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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 24d

future wife finding the ranking I made of LEGO sets by which ones I think I could conceivably ingest without going to the hospital

Shelley Duvall finding what Jack Nicholson has been writing in the typewriter in The Shining

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 3m

I think one of these days, hopefully soon, people will figure out that unsensible socialism eradicated housing issues, illiteracy rates, healthcare fears, and hunger in the countries in which it was practiced even if for just a time

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10h

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10h

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 10h

Zohran figure out how to institute land reform in the five burroughs

Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 10h

Please let him be this cool please please god please

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

I'm mad. Please put in the newspaper that I'm mad.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 14h

Winning strategy can’t wait for these people to step up to fascism

Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 14h

“Complicated legacy” “controversial figure” he was a mass murderer and helped construct the massive police and surveillance apparatus that is currently abducting people on the street. Fuck him.

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 15h

I just think we’d be in a different place culturally and politically if it wasn’t beaten into us by leaders that we have to respect mass murderers when they die as long as they worked for the government

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 15h

Lmao what a fucking joke

@KamalaHarris
I am saddened to learn of the passing of former
Vice President Dick Cheney.
Vice President Cheney was a devoted public servant, from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations. His passing marks the loss of a figure who, with a strong sense of dedication, gave so much of his life to the country he loved.
Doug and I are keeping Lynne, their daughters Liz and Mary, and the entire Cheney family in our thoughts during this difficult time.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 15h

Lmao what a fucking joke

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 16h

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin

More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

www.gofundme.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19h

I like cake.

But also you can donate to Human Appeal's program to rebuild agriculture in Iraq
humanappealusa.org/our-work-by-...

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 18h

Looking at following Japanese baseball next season I miss baseball

Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 19h

hmm not so sure he did

Email from Spotify with the Subject: Ray Charles made you something special

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

He voted for Cuomo. There is no mystery.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20h

Chuck Schumer's office declines to say who he voted for

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 1d

that’s stupid my password to the louvre server would have been l0uvr369

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 1d

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 23h

God please don’t let Dick Cheney be in hell alone there are so many others in that administration

Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 1d

that’s stupid my password to the louvre server would have been l0uvr369

Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 1d

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on

And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 2d

Find your local food bank here.

Donating food is great, but donating money is better if you can. That way they can purchase in bulk (cheaper that way), buy what is most needed, and save time sorting/ inspecting.

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

www.feedingamerica.org

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 2d

You can follow for free

Interlude. Summer is Dying and Baseball is Dying. 10.19.25 | Jim Mello

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Jim McRib @jimmello.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about baseball for the patrons recently

Text from the OPs piece. It reads:

It would have surprised me over a year ago to hear the language of baseball coming out of my mouth.

To talk about series and closers or bottom of the fifteenth extra innings. But my attraction to baseball started with language. Any language around a sub-culture is amorous by definition. It comes from love, the need to overpower inertia in order to describe something meaningful but singular.

Language is what we invent when the body is no longer enough. When precision is needed in order to relieve an urgency of feeling. I am attracted to that compulsion, its obsessive quality. It's a quality found in baseball and its fans.

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 2d

Seemes absolutely disingenuous to me considering that Home Depot allows ICE raids on day laborers to take place at their stores

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"'It’s killing the business,' the manager said. The manager noted that Home Depot is emphasizing “free delivery for contractors so they don’t have to risk themselves”—a sign of how the company has had to adjust."

SCOOP: Immigration Groups Weigh Boycott of Home Depot

As ICE raids target the home-improvement chain, what does the company owe its customers and the immigrants who do work for them?

www.thebulwark.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

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