Alex
@adtripp.bsky.social
dipt in folly,
half in love with Slavic melancholy
half in love with Slavic melancholy
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Sheik Mansour was caught offside
Assisting Darfur genocide
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Sheik Mansour was caught offside
Assisting Darfur genocide
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Sheik Mansour was caught offside
Assisting Darfur genocide
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Sheik Mansour was caught offside
Assisting Darfur genocide
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The strange journey of “Walk on the Wild Side” — from Algren and depression-era drifters to Reed and Warhol to classic rock standard
October 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The strange journey of “Walk on the Wild Side” — from Algren and depression-era drifters to Reed and Warhol to classic rock standard
No chance. It’s human nature. We were probably betting on cheetah vs impala 100,000 years ago on the savanna.
Online betting on an industrial scale is a different issue though.
Online betting on an industrial scale is a different issue though.
October 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
No chance. It’s human nature. We were probably betting on cheetah vs impala 100,000 years ago on the savanna.
Online betting on an industrial scale is a different issue though.
Online betting on an industrial scale is a different issue though.
And his every-accusation-is-a-confession tell is also the best evidence so far of voter fraud.
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
And his every-accusation-is-a-confession tell is also the best evidence so far of voter fraud.
When the bunker you’re busting is your own national security
July 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When the bunker you’re busting is your own national security
It’s also very MAGA, very every-accusation-is-a-confession for an organization calling itself the “Anti-Defamation League” to become a mouthpiece for defamation
June 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It’s also very MAGA, very every-accusation-is-a-confession for an organization calling itself the “Anti-Defamation League” to become a mouthpiece for defamation
When national immigration policy is the Stanford prison experiment
June 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
When national immigration policy is the Stanford prison experiment
The rolling carry-on should not exist.
If it’s too much for you to carry across the airport and then clean and press into the overhead bin, it’s checked luggage
If it’s too much for you to carry across the airport and then clean and press into the overhead bin, it’s checked luggage
June 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The rolling carry-on should not exist.
If it’s too much for you to carry across the airport and then clean and press into the overhead bin, it’s checked luggage
If it’s too much for you to carry across the airport and then clean and press into the overhead bin, it’s checked luggage
By the cannabis dispensary, near the vape shop and liquor store, down the turnpike from the casino — it’s a yankee puritan hellscape
June 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
By the cannabis dispensary, near the vape shop and liquor store, down the turnpike from the casino — it’s a yankee puritan hellscape
Anti-elite Received Pronunciation
June 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anti-elite Received Pronunciation
If “good” = “driving the economy into a ditch for the next administration to pull out.”
Better to impoverish everyone than allow THOSE people to lead comfortable, healthy lives.
Better to impoverish everyone than allow THOSE people to lead comfortable, healthy lives.
June 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
If “good” = “driving the economy into a ditch for the next administration to pull out.”
Better to impoverish everyone than allow THOSE people to lead comfortable, healthy lives.
Better to impoverish everyone than allow THOSE people to lead comfortable, healthy lives.
The bots will never take our self-deprecating humor from us
June 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The bots will never take our self-deprecating humor from us
If you’re a foreigner who wants to attend a US college, you have to be smart enough to create an alternate online identity that’s as spineless and sycophantic as Little Marco or as apolitical as an American high school student.
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you’re a foreigner who wants to attend a US college, you have to be smart enough to create an alternate online identity that’s as spineless and sycophantic as Little Marco or as apolitical as an American high school student.
If you run into him in the departure lounge, you should consider changing flights. Things didn’t turn out well for his shipmates.
May 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you run into him in the departure lounge, you should consider changing flights. Things didn’t turn out well for his shipmates.
All bids welcome!
“Rome is for sale, and doomed to perish when it finds a purchaser”
“Rome is for sale, and doomed to perish when it finds a purchaser”
May 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
All bids welcome!
“Rome is for sale, and doomed to perish when it finds a purchaser”
“Rome is for sale, and doomed to perish when it finds a purchaser”
Time for JD to book a summer trip to Canossa
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Time for JD to book a summer trip to Canossa
Honoured by the presence of the Great Lexicographer
May 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Honoured by the presence of the Great Lexicographer
Designed to trigger New Yorkers — kinda right generally but so wrong in the particulars.
May 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Designed to trigger New Yorkers — kinda right generally but so wrong in the particulars.
A dual pandemic — Covid & conspiracies. Social media and opportunistic trolls were superspreaders for the rumors and conspiracies that are normal in wartime and with public disasters.
If only there were a vaccine….
If only there were a vaccine….
May 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A dual pandemic — Covid & conspiracies. Social media and opportunistic trolls were superspreaders for the rumors and conspiracies that are normal in wartime and with public disasters.
If only there were a vaccine….
If only there were a vaccine….
The AARP journal would like a word
May 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The AARP journal would like a word
The monkeys love the colored lights.
Pay no attention to who’s stealing your dinner.
Pay no attention to who’s stealing your dinner.
May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The monkeys love the colored lights.
Pay no attention to who’s stealing your dinner.
Pay no attention to who’s stealing your dinner.
If they could’ve, the Trumps would’ve taken loans and not paid. But we can’t all be the pampered elite.
May 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If they could’ve, the Trumps would’ve taken loans and not paid. But we can’t all be the pampered elite.
Thiel made a huge part of vast fortune by funding the creation of a machine of mimetic desire — Facebook.
And people say philosophy degrees are useless.
And people say philosophy degrees are useless.
May 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Thiel made a huge part of vast fortune by funding the creation of a machine of mimetic desire — Facebook.
And people say philosophy degrees are useless.
And people say philosophy degrees are useless.