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@therafischwartz.bsky.social

Co-owner: Discourse Blog. "One blogger" - The New York Times. Found at various points of time in: Rolling Stone, Mic, GOOD, Heeb. Splinter was a good website. I'll have the soup. www.discourseblog.com

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I just wanna see some hot toon greeks go BLAM BANG BOOM SLAM SHOOT SLASH BANG BANG and sometimes make silly jokes and plant my flowers and take a soak

07.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, it's nice. He's basically the frog, but in the air. I love this stupid silly game!

07.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

nah, it's cool man. I got him and that nice bird who pecks the various ghoulies that get in my way

07.10.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

but you get to talk to your frog friend, so it's all good

07.10.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

IDK if it's still there, but she literally had a link to her (extremely poorly written) resignation letter on the homepage menubar of her personal website. That's not cancellation!! That's just being an megalomanic with rich friends.

07.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tangential to Eli's point, but worth pointing out the alleged "cancelling" in 2020 is actually just that she very publicly quit her high profile job because she was extremely bad at it.

07.10.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

ok

07.10.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

HE'S the one who flipped the spigot upwards. His own damn fault.

07.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, like, we get it man. Sucks. That's life. But it's a public restroom, pal. Keep it moving.

07.10.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

hate when this happens to me

07.10.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 6: Halloweenie

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 6: Halloweenie

07.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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oh damn just remembered my format for mainstream nerd, nerd nerd, and dirtbag nerd

07.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is Broadway going on strike? What to know about the recent union negotiations Union talks could dim the lights on 32 shows

"The next big Broadway opening could be a picket line." www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

07.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is America contagious? Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

NEW: I talked to scholars who study political contagion about how America’s freefall could affect the rest of the world. They are… concerned. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

07.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

Would this lizard man lie?

07.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alien$ comes to mind

07.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yeah

07.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think probably greed has led to some pretty good art, tbh

07.10.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is also how we start every @discourseblog.com meeting

07.10.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's aggressively Sorkin, which is neither usually just a matter of taste, not actually a question of "good or bad." But in this instance...it's real bad.

07.10.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CBS internal slack is about to become one of the funniest, meanest corners of the digital world

07.10.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bari offers a rousing testimonial in support of a federal transgender ban to a plane full of normal people wondering why this crazy person is making a scene.

07.10.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's extremely possible, if not outright likely, that Bari's sole point of reference for *her entire job* is HBO's "The Newsroom"

07.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the whole I thought this well-deserved Bari fisking was fun and good, but hoooo boy does this seem to me like a bumper crop of awfully thin assumptions in this graf here...

www.theverge.com/business/793...

07.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t tell me what you see. I don’t care.

07.10.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I bet you could axolotl people what animal they see below and they’ll all say the same thing.

07.10.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

imagining the Ken Burns SECOND CIVIL WAR documentary

just a slow pan across Kash Patel’s FBI portrait set to an AI Shelby Foote voiceover

β€œOf course the gentleman frum Subway Takes nevuh *wahnted* to command a militia… but these were uhnprecedented times…”

06.10.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, they did just re-release their Curdburger, so

06.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, the terminal gastrointestinal distress this thing brings with it would absolutely qualify me for an afterlife reserved for warriors who died in battle. PT Anderson just made a whole dang movie about my stomach.

06.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I will eat every lactaid in existence and wash it down with one of these in Valhalla

06.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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