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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 10h

Went to Maketto tonight for the first time in a long time, it still slaps. It's one of the only places around that's been able to keep the pressure on WRT quality and (dare I say?) value.

The $28 fried chicken was scandalous when it opened & at $32 now, feels like a good deal.

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 19h

College is a totally different thing. Debauched drinking is expected and normal at football games.

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 20h

Not this bama cracking open airplane bottles at a high school football game....at 12:15pm.

I know the sun is past the yardarm but c'mon son!!!

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 1d

i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.

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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1d

You are important.
You are valid.
You are loved.
You are unique.
Your mental health is important.
#WorldMentalHealthDay💚

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA initiative to run up on HBCU campuses starting shit under the guise of a “debate” is the ultimate in weirdo behavior.

You don’t want us in White spaces and we don’t go but y’all and your pet 🦝 won’t leave us alone in our own spaces. Crazy shit.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh today is World Mental Health Day!

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

Whiskey Pete gleefully braying anything makes it suspect.

Upon further reflection this goes into the same bucket as the information that Ghaddafi went to CGSC at Leavenworth (making him more qualified to be SecDef than WP); interesting and largely unimportant.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Been off the beat for a hot minute, but the US has for decades housed training units for foreign Air Forces at US bases? Singapore has had a base in Arizona since 2001, and they train in Idaho sometimes.

This is routine hegemon stuff, not a new/unique evil www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

www.nationalguard.mil

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

I knew that we trained other nations pilots on the planes we sold them, but I did not know that they kept their own planes here.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Been off the beat for a hot minute, but the US has for decades housed training units for foreign Air Forces at US bases? Singapore has had a base in Arizona since 2001, and they train in Idaho sometimes.

This is routine hegemon stuff, not a new/unique evil www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

www.nationalguard.mil

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Evan @nerditry.myatproto.social · 1d

This was Amazon until they became a cloud hosting business and Tesla only made money on their carbon offset sales.

What alternate evil will make AI companies profitable in the end?

Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 1d

AI doesn't make money, it burns it. And unlike every other big tech innovation of our lifetime, it actually gets LESS profitable as it scales larger and larger.

It's the opposite of a viable business model.

Sun God Bran @branbuilt.co · 1d

All that money being poured into AI somehow tells me there's no money in AI lol

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that white NFL fans and commentators love more than a white running back.

NFL @nflbot.bsky.social · 2d

We've lost contain 😭 @NFLonPrime

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this shit, Imma go get a haircut from the Moroccan niggas.

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

Broken clock, twice a day, you know the saying.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

At least Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf resort in Qatar, so there’s that.

HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

Dumbest thing I'm going to read today in all liklihood.

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

Couple of caveats:
1. I'm old, real old.
2. This definition of hoodrat came from my uncle in Miami

HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

JFC, we are in the upside down.

your bloody scare-ric 🎃 @ericplais.bsky.social · 1d

she also just made a statement on Twitter dedicating the prize to Trump

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

News to me too

Dr. (Nay)Who @jteedc.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t know other countries were allowed to build military bases in the United States

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 1d

I know everything should be talked about more, but Dominion Voting system being sold to a company run by a Republican voting official should be bigger news.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

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When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with and who he is getting ready to live without, and most gallingly he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along. Nobody is suggesting mass deportation of white supremacists, or the dissolution of straight marriages, or stripping away health care for conservatives. The troops and the cops weren't ever sent down primarily white streets, masked kidnappers aren't terrorizing white churches or corporate courtrooms. These supremacist hatemongers are being criticized, yes, and opposed, yes, and yes the culture of violence they have created sometimes ricochets back on them, but we are living in the country they demanded on having. We are all now experiencing the Republican proposition for humanity. Many of us are demanding they stop pursuing this proposition, and Republicans and other supremacist hatemongers insist this demand represents violence against them. Klein, by drawing the lines where he draws them, is agreeing with Republicans about this.

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Tiricohairline @trejames.bsky.social · 1d

So Republicans have taken over social media, news media, and now voting machines. Along with every branch of the government. Not frightening, at all.

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HillRat @hillrat.bsky.social · 1d

BRB, adding "Legionnaire of the AntiChrist" to my bio.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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