Rob "WTYS" Braderson
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Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you
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If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you rebooted RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK today with the same temporal margins, it’d be set in the 1980s. Neo-Nazi punks would have their faces melted by the opening of a forbidden arcade cabinet at the KB Toys at your local mall. Indiana Jones would wear a Hawaiian shirt and Chuck Taylor sneakers.
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What I don't get about American history is during the Revolutionary War period everyone was named things like "John Adams".
But when the Civil War comes around everyone is named things like "Jedediah Hotchkiss" and "Ambrose Burnside".
Then we just went back to normal names? What was going on??
But when the Civil War comes around everyone is named things like "Jedediah Hotchkiss" and "Ambrose Burnside".
Then we just went back to normal names? What was going on??
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
What I don't get about American history is during the Revolutionary War period everyone was named things like "John Adams".
But when the Civil War comes around everyone is named things like "Jedediah Hotchkiss" and "Ambrose Burnside".
Then we just went back to normal names? What was going on??
But when the Civil War comes around everyone is named things like "Jedediah Hotchkiss" and "Ambrose Burnside".
Then we just went back to normal names? What was going on??
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic."
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
—James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.
This is just about the easiest "How It Started/How it's Going" in a good, long while
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is just about the easiest "How It Started/How it's Going" in a good, long while
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The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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One of the great moments of this was Adam West's phone book entries:
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of the great moments of this was Adam West's phone book entries:
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Just how much faster is greased lightning than regular lightning do y'all reckon?
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Just how much faster is greased lightning than regular lightning do y'all reckon?
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watching Predator and i'd never really considered before how funny it is that Arnold is emphatically like "we're a RESCUE team" and there's a guy on the team with a, typically aircraft mounted, six barrel rotary machine gun. for rescuing. you can rescue up to 6000 guys per minute with this thing
June 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
watching Predator and i'd never really considered before how funny it is that Arnold is emphatically like "we're a RESCUE team" and there's a guy on the team with a, typically aircraft mounted, six barrel rotary machine gun. for rescuing. you can rescue up to 6000 guys per minute with this thing
"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism"
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism"
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Baseball player physiognomies:
-I smoke weed
-cultured apex asethete
-dan from jiffy lube
-I smoke weed
-cultured apex asethete
-dan from jiffy lube
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Baseball player physiognomies:
-I smoke weed
-cultured apex asethete
-dan from jiffy lube
-I smoke weed
-cultured apex asethete
-dan from jiffy lube
If they think these tubby gravy seals have any hope of catching Jose & Pedro who’ve been on a construction crew… good luck, losers
Good lord. I'm in my 50s and quite out of shape compared to even 10 years ago, but I could pass this physical fitness test.
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If they think these tubby gravy seals have any hope of catching Jose & Pedro who’ve been on a construction crew… good luck, losers
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Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.
May 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.
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I would be such a cool billionaire, I wouldn't fund awful bullshit like mass surveillance tech for ICE or dipshit AI startups, I would instead invest solely in a catastrophically expensive series of Aubrey-Maturin films
May 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I would be such a cool billionaire, I wouldn't fund awful bullshit like mass surveillance tech for ICE or dipshit AI startups, I would instead invest solely in a catastrophically expensive series of Aubrey-Maturin films
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the "strong republican party" that pelosi is always calling for is the one that voted to pass the destructive bill in the house last night. stop being accommodating to these people. do your jobs. fight them.
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
the "strong republican party" that pelosi is always calling for is the one that voted to pass the destructive bill in the house last night. stop being accommodating to these people. do your jobs. fight them.
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Best idea I’ve seen in the “liberal Joe Rogan” discourse:
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
May 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Best idea I’ve seen in the “liberal Joe Rogan” discourse:
UNION!
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May 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
UNION!
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I want people to understand this.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
What we all seemingly failed to understand is just how many of our "countrymen" were perfectly willing to resort to treason to end democracy. And all in service of a convicted felon and lifelong conman who wasn't even very good at it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I want people to understand this.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
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Look, an "aye" vote to confirm any nominee at this point from a Democrat should be a non-starter.
Hold up every nominee until the courts can catch up to massive illegality. Every. Single. One.
Hold up every nominee until the courts can catch up to massive illegality. Every. Single. One.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Look, an "aye" vote to confirm any nominee at this point from a Democrat should be a non-starter.
Hold up every nominee until the courts can catch up to massive illegality. Every. Single. One.
Hold up every nominee until the courts can catch up to massive illegality. Every. Single. One.
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I live in New York City in the year 2025.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I live in New York City in the year 2025.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.
The president is a convicted felon.
The mayor of NYC is an indicted felon.
The secretary of defense is a Fox News host.
The secretary of transportation is a Fox News host.
The very worst people in America are in charge of America.