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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's time to light the candles.
It's time to chant the rites.
It's time to summon Satan
On the Muppet Show tonight!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Arcane Bullshit @arcanebullshit.bsky.social · 3d

do your birds or you are going out into the trainyard without a halberd.

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes, what a war-torn hell hole, amirite?

Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 3d

Status in Portland, 10 pm-ish

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn @deborahelizabeth.bsky.social · 3d

This is my main takeaway from @aclu.org's recent training for protesters: if questioned by law enforcement officers, confine your responses to these five sentences.

Otherwise, STFU.

Five Key Phrases

Am I free to go?

I wish to remain silent.

I do not consent to this search.

Am I under arrest?

I want to speak to a lawyer.

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 2d

I knew we had the *regular* kind, on account of the whiskey rebellion being here and all that. (There's a local distillery named after those events, and the "whiskey rebellion lodge" was the local O.T.O. lodge that Todd and I were members of for a while.)

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 3d

One way I know I have the right friend group is, this is the kind of question that could cause us to extend a lunch hour to ninety minutes.

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 3d

It was a lot of work to get into (and out of!), but I think I'm ready for tomorrow. But only because @lizardincrimson.bsky.social helped me put it on and take it off -- it's not a one-person job.

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Benny 666-Cults @teeveeben.bsky.social · 4d

lol people HATE this post so much but actually you can safely do this

There’s going to be several million people at these protests. If you’re not doing crimes, if you’re standing with a bunch of retirees in front of the mall or wherever, you can take the picture and share it.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5d

So there is apparently a new wave of Twitter folks here? Well, here’s a starter pack of cat accounts if you’d like! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 5d

Mine's an inflated frog that's black with a skeleton printed on it. I normally walk with a staff because I'm too tall for a cane, plus, look at my profile picture, I look like a wizard anyway.

So, I'm calling the costume a "frog lich" (or maybe bullywug lich).

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 6d

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 7d

Life goals.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 7d

I was honestly surprised at how much Rudy Ruckers "Ware Tetralogy" avoided that when I first read it. It took me quite a while to realize how long ago it had been written.

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 7d

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Chris Sotomayor 🇵🇷 @sotocolor.bsky.social · 8d

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 8d

Best I can do is late noughties.

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 9d

This is the way.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 11d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 10d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 11d

(We're a mixed household. I'm DC, my wife is Marvel.)

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 11d

Ah. Hm. Okay, I'll think over resuming the whole series.

(But as it happens, I'm a big Superman fan. The "incorruptible boy scout" version of him, at least.)

Doug DeJulio @dfjdejulio.bsky.social · 11d

So, for someone who got the "ick" from the first episode or two and who has pretty much skipped S2, would you recommend just ignoring most of it and watching the last episode?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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