Charlie Whisky

Charlie Whisky

@brightapollo.bsky.social

I write, draw, code, coach

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"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." -Frank Wilhoit

We talked about acid rain in chemistry class in HS, 1984. Please don't take her word for "how things were" she's a fucking data point not a published scientist.

Simon Houpt@simonhoupt.bsky.social

So, in a new NYT essay about May 13, 1986 (the day she was born), Lena Dunham suggests that, back then, nobody in Canada or the US knew or cared much about acid rain. I hate to get in the way of a good generational shaming, but she’s just…er, totally wrong?

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Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.

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🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

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Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

Yes, the "Christ Bearer“ versions definitely fit this. Of course the clever authors can use that to imply that Jesus really was everywhere...

Ann Leckie@annleckie.com

OK, this is only "historical inaccuracy" in a sideways kind of way, but. Secondary world fantasies where the characters have "regular" names. Extra points for "Christopher/Christian" kinds of names. It's super common and I know it's only my personal worldbuilding peeve, so I don't

Good. No, really, these psychotic fucks have been setting people back for decades with this incomprehensible desire to fuck over every Latino possible, thinking they will be immune because of their proximity to power and alignment.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"Conservative Cuban Americans have long made S. Florida GOP-friendly. But Trump has deported a record number of Cubans. Older Cubans who lived in the US for decades were deported to Mexico, where they've struggled to get by. Some have been deported to Africa..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...

washingtonpost.comWhy won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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THESE FUCKING R00LED

Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

Bazooka Big Buddy Gum (circa 1968-1983): A foot-long stick of chewing gum (with a ruler printed on each wrapper to prove it), available in a variety of fruit flavors, including grape, apple, cherry, raspberry, and "Hawaiian." Rebranded for a short run in 1984 as "Big Bazooka."

No Livin' Single? Whatever, this is like Rolling Stone making its lists, just there to enrage you or validate your whiteness.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”

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You mean like how Roy Lichtenstein is art, but Jack Kirby is illustration, even though by any measure Jack Kirby is a far greater artist than Roy Lichtenstein?

Count Trashula@trashmobminis.bsky.social

What the actual hell are you talking about?!