Tim Prindle
@terrapinflyer.bsky.social
Family, music, nature, laughing, history, books, kayaking, LFGM, COYS. In past lives: musician, guitar store manager, Geog professor. Now, living with stage 4 non-small cell (squamous) lung cancer. Aka 'dying and trying to be cool about it.'
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Tim Prindle
@terrapinflyer.bsky.social
· Nov 14
First post. Bio has most of my interests already. I'm a lurker and reposter by nature, shy and deeply convinced that I am not very interesting, at least in this kind of venue. But so many of you are! So here I am. Thank you for sharing yourselves and your passions with me.
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was engaging in good faith. Perhaps the perfect example of this is Ezra Klein’s silly eulogy claiming that Kirk was “
www.techdirt.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…
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It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
June 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
MOVE bombing 40 years later: A day of reflection and remembrance
Forty years ago today, city officials made the unconscionable decision to bomb its own people.
www.phillytrib.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
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BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
May 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
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Awesome news!
Let’s give it up for Ohio—every single library levy on Tuesday’s ballot passed, some by blowout margins.
While GOP extremists try to slash $91M in library funding, voters showed up to say loud and clear: we believe in books, not bans. 📚
More here: tinyurl.com/OH-libraries
Let’s give it up for Ohio—every single library levy on Tuesday’s ballot passed, some by blowout margins.
While GOP extremists try to slash $91M in library funding, voters showed up to say loud and clear: we believe in books, not bans. 📚
More here: tinyurl.com/OH-libraries
Ohio libraries win big Tuesday • Ohio Capital Journal
Every single library levy on Tuesday's ballot passed in Ohio, and none of them were close.
tinyurl.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Awesome news!
Let’s give it up for Ohio—every single library levy on Tuesday’s ballot passed, some by blowout margins.
While GOP extremists try to slash $91M in library funding, voters showed up to say loud and clear: we believe in books, not bans. 📚
More here: tinyurl.com/OH-libraries
Let’s give it up for Ohio—every single library levy on Tuesday’s ballot passed, some by blowout margins.
While GOP extremists try to slash $91M in library funding, voters showed up to say loud and clear: we believe in books, not bans. 📚
More here: tinyurl.com/OH-libraries
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RFK Jr. wants everyone to be infected with vaccine-preventable disease.
He thinks it’s no big deal if your infant or your mom undergoing through chemo dies from a VPD.
He thinks that if you die from a VPD, you are weak or you don’t “eat right” or you don’t exercise.
He thinks you deserve it.
He thinks it’s no big deal if your infant or your mom undergoing through chemo dies from a VPD.
He thinks that if you die from a VPD, you are weak or you don’t “eat right” or you don’t exercise.
He thinks you deserve it.
May 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
RFK Jr. wants everyone to be infected with vaccine-preventable disease.
He thinks it’s no big deal if your infant or your mom undergoing through chemo dies from a VPD.
He thinks that if you die from a VPD, you are weak or you don’t “eat right” or you don’t exercise.
He thinks you deserve it.
He thinks it’s no big deal if your infant or your mom undergoing through chemo dies from a VPD.
He thinks that if you die from a VPD, you are weak or you don’t “eat right” or you don’t exercise.
He thinks you deserve it.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP.
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
"I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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Why do ancestors love blue but "forefathers" hate it?
Why is a painting of vampires in the US Capitol?
What do Chinese immigrants, Rick Ross & banjos have in common?
Spoiler Alert: These are just a few of the historical references embedded in Ryan Coogler's latest masterpiece
Why is a painting of vampires in the US Capitol?
What do Chinese immigrants, Rick Ross & banjos have in common?
Spoiler Alert: These are just a few of the historical references embedded in Ryan Coogler's latest masterpiece
dlvr.it
April 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why do ancestors love blue but "forefathers" hate it?
Why is a painting of vampires in the US Capitol?
What do Chinese immigrants, Rick Ross & banjos have in common?
Spoiler Alert: These are just a few of the historical references embedded in Ryan Coogler's latest masterpiece
Why is a painting of vampires in the US Capitol?
What do Chinese immigrants, Rick Ross & banjos have in common?
Spoiler Alert: These are just a few of the historical references embedded in Ryan Coogler's latest masterpiece
Fellow #Mets fans: there's always a way around the horrible Fox broadcast! Our own Howie Rose on the radio! If outside NYC area and in the US, a small monthly fee gets you a radio feed to every game on the MLB site. Mute TV, use ff/rw/pause controls to sync up and poof! Intelligent commentary! #LGM
April 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory
Snark aside, I'm honestly baffled. I know I show my naïveté daily, but aren't even most rich, powerful people concerned about food safety? Seems like you'd have to be Zuck or Bezos rich to be safe(ish). Not state politician or large landowner rich. Don't these folks buy groceries like everyone else?
I guess GenX trained for this, at least
April 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory
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The White House will ask Congress to cancel $9.3 billion already approved for foreign aid initiatives, public broadcasting and other programs.
White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, NPR, State Department
Republican lawmakers have been clamoring for a rescissions request, to give Congress a say in the Trump administration's spending cuts.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The White House will ask Congress to cancel $9.3 billion already approved for foreign aid initiatives, public broadcasting and other programs.
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
- FDR
- FDR
On the anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s passing, we reflect on the legacy of a leader who met crisis with courage & clarity.
As he reminded us: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
As he reminded us: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
April 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
- FDR
- FDR
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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From my Atlanta home, to yours:
Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t.
Perish all compromises with tyranny!
Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t.
Perish all compromises with tyranny!
April 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
From my Atlanta home, to yours:
Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t.
Perish all compromises with tyranny!
Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t.
Perish all compromises with tyranny!
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Are you set for the massive rallies of resistance against the fascist oligarch in Washington? There is a great interactive site showing all the rallies being held across the United States on Saturday.
Join in and support.
#handsoff
www.axios.com/2025/04/03/h...
Join in and support.
#handsoff
www.axios.com/2025/04/03/h...
What to know about Saturday's nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protests
More than 1,100 rallies, visibility events and meetings were scheduled.
www.axios.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Are you set for the massive rallies of resistance against the fascist oligarch in Washington? There is a great interactive site showing all the rallies being held across the United States on Saturday.
Join in and support.
#handsoff
www.axios.com/2025/04/03/h...
Join in and support.
#handsoff
www.axios.com/2025/04/03/h...
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The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements