool cool cool cool cool.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
CBS is now state media instead of a news organization. Cool cool cool cool cool.