Ian Toll
@idtoll.bsky.social
“My goals? My goals are to find a cure for irony and make a fool out of God.” — The Waitresses, “Jimmy Tomorrow”
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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were:
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
Black Baptist Churches
A Mosque
A small Appalachian church
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(New). On E.M. Forster's 1909 story 'The Machine Stops', eerily prescient about our online world.
'The Machine develops - but not on our lines. The Machine Proceeds - but not to our goal.'
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/em-fors...
'The Machine develops - but not on our lines. The Machine Proceeds - but not to our goal.'
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/em-fors...
E.M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops' — Julian Girdham
E.M. Forster’s 1909 short story ‘The Machine Stops’ is an uncanny predictor of our own tech-saturated existence.
www.juliangirdham.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
(New). On E.M. Forster's 1909 story 'The Machine Stops', eerily prescient about our online world.
'The Machine develops - but not on our lines. The Machine Proceeds - but not to our goal.'
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/em-fors...
'The Machine develops - but not on our lines. The Machine Proceeds - but not to our goal.'
www.juliangirdham.com/blog/em-fors...
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble benea...
skywriter.blue
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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Good night peeps, sweet dreams.
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Good night peeps, sweet dreams.
Serious question: When Trump sends troops into cities against the will of the people who live there, can the state’s governor order its militia or national guard to stop them?
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Serious question: When Trump sends troops into cities against the will of the people who live there, can the state’s governor order its militia or national guard to stop them?
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Go fund me: Feature remake of Twelve Angry Men, but it is the D.C. Sandwich Toss jury and instead of jurors at each other's throats they have the most unbridled fun that any 12 American adults locked in a room can have short of group sex.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Go fund me: Feature remake of Twelve Angry Men, but it is the D.C. Sandwich Toss jury and instead of jurors at each other's throats they have the most unbridled fun that any 12 American adults locked in a room can have short of group sex.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
$2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.
Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that someone who won the presidency in part because he was seen by some as embodying traditional masculine virtues is now spending his time playing a real-life version of Barbie’s Dream House?
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that someone who won the presidency in part because he was seen by some as embodying traditional masculine virtues is now spending his time playing a real-life version of Barbie’s Dream House?
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These billionaires can’t bring their own clean power to the grid? Can’t pay emissions fee on pollution they cause? World’s biggest freeload.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
These billionaires can’t bring their own clean power to the grid? Can’t pay emissions fee on pollution they cause? World’s biggest freeload.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that someone who won the presidency in part because he was seen as embodying traditional masculine virtues is now spending his time playing a real-life version of Barbie’s Dream House?
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that someone who won the presidency in part because he was seen as embodying traditional masculine virtues is now spending his time playing a real-life version of Barbie’s Dream House?
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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You can almost see the thought bubbles, can’t you?
Trump: “Ooh, shiny! Me like!”
Lee: “Whatta maroon!”
Trump: “Ooh, shiny! Me like!”
Lee: “Whatta maroon!”
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You can almost see the thought bubbles, can’t you?
Trump: “Ooh, shiny! Me like!”
Lee: “Whatta maroon!”
Trump: “Ooh, shiny! Me like!”
Lee: “Whatta maroon!”
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
He’s gonna go full Sarah Winchester with this thing, isn't he?
The Ballroom is Growing - Digby's Hullabaloo
The New York Times takes a look at the expanding ballroom. It started out with 650 people then 999. Now his plans say they will hold 1350. Lol: I have exclusively obtained the latest models. He's decided to expand a little bit more. Maybe he should just go for it:
digbysblog.net
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
He’s gonna go full Sarah Winchester with this thing, isn't he?
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Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
I’m old enough to remember when overly permissive parenting was being blamed for all society’s ills; it seemed overly simplistic then, but now that our entire domestic and foreign policy just boils down to “give baby what he wants”, I’m not so sure.
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’m old enough to remember when overly permissive parenting was being blamed for all society’s ills; it seemed overly simplistic then, but now that our entire domestic and foreign policy just boils down to “give baby what he wants”, I’m not so sure.
The fastest way to get called a communist is to quote Adam Smith to a libertarian.
October 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The fastest way to get called a communist is to quote Adam Smith to a libertarian.
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When the next president has the Epstein Ballroom torn down and replaced with something the country actually needs, the same “donors” who financed the Epstein Ballroom should be forced to pay for it.
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When the next president has the Epstein Ballroom torn down and replaced with something the country actually needs, the same “donors” who financed the Epstein Ballroom should be forced to pay for it.
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
#UrsulaKLeGuin would walk away from Omelas. #JKRowling would not only not walk away, she’d be flattered to be chosen as grand marshal of the Omelas Day parade.
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
#UrsulaKLeGuin would walk away from Omelas. #JKRowling would not only not walk away, she’d be flattered to be chosen as grand marshal of the Omelas Day parade.
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Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...
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Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.