fka Pierre Bartleby
@crankyresearcher.bsky.social
"What a country!" Aspiring for more of a whimsical sense of joy and curious wonder, and less disgust.
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This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
this bit is killing me / grounding me
Tuesday's finally here!
If this term were a Mon-Fri 9am-5pm work week, it'd be Tuesday 9:08 am.
If this term were a Mon-Fri 9am-5pm work week, it'd be Tuesday 9:08 am.
If this term were a Mon-Fri 9am-5pm work week, it's Monday at 4:10 pm.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
this bit is killing me / grounding me
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
You can't live your life based on hate - that way lies madness and bitterness - but allowing yourself to slip into hater mode from time to time is a lovely little treat, like a drunk cigarette or a decadent slice of cake
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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American Right: WE HATE TRANS, GAYS, MUSLIMS, BLACKS, PROGRESSIVES, POORS, MEXICANS, DEMOCRATS, WHALES, THE ENVIRONMENT, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITIES, AND EVERYTHING ON TV
American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them!
American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS!
American Right-Wing Jews:
American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them!
American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS!
American Right-Wing Jews:
a man in a blue tank top is saying `` well i never '' while holding his chest .
ALT: a man in a blue tank top is saying `` well i never '' while holding his chest .
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
American Right: WE HATE TRANS, GAYS, MUSLIMS, BLACKS, PROGRESSIVES, POORS, MEXICANS, DEMOCRATS, WHALES, THE ENVIRONMENT, LAWYERS, UNIVERSITIES, AND EVERYTHING ON TV
American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them!
American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS!
American Right-Wing Jews:
American Right-Wing Jews: Whooo! Yeah! You tell them!
American Right: BUT ESPECIALLY JEWS!
American Right-Wing Jews:
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Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
Misanthropic Thoughts
What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
Excellent response from @gelliottmorris.com -- and shows you can clap back at your critics without having such a foul mouth, mr @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
(j/k, we love and are proud to subscribe to both!)
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The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-new-yo...
The New York Times is wrong about the electoral value of moderation | Weekly roundup for October 26, 2025
The paper's arguments hinge on several methodological flaws, and it dismisses valid empirical alternatives. Plus: Gerrymandering, and the Republicans' lost lead on economics
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Excellent response from @gelliottmorris.com -- and shows you can clap back at your critics without having such a foul mouth, mr @lioneltrolling.bsky.social
(j/k, we love and are proud to subscribe to both!)
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,
…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,
…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
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a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
April?
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
April?
very good, on why median-voter is not a helpful way to think about things
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
October 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
very good, on why median-voter is not a helpful way to think about things
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
this is a very good thread.
we don't reckon enough with this country's best-armed street gangs.
we don't reckon enough with this country's best-armed street gangs.
the truth is that Pritzker has power because the cops technically answer to him and he's understandably anxious about what happens if that's suddenly not the case.
the civ-mil crisis of municipal policing in the 21st century United States will come to a head at some point. nobody wants to rush it
the civ-mil crisis of municipal policing in the 21st century United States will come to a head at some point. nobody wants to rush it
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this is a very good thread.
we don't reckon enough with this country's best-armed street gangs.
we don't reckon enough with this country's best-armed street gangs.
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Morning walk
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Morning walk
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great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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organizing the vampire hunters’ union by talking to key stakeholders
September 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
organizing the vampire hunters’ union by talking to key stakeholders
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If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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#141: I’m Sorry
But Benson Boone is here for someone else’s merch. Plus: FBI Director's Girlfriend Sues a FBI Whistleblower/Podcaster, Craigslist Smuggling, Libs of TikTok Goes Full Narc, Classified Docs in North Dak...
www.courtwatch.news
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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wholesome content!
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
wholesome content!