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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 6h

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

I would like this to be true as much as anyone but with regard to him talking about getting into heaven it feels equally likely that this is just him workshopping a new running bit for his speeches. He used to talk about low flow toilets all the time, this could be 2025's toilet bit

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

As good universalists the reporters at Sky News understand that we will all one day be resurrected through Christ and merely sleep until that day arrives

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

Hegseth's little speech to the brass is actually a good example of this dynamic: we were all worried they were planning a purge to create a loyal military, but instead he just called them fat and gay and then sent them back to base. No strategy, only spectacle

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I suppose the multiparty democracies aren't exactly covering themselves in glory here either

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 3d

What gives me hope is that the right still seems to have very little interest in actually deploying violence in organized, strategic ways, or in incurring serious risks to themselves in situations where they aren't protected by a favorable government.

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 5d

Literally said that to Kate lmao

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 6d

-losing his fucking mind on the internet

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 10d

Bsky declined to ban Jesse Singal, then someone said you shouldn't make up slurs for robots, then Germany invaded Belgium which brought the UK into the conflict

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 16d

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 19d

Also I worked at a transitional housing facility for a bit and almost all our residents were perfectly nice aside from two who drove me up the fucking wall every single day, a pretty common ratio for social service work I've found

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 19d

My parents have been working at a soup kitchen once a week for many years now and at this point are basically friends with a bunch of the regulars

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 23d

steam screenshot showing the upcoming release of Europa Universalis V from Paradox Interactive

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 24d

Aragorn: doot doot doot, doot doo doot doo, doot doot doot, doot doo doot doo, I'm packed and I'm movin smilin she's livin she's golden she lives for me says she lives for me--

Frodo: What are you singing?

Aragorn: ....................................

Frodo: Strider?

Aragorn: the lay of luthien

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 25d

I don't know if this was a typo or not but I think it has legs

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 29d

I wonder if part of the reason why the Republican party has marched toward extremism so rapidly is because the two-party system makes it much harder to maintain a cordon sanitaire around the far right. Easier to do that when they actually have their own separate party

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · Sep 16

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

👻 {rem @postes.zip · Sep 16

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · Sep 16

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Sep 13

Fifty years from now all the doddering millennials will look back on pre-Musk Twitter in the manner of the Noldor remembering their childhood in lost Valinor

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Sep 12

I used to be afraid that I wouldn't be good at taking care of/playing with young children but it turns out babies come equipped with an extremely effective biofeedback system (baby smiles)

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bob Mortimer on WILTY saying "A sniper's dream they used to call him"

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Sep 10

I always find conversations about whether revolutions are "good" or not to be unproductive, mainly because I think revolutions are best understood in terms of a collapse of political agency under the pressure of circumstances, rather than as a strategic choice you can opt in or out of

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Tom BPM (the B stands for Boo👻) @bearpigman.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

PBS News @pbsnews.org · Sep 7

Pope Leo XIV canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old who died in 2006, as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on Sunday.

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Sep 5

As someone who works for a hospital I can confirm that 90% of healthcare workers are no more capable of navigating insurance issues than their patients/customers are

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · Aug 30

And Donald Trump--who did NOT die--

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