Kip Williams sort of
@kipwilliams.bsky.social
Left foot.
Right foot.
If not there yet, repeat.
(my algorithmic motto)
Right foot.
If not there yet, repeat.
(my algorithmic motto)
Pinned
In 1916, cartoonist Rube Goldberg nailed it.
Destructive jerks get space in our faces just because somebody thinks they have money. It's the ultimate punchline of the DFT years: They thought he had money.
Destructive jerks get space in our faces just because somebody thinks they have money. It's the ultimate punchline of the DFT years: They thought he had money.
THE ART OF THE DILL
“A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker. How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
THE ART OF THE DILL
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Please give to my dear friend Tala in Gaza. She and her family lost their homes and their livelihood in the bombings and now rely on our direct donations to survive. And please find and help others. ❤️
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Donate to Help Tala rebuild her home, organized by Tala Ahmed
Hello friends, I am Tala ahmed. I live in besieged Gaza, specifically in Rafah. I have a family … Tala Ahmed needs your support for Help Tala rebuild her home
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November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Please give to my dear friend Tala in Gaza. She and her family lost their homes and their livelihood in the bombings and now rely on our direct donations to survive. And please find and help others. ❤️
www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-fa...
DAMN IT PEOPLE THIS IS HOW WE GOT MAD COW DISEASE
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
DAMN IT PEOPLE THIS IS HOW WE GOT MAD COW DISEASE
There is not room on this platform for me to list all the idioms our society uses approvingly with violence or death at their root in some way.
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There is not room on this platform for me to list all the idioms our society uses approvingly with violence or death at their root in some way.
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The problem is this is a pattern of behavior (for the mod team).
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The problem is this is a pattern of behavior (for the mod team).
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right, I simply cannot exert the energy required to get that mad about people catching three day suspensions
they just gave you a free vacation from the timeline. imo that’s a beautiful gift.
they just gave you a free vacation from the timeline. imo that’s a beautiful gift.
bluesky needs to find a better way to handle these things, but it's tough to see it treated like it's a social justice issue when there's so much real shit going on.
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
right, I simply cannot exert the energy required to get that mad about people catching three day suspensions
they just gave you a free vacation from the timeline. imo that’s a beautiful gift.
they just gave you a free vacation from the timeline. imo that’s a beautiful gift.
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Return the Black Hills to native people. Other places would also be good, don’t get me wrong, but there is so much mineral wealth in the Black Hills that deserves infinitely better stewardship and isn’t gonna get it as long as mining companies can just walk onto public land.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Return the Black Hills to native people. Other places would also be good, don’t get me wrong, but there is so much mineral wealth in the Black Hills that deserves infinitely better stewardship and isn’t gonna get it as long as mining companies can just walk onto public land.
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It's really gonna be something to sit with if Trump gets taken down by something that could have taken him down years ago if the files had been released or leaked
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's really gonna be something to sit with if Trump gets taken down by something that could have taken him down years ago if the files had been released or leaked
We like smoke and loud noise
Any kind of thunder
Only play with loud toys
When we're plowin' nature under
Yeah we're going to make it happen
Make this lawn like a graveyard lot
Feed every blade of grass and
Then poison what's not
Any kind of thunder
Only play with loud toys
When we're plowin' nature under
Yeah we're going to make it happen
Make this lawn like a graveyard lot
Feed every blade of grass and
Then poison what's not
BORN TO BE LOUD
[ttto: Born To BeWild by Steppenwolf] Get your blower running Head up on the driveway Lookin' for some dead leaves Or whatever will fly...
kipwblog.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We like smoke and loud noise
Any kind of thunder
Only play with loud toys
When we're plowin' nature under
Yeah we're going to make it happen
Make this lawn like a graveyard lot
Feed every blade of grass and
Then poison what's not
Any kind of thunder
Only play with loud toys
When we're plowin' nature under
Yeah we're going to make it happen
Make this lawn like a graveyard lot
Feed every blade of grass and
Then poison what's not
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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We've IMPROVED the sword of Damocles, using A.I. technology!
Sword: I'm not TOUCHING you! I'm NOT touching you!
Sword: I'm not TOUCHING you! I'm NOT touching you!
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We've IMPROVED the sword of Damocles, using A.I. technology!
Sword: I'm not TOUCHING you! I'm NOT touching you!
Sword: I'm not TOUCHING you! I'm NOT touching you!
The last dream I had before rising to greet the bathroom this morning contained the assertion that Hostess cupcakes are a sandwich. A creme sandwich.
Seemed pretty controversial to me, but I'm just a dreamer.
Seemed pretty controversial to me, but I'm just a dreamer.
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The last dream I had before rising to greet the bathroom this morning contained the assertion that Hostess cupcakes are a sandwich. A creme sandwich.
Seemed pretty controversial to me, but I'm just a dreamer.
Seemed pretty controversial to me, but I'm just a dreamer.
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Bluesky is not covering itself in glory recently
Mr. Oswalt's account has been suspended
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Bluesky is not covering itself in glory recently
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Seriously you can’t spend 30 years making show after movie after book about how marriage & kids are LITERALLY THE WORST PRISON IMAGINABLE, women who want a family are a boring drag, dudes are cool & cool dudes never want commitments, then look around & go “how come y’all don’t want marriage & kids?”
Funny how many folks are childfree now that the people who grew up in an era of media portraying women who wanted kids as UNBEARABLY cringe & 90% of “career woman” stories ended with her giving up her entire identity to push out clones of a sentient boot who sort of hated her are of childbearing age
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Seriously you can’t spend 30 years making show after movie after book about how marriage & kids are LITERALLY THE WORST PRISON IMAGINABLE, women who want a family are a boring drag, dudes are cool & cool dudes never want commitments, then look around & go “how come y’all don’t want marriage & kids?”
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BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
BlueSky could have shared a screenshot of my tweet showing the Oct 10 timestamp and that I was using Johnny Cash lyrics to quote-tweet about an article on Johnny Cash. Instead, they made it look like I issued a random death threat and falsely claimed I posted it this week. They should apologize.
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The best defense against rumors and false allegations are my own words. I stand by my words.
It is impossible to do stand by one's words when someone deletes them and then rewrites them – which is what the BlueSky administrators did.
It is impossible to do stand by one's words when someone deletes them and then rewrites them – which is what the BlueSky administrators did.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The best defense against rumors and false allegations are my own words. I stand by my words.
It is impossible to do stand by one's words when someone deletes them and then rewrites them – which is what the BlueSky administrators did.
It is impossible to do stand by one's words when someone deletes them and then rewrites them – which is what the BlueSky administrators did.
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I’m back.
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substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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L made sure to set the DVR for PBS's Great Performances tonight; Twelfth Night with Lupita Nyong'o as Viola, Sandra Oh as Olivia, Peter Dinklage as Malvolio...looks crazy fun
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
L made sure to set the DVR for PBS's Great Performances tonight; Twelfth Night with Lupita Nyong'o as Viola, Sandra Oh as Olivia, Peter Dinklage as Malvolio...looks crazy fun
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Part 100! of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
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No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'
About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
No single thesis has ever been so vindicated as 'they like Trump and want him to win'
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Yeah, unless you are specifically watching the PA budget, you'd have missed it
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro signs budget deal that includes Republican demand to undo state participation in regional climate change efforts. PA was only major fossil fuel-producing state w plan to force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Yeah, unless you are specifically watching the PA budget, you'd have missed it
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As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
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The British Royal family should be stripped of all their properties and wealth. It should become the basis of a sovereign reparations fund.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The British Royal family should be stripped of all their properties and wealth. It should become the basis of a sovereign reparations fund.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.