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nathanalderman.bsky.social
Husband, dad, writer, editor, volunteer, Oxford comma enthusiast, colossal nerd. Opinions are my own. He/him/"hey, you!"
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Fine, AI can probably make the thing look better than you can. Make the thing yourself anyway. See what you’re capable of. Discover what you’re good at. Fail and learn something from it.

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Drinking seltzer, wondering what the market is for “water, but it tastes like someone waved a piece of fruit at it.” Besides me, apparently.

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🎶 Oh! What a feeling / When the ants are on the ceiling 🎶

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“Of course it’s an emergency, your honors. Think of all the people who won’t die unless you grant us relief!”

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“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows”

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I feel like it's instructive to remember that before he turned against the Emperor, Darth Vader also helped destroy an entire planet, made a lot of spaceships explode, and killed a BUNCH of children.

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I just told my eldest that Gandhi was one of the bravest people who ever lived. My eldest countered with Adolf Hitler, because “he shot himself.” Either I’m talking to them too much about history, or not enough.

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@markwarner.bsky.social is still politically dead to me -- Laken Riley Act, GENIUS Act, etc. -- but I gotta admit, this is the most effective communication I've ever seen from him. (Or maybe I'm just a sucker for a well-doodled whiteboard.) You do, in fact, gotta hand it to him.

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Hey, this is cool! I happen to have a piece that'd go perfectly with this...

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Instead of “we must fight back,” I just want to hear a politician say, “Here are the specific things I’m doing. And here’s what you can do.”

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Did not expect to tune into @darkuniversepod.bsky.social's HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES episode and get thought-provoking, Criterion-caliber film analysis of Rob Zombie's Marx Bros./Texas Chainsaw Massacre AU fanfic.

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During J. Edgar Hoover’s heyday, the FBI particularly stunk at fighting actual crime because they were spending all their time illegally spying on regular Americans instead.

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Imagining a @theonion.com headline: Trump Administration Announces Ban on Borderless Printing "We Must Keep Our White Borders Well-Defined Against the Spread of Color," Says Stephen Miller

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It remains refreshing to see politicians do their job from a foundation of simple human decency.

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Every time I see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, I'm amazed by his resemblance to crusading Hell's Kitchen lawyer Matt Murdock. Given his support for free bus service, call him Farelevel: Zohran Without Peer.

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Ah yes, a rolling robocop with a comparatively small footprint and what appears to be a high center of gravity, I see no easily exploited design issues there

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What if we took our reputation for decades of history-changing reporting and institutional courage and set it alllllll on fire in exchange for absolutely nothing?

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It's #recommendsday! This post from @mikedawson.bsky.social reminded me of STYLE: THE ART OF WRITING WELL by F.L. Lucas, a 1955 book about how good character fuels good writing, and also about how much its author despised the Nazis. (A lot!) Truly, a tome for our times! 🧵

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I am exhausted with having to constantly parse the gossip and motives and intentions of handful of incredibly dumb people with inadvisably vast power, like we're all courtiers at Versailles or something. America shouldn't work like this.

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Congrats to @danschkade.bsky.social on possibly the best "to be continued" blurb in comics history: comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...

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