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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 16m

Men are lonely because they feel entitled to women *they* find attractive and feel no need to behave in a way that women would find attractive.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2h

I wish I had invested in inflatable costume companies

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3h

Trump will call this an antifa garrison

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

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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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 13h

That was harder than it needed to be, Dodgers

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 18h

Really highlights his neck vagina

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 19h

There’s a difference between a following someone because you endorse them and following because you want to see their posts in much the same way you slow down to gawk a traffic accident.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also-ran NYC band in leather jackets’

As the divisive duo re-release Blueberry Boat for its 20th anniversary, they talk being unfit for success, how indie got soft and the ‘dream come true’ of getting 1/10 in NME

www.theguardian.com

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

They had stuff to overcome: Dedra was facing entrenched misogyny in the workplace and Syril had to overcome his mother and a world unprepared for his fashion choices.

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

I do have more than a little concern that the guy with the nuclear codes is sure he’s going to burn in hell no matter what

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

I finally agree with Trump on something

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

Please read this amazing piece of writing from my daughter

The Muck, 2 AM, Bill and Fred, and Me

On alcohol, family, and true love.

sarahrockwood.substack.com

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

This needs to be the start of an Oceans 11 type movie

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · May 15

Wait so the Accountant is a murderer and the Brutalist is just an architect???

Hollywood you so crazy!

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Is this what a “growing legacy” looks like?

Graphic plotting out the number of internet searches for “Charlie Kirk” over the thirty day period following his murder and which shows an initial spike and then a steep decline back to what was occurring prior to his death.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t understand your mindset. Have you never heard the “First they came for…” poem?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the things I’m angry at Trump for, making me defend John Bolton is near the top of that list.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know anyone in a position to do something about it?

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

Some of it got into his ear canal and gave him a nasty ear confection

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

Ngo is *still* complaining about that one time someone threw a milkshake at him?

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d

MIT confirms the “place where the smartest people are” stereotype.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 4d

Breaking: MIT rejected President Trump’s "compact," which offers colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching reforms. It is the first school to do so.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

on.wsj.com

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