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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner

@bryangarner.bsky.social

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My improv diary (talkin' to myself and making notes). Content strategy and franchise management, but no work stuff mentioned. Gardening. Pets. Gratitude. Improv. I still think MAGAts are f*tards, but won't mention it (much).

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · Apr 25

Done

Venus in Retrograde🎉 PhD in Nonsense @whatsername2.bsky.social · Apr 21

Happy to say my acct has been verified with the symbol : 🎉

It verifies you as a shitposter, and/or just validates you in general...the way your parents never did.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 1h

Tuberville, Rand Paul, Warnock, Ossoff, Vance...

Plenty of peeps have, on both sides

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 1h

Where's Fox?

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 3h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov - Please buy up all the Truth Social stock and turn it into a left-leaning Xitter.

Sure, it has less revenue than a Chick-fil-A (not open Sundays!), but it appears to be on sale now.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 3h

Hey, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you should purchase NMQ: DJT and counter Elon's Xitter. It's down to $16 (was less than $10 earlier today), nearly 90% off it's high.

That seems like it would be a full-throated fuck you. Think about it.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 3h

Who did this?

resistance frog wearing a white wig saying give me ribberty or give me death

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 10h

Are the people making this argument the same ones saying that we should close off our borders to foreign ideas and not do trade with other countries?

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 10h

No kings in cities is well and good, but rural protests and demonstrations by farmers and people affected by healthcare/infrastructure/grocery prices would be an effective tool.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 13h

What makes it not? Surely NY style folding would make it one, yes?

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 13h

"The crown was too small"

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 1d

"From here I'm going to be more abstract..."

Me:

a little girl with blonde hair is making a funny face while sitting in a car seat .

ALT: a little girl with blonde hair is making a funny face while sitting in a car seat .

media.tenor.com

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Gian D’Oh @giandoh.bsky.social · 2d

Who called it a mirror and not self-checkout?

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 1d

Among the numbers I still remember:

Family home
Most of my friends from HS
Family business phone
2 neighbors
My dad's ex-wife (coordinating childcare for the grandchildren)

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 1d

Job narket so bad you're making me protest to make ends meet. Gig economy ain't what it used to be.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

That physical must have been a doozy

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

Already proven these can be corrupted. Let's waste some ad dollars trying sell me tampons.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: defund the police

Wired: police dedund themselves

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

The James Franklin news is a reminder that not winning is a greater sin than sexual assault.

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

The Usual Suspects

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 2d

Just for fun…

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't there a $50 mil buyout?!

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

#SpainInASongOrMovie

Seville Brides for Seville Brothers

(Am I doing this right.)

DonQuixotext 🇬🇧🇪🇸 @donquiotext.bsky.social · 2d

#SpainInASongOrMovie

The Magnificent Sevillia

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

This feels like the root, to me. Private power has exceeded the state.

SCOTUS paid for. Musk's DOGE eliminating competition and forging his own contracts. Crypto bribing the prez. Rich people running for the Senate in states they don't live. TechBros. burdening resources.

Stankvicious @stankvicious.bsky.social · 3d

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." Pres Roosevelt

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

"You cannot wield a thermometer to help you change a tire."

See: Pritzker, Platner, etc al.

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10d

Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]"

www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

www.weekendreading.net

🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 2d

Advertising refers (referred? I'm old) to it as 'effective frequency.' The number of times ppl need to hear a message (or name of person they met at a party) before it sticks. Using multiple channels can lower (improve) the effective frequency