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Scott Nickell
@salvius23.bsky.social
Tech support, gamer, writer/poet, law school dropout. He/him. Opinions are not those of my employer(s), past, present, or future. They may not even be *mine*.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a tiny amount of power corrupts with the fire of a thousand suns.
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"At long last, we have invented the Golden Calf from the famous Bible story Don't Worship The Golden Calf."
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The reason I’m not spreading the latest rumor about Donald Trump and Bill Clinton is because it is obvious bullshit and the Republicans will weaponize it to dilute the severity of the allegations that are far more likely to be true
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy

oreos with bits of

of oreos. in them

Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Dana White Can’t Believe Rabbits Still Getting Beneath Octagon Fence https://theonion.com/dana-white-cant-believe-rabbits-still-getting-beneath-octagon-fence/
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Few insults are as mean as those from 1920s silent movies ;)

From 'Kiki' (1926)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0017...
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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“New research reveals that intentionally letting the mind wander may help explain why individuals with ADHD often excel in creative tasks.”
How People With ADHD Can Harness Mind Wandering and Enhance Creativity
Learn why consciously letting thoughts drift,  not just impulsive distraction, could help explain why people with ADHD often excel at innovation.
www.discovermagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.

He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.

Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.

The shutdown was one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words

this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread!

i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead!

get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I like to imagine a world where Robert Zombie had to go to an HR meeting about how he was making a hostile work environment for the witches
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Oh my God, it's this cartoon. (Courtesy @smoothdunk2.bsky.social )
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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"The pardons are primarily symbolic"

Symbolic, but with a kicker: Trump is letting people know that if you do something for him over the next 3+ years that might get you in trouble, he'll pardon you... so don't worry about going too far.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I didn't want to say anything immediately after finishing it, but I think @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social Old Skies is so good that it might have rekindled my love of point & click adventure games. I played a *lot* of them in high school/college, then went a long time playing them only rarely.
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The law is the wire mother of social policy, I guess is what I’m saying.
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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This is an important read for thoughtful libertarians.

There is some reconstruction to be done.

open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's problem"
I'm pretty sure we're about to witness a Backstabbing Party of epic proportions on the other side, and I have never felt more Let Them Fight Dot Gif.
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM