Andrew Chael
@thisgreyspirit.bsky.social
Somewhat functional assortment of 7 billion billion billion atoms. Astrophysicist taking pictures of black holes. he/him.🔭📡⚫🏳️🌈
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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folks... you have permission to lib out
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
folks... you have permission to lib out
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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she was just the best, every time I read something she wrote I'm like 'oh wow somehow I think *even more* highly of her'
Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
she was just the best, every time I read something she wrote I'm like 'oh wow somehow I think *even more* highly of her'
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
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a program of national immiseration and national humiliation
I think it’s sick how the President is both physically and symbolically destroying every single icon of America. This is great. I like how things are going. I love living through national decline.
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
a program of national immiseration and national humiliation
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being governed by internet trolls is so embarrassing
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
being governed by internet trolls is so embarrassing
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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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Russ Vought isn’t really a bureaucrat, he’s an anti-constitutional criminal seizing a bunch of unlawful powers to conduct economic warfare against hundreds of millions of Americans because they live in states that voted against his patron.
Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats
October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Russ Vought isn’t really a bureaucrat, he’s an anti-constitutional criminal seizing a bunch of unlawful powers to conduct economic warfare against hundreds of millions of Americans because they live in states that voted against his patron.
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"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
September 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
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this insane space plutocrat was in charge of the whole government for like six months, probably killed a lot of people worldwide, compromised essentially everyone’s security, and made everything infinitely shoddier but no less expensive. And he is the guy who’s supposed to take us back to the moon.
SpaceX's Starship Woes Put America's Moon Mission In Doubt, Again
SpaceX's Starship Woes Put America's Moon Mission In Doubt, Again
Doubts are growing that Elon Musk's rocket company will be able to deliver the needed capability within the next few years, putting the entire project at risk.
www.jalopnik.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
this insane space plutocrat was in charge of the whole government for like six months, probably killed a lot of people worldwide, compromised essentially everyone’s security, and made everything infinitely shoddier but no less expensive. And he is the guy who’s supposed to take us back to the moon.
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in retrospect it may have been a mistake to bet our national space exploration ambitions on a drugged-out maniac and his big dumb metal rocket
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon, Critics Say, Pointing at SpaceX
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
in retrospect it may have been a mistake to bet our national space exploration ambitions on a drugged-out maniac and his big dumb metal rocket
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
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a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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political violence is a terrible scourge that has claimed victims from both parties
the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy
the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
September 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
political violence is a terrible scourge that has claimed victims from both parties
the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy
the way some people are just itching to treat this as a reichstag fire moment to enable a dictatorship is extremely scary and a good reminder that political violence is a threat to the very core of liberal democracy
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wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
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just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense
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Remember the era of US history where this claim would be a big deal, because we treated the words and actions of our leaders like they actually mattered, instead of ignoring anything they are saying that sounds abnormal
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SAYS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS AN FBI INFORMANT IN THE EPSTEIN SEX CASE
Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
September 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Remember the era of US history where this claim would be a big deal, because we treated the words and actions of our leaders like they actually mattered, instead of ignoring anything they are saying that sounds abnormal