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@crumbleneedy.bsky.social
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[rogue] [insight] this clown's looking at you funny. what's his deal?

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when my 'The primary purpose of this one is to discuss the date and place of birth of trumpeter Bubber Miley' t-shirt raises a lot of questions answered by the shirt
Screenshot from https://tdwaw.ellingtonweb.ca/supportingwebpages/BubberMiley.html: "The primary purpose of this one is to discuss the date and place of birth of trumpeter Bubber Miley. While I touch on matters related to his life and his influence on Ellington's band, this page is not an adequate study of the man and his musical importance. Much has been written about him, with some authors perhaps building on the work of their predecessors, and some with contradictions. I have not seriously tried to locate all such writings nor to reconcile their accounts of his life and music." The color of the text starting with "While I touch on" is red.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
crumbleneedy.bsky.social
*extremely dr naomi wolf voice* no! no!!
Bullet point reading 'Replaced "Mooche" with "Mooch" everywhere'
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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anyway, lol
Skeet from Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social: "The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger- Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself."
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Cover of "Queen Elvis", by Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians, showing a photo a man mostly in darkness, looking to his left, with his arm stretching into a telephone booth, the light of which illuminates the left side of his face.
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
IBM ad featuring most of the cast of M.A.S.H. wearing 80s business attire standing behind blue and white boxes with the IBM logo: Fr Mulcahy, Col Potter, Klinger, Radar, Trapper John, Hotlips, Frank. Potter has his hand on Radar's shoulder; Radar and Hotlips are pulling a CRT monitor out of a box.
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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who robbed the louvre? right answers only. (afghanistan bananastand)
Movie still showing a man in a police uniform standing inside a tall glass case, next to a pedestal holding a small object. Two men also in police uniforms stand outside the case on either side of it.
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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there's a lot going on at the moment, including someone trying to hack my facebook account by changing my password. and here's what FB tells me when i try to change it:
Screenshot: "You can't make this change at the moment This is because we noticed you are using a device you don't usually use and we need to keep your account safe. We'll allow you to make this change after you've used this device for a while."
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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your one issue appears to be naked emperors
Detail of the bluesky bio for user 1diane (640 followers; 348 following; 2.9k posts), with this text: 'Always been the child in "The Emperor's New Clothes"'
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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This is exactly backwards from how the actual “marketplace of ideas” is supposed to work. Ideas don’t deserve platforms simply because someone is willing to argue for them loudly. They earn legitimacy through evidence, peer review, and sustained engagement with reality. Many of the ideas promoted in these viral “debates” have already been thoroughly debunked and rejected by that marketplace—but the “debate me bro” format resurrects them as if they’re still worth serious consideration.
September 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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we can't go on like this
Screenshot of song lyrics: Seven doglegs hung to dry in the woods that way Postal blowfish make me cry It works that way Begging on the nail don't fail To clue me in ? Cluster frogs and crabs begin?
September 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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there's a relatively recent style of business writing consisting of faux-profound 1-sentence paragraphs and i am really fucken sick of it. it's all over linkedin and emails from linkedin types.

i'm talking about this shit. undesirable.
Detail from an email (each sentence is formatted as a separate paragraph): "I am, however, going to share some developing thoughts on Artificial Intelligence. And I’ll do it, in part, by saying how wrong I was. I got the pace of AI wrong, and I took it too lightly."
August 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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good piece - though while i have no use for AI, unlike blockchain, NFTs or the metaverse, AI is getting used by people i know, who i work with, regularly. the bottom may drop out, but it's definitely different this time around.
Screenshot of text from linked article: "Big Tech’s successive scams of the past decade–blockchain, NFTs, the Metaverse, all of which were supposed to be just as life-changing as AI is supposed to be"
July 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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oh we have an idea
A round waffle topped with blueberries, sliced strawberries, fried chicken, and maple syrup.
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
A robot ('robot sifl') that looks like it was made from coffee cans stacked on top of each other, with red googly eyes, standing to our left in front of a microphone. On our right is a puppet (olly) made from a white sock, with what looks like a sweater with sparkly black and silver stripes.
July 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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you spend decades developing a critique of how 'vast populations are subjected to living conditions conferring on them the status of the living dead’ and they just tweet it out
quote from article linked in previous post: "The plantation, the colony and the camp are all forms of what Mbembe calls ‘necropower’ or ‘necropolitics’. Necropolitics, as he puts it, describes ‘the various ways in which, in our contemporary world, weapons are deployed in the interest of maximally destroying persons and creating “death-worlds” – that is, new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to living conditions conferring on them the status of the living dead’."
July 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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'was it this stupid after 9/11?'

it was pretty fucking stupid, but *taps sign*
Screenshot of tweet: @cushbomb This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history. 5:00 AM • Jan 21, 2017
June 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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happy #bloomsday
Moored under the trees of Charleville Mall Father Conmee saw a turfbarge, a towhorse with pendent head, a bargeman with a hat of dirty straw seated amidships, smoking and staring at a branch of poplar above him. It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people.
June 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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lol ratio'd to heck
Screenshot of Bluesky post from Megan McArdle @mcmegan.bsky.social: "I'm not upset. I'm bemused that activists thought they would be more effective by giving up a platform where they had considerable influence and self segregating on a site almost no one else reads." June 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM 77 quotes 5 likes replies: 352 reposts/quotes: 77 likes: 5
June 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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lol
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May 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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L.O.L.
Screenshot of post from Politico: "For the most part, leading Democrats are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign: former President Biden's mental acuity." And my reply: "you have got to be kidding with this shit" Screenshot of post from Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social: "The Democrats need to come clean about Biden if they are ever to regain trust." And this reply from Wil Sterling @shadowvasterra.bsky.social: "Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?"
May 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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alt text, pt 4
Whether there is a comparable figure or figures on the left who might bring together these disparate but important voices into partnership or alliance that can hold Labor to account is a question only time can answer. But it is the question that must now be asked. Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In 2024 he won the Baillie Gifford Prize (for non-fiction) for Question 7. There is also a large cartoon with the article, with the title "THE GREENS, THE CENTRE-RIGHT AND THE UGLY". Bottom left: Adam Bandt in a green cowboy hat and vest, holding a six-shooter, getting shot and also shooting to his right. Bottom right: Peter Dutton in a blue cowboy hat and vest, holding a six-shooter, shooting up and also being shot. Top right, woman (?) in a light blue cowboy hat and vest, shooting down and being shot. Center: Anthony Albanese in a red cowboy hat and vest, holding two six-shooters, shooting to his right (our left) at Bandt and his left (our right) at Dutton. No one is shooting at Albanese.
May 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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alt text, p3
... rather than Labor and work more closely together in parliament on the matters on which they are agreed. None of this would be easy: while voters have liked the crossbench cooperating on issues such as gambling reform and an integrity commission, they are less happy when they think an independent is electorally aligned with others. In spite of the unremitting propaganda wheeled out through the election, independents are not Greens, and on many issues are far from the Greens' positions, while the Greens in turn find some independents' positions anathema. The problem for all is that the left is becoming an increasingly Balkanised landscape. The possibility of a new national ecology party forming to pursue the goals the Greens have abandoned only worsens the picture. Unless some way of coming together can be found, the alternative will be the spectre of the left's growing irrelevance. In an Australia where the vote for non-major parties is the size of the vote for Labor - and growing - the crossbench could begin reimagining its ranks as the place out of which governments of the future can be built. If independents could re-conceive their roles not just as individual representatives but as future national leaders, finding within themselves the ambition to ultimately aspire to create a government of allies, they may escape being condemned to the sidelines of history and show the larger, as yet unrealised possibilities of Australian democracy. In some ways the plight of the left today mirrors the crisis in which crushed conservatives found themselves in the 1940s when Robert Menzies united 18 anti-Labor groups into a new, single force of conservatism that would become the most electorally successful federal political party in Australia's history: the Liberals.
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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alt text, p2
... while Albanese won last Saturday with just over a third (34.75 per cent) - a proportion that would have been seen as catastrophic 20 years ago. Labor's great victory came not from the drying dam of its primary vote but the rivers of preferences flooding in from independent and Green voters. In the opposite of a Reservoir Dogs Mexican stand-off where everyone points a pistol at everyone else and almost all die, the preferential system sees avowed enemies electing each other. Thus Labor and the Liberals collude in preference deals where they are challenged by independents or Greens yet Labor's successes against the Liberals are bound up in getting Green and independent preferences. Without them, the Liberal Party's problems today could well be Labor's in the not-so-distant future. Meanwhile, out on the now eerily emptied savannah of the left the same paradox haunts what remains: fewer independents and Greens. And yet the national vote for independents keeps going up and the federal Greens vote remains close to its peak. While the Greens harbour a romance of an alliance with Labor, that is ever less likely as Labor shifts further right and delights in its utter contempt for them. The Greens though, like a spurned lover, keep seeking to be embraced by the ALP once more. As well as preferencing Labor in almost all electorates, the Greens went into the election sounding not like an environmental party but the unloved left of Labor - the same party that election after election uses the Greens for preference harvesting and then rejects its advances. Green-shaming is Labor's political equivalent of slut-shaming. The only way out of this vicious dilemma that sees the major parties continuing to decline as a popular force but dominate as an electoral force would seem to be some new alliance that seeks to create a closer working relationship between independents and Greens. With this kind of agreement they would preference each other at elections ...
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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with alt text, pt 1
Newspaper article: The left's on the brink of irrelevance RICHARD FLANAGAN Much has been made of the crisis of the right in the wake of the federal election. Little though has been made of an equivalent crisis of the left, if that word still serves to name those forces that define their role as progressive. Both share the new yet unspoken reality of Australian politics: that the ALP is no longer a party of the centre left but the new party of the centre right. However competent and formidable it might be, the party cannot disguise its move from its more radical past by simply waving a Medicare card at every photo opportunity. Nature abhors a vacuum: as the Liberals mounted a Jack Russell race to the MAGA right, Labor moved into the high country they vacated. Labor abandoned any pretence of being a party of the environment, as it was in the '70s,' 80s and '90s, and, if it still cosplays as being a party of social justice, its reforms are timid and piecemeal. Yet even if its leader seems to like arriving at a barbecue in a billionaire's helicopter and its policies are deferential to corporate Australia, being centre right is, as the election confirmed, infinitely preferable for many more Australians than the dark MAGA fantasies of the Liberals, the same fantasies that are wreaking such destruction in the US and globally. But not being MAGA does not make Labor a party of progress. If Labor has ambitions they are not of changing society, but of preserving its own power into a third term by consolidating itself into the status quo of an increasingly unequal 21st century society as the new party of corporate Australia. Notwithstanding the MAGA lamentations of Gina Rinehart, as Elizabeth Knight, the Herald's business columnist noted, "That whoosh you heard on Sunday, as Labor did its victory lap, was a collective exhale of relief from the big end of town." Labor's victory is a paradox: Hawke won in 1983 with half the primary vote (49.5 per cent) ...
May 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Arthur from 'The Tick' cartoon, in a moth suit, arms spread wide over his head, about to take off. It's night, and there is a city skyline behind him.
May 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM