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Sean Parker @seanforfive.bsky.social · 1h

Ever wonder what happened to George Lincoln Rockwell’s body?

Me neither who gives a shit about a dead nazi

But man @socialistdogmom.bsky.social is a hell of a story teller and the WLG pod is the best history pod out there. Check it out

Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2d

When the commander of the American Nazi Party died, he left instructions with his successor. He wanted the military funeral he was entitled to as an American veteran. It didn't go well.

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2h

There are a couple of food categories that won't ever release their death grip on big covid-era price jumps. Coca-Cola brand drinks and Lays snacks are two of them.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2h

True. Also:

Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 3h

Some real "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" energy here, because inflation is the real story, buried at the bottom.

Screenshot of text from a news story. Text reads:

Big picture: Lay’s generates about 60% of PepsiCo’s annual sales but has seen sales slip every quarter for the last three years. Consumers in every income bracket have been ditching classic snack brands amid rising prices.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2h

🧑🏼‍🚀🔫🧑🏼‍🚀

Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 3h

it was alarming in the past few days to figure out that this world was just hanging on by a Dolly Parton

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 3h

Some real "rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic" energy here, because inflation is the real story, buried at the bottom.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 9h

🖼️ The Ceryneian Hind, BreeAnn Veenstra.

Hind on grassy hillside looking down beside blossomed tree, painting.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

Close up of Pinkie Pie looking at a newspaper comic saying “Hmpf. I thought these were supposed to be funny?”

The comic is called Ponybert by Trot Adams. It opens with a building and we see a word balloon that says “Well?” The second panel is of Ponybert, the Dilbert stand-in saying “No one is smart but me.”

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 16h

That poster is just amazing.

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Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 22h

"I built an AI that can be your friend!"

"Listen. I have friends. I need an AI that will re-grout my tub and mop the kitchen floor. Chop chop, motherfucker."

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 23h

W O W that’s good advice.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23h

‘dear rax, how can i make sure i’m ready for the day my very sick mother dies?’
www.patreon.com/posts/140925...

Your question was whether there's a way to prepare for your mother's death, not whether there's a way to worry less about it, and I'll take a stab at answering that question using my experience with my father's as an example. No, you can't prepare for it. It will be like nothing you've felt yet. Maybe you think that if you worry about it really well—if you devote yourself to this anxiety, if you memorize your fear like a prayer—you can defeat it before it defeats you, like Roman's "pre-grieving" on Succession. But it didn't work for him because it doesn't work. Authoritative as it can feel, anxiety is incapable of describing anything it hasn't actually seen, like the death of a parent. All it can do is push us around various ugly landmarks in our minds: awful experiences we've already had, pains we've already processed. Anxiety is the blustering cokehead cousin of self-soothing. It brags about everything it knows to conceal the fact that it doesn't know anything. You can't feel what you haven't felt until, well...until you feel it.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 23h

Oh man, that movie is so good. Lumet was a treasure, brilliant until the end.

Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit Month of the Terrible One is accurately named.

Mid-January through mid-February is the fucking worst.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2d

*tips trilby* M'waukee

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2d

And these are all unforced errors in manufactured issues. Just wait until a real crisis or disaster strikes and watch the incompetence magnify.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, that was our main motivation, too!

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 2d

When we reorganized our pantry a few years back, we bought a combination of round Cambro and Rubbermaid Commercial (yellow lid) containers for dry storage. Highly recommend both.

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Dorkula Dad @dorkdad.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely. I don't care much one way or the other about the Epstein scandal (there are much deeper problems with Trump and MAGA than revealing that the richest people in the country are shitty pedos), but it's a great wedge issue to break off the conspiracy caucus.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 3d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 4d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 3d

There’s some wild authentic community building happening in this thread

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11d

Hello Tuesday.
Dust cover for Brian Wildsmith’s Blue Bird.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Again, I just want to reiterate: we are in a golden age for people that want to crime. Go plan the most elaborate heist you can imagine. You'll get away with it, all the feds are otherwise occupied.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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