stephen.daedalus
@stephendaedalus.bsky.social
i got values but i don't know how or why
Pinned
i keep going back to "they just let you do it."
we're watching this guy grope and assault and abuse our republic, and the people we've elected to represent us and our interests (as the body politic of this republic), the institutions we depend on to advocate for us--:they're just letting him do it.
we're watching this guy grope and assault and abuse our republic, and the people we've elected to represent us and our interests (as the body politic of this republic), the institutions we depend on to advocate for us--:they're just letting him do it.
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@aimeemann.bsky.social's beautiful cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays" may be from the soundtrack to The Chair Company, but it is what happens when you let @programme4.tv into your heart. Also, it is raining in LA, I am strung out from the world—not me weepy in a cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
Rainy Days and Mondays (from "The Chair Company")
YouTube video by Aimee Mann - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@aimeemann.bsky.social's beautiful cover of "Rainy Days and Mondays" may be from the soundtrack to The Chair Company, but it is what happens when you let @programme4.tv into your heart. Also, it is raining in LA, I am strung out from the world—not me weepy in a cafe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ry...
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Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube.
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
"The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...
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The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.
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The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.
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Bruce Lummy’s typically funny, informative take on the making of tartan.
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
I Never Knew It Took This Much to Make Tartan
YouTube video by Scotland History Tours
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bruce Lummy’s typically funny, informative take on the making of tartan.
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
At 7:50 he introduces a “wee woman in Crieff,” my super-talented daughter-in-law Samantha.
youtu.be/efy-_DDwhGY?...
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I am trying to imagine the Democratic pundit minds that think it is not effective to say, "The president and the leader of the Republican party is a corrupt pedophile who is going to war with his own party to avoid disclosing his extensive relationship with the most notorious pedophile of all time."
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I am trying to imagine the Democratic pundit minds that think it is not effective to say, "The president and the leader of the Republican party is a corrupt pedophile who is going to war with his own party to avoid disclosing his extensive relationship with the most notorious pedophile of all time."
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I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m being glib but I’m semi-serious about this: send more white collar criminals to prison; prison conditions will improve
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@rickperlstein.bsky.social I've been absolutely devouring Invisible Bridge - a wonderful read. Thank you for writing it. Had no idea how much the Jimmy Kimmel saga was a repeat of past behavior
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
@rickperlstein.bsky.social I've been absolutely devouring Invisible Bridge - a wonderful read. Thank you for writing it. Had no idea how much the Jimmy Kimmel saga was a repeat of past behavior
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They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok
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OJ won’t rest untill he finds the real killers.
President Trump says he's asking the Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to high-profile figures, including political foes https://cnn.it/3M1ebp3
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
OJ won’t rest untill he finds the real killers.
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something something first do no harm
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
something something first do no harm
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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My wife works at a school in Southeast Portland. ICE terrorists are in the area and so the school is in lockdown.
The fact that you have to protect kids from so-called law enforcement is disgusting. These fuckers belong in their own jails.
The fact that you have to protect kids from so-called law enforcement is disgusting. These fuckers belong in their own jails.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
My wife works at a school in Southeast Portland. ICE terrorists are in the area and so the school is in lockdown.
The fact that you have to protect kids from so-called law enforcement is disgusting. These fuckers belong in their own jails.
The fact that you have to protect kids from so-called law enforcement is disgusting. These fuckers belong in their own jails.
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I think it’s bad that the president is a likely child rapist.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think it’s bad that the president is a likely child rapist.
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
will and i live in different worlds.
i'd like to live in his world.
i'd like to live in his world.
If your complaint is that modern goods and products aren’t perfect, who could disagree? But they’re overall much better than before. Most things are, which is why filtering politics through a hazy nostalgia for simpler times is just not very clarifying and helps Trump.
My complaint is specific: Certain product choices have made interacting with the products worse, and it's better when/if they don't have them. And not "cars were better when they didn't come with seatbelts." Stop strawmanning my position.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
will and i live in different worlds.
i'd like to live in his world.
i'd like to live in his world.
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
can we prosecute him now
ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
can we prosecute him now
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ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ADAMS: Now “I don't have to deal with you guys, man. I can fly private now, I can go on a cruise, I can hang out in St. Bart.”
(via @nypost.com)
(via @nypost.com)
did this happen 🍿
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
did this happen 🍿
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To everyone who threatened to leave NYC if Zohran won: good fcking luck finding a working airport right now
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
To everyone who threatened to leave NYC if Zohran won: good fcking luck finding a working airport right now
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The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.