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buster skeetin

@busterskeetin.bsky.social

farming sim for switch is a real sleeper choice for people who love breaking games. it's got some real bangers, like flying by standing on top of objects you're holding (a la OG Half-Life 2), harvesting crops at full transport speed, magical ratchet straps, and more! you can do bad stuff

buster skeetin @busterskeetin.bsky.social · 8h

i took my only real playthrough of farming simulator and dedicated it entirely to logging, denuding the landscape of trees with my Scorpion King, including the trees in the town park and by people's houses. then i filled the town with wind turbines to generate money for more logging equipment

November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM

buster skeetin

@busterskeetin.bsky.social

let's appreciate how good "Demlinology" is here lol

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 8h

I don't want to get too deep in Demlinology but I think he's posting this shit to position himself to try to get the defectors back on board the next time they have to try to play hardball, so he's acting like they behaved reasonably instead of out of cowardice or malice.

November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳

@racheledini.bsky.social

The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).

Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex.
But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In
"Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about.
Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.)

What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The
"female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe.
This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.
"You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing.
When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it.

$Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…$

November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Wendy Miller

@burrowingowl.bsky.social

What do you get when you cross a red-tailed hawk with a turkey vulture? 🪶

Red-winged blackbird mobbing a turkey vulture as they are both passing a red-tailed hawk. It looks like the turkey vulture's head is on the hawk.

November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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more mr. nice guy

@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

this must've been so annoying before computers

the cards bouncing all over the place after winning solitaire

March 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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Max Kennerly

@maxkennerly.bsky.social

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)

November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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Adam Bonin

@adambonin.bsky.social

HT to @dansuitor.bsky.social; the DOJ indictment against Clase and Ortiz has been unsealed. Not only were they rigging pitches for outside bettors based on Ball/Strike and pitch speed over/unders; they were sometimes betting on their own rigged pitches.

www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...

November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman

@josie.zone

Zohran text:

"The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed."

—Walter Benjamin, "On the Concept of History"

November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM

buster skeetin

@busterskeetin.bsky.social

Mamdani political sign with text:

WE WAS
HEADIN'
for bear, on l-one-0
'bout a mile outta
Shakey Town
I says, Pig Pen
this here's the
Rubber Duck
And I'm about to put
the hammer down

Lyrics from Convoy, a novelty song about a romanticized version of American trucking culture from the 1970s

Convooooooy!

November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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Jeremy Smith

@mrbeaks.bsky.social

The chorus of Snow's "Informer" using Mamdani's slogan generator.

November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM

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Jeremy Littau

@jeremylittau.com

Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

lithub.com

November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli

@banditelli.org

IN FLIGHT KILLDEER 🚨 🪶

November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM

buster skeetin

@busterskeetin.bsky.social

goofing bad

Disney characters Goofy and Pete are wearing yellow hazmat suits and blue gloves, with filtered respirators on top of their heads. With one hand, Goofy is pouring an unknown substance from a beaker into a bowl, which he is stirring with the other hand. A glass vessel with some sort of chemistry use ⚗️ is on the left side of the frame, in front of Pete, who is watching Goofy "cook."

They appear to be inside a barn, where they would be able to do clandestine chemistry in private.

November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM

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Jackson Weaver

@jacksonweaver.bsky.social

But also have we seen picnicface’s Saving Private Ryan end credits youtu.be/QTuoq6Tr3gE?...

Saving Private Ryan Final Scene and End Credits

YouTube video by picnicface

youtu.be

November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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Jack Walsh

@jackwaltimore.bsky.social

I am personally disgusted by this and would like to be on record that if I were presented with this set of facts, I would absolutely vote to convict per the judge's instructions.

The law is the law, and I have as little right to ignore that as a hypothetical prosecutor has reason to strike me.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 4d

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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saoirse

@spacethey.gay

let rip the farts of war is this anything

November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM

buster skeetin

@busterskeetin.bsky.social

A poster which reads:

PUBCLUB
CLUBPUB
PUBCLUB
(repeating, but getting increasingly illegible because the poster is wrinkled)

November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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Joanna Schwartz

@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social

There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds.

Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Joanna Schwartz

@jcschwartzprof.bsky.social

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM