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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

Daffy Duck is the one true Worf.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

Florence is the Rome of Italy.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

Call it a sofx, anything else is Fat Mike erasure.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

Calvin's TULIP-o-mania is an understudied reason for the economic collapse of the July Monarchy, but you aren't ready for that discussion.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

I have to fight for my right to part-Catalan every day, but a Basque Trot with Protsadist tendencies like you could never understand. Maybe once the Falangists fully consume the Reform Party you'll get it.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

Shaving your vuvuzela is a biphobic antcolonialist act, but it's so Ezra Klein you get a free Labubu.

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Derleth @derleth.bsky.social · 13h

So you're a Baptist?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

Are women under especially strong pressure to smell good? Yes. But it's actually both genders - Axe body spray exists for a reason.

Also, the desire to smell good basically dates back to the earliest days of human civilizations.

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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 18d

Customer: (not on record)
DMV: NUT

Verdict: DENIED

California license plate with text "NUT UP 1".

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22d

“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22d

Honesty, I have no idea what "woke" means in the first place, other than that it's something Trump hates. And "woke right" makes even less sense to me. What's with this nomenclature?

The Woke Right Comes Of Age

And you thought they were in favor of free speech!

open.substack.com

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dolly Fucker

United States, Census, 1860

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Helli⭕️n Raiser @raisinghellions.bsky.social · Aug 11

Full series of events

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Helli⭕️n Raiser @raisinghellions.bsky.social · Aug 11

Stay salty DC 🔥

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 12

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · Aug 8

Adult human chicken:

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · Nov 28

Adult. Human. Chicken.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 15

Incidentally, Judge ShaSha Xu, who permitted this in the example above, was appointed in 2023 by Executive Office of Immigration Review. Not clear on how EOIR works so not sure how accurate it is to call that a Biden administration appointee.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 15

I represented the government prosecuting white supremacists, some of who LIVED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, and street gang members, and freeman on the land movement people, and members of the Mjahedeen-Fucking-E-Khalq, and I said my goddamned name. What’s with these spineless creeps?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jul 15

I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is where people start sounding like their own breed of fundamentalist death cult, where they essentially say that it’s better millions die than that they live and maybe view the US favorably and help its interests as a result.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 6

These people claim to be leftists but as soon as you bring up US foreign aid, they switch to “aid is a CIA plot, which means poor people should just figure out how to be not-poor on their own without US meddling.”

They suddenly sound exactly like Marco Rubio.

It’s astounding.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Jul 3

Genuinely asking for a friend: is there a way to see what labels have been applied to your account without having to subscribe to each labeling service that labeled you?

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Jun 25

That's right

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia waving his hat happily while looking up

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Withkindereyes @withkindereyes.bsky.social · May 10

I really need your help please. Even if it’s just donating a dollar to my kofi. I didn’t get this far just for things to end now. I can’t do this by myself I know because I’ve been trying. I thought the job would be enough.

Withkindereyes @withkindereyes.bsky.social · May 10

My private loans have started sending my family letters so I need to start picking up on commissions ASAP. If you are interested please reach out

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Jun 22

Um, apparently I just won two Locus Awards, which is great! Except that somebody had to read my acceptance speeches, which were about sloth poop and canine transmissible venereal tumors, and can someone tell me who read those so that I can send them an apology fruit basket?

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · Jun 17

Look at the tuft on this titmouse

Zoomed in photo of a tufted titmouse in our Bird Feeder

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