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Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books: One Less Car - Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL - Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone, not Penn State’s | https://linktr.ee/punkademic

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Frog and Toad flying a kite together, standing on a rocky outcropping.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog and Toad flying a kite together, standing on a rocky outcropping. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

16.09.2025 04:37 — 👍 406    🔁 79    💬 0    📌 2

Those are people who are burning. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and babies. People whose homes & lives were already destroyed, often multiple times, and who’ve endured worse suffering and indignities than most of us could ever imagine, let alone bear. This is Israel’s legacy.

16.09.2025 04:34 — 👍 226    🔁 124    💬 0    📌 0

One thing that I can depend on

16.09.2025 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rumsfeld was the harbinger

16.09.2025 03:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We are living in insane times, brought about by decades of obsequiousness to the worst people, with the worst intentions, who act in bad faith, and constantly lie through their teeth to bilk the public, enrich themselves, and shit on the rest of us while laughing along the way.

16.09.2025 03:14 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Look at my troll, dawg, I’m never getting across this bridge

16.09.2025 03:08 — 👍 132    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

I hope

16.09.2025 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

16.09.2025 02:53 — 👍 13902    🔁 3408    💬 454    📌 99

We didn’t mean OUR wedding cake we meant yours, libz

16.09.2025 03:01 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The very same

16.09.2025 03:00 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The highest tribute you could pay him

16.09.2025 02:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😤

16.09.2025 02:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(if you’re out there somewhere hit the dm)

16.09.2025 02:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

16.09.2025 02:55 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1

Same!

16.09.2025 02:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ALL ONE!

*But with all due respect, the founder’s grandson who owns/runs Bronners is rad & has instituted extremely progressive environmental & labor policies that are downright radical in comparison to anything other companies are doing. He also sources their olive oil from Palestinian farmers.

16.09.2025 02:53 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The punk girl with the charged fauxhawk and switchblades permanently altered something deep in my youthful consciousness 😍

16.09.2025 02:48 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m making my vax appts for this Thursday before these freaks can replace them with doses of horse paste, blue dye, and travel sized bottles of Bronner’s peppermint.

16.09.2025 02:42 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Like, what the fuck are we doing here? The Vice Pres did a multi-hour, unhinged, classically fascist rant as the fill-in host of a podcast previously spearheaded by the country’s most notorious contrarian, where he laid down plans to effectively round up all leftists. And this is the reporting?

16.09.2025 02:40 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Not wrong

16.09.2025 02:36 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The word “unsubstantiated” or “unfounded” or, more poignantly, “baseless” should’ve been included in the lede paragraph as well as the headline. Not doing so in a story like this is honestly the kind of thing that can get people killed. We are in uncharted waters and this is extremely dangerous.

16.09.2025 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

They’re beyond unhinged

16.09.2025 02:10 — 👍 762    🔁 177    💬 70    📌 16

those beautiful naked women have made a compelling argument i am going to steer this ship into the rocks

19.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 2333    🔁 934    💬 13    📌 15
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absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

15.09.2025 22:06 — 👍 10777    🔁 2856    💬 1894    📌 989

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

15.09.2025 22:11 — 👍 6723    🔁 1080    💬 118    📌 63

11 PARAGRAPHS until @rachelleingang.bsky.social says there’s no established connection between Kirk’s death & leftists, much less an organized leftist cabal that these conspiracy minded freaks are mobilizing to justify authoritarianism. It’s completely made up! But readers wouldn’t know it.

16.09.2025 02:29 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

16.09.2025 00:56 — 👍 13535    🔁 3273    💬 200    📌 128

Nobody is less equipped for the political moment than Schumer and I say that with zero sarcasm or hyperbole. If the Dems have any future it’s by ditching any/all vestige of these out-of-touch, bipartisan-fetishizing fossils who won’t fight for universal medical care nor against fascism and genocide.

16.09.2025 02:21 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is insane

16.09.2025 02:03 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

No matter how many times I listen to @techwontsave.us on Spotify it never shows up in my recent plays or under Your Shows, even though I follow it there 🤔

16.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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