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Army vet, financial planner, & degenerate boxing fan 🪖📈🥊 Probably watching a cat-trap.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

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JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 2d

He brought ber back home and the guy's mother was immediately like "thats a trans person", followed by the guy's buddies also telling him they think she is trans. Let's call this what it was: A dude having the most bad-faith post-nut clarity in history.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 4d

They absolutely report to and serve the governor unless mobilized for federal Title 10 orders.

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 4d

Guardsmen don't just individually decide who to follow... they're going to do what their own unit leadership tells them. They don't say "everyone who wants to be on our side stay here, everyone else go with them". Its "do what you're ordered to do or be court martialed. *Possibly* some might be AWOL

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 4d

This will definitely help with the "he was killed by Israel" conspiracies. My god, hard to come to grips with the timeline we're living in.

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

An inside joke between you and your boss is a little different than something like that with no context being posted in public areas, etc. But again it sounds like this actual flyer was not physically posted there, I think that part was made-up wholesale by Redditors from what I can tell. Idk 🤷🏻‍♂️

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

Thats what I mean, firing your entire staff is bad enough, it sorta pokes holes in things when folks start asking what is real and what is fabricated.

Also... I know theres a pink tax and all that but holy shit, a plastic hairlclip for $50? Whats it cost to manufacture each, 50 cents?

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

Oh wow. Never seen that before. Weird then that someone posted a photo of that image on Reddit in response to this specific company firing their warehouse. That does make it seem like the intention was to make the company look as bad as possible.

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

She's just a smol billion-- I mean bean, Michael!

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

What does 2 even mean? Someone not affiliated with the company put this up as an inside joke, and it was posted to Reddit the same exact day they fired all their staff?

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

I missed the "created" part. Whoops. So then what, someone framed them with that letter to make them look bad at the same time they fired all their staff?

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 5d

What does "its not real" even mean in this context? A disgruntled employee posted that on company letterhead? Weird how they don't say anything like "we didn't post that in our building"/"that is not something we created" etc

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 7d

I will never not repost this

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JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 6d

When I was in the Army in the early 2010s they were pretty strict about referring to OC/CS gas/tasers/rubber bullets as LESS lethal not non-lethal, specifically because there is absolutely a possibility (and not a remote one) that the person(s) you use it on could die. These cops will get disability

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 6d

Also, the guy who never STFU about DEI/Affirmative Action, how if he sees a black pilot he gets nervous etc... none of that is racial/race-hustling... weird.

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Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 7d

"Just the other day, a cyborg from the future came up to me, tears in his remaining eye, and said, "Sir..."

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 8d

Same with telling Zelensky he hasn't even said "thank you" at the White House recently.

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 10d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 12d

The rub is that if there is a single city that probably *should* have a beefed up anti-terrorism task force type entity, its NYC, but I'll take less cops/federal agents in public any way I can get them (I say from a city substantially smaller than NYC but I think still applies)

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 12d

The good thing about having principals instead of being a contrarian/culture warrior is you don't have to check your priors to see how to respond to new info. I'll take it, genuinely and unironically, thank you Trump!

JJ @jsidewinder.bsky.social · 12d

I have sympathy for the fact that many of these folks are genuinely unwell, but my god, so much of SovCit behavior/tactics reeks of a child pouting/stomping their feet going "I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me!!" Its infuriating the way they think they're special & not beholden to laws