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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃

@smotus.bsky.social

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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 57m

Imagine watching a classic Christmas special with your family and being unable to think about anything other than your hatred of immigrants

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2h

Make a Bond Movie academic

Octography

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14h

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14h

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 3h

they wouldn't lie about something like that

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Looking forward to a future where everyone is wearing a cell phone that only operates in speaker mode

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Oh that makes total sense

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Bigus Dickus, Able Seaman

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

This is the opening shot, and I assume I wasn't supposed to giggle

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 6h

Just watched "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1958). Hell of a cast! Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Don Rickles, Jack Warden, that guy from half the Twilight Zones.... It's a similar setup to "Crimson Tide" only smarter and less annoying.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14h

Make a Bond Movie academic

Best, Russia

Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14h

Make a Bond movie casual

From Russia with Best Wishes

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 18h

Make a Bond movie causal

The World is an Insufficient, but Necessary, Part of an Unnecessary, but Sufficient, Condition

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 22h

"Mr. McClane, you once called me a warped, frustrated old man. Well what are you but a warped frustrated young man?"

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Byronic Commando @wench.bsky.social · 23h

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

johnny rico in starship troopers saying “kill em all!”

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Right?

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Ole Abe is looking pretty rough

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

The entertainment is better

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

New at tusk: My favorite Christmas entertainment, ranked.

"It's Christmas, Theo. It's the time of miracles. So be of good cheer"

The best in Christmas entertainment, from a non-observer

open.substack.com

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

You will be visited by three spirits

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

You will be visited by three spirits

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

New gender just dropped

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” host Chuck Redd stated.

Kennedy Center Holiday Concert Canceled After Host Pulls Out Over Trump Name Change

The Christmas Eve concert has been a holiday tradition for more than 20 years.

trib.al

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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

Merry Christmas!

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 1d

I was born in April 1805

Napoleon was master of Europe

Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him

Oceans were now battlefields

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Okay I could swear I've heard Elvis singing "O Holy Night" but apparently my brain fabricated that?

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Why would the DOJ release damning Epstein files it now says are fake? It could be that they have some brilliant four-dimensional strategy to undermine faith in the releases. Or...

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

Except the white supremacists were fighting against the police

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

And they took our lasagne

🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 2d

They got rid of peanuts on airplanes because some people were allergic to them, and they've been replaced with dogs and cats under the seats, to which I am very much allergic