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Flutter developer, writer, Wreckless Eric evangelist. I love my wife and our two tween cat daughters.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11d
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Every single time! Epstein will write:

"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"

and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:

"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Eagerly awaiting screenshots of the new Chotiner interview to appear upon my timeline
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
How I feel about political candidates
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Oct 20
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lectures Follow The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era. A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel. Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
I would rather spend a whole night stuck at a shitty fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago sitting between Newt and Calista Gingrich eating mashed potato cement than spend 5 seconds being smiled at like this by this man
You’re better off not having this one described to you, my apologies.
September 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
This is how we got Liquid Snake
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 22
Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Thomson and Thompson
September 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Don Jr. runs up to him unsure of what to do and all he can think of is to shake his father’s hand because that’s the only way they’ve ever touched and his hand is very cold.
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Here's a little something I wrote back in 2019 about The Day It Happens: Everything is so bad all the time but one thing I like to think about is ol’ Donnie Deals going ah wait I don't feel so good and then he grabs onto the tablecloth at the roast beef carving station and the little dome they have for the roast beef clangs down onto the floor but it doesn’t make a sound because the dining room is wall to wall carpeted and he goes down on one knee and he looks around in panic unsure of what’s happening and everything is silent and the roast beef is getting cold and the bags of Lays potato chips and Heinz mustard packets sit untouched as the harried staff run but not that fast to find a doctor and Donnie slumps and slumps down further onto the floor and Don Jr. is there and he doesn't move for a full minute. The owner of something like Premier Volvo in Overland Park, Kansas jumps into action and tries to perform CPR but he doesn’t know what he’s doing so he’s humping away at his chest futilely. He’s a car dealer not a doctor what does he know and all the doctors that are there are plastic surgeons and they haven’t saved anyone’s life in thirty years and so he's trying to save Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump makes a stinky mud pie in his 75 inch waist pants and one of the turds falls out the leg of his pants and rolls under the table of the owner of a racist nail salon chain and Donnie can't hear the commotion in the room over his pulse it’s pounding so loud and it's so hot the room is so hot now and why is his tie so tight and he cries out with everything he has left inside of him to god or whoever is listening and he says I love the Bible very strongly and no one loves the Boblr more than me I can tell you that and he thinks I’m not ready to go and finally Don Jr. runs up to him unsure of what to do and all he can think of is to shake his father’s hand because that’s the only way they’ve ever touched and his hand is very cold.
August 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Dude, how green was my valley
August 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
People also ask: What flower symbolizes father? What flowers do you give your dad? What is a masculine flower to give a man? Can I get flowers for my dad? Do dads like receiving flowers? Is there a flower called dad?
August 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Pre-war is a continuation of pre-politics by other means
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22
REPORTER: Have you spoke to Vladimir Putin about the fact that a big US factory was hit in an airstrike in Ukraine?

TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.
August 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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jamellebouie.net
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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kinehora.bsky.social
Meanwhile my favorite:
Lord of the Rings meme, forgive me, I didn’t watch the movies, it’s the elf guy talking to the red bearded warrior dude, three frames: Bearded warrior dude: ME REMEMBERING THE GWOT I NEVER THOUGHT'D DIE FIGHTING ALONG SIDE A WAR CRIMINAL Elf guy: BILL KRISTOL WE SHALL DEFEND TRANS PEOPLE AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY TO OUR LAST BREATH Bearded warrior dude: JFC THIS IS WEIRD
August 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Hell yeah
criminalerin.bsky.social Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Aug 11
Kneecap via video: We stand together. Against Orbán. Against Israel. Against genocide.

10s of 1000s yet again: *cheering so loudly you'd think any world governments would finally start paying the fuck attention*
August 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Pleased to report that the new Naked Gun movie is great
August 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Andrew Cuomo is, at best, a third cousin of Bowser
August 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A meme with a bunch of drawings of people with Samus Aran arm cannons with the trans flags that says “Repost this is trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons.”
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
Reenactment: Me alone in my room at the Hilton Garden Inn - Indianapolis Airport last Friday
August 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
All jokes aside it's Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not.

Sure, maybe I heard it for the first time last Friday in the back of a Lyft while I was visiting Indianapolis for GenCon, and yes, perhaps it's the only song on this list that I know, but it's a very good song.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Aug 5
The idea that each year produces a few unofficial "songs of the summer" has been rattling around for ages. But do we have a strong contender this year?
Do we have a song of the summer this year?
The idea that each year produces a few unofficial "songs of the summer" has been rattling around for ages. But do we have a strong contender this year?
n.pr
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
schmenjamin.bsky.social
lol oh no they got Big Balls
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Elias Vance
r/WritingWithAl Join u/Busy-Vet1697 • 1d Has a character named Elias Vance come up for you when using Al? I just completed a novella and lo, there was Elias Vance as a main character. Little did I know this dude is some kind of Al trope on the level of Not_ but _ _. Have you ever seen Elias Vance? 688 views the_astral_raven 3/31/25 Hello friends, a quick break from the current story line with a preview of my first book and a question. The preview will be in comments but my question is, should I wait till it's finished to release it fully or release it chapter by chapter somewhere? the_astral_raven 3/31/25 ... The world was dying, and Dr. Elias Vance was running out of time. He sat in the sterile glow of his lab, exhaustion clinging to him like a second skin. The hum of machines filled the silence, a constant reminder that progress was slow-too slow. Outside, the city was unraveling. The news reports played on a loop: hospitals overflowing, governments scrambling, bodies piling up in makeshift morgues. The virus-an enemy unseen and unstoppable-was winning. Failure. Again. Devon Kristy and 1 more The Fibonacci Killer (The Elias Vance Chronicles Book 1) Seeking arc readers for sci-fi romance novel Echo of the Larkspur Embarking on a thrilling journey of self-discovery, Ari forges unlikely alliances with Elias Vance and his human resistance fighters, as well as ... Codebreaker's Dilemma - Kurt Patterson & Al Elias Vance, a cryptographer more comfortable with algorithms than people, is ripped from his solitary existence by a summons from the Interstellar Space... €9.99 • Free delivery • Free 14-day returns
August 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM