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Any pronouns. Gender is weird and I try not to participate.

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · Aug 15

Stop using the word "perfect" to describe trans people existing in public. If you want to sacrifice people, say it with your full chest.

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t help but notice that a lot of the people who respond to any critique of our party with “but the other guys are Nazis!!” still get upset when one suggests that Democratic politicians shouldn’t eagerly pursue bipartisanship with the Nazis or treat Nazi statements as if spoken in good faith.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13h

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 11h

I asked grok. 39 states allow grass, but it is still federally illegal.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13h

If you're happy the 20 Israeli hostages are home (as I am) but silent on the 10,000 Palestinian hostages still languishing in Israeli prisons without charge or due process of law—then you'll have to stop pretending its hostage taking you were ever upset about.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

MARXISM TAUGHT ME WHAT SOCIETY WAS. I WAS LIKE A BLINDFOLDED MAN IN A FOREST, WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE NORTH OR SOUTH IS.
IF YOU DON'T
EVENTUALLY COME TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE, OR AT LEAST HAVE A CLEAR IDEA THAT SOCIETY IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR AND
RE
THAT SOME PEOPLE SUBJUGATE AND
EXPLOIT OTHER PEOPLE,
YOU'RE LOST IN A FOREST, NOT
KNOWING ANYTHING.
-FIDEL CASTRO

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 13h

Mt. Optional Everest 😂

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

Such a good use of the hollow face illusion. The white garage panels really sell it. Happy Halloween!

ᒍᗩᗴ 🇿🇦 ᖇOK @jaerok.bsky.social · 1d

Trick or Treat 👻

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 14h

What field is this? (It's just a penny?)

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

For folks hoping for a nuremberg moment, I thought this video essay by Jacob Geller did a really great job of moving through the fantasy toward a real reckoning with what, well, real reckoning might look like

Fantasies of Nuremberg

YouTube video by Jacob Geller

www.youtube.com

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 16h

Are they just all out of Hot Dog Guy costumes?

Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 16h

Let's agree that if someone sees a negative effect on their life they should try cutting down, perhaps going without.

I just see moralizing about porn getting bundled with a lot of other unhealthy ways of thinking and weird pseudoscience. Cutting out porn is not going to benefit most people.

Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 16h

Boundaries are good.

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 16h

I've heard the test for trademark infringement is whether it would confuse "a moron in a hurry".

This would confuse a lot of morons.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

Comedians be like The road is canceling me 😂

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 17h

Yeah, usually. I never really cared that much.

Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 17h

I'd say there is no scientific evidence of any benefit to not masturbating for a month.

Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 17h

Hell yeah!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

So tempting to teach an online course in rhetoric by just using NYT headlines

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 17h

Does the idiom "preaching to the choir" translate into Spanish well?

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 1d

Are you ever frustrated when your camera doesn’t pick up the colors the same way you’re viewing them?

#JusttheTip

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Pumpkin Spice Enthusiast @flow.blacksky.app · 18h

if you see this post a random picture from your device without explaining it

A line of dolls proceeding across a yard, carrying what appear to be two human bodies wrapped in garbage bags.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

You’re still shocked that they have made no developments since 2016 except ya know rewriting everything so it’s in the hands of white people

But you have NO IDEA how we got to folks being snatched off the streets?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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