@thagsimmons.bsky.social
Sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them
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Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11
There's so many of these btw, NoVa right wingers realizing that their neighbors genuinely hate them
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Area party upset to discover that years of sadistic, violent rhetoric and actions critically eroded political norms they forgot that they also relied on, news at 11
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Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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This is such a poorly known animal, and so I've based my reconstruction entirely on the description of it being 'deinonychosaurian' in nature. Adding it to the lineup, we've got our smallest critter so far - again eyeballing the size to some extent.
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is such a poorly known animal, and so I've based my reconstruction entirely on the description of it being 'deinonychosaurian' in nature. Adding it to the lineup, we've got our smallest critter so far - again eyeballing the size to some extent.
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Dem strategy - "we will not do anything to safeguard the future against Republicans so you'd better make sure we win every election" - *would* be a hostage situation if they could ever pull it off
August 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dem strategy - "we will not do anything to safeguard the future against Republicans so you'd better make sure we win every election" - *would* be a hostage situation if they could ever pull it off
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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Easily one of the funniest posts all year
August 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Easily one of the funniest posts all year
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"Why don't they just--"
I guarantee you they have tried. They are oilmen pacing back and forth outside a field of gushers that nobody will let them drill. They have contemplated everything short of murder to get their hands on it. (And I'm not sure that hasn't been suggested at some point.)
I guarantee you they have tried. They are oilmen pacing back and forth outside a field of gushers that nobody will let them drill. They have contemplated everything short of murder to get their hands on it. (And I'm not sure that hasn't been suggested at some point.)
August 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Why don't they just--"
I guarantee you they have tried. They are oilmen pacing back and forth outside a field of gushers that nobody will let them drill. They have contemplated everything short of murder to get their hands on it. (And I'm not sure that hasn't been suggested at some point.)
I guarantee you they have tried. They are oilmen pacing back and forth outside a field of gushers that nobody will let them drill. They have contemplated everything short of murder to get their hands on it. (And I'm not sure that hasn't been suggested at some point.)
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My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney
Had to finally release this from my head
Had to finally release this from my head
August 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney
Had to finally release this from my head
Had to finally release this from my head
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the hard mode corollary to disco elysium convincing people that gamers are art is convincing gamers that they already like literature
Seems we have a Discourse. Disco Elysium is the best opportunity gamers have to convince non-gamers that games are art. I’ve converted half a dozen.
Trust this English PhD dropout that DE is the most innovative novel of the century. Because it’s a game. Play it and fall in love.
Trust this English PhD dropout that DE is the most innovative novel of the century. Because it’s a game. Play it and fall in love.
The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made - on.ft.com/4ojvxw4 (free link for first three)
A really interesting, indefinably disturbing long read. I just have one question: who has all the time for these games? I mean...
A really interesting, indefinably disturbing long read. I just have one question: who has all the time for these games? I mean...
August 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
the hard mode corollary to disco elysium convincing people that gamers are art is convincing gamers that they already like literature
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Evolutionary Arms Race
July 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Evolutionary Arms Race
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i posted this more than a year ago because it was obvious by then that israel was trying to starve gaza, & i knew there would come a time in the future when a bunch of people who know better would pretend to suddenly find out about it
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
i posted this more than a year ago because it was obvious by then that israel was trying to starve gaza, & i knew there would come a time in the future when a bunch of people who know better would pretend to suddenly find out about it
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Nobody likes to hear "I told you so," and people arrive at conclusions at different times, but let's be honest: there were many, many people who identified what was kicking off very early, and were not shy about pointing it out. They were systematically belittled, marginalized, and ignored
July 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Nobody likes to hear "I told you so," and people arrive at conclusions at different times, but let's be honest: there were many, many people who identified what was kicking off very early, and were not shy about pointing it out. They were systematically belittled, marginalized, and ignored
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed
July 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed
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western governments who funded and abetted this holocaust starting to condamn israel's actions right as weaponised famine reaches a tipping point is disgusting in a way that it is impossible to convey with words
July 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
western governments who funded and abetted this holocaust starting to condamn israel's actions right as weaponised famine reaches a tipping point is disgusting in a way that it is impossible to convey with words
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Me two weeks ago: Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, not to protect anyone, but because entering prison as the world's most illustrious pedophile makes that a logical decision. Conspiracy theories make less sense than the stated story.
Me now: The Pee Tape was shot on Epstein Island.
Me now: The Pee Tape was shot on Epstein Island.
Q: “Did Bondi tell you your name appeared in the Epstein Files?”
TRUMP: “The files were made up by Comey, Obama, Biden…” 🤔
Nothing to see here, folks!
TRUMP: “The files were made up by Comey, Obama, Biden…” 🤔
Nothing to see here, folks!
July 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Me two weeks ago: Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, not to protect anyone, but because entering prison as the world's most illustrious pedophile makes that a logical decision. Conspiracy theories make less sense than the stated story.
Me now: The Pee Tape was shot on Epstein Island.
Me now: The Pee Tape was shot on Epstein Island.
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in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦♂️
July 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
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KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
July 17, 2023 at 3:57 AM
KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
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Americans have profoundly changed their perspectives on Israel. The average democrat is more inclined toward Palestine than Israel now. Is that nothing? Is our relationship with our “greatest ally” going to disappear in a day? It just seems like she’s applying an overly narrow measure of success
July 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Americans have profoundly changed their perspectives on Israel. The average democrat is more inclined toward Palestine than Israel now. Is that nothing? Is our relationship with our “greatest ally” going to disappear in a day? It just seems like she’s applying an overly narrow measure of success
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My HOA sent me gore photos after complaining about the AirBnbs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Ad...
My HOA Sent Me GORE PHOTOS After Complaining About the AirBnbs
YouTube video by Super Bunnyhop
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
My HOA sent me gore photos after complaining about the AirBnbs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Ad...
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It’s not simply doing this, or doing it without congressional approval, or doing it without explanation of risks, or doing it without declaration of war, or doing it on behalf of an ally mid-genocide. It’s the fickleness that suggests what’s to come.
Rule, war, death by his whim.
Rule, war, death by his whim.
June 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It’s not simply doing this, or doing it without congressional approval, or doing it without explanation of risks, or doing it without declaration of war, or doing it on behalf of an ally mid-genocide. It’s the fickleness that suggests what’s to come.
Rule, war, death by his whim.
Rule, war, death by his whim.