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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
Whomever at the networks thought these late games would be close this week? They're sighing over Jets-Browns and quietly drinking away their sorrows...
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Women are too emotional to work in high stress, high-stakes fields like ConLaw.

Only hyper-rational, stoic manly men can have the emotional distance to exercise jurisprudence and dispense justice.

Funny how we don't treat "anger" and "ego protection" as being emotional disqualifiers for men.
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Let he who is without sin look the most stoned."

"Empathy is a sin, right?"

"Yeah, let's go with that."

I think there are competing cliques of Cabinet members who know Trump's health is failing, and use his dementia to prop him up in front of cameras to babble about their pet idiocy.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Fascism Branding Service continues its "Women should be tradwife hottie sex dolls squeezing out babies and dependent upon their husbands for their financial needs" campaign for adult Catholic convert Ross Douthat, a noted paragon of masculine good looks and reasoned browbeating.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem."

You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is a flagrant and idiotic abuse of the rules of engagement.

Benjamin Netenyahu *funded* Hamas in 2006. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Trump is one hop away from Netenyahu and thus two hops from Hamas.

The Pentagon can use this to justify a Hellfire on Trump's golf cart in Mar-a-Lago.
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
@johnrogers.bsky.social

I need you to assemble a team. The writer's room governing our reality is getting tired, and their meds and the coffee are interacting poorly.

You need to get a team of better writers in place to save reality.

No pressure.

Don't feed any monkeys in N'awlins, though.
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have heard what they had to say.

And if my kindness is in scant supply to them, well, they have the New York Times eager to paint them isymapthetically while native Iowan Mike Davis, who was Chuck Grassley's general counsel for nominations, and SCOTUS law clerk to Gorsuch tweets this:
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When Biden tried to cancel student loans, Fox whined about "handouts for fat lesbians with blue hair and nose rings doing Gender studies"?

First, my tax dollars supporting gender studies is better than propping up Argentina's currency.

Second, look at that last column.
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The cat walked across the keyboard, and this thing appears and is stuck floating over a part of the upper right quadrant of my screen on Windows 11.

Anyone know how to turn it off?
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is "lapsed" Irish-Catholic advocating that poor people are undeserving of mercy and shouldn't reproduce. Also clerked for Neil Gorsuch twice. (Once on the 10th circuit, once on SCOTUS).

He tweeted that Hakeem Jeffries is George Soros' house slave.
October 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Said homage:
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Join ICE! Your "I peepeed myself" fetish builds trust among the Americans you're protecting from toddlers, tamale ladies and contract construction workers!

Only the MANLIEST of men can wet their khaki trousers for ICE!
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Amazing. Reading this headline, can you tell which party won the election, or what issue they ran on, and won?

Appalling.
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Funny how people associated with Turning Point USA keep getting outed as fascist, racist dickbags.

But we're supposed to treat Charlie Kirk, a racist Fascist provocateur, who grifted a $12 million dollar donation-mill org out of "debating" college students, as some sort of American marty.
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
PRONOUN-MAN!

(I had fun with the alt-text.)
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Are you a furloughed government worker?

Do you like zippy space fighters?

Do you have time free on Friday at 5 PM Eastern?

I've got seats open for a Squadron Strike teaching game at 5 PM on Friday!

Come destress from a government shutdown with some free entertainment. DM me for details.
October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Remember when James Comer had the VAPORS about Joe Biden supposedly benefitting with a $5 million dollar payment from Hunter Biden working for Burisma?

Had two sources that later became fugitives from the FBI?

Wonder where Comer's grumbles are now?
October 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There's a meme...
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Dear @democrats.org:

How about fighting the Fascists, tooth and nail, promising to try every ICE agent who acted without a judicial warrant?

You are *literally* being handed PR like this:

Fucking use it.
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Making sure that when Jay detaches that post from where it's quoted, it's still findable.

I think Jesse Singal can remain in the top-3 most blocked accounts on Bluesky; I think Bluesky deciding that their very clear policies on harassment, which Singal violates regularly, is a bad look for them.
October 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
More posts from this guy:
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM