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Ralf Haring
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attackerman.bsky.social
Inspiration and spiritual fortitude for a political fight we need to have.
Martin Luther King Jr. Warned About The Anti-Abolish-ICE Democrat
The heritage that valued order over justice during the civil rights movement animates the Democrat elected and consultant who wants to "retrain" a nativist death squad
www.forever-wars.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.
Calvin & Hobbes, sitting on a rock, Hobbes (a stuffed tiger) reading a treasure map and Calvin in a pith helmet holding a flag.
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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andydiggle.bsky.social
“It’s bad luck Ghorman. We need what's in the ground, and when we're done, there won't be much left to call home."
Major Partagaz (Anton Lesser) in #Andor
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
ralfharing.bsky.social
Top Movies I watched in 2025

28 Years Later
Anora
The Apprentice
Black Bag
Chasing Chasing Amy
Deaf President Now!
Fantastic Four: First Steps
First Reformed
The Naked Gun
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Phoenician Scheme
Predator: Badlands
Predator: Killer of Killers
Sinners
Superman
Weapons
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
ralfharing.bsky.social
Going into 2026 like
January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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mcpli.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ralfharing.bsky.social
This is going to be a trip down memory lane... R.E.M. - Losing My Religion is one of the first that sprang to mind
December 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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paulhaine.bsky.social
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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writervrai.bsky.social
Remember the reason for the season
A blonde woman narrating across all four images. "Two thousand years ago on the night of a shooting star," Mary in a manger with twins. "...my mother, Mary...." Mary with twin babies. "...delivered twins, Jesus Christ and Camilla." A baby with fangs. "I was a fanged vampire from birth."
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ralfharing.bsky.social
@jeffcannata.bsky.social Taskmaster s19 was excellent. among the best. "what do you think will happen when we graduate" is an all-timer. even when you have no idea who the participants are, the show rarely misses. you can even simply watch youtube clips instead of doing whole episodes/seasons.
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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scottjshapiro.bsky.social
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
ralfharing.bsky.social
Cars 3 > F1® The Movie
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
One of the best-sketched characters in an incredibly character-rich show: a fascist whose (potentially real!) redeeming qualities are continually undercut by his monumental pride, bigotry, entitlement and pettiness
birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Dec 6
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.
A still from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat is sitting in Sisko's chair, drinking kanar and acting like he owns the place. (Dukat is a Cardassian, a kind of grey alien with bony ridges on their face and neck.) Caption: "... is s there a single statue of me on Bajor?"
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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andrewsshi.bsky.social
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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reviewwales.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with

2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
Blue stone surrounding a gold metal core
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
ralfharing.bsky.social
me throughout Predator: Badlands (it's great, Trachtenberg is 3/3)
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Nov 6
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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challahchic.bsky.social
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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literaryfey.bsky.social
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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kenplume.bsky.social
It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM