Phlebas the Phoenician
@phlebasphoencian.bsky.social
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
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Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
lol.
BREAKING: President Trump declared that all of former President Biden’s pardons are now “invalid.” There is no legal mechanism for presidents to revoke their predecessors’ pardons but if Trump is taken seriously, thousands could be thrown into legal chaos.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
lol.
Why doesn’t anyone ask them point blank if military men and women should obey illegal orders like machine gunning unarmed people floating in the water?
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Why doesn’t anyone ask them point blank if military men and women should obey illegal orders like machine gunning unarmed people floating in the water?
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Yes they should disobey illegal orders
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yes they should disobey illegal orders
These mountains are large.
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
These mountains are large.
Pretty soon the WH is going to be reminding people that the military is only supposed to follow lawful orders so they themselves have no culpability.
The fall guy. Though he is probably also guilty of first degree murder.
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pretty soon the WH is going to be reminding people that the military is only supposed to follow lawful orders so they themselves have no culpability.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Nut jobs apply for nut job jobs doesn’t strike me as particularly newsworthy. It strikes me as sun rises in the east territory
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nut jobs apply for nut job jobs doesn’t strike me as particularly newsworthy. It strikes me as sun rises in the east territory
Post sauna champagne tastes the best
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Post sauna champagne tastes the best
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I love this. I'm a screenwriter and cinematographer, but I also love capturing still images.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I love this. I'm a screenwriter and cinematographer, but I also love capturing still images.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Let's go to Les Nessman for a man on the scene report from the Pinedale shopping mall:
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving! Let's go to Les Nessman for a man on the scene report from the Pinedale shopping mall:
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Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
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Why am I getting emails from the New York Sun all of a sudden
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why am I getting emails from the New York Sun all of a sudden
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Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
Asked my CEO when I was a scientist if I should go get a phD. CEO said “do the phds who work here look successful in the you want to be?” I was in law school within 8 months.
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Asked my CEO when I was a scientist if I should go get a phD. CEO said “do the phds who work here look successful in the you want to be?” I was in law school within 8 months.
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I absolutely mean to high horse it. You have failed, morally and ethically, if you give Lizza money, he's no Saint either, just another bland sleaze stumbling his way through the morass, drinking it up as he goes. Spend your money on the people whose good stuff you see on this site all the time.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I absolutely mean to high horse it. You have failed, morally and ethically, if you give Lizza money, he's no Saint either, just another bland sleaze stumbling his way through the morass, drinking it up as he goes. Spend your money on the people whose good stuff you see on this site all the time.
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bro sounds more like secretary of agriculture
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
bro sounds more like secretary of agriculture
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No more receipts please. National moratorium on receipts.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
No more receipts please. National moratorium on receipts.
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app