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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 51m

Feetsies!

An Egypt hieroglyphic showing what looks like an oil lamp with feet

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1h

... Is this a spreadsheet?

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1h

These are the original colours from 3500 years ago!

Painting of Egyptian gods and pharaohs on the side of king tuts tomb in Egypt

Painting of Egyptian gods and animals on the side of king tuts tomb in Egypt

Painting of Egyptian gods and pharaohs on the side of king seti's tomb in Egypt

Painting of Egyptian gods on the ceiling of king ramses' V tomb in Egypt

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Plant B @plantb.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 100% putting a temple like this in my next ttrpg campaign

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

activists are doing a lot of good work to try to help the people being brutalized but the biggest and most important thing that needs to be done is to break the regime, by any means necessary, and absurdist mockery is proving to be an extremely effective part of the arsenal

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 15h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 1h

jim crow causing the great migration causing white flight causing ineradicable traffic violence is a real bank shot, amazed we pulled it off

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 48m

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 50m

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

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Fat Kid Deals @fatkiddeals.com · 1d

This Dominos is in an old Pizza Hut building 😭😭

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 59m

another entry in the long history of aggressively conservative the food brands. they never seem to last long because all they care about is trolling.

see also the "star-spangled ice cream" from 2003

Screenshot of ice cream website showing the following flavors:

Air Force ‘Plane’ Vanilla, Fightin’ Marine Tough Cookies & Cream, G.I. Love Chocolate, Iraqi Road, Navy BattleChip, and, inevitably, Smaller GovernMint

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · Aug 1

I love not only that this is true but that Dexter Holland is as much of a Guy Fieri-ass frosted tips goober as ever, he just sort of took a break from the HB pop punk scene to be centrally involved in curing AIDS and is now back focusing on his "Gringo Bandito" hot sauce

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 1

Seriously, if you have access to ProQuest, you can read how the "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" dude helped cure AIDS www.proquest.com/docview/2071...

Discovery of Mature MicroRNA Sequences within the Protein-Coding Regions of Global HIV-1 Genomes: Predictions of Novel Mechanisms for Viral Infection and Pathogenicity - ProQuest

Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

www.proquest.com

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 1

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 1

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

WIRED @wired.com · Aug 1

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 1

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

WIRED @wired.com · Aug 1

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

www.wired.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 13h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1h

at the mpls for the many press conference both mayor frey's campaign spokesperson and all of mpls staffer were there, handing out pieces of paper to the media with i presume their talking points. and they aren't supposed to be coordinating, but they can do this right in front of the media

Robert Haider @roberthaider.bsky.social · 10h

The way that Taylor has been out-reporting the Strib is both a massive credit to Taylor and an embarrassment to the state’s largest media outlet. The levels of completeness and factuality in Taylor’s reporting is truly impressive.

It would be nice if the editors at the Strib were paying attention.

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 13h

mid september was not the first time they campaigned together. they’ve been doing this for months at public events as a unified front saying rank all 3 of us bsky.app/profile/tayl...

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Susan of Hell @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 1h

I found our masculinity crises. Nazi in the tweets, crybaby in the streets.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 13h

Let’s see, we’ve got:
-sorry if you were offended;
-there were lots of non-Nazi messages;
-it’s probably fake; AND
-they set me up

By golly, I think this might be nonpology bingo!

"I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republican National Federation. While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored," he said.
Giunta alleged that people have been conspiring against him "in what appears to be a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination" by members of the New York City Young Republican Club.
"I have withstood a constant barrage of slanderous accusations as well as the dissemination of ai-generated social media posts to falsify past statements I've been accused of making..."

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1h

"without the political drama"

what they mean is seasoning without the people, without the Mexican people

ghouls walk among us

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

The MAGAs are selling “Border Blend” taco seasoning that they claim will “close the border on bland meals” - “because when it comes to flavor, we're all about building walls — delicious ones, that is.”

patriotdepot.com/products/bor...

Introducing the Border Blend Taco Mexican Seasoning - because who needs an open border when you've got flavor this good? Crafted with a blend of authentic spices and herbs, this seasoning brings the bold taste of Mexican street food right to your kitchen, without any of the political drama.
This blend packs a punch that'll make your taste buds sing. Whether you're whipping up tacos, burritos, or nachos, just sprinkle it on your favorite dish and let the flavor do the talking.
So close the border on bland meals and let the Border Blend Taco Mexican Seasoning spice up your life. Because when it comes to flavor, we're all about building walls — delicious ones, that is.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14h

I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...