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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah they do they feel like this

InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 17h

New friend :)

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 20h

I think that’s why she does so well courting people like Marc Anderson. The one eyed man is king among the blind…

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 21h

Tell him I’m gunna eat him if shit doesn’t turn around for me soon

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 1d

I thinks it’s fine people read YA books, but if you’re an adult and it’s the only thing you read, you have a duty to yourself to read something outside your comfort zone and grow as a reader.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 1d

So that’s why Lathe of Heaven is like that

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

For a very long time, this weird libertarian mishmash basically ran under the national radar because Portland was so small. But the whole time, my understanding of Portland was as a place where absurdist, self-determining approaches to everyday experiences were the norm.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 3d

The American schism is gunna be something else.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 3d

He’s Presbyterian!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Big fun!!!!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Marx was wrong in one respect; if an event or personage begins as farce, it will repeat as tragedy.

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

pixelated boat
@pixelatedboat
Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:

On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel.” Trump seemed to be under the
impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but
gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring"
because "the gorillas aren't fighting".
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like 'the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."
1/4/18, 9:07 PM

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

True feminism has never been achieved 🫡

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Hottest Couples costume of the year

InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

A 4chan post

A chibi orange anime cat girl with spilled orange juice (possibly Tang or SunnyD)

Anonymous

I SPIL MY JICE MODS HELP HELP
HELP HEP HELP HELP

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 4d

This is awesome.

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Ah a fellow supporter of the increased availability of public restrooms

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think they’re gunna build a big mausoleum when he dies and have him on display like Lenin?

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Was there the same ire for JLo and Shakira? Or because hips don’t lie is in English they didn’t cause a stink till the actual halftime show

InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

This is addressing a symptom, and only the symptom, of a larger problem (the hoarding of wealth and the general systems of forced hierarchy based that wealth)

InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

No I’m saying it this is a stupid analysis of the problem

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 4d

Paris, 1786:

The problem with the nobility isn’t that they’re hoarding money, but their unequal representation in the estates general.

Do you hear yourself?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 4d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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InsectSecretary @insectsecretary.bsky.social · 5d

$65!

Mr crabs shocked reaction to his restaurant check. A blasé waiter looks on

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