Thad
@thaddeusjames.bsky.social
Tabletop gamer, supernatural/period horror enthusiast, swashbuckling aficionado, vaguely leftist, Godzilla fanboy. Abolish and Prosecute ICE.
Hunchback has some excellent moments, and some regrettable ones. Moana is an all-timer.
Today in the second round of the Walt Disney Animation Studios bracket, a wayfaring young woman goes up against a kindly young bell-ringer. This should be fun.
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jH1QH/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Moana
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jH1QH/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jH1QH/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Moana
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/3jH1QH/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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February 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Hunchback has some excellent moments, and some regrettable ones. Moana is an all-timer.
After acknowledging the Musk is a white supremacist whose every desire must be opposed, let's all point and laugh at the softest man in the world lecturing us on what people will and won't die for.
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
After acknowledging the Musk is a white supremacist whose every desire must be opposed, let's all point and laugh at the softest man in the world lecturing us on what people will and won't die for.
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Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
Just saw Casablanca on a big screen. I never think of it when put on the spot about best/favorite movies, but damn if it isn't right up there with anything else I can name.
February 15, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Just saw Casablanca on a big screen. I never think of it when put on the spot about best/favorite movies, but damn if it isn't right up there with anything else I can name.
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**DID YOU KNOW**
It’s far easier to convince ladies to not eat Tide Pods, but it’s way harder to deter gents.
🙃
It’s far easier to convince ladies to not eat Tide Pods, but it’s way harder to deter gents.
🙃
October 28, 2023 at 4:37 PM
**DID YOU KNOW**
It’s far easier to convince ladies to not eat Tide Pods, but it’s way harder to deter gents.
🙃
It’s far easier to convince ladies to not eat Tide Pods, but it’s way harder to deter gents.
🙃
Do we think our country's "opposition party" is tracking all these, with an eye towards impeachment and/or post-term prosection?
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
"You have to vote for us.”
February 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Do we think our country's "opposition party" is tracking all these, with an eye towards impeachment and/or post-term prosection?
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🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One
Feds could be in your group chat
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:29 AM
🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.
Our conversation:
Our conversation:
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.
Our conversation:
Our conversation:
Pritzker isn't perfect, but he's miles ahead of Newsom
February 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Pritzker isn't perfect, but he's miles ahead of Newsom
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This is even weirder in Hong Kong.
I’ll never forget the day my then four-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy can you tell me what it was like when British people were still alive?”
Her preschool had missed a few steps in explaining the 1997 handover, and she thought Brits went extinct like dinosaurs.
I’ll never forget the day my then four-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy can you tell me what it was like when British people were still alive?”
Her preschool had missed a few steps in explaining the 1997 handover, and she thought Brits went extinct like dinosaurs.
February 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
This is even weirder in Hong Kong.
I’ll never forget the day my then four-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy can you tell me what it was like when British people were still alive?”
Her preschool had missed a few steps in explaining the 1997 handover, and she thought Brits went extinct like dinosaurs.
I’ll never forget the day my then four-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy can you tell me what it was like when British people were still alive?”
Her preschool had missed a few steps in explaining the 1997 handover, and she thought Brits went extinct like dinosaurs.
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Kind of wild that the two competing entries for "top failure of the Biden administration" are backing a virtually-unconstrained genocide, and sitting on a vault of evidence about the sprawling neofascist pedophile conspiracy.
February 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Kind of wild that the two competing entries for "top failure of the Biden administration" are backing a virtually-unconstrained genocide, and sitting on a vault of evidence about the sprawling neofascist pedophile conspiracy.
Imagine the worst kid you've ever heard of learning that Santa Claus isn't real. That's what it's going to feel like when RFK finally realizes that Papa Nurgle won't save him.
We are all kind of waiting for RFK to actually, finally pick up an easily preventable disease and then die in agony of it while he tries to use it as justification for an array of snake oils.
Everyone like "it's tuberculosis, just take antibiotics!" and he's like "no, urine inhalation therapy"
Everyone like "it's tuberculosis, just take antibiotics!" and he's like "no, urine inhalation therapy"
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Imagine the worst kid you've ever heard of learning that Santa Claus isn't real. That's what it's going to feel like when RFK finally realizes that Papa Nurgle won't save him.
At this point, Hemingway and Castellaneta are probably equivalent
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
At this point, Hemingway and Castellaneta are probably equivalent
If you see this post a goth girl
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
If you see this post a goth girl
What movie moment made you exclaim
THIS IS CINEMA
THIS IS CINEMA
February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
What movie moment made you exclaim
THIS IS CINEMA
THIS IS CINEMA
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I would sometimes ask what exactly were kitchen table issues at poll briefings, it would go something like this.
"What are kitchen table issues?"
"Health care."
"Oh like universal health care."
"No. Like our drug pricing bill."
"What is our drug pricing bill?"
"Well so by 2030..."
"What are kitchen table issues?"
"Health care."
"Oh like universal health care."
"No. Like our drug pricing bill."
"What is our drug pricing bill?"
"Well so by 2030..."
February 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I would sometimes ask what exactly were kitchen table issues at poll briefings, it would go something like this.
"What are kitchen table issues?"
"Health care."
"Oh like universal health care."
"No. Like our drug pricing bill."
"What is our drug pricing bill?"
"Well so by 2030..."
"What are kitchen table issues?"
"Health care."
"Oh like universal health care."
"No. Like our drug pricing bill."
"What is our drug pricing bill?"
"Well so by 2030..."
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February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Age Verification?
My parents complained about the unification of Germany because it rendered the encyclopedia set they'd just bought me obsolete.
My parents complained about the unification of Germany because it rendered the encyclopedia set they'd just bought me obsolete.
Age Verification?
The World Map on the wall of my bedroom had places such as "Yugoslavia" and "The USSR".
The World Map on the wall of my bedroom had places such as "Yugoslavia" and "The USSR".
Age verification?
I watched Evangelion VHS tapes when they were new.
I watched Evangelion VHS tapes when they were new.
February 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Age Verification?
My parents complained about the unification of Germany because it rendered the encyclopedia set they'd just bought me obsolete.
My parents complained about the unification of Germany because it rendered the encyclopedia set they'd just bought me obsolete.
While Qing Dynasty history is interesting in its own right, as an American I suppose I specifically feel compelled by the "vast empire slides into a century of humiliation" narrative.
February 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
While Qing Dynasty history is interesting in its own right, as an American I suppose I specifically feel compelled by the "vast empire slides into a century of humiliation" narrative.
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The bravery Marimar Martinez has shown in fighting the very federal government that tried to execute her to make it possible for all of us to see these messages is “name an elementary school after you” level of hero status.
Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The bravery Marimar Martinez has shown in fighting the very federal government that tried to execute her to make it possible for all of us to see these messages is “name an elementary school after you” level of hero status.
Smokin on that shit that made Władysław the Elbow High
smokin on that shit that made eddie money
smokin on that shit that made stevie wonder
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Smokin on that shit that made Władysław the Elbow High
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Here's a handy screenshot for reference on wording to use when returning your Ring device to Amazon for a refund.
February 10, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here's a handy screenshot for reference on wording to use when returning your Ring device to Amazon for a refund.
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Buddy if you are clicking the fucking AI button to tell you where to go on vacation I am telling you without judgment to save your money and just stay home, or pick a trip to Orlando and call it a day. You're already dead inside and the trip isn't going to help.
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Buddy if you are clicking the fucking AI button to tell you where to go on vacation I am telling you without judgment to save your money and just stay home, or pick a trip to Orlando and call it a day. You're already dead inside and the trip isn't going to help.
And given how loosely-defined "suspected" "gang member" and "terrorist" all are, I'd be shocked if the number of actual gang members/ terrorists they've arrested were even as high as 870.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
And given how loosely-defined "suspected" "gang member" and "terrorist" all are, I'd be shocked if the number of actual gang members/ terrorists they've arrested were even as high as 870.
Me playing a ttrpg: ok, so I guess this scene would take place at... I dunno, what's the sketchy off-brand version of a Chuck E. Cheese?
My friend who is a parent: it's just Chuck E. Cheese.
My friend who is a parent: it's just Chuck E. Cheese.
Finding out that top execs from both LifeTouch and Chuck E. Cheese are in the Epstein files has pissed me off in a way that I didn’t think was still possible.
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Me playing a ttrpg: ok, so I guess this scene would take place at... I dunno, what's the sketchy off-brand version of a Chuck E. Cheese?
My friend who is a parent: it's just Chuck E. Cheese.
My friend who is a parent: it's just Chuck E. Cheese.