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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 1h

hanging out, waiting for the dryer to finish so we can go fold more clothes

GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 21h

screensaver is a great game, you can place bets on if it's going to decide to turn on or not. just when you think you know its tricks, it tricks you again.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 23h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 3d

30 years ago today, we first heard “In the Garden of Eden” by I. Ron Butterfly. "Bart Sells His Soul," first aired October 8, 1995.

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 3d

but he's so good at it

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 3d

finish folding those clothes Xerxes!

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 3d

Xerxes has a lot of clothes to fold tonight

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 4d

Coco is a lil fluff

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 4d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 6d

a very floofy guy

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 6d

Coco went to the spa

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 9d

two sleepy guys

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 10d

Zap chewed a hole in the corner of my laptop bag when i wasn't looking, he's not sorry either.

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 10d

shadow never holds still when want a photo!

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 10d

troublemakers

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GG Launchbaugh @gglaunchbaugh.bsky.social · 10d

Bunnies hopping all over the place tonight

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...