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  FYI, @maklelan.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jdfwnosj5tavojrkinbcor6h/post/3mzvh7onmz22y

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  It is a cosmetic lifestyle brand for authoritarian identity politics. That’s it. It has nothing to do with real theology or existential feelings. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iq6aw4tscf5n5oplggiyjfyl/post/3mzvbzczrcs2n

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  So after a few days of relative restraint, Trump is predictably back to whining about imaginary rigged elections. I’ll just observe the polls were not “so wrong”: Dems overperformed by ~4 points in aggregate. Within the margin of error in most states, sometimes by more. But that is itself normal.

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  Infuriating & detailed report on how Hegseth overrode DoD’s merit-based promotions process to shackle women & non-white officers. www.ms.now/news/pete-he...

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  One thing worth noting here is that the long-term trend toward secularization also plateaued in the late 90s before kicking in even harder around the mid-aughts. We’re not going to be Sweden anytime soon, but I think it’s reasonable to expect the US to continue getting gradually less religious. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:brnnpb6x3pdapjeqqs275gbd/post/3mzuypdswps2m

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Nov 9th 2026 (Easy), in 02:31 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  I also really wanted one where the Universal Translator & Data both go offline & suddenly Picard is shouting “Merde! Personne ne me comprend? Reparez ça! Faitez-en ainsi!” while the crew looks on baffled. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ov54ppoqpklwolcbn5y7d3yl/post/3mztwqwgyjs2r

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  Wait there was a bathroom right off the Enterprise-D bridge all this time? And yet we never got a scene of Worf rushing out hastily drying his hands on his uniform as the Romulans show up? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/post/3mztvik4fu22u

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  Wait the Captain’s ready room is off the front-left side of the bridge. Why would it have a rear-facing window? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2iarywobs7a3tcnflhw5g3x/post/3mzt3nfahus2f

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  Popular Internet apologist Wes Huff plagiarized at least one paper submitted for his master’s degree, as @maklelan.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy demonstrates beyond any possible dispute here. Now very curious to see folks take a microscope to his other grad work, because it’s rarely a one-off. youtu.be/bbxN1NXmGtI

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  Not only does the Constitution not say this (or mention the Attorney General at all), but the only time in history it happened, in 1868, the AG *resigned his post* in order to represent Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial, because it was plainly not appropriate for him to serve in both roles. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mzslyqcgon2a

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  Like most teen boys in the early 90s, my friends & I used to thoughtlessly say this. Until a friend whose younger brother had Down Syndrome pointed out how cruel & hurtful it was to make his condition a slur. We all felt like assholes & immediately stopped, because she was so clearly right. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o72ypk5c474zqklkukaphuy3/post/3mzsx6xskfk26

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  They DO actually do that stuff periodically, it just doesn’t get virally hate-linked on social media. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mzqrpeqdf222

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  I do not understand the design thinking behind Spacecraft in recent MTG sets. Almost all of them would be… fine if they were just artifact creatures with no station cost, but seem unplayably bad with the stationing requirement.

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  It is weird how almost none of the mainstream reporting on Trump offering UFC Dana White the press sec gig is mentioning the OTHER Dana White who is actually a Republican comms professional.

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  So someone apparently made a mash-up point & click adventure game featuring characters from all those classic 80s & 90s Sierra games. Not sure how large the demographic for this sort of thing is, but I am absolutely it. pointandclick.studio/games/sierra...

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  I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Nov 7th 2026 (Hard), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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  Think about the headspace you have to inhabit to read that and not immediately clock that it can’t possibly be true, because no sane politician would do that. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5hrsz3uqc4b4g365koefngs3/post/3mzokxrezms2n

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  Apparently on a novella bender. Can enthusiastically recommend both Ben Lerner’s “Transcription” & S. L. Huang’s “The Language of Liars”, each of which is finishable in one sitting.

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  Still seems insane that 70k+ people paid *one hundred thousand dollars* in actual US currency for one of those abominations. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y3cfhqre6iuilnhwp23fgl2v/post/3mznegmr3vc2w

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  Katie Miller, who rather famously lives on a military base, didn’t vote in the midterms because you “have to dox your address” to register, which is not true. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

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  It’s time to tell Jeffrey Dahmer GLUTEN FREE FROM NOW ON BUDDY. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kedvdkznoq3svejtdgrv2nmp/post/3mzlgy23zqs2z

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  LOL. No. Deploy the common sense nature gifted you. Donald Trump would order a nuclear bomb dropped on every blue state in the union before he’d resign. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hezyzlnv5l6mz2ng2w3dzamg/post/3mzj3jtpufk2t

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  That’s… not how anything works. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xk4npqvr7ei4uvb3q4u37imv/post/3mzlsnlc45s2y

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  As with Trump's coup attempt, there is a class of pundit whose attitude appears to be "Stop worrying about the guy shooting at you; he's missed so far." RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:efpytyxmwow5ffwi3dphhrlq/post/3mzljtqjhhc2o

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  It occurs to me that the way we often talk about "political capital" doesn't really take the metaphor seriously enough. Capital is something you have to invest in order to gain more of it, and which gradually loses value if not invested—not just a finite pool you spend, & then it's gone. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yj436z2s2v37rvaw33lc4ryq/post/3mzlhujm3ok2r

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  🎶 Duel of the Fates begins playing 🎵 RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sqtd523tloa7uhnq26atlq32/post/3mzizrfzr2k24

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  Trump himself has admitted he considers the costs of frivolous suits money well spent because the cost & stress of litigation makes the target’s life hell even if the suit is hopeless. Now he doesn’t even have to pay out of his own pocket; we do. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:efpytyxmwow5ffwi3dphhrlq/post/3mzjlum73f224

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  This is the same problem they have at the staffing level. The problem with winning power by pandering to the electorate’s crassest, dumbest impulses is that you tend to repulse the sort of smart, competent people you need to actually run stuff. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ecjlc5ouev63oweq5en4lsj3/post/3mzjfnaqlss2m

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  This is apparently a real thing you can bet on and I’m a little puzzled on the psychology of a Yes bet. What do you think you’re going to do with the winnings? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34jlhsnqzy4lrviksgwobhaf/post/3mzj4knxdu22m