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is an extinct genus of equid ungulate. Its species were long considered part of Propalaeotherium and Lophiotherium. A pregnant specimen was described in 2015.
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The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Attn @recdiffs.bsky.social
nurbsy.bsky.social Nurbsy @nurbsy.bsky.social · Sep 4
It started taking the piss, how did it end up like this?
(It was only the piss) It was only the piss
Now I'm right bloody chuffed and she's calling me naff
While he's popped round the chip and she's havin’ a laff
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 395: Apr 25, 2025

I got 5/9 Correct
Score: 1348

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Cinematrix No. 395: April 25, 2025
Can you name an Oscar-nominated movie starring Willem Dafoe?
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April 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Bro definitely is a The Thing
JD Vance wearing a big green coat and looking like a confused asshole in Greenland
March 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
Elon and Trump mugging out of a tesla A bear about to suck a guys dick
March 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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csmcgowan.bsky.social
Let's assume we need to primary every single Dem in office and then work backwards from there.
March 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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mariabustillos.com
let's stop setting all this money on fire and use it to build trains and bike lanes and housing and do regenerative ag instead
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · Mar 6
SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.
March 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I’VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!! I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!!!
Elon Musk yelling with his gross horse teeth
February 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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First pancakes out of the skillet. Real heads know.
February 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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weeder.bsky.social
Do not talk to me until I've had my coffee, gone for a run, found the path to living without harm, and passed away peacefully in the sunshine of my garden.
February 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I just subscribed to Wired today. They have a killer deal going right now: a full year for $5 www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
dell.bsky.social dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · Feb 4
thanks bsky! this is a big help
EXCLUSIVE Scoops lift WIRED subscriptions Liam Reilly writes: We mentioned yesterday that WIRED's reporters have published scoop after scoop about DOGE, Musk and his friends in the last few weeks. Their work has paid off, the publication says, in "a record-breaking increase in subscriptions" on Sunday, "with numbers soaring to ten times their usual rate." The boost has been driven by politics coverage...
February 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Dear President Von Der Leyen,

My name is Joey, I am 26 year old American. My people and my trading bloc yearn for freedom. Instead we get 25% tariffs on cars and avocados.

Please send Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighter jet
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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josie.zone
In the immortal words of They Might Be Giants: Can’t shake the Devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding
josie.zone 🏳️‍⚧️ Tár-Tár Binks @josie.zone · Oct 27
I’m reminded of my 2016 interview with Matt and Trey, in which I asked them what distinguished South Park’s humor from Trump’s

Their answer was……. lacking

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October 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Michael Clayton heads when they realize they're a janitor, not a miracle worker
George Clooney in MICHAEL CLAYTON
December 28, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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just snagged the complete larry sanders show for fifteen bucks
tvmojoe.bsky.social Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · Dec 20
Don’t know if this is a holiday sale, a glitch, or something else, but Apple is selling digital boxed sets of some classic TV shows at insane prices. I just bought all 250+ eps of MURDER, SHE WROTE for $25. The full original run of COLUMBO? Also $25. CAGNEY & LACEY? $20.
December 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Remember when RSS was robust and easy to use and access and people could just own their own shit on their own blogs?

Having to constantly change places to land is part of why we keep losing shit. And that's on purpose.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Dec 18
New: I wrote about Substack's splashy new partnership with Bari Weiss, what it's been like in the year since Substackers Against Nazis, and why you really need to get the fuck out of there:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
As one commenter put it: “Why on earth would you brag to your users that you've partnered with a bunch of protofascists? You want us all to leave or what?” Celebrating the “high-integrity” and “meticulous editorial standards” of a site that published unvetted allegations about a transgender youth clinic that became the basis for Missouri to outlaw most gender-affirming care for minors is a curious choice. There are plenty of writers who remain on the platform with actual integrity and journalism chops, so the decision to singularly salute Weiss and co. reads like an intentional statement of values by Substack. Then again, their values were made crystal clear last year.
December 19, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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if you quote Blade Runner, crying in the shower is actually pretty cool
December 14, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
Thanks to the surprising and wildly delightful response to this post, we're going to start offering recipes via Patreon. Good recipes that just work. No fuss. Opportunities to ask questions from @buttonlass.bsky.social, who knows how good food happens. Please share.

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a lovely blue and white tiles backsplash over a five burner gas cooktop. There's something on the stove (it's chocolate of some sort)
December 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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If you see this, post a concert photo you took

Dinosaur Jr opening for Flaming Lips and Weezer on the Voyage to the Blue Planet tour at the Anthem in DC
November 11, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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Is there a better value in ##rva than the North End Juice Co breakfast burrito for $6?!?!
October 8, 2024 at 12:58 AM