Eric P

Eric P

@prestemon.bsky.social

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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comMilitary Boards Are Defying Orders and Letting Trans Troops Serve (Gift Article)The service members at Navy and Marine Corps hearings are finding ways to keep trans troops in uniform.

Eric P reposted

Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.

Decades ago I saw a library book that was the Tao Te Ching in English. The author didn't know Chinese, but had read 5 English translations and decided that he had sussed out the most correct translation via triangulation or whatever. I think of it often.

Danny Lavery@dannymlavery.bsky.social

The Elegies of Tibullus, indirectly translated by someone who does not read Latin: www.thechatner.com/p/the-elegie...

Eric P reposted

TODAY! IN! SPORTS! is about the #1 sports story that I have witnessed since I started writing this newsletter The saga of Wharfie Time, the moment an Australian football team played their team's in-stadium hype video at the exact worst possible time

sports.coolToday in Sports! The Wharfie Time SagaThe tale of Wharfie Time is both beautiful and stupid, and it's why I write this newsletter. PLUS, an American cycling miracle, a *near* marathon world record on a "destroyed" Achilles, and more!

Eric P reposted

Replying to @benschwartz.bsky.social

I strongly feel that there is a lucrative business opportunity in end-to-end sedation for the entire airport experience. Plz just wake me up again when we’re in Cincinnati

Who are... three people I don't want in my kitchen?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Axios) - Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, Sen. Bernie Sanders and .. Steve Bannon will join forces at an event on Tuesday to push for human-controlled AI. @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/09/14/c...

A man has very similar days for many many years.

Dan Hon@danhon.com

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

Eric P reposted

I don’t want to panic people on here, but Threads is quickly taking the lead as the app with the most batshit navel-gazing quasi-leftist edgelord opinions that are more about personal grievances than any actual political belief

I feel like the script and especially the acting in Fargo are just terrible. I love or really like every other Coen brothers movie I've seen.

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Replying to @robdelaney.bsky.social

And yes I’m wearing a Valley Heat t-shirt. Have you listened to Valley Heat yet? It’s so funny you will damage your body laughing at it. Doug Duguay narrates the goings on in the Rancho Equestrian neighborhood of Burbank. Funniest podcast there is. www.patreon.com/ValleyHeat?u...

patreon.comGet more from Valley Heat on PatreonGet more from Valley Heat on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $5/month. Hi, welcome to Valley Heat! I'm Doug Duguay, an insurance…

Eric P reposted

Dangerous listening to music, might end up accidentally feeling somebody else's emotions. This is not my mood. I'm Freaky Fridaying. I'm supposed to be giving a big presentation at 11 and right now I'm being consumed by somebody else's yearning.

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a huge part of my childhood was stuff like this. just sort of puzzling over the Letterman Top 10 Book and trying to reverse engineer what the Iran Contra Scandal was from it

Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.

Eric P reposted

Replying to @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social

I don’t have any answers here, personally I think the only healthy version of masculinity I’ve actually encountered is Dudes At The Skatepark Supporting Each Other, so my recommendation is go hang out at skateparks

Eric P reposted

A devastating day for the Nazi Tattoos Are Nuanced Symbols That Must Be Understood Within a Full Range of Exculpatory Context community, quite possibly the dumbest community I've ever encountered online

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I need to know whether this headline was submitted with the pun intact and then changed for the sake of propriety or if they thought it was more clever not to (literally) spell out the pun or if it was somehow a coincidence that no one noticed

Dr Pop Culture USA@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social

July 5, 1996: Dolly the Sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, born in Scotland.