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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 9m

Plum jam😋😋😋

journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 14m

3 hour video essay from Bashar al-Assad exploring the themes in Clair Obscur

Tweet: “Bashar al-Assad now lives quietly in a luxury tower in Moscow, reportedly addicted to spending long hours playing online video games, according to Die Zeit.”

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Nurbsy @nurbsy.bsky.social · 2h

Smurfs real. I can’t talk more right now but smurfs are real

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2h

The first and only Burger King to receive a Michelin star is in Carteret, New Jersey

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 4h

Lol

journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 5h

My beautiful daughter Morganza Louisiana

New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 5h

Morganza, Louisiana
Pop: 575

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morganza,_Louisiana

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133712677
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35516792
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21186110

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count jonkula @jonk.bsky.social · Feb 20

No, I want to watch scrubs,
Scrubs is the show that’s got Turk and JD,
Eagle in the parking lot side,
And his best friend's wife,
She’s called Carla to me

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count jonkula @jonk.bsky.social · 5h

A pumpkin just carved me #scary #ohhellno!

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 5h

That time of year I guess. Rest well

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · Jul 28

Soaring into the week’s end

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 16h

It sure is

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna tell them all to learn to code

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

Just shipped a huge project that has consumed my life for 3.5 years and it went off without a hitch due to my genius nature

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Brandon Doughan 🍶 @brandondoughan.bsky.social · 1d

Legionnaires of The Antichrist opening for Queens of the Stone Age

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

If I were the opposition party I would be screaming from the rooftops about corruption and promising a truly brutal anti corruption crackdown but what do I know

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina takes a chainsaw to their own government and we have to bail them out. Brazil protects their democracy by prosecuting coup plotters and we hit them with extortionate “corruption” tariffs👍

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 2d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

Also he’s dead so it doesn’t count I guess

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

Probably not The Greatest but John Prine is up there for me. “Well I sat there at the table and I acted real naïve, for I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”, the man had a way with words

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 4d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t have my name in your contacts?

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

I hate him so much

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

There is a Russian man named Anton on the new season of Love is Blind and he has a forearm tattoo that just says “Russian”

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

NJ born and bred baby

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 2d

That’s real love. Cutlet love

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