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Tom Edmonds
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📍PDX | Technical writer / technically a writer | Gay stuff, things with wheels, and spiraling over current events
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slop.guru
this is my political affiliation now
a guy wearing a black t shirt that says: IT MAKES ME MAD WHEN THE TACO BELL MENU IS TRYING OUT NEW SPECIALTIES AND SOME OF YOU DON'T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY ENOUGH AND THEN TACO BELL TAKES THEM AWAY
October 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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lorak.bsky.social
chasing "balance" in news can sound like it's noble but it's not. treating all possible sources as comparably expert, rational, experienced, insightful, relevant, disadvantaged or empowered does not result in objective, accurate reporting. it results in false equivalency.
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
Does Tylenol cause autism? Did Bella Hadid give me Limes Disease? Is the Cookie Monster my biological father?
September 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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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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bencollins.bsky.social
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
August 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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bogbird.bsky.social
the left is completely silent on poo poo pee pee
August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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abbyhiggs.bsky.social
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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titanicgay.bsky.social
“Happiness as a byproduct of a well-ordered life may last; as a goal, it is invariably doomed to failure”

WHEWW Mrs Russell laying the wisdom on thick
a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a tiara with hbo on the bottom right
ALT: a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a tiara with hbo on the bottom right
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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afterdarkalexi.bsky.social
me, a die hard history buff, reading the news every morning “oh cool the nazis also did this…. and this … and that”
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
this is disturbing, but i’m enjoying thinking about a reverse situation where a Christian gets elected in a majority Muslim country and a bigoted legislator smears him by calling him “little Jesus”
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 26
Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.
Andy Ogles: Zohran "little muhammad" Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York. He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings. Attached is my letter to @AGPamBondi.
June 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online
Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
Mcpoyles
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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hamburglar.bsky.social
Today’s date, 5/21/25, can be read the same both forward and backward. Repost if you have sex with men
May 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
tomedmonds.bsky.social
@writethedocs.bsky.social Omg I’m tech-writing famous 📸 (which I think we can all agree is the best kind of famous)! Thanks for another awesome conference! #WTDPortland2025
May 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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niedermeyer.online
pretending that tariffs and immigration are about preventing opioid drug overdoses and then pulling narcan distribution is about as unforgivably evil as it gets
chadloder.bsky.social Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Apr 30
RFK Jr. is ending the federal Narcan distribution program credited with the recent steep decline in overdose deaths. This despite his own past heroin addiction and his own brother dying of a drug overdose in 1984.
RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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junlper.beer
ironically the main reason that led me to become anti-american when i was in school was originally due to the needless over the top enforced patriotism taught to us. this will only make people question authority even more
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 1
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding ... we're gonna make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
May 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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bmceuen.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections

Wild
Graph showing did not vote often being the majority
April 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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erininthemorning.com
If the precedent gets set that the president can remove nonprofit status from anyone he disagrees with, then any Democratic president in the future that allows the ADF and heritage and megachurches to be considered nonprofits is explicitly endorsing them.
April 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
We live in hell
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I voted Trump. I made the decision after he appeared on “Joe Rogan.” He just seemed more normal than the other side.
November 13, 2024 at 5:10 PM
tomedmonds.bsky.social
These ghouls learned the term “virtue signaling” in 2020 and have never missed an opportunity to misuse it since. Nor do they seem to realize when they’re implying that the thing they oppose is (at least ostensibly) virtuous.
April 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.
vanhollen.senate.gov Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · Apr 18
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
April 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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murshedz.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com

What an absolute disgrace he has become.

Beyond repulsive and shameful.
Washington Post screenshot: “Asked about the Abrego García case yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), another 2028 presidential prospect, called it a “distraction” and shifted focus back to the lawsuit he was announcing against the administration’s trade policies. “It’s exactly the debate they want,” Newsom told reporters. “Because they don’t want this debate on the tariffs. They don’t want to be accountable to markets today.””
April 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM