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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 9h

...is this what my profile should say on dating apps

🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 9h

I don't care about the gender of who I date, I care about important things like: is your brain is sufficiently weird? can we have bizarre conversations? can you handle me going on periodic autistic rants about Farscape or Sonic the Hedgehog or other nerd shit? are you enough of a depraved pervert?

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 9h

your politics definitely do matter, but that will all inevitably come up in a bizarre conversation

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 9h

I don't care about the gender of who I date, I care about important things like: is your brain is sufficiently weird? can we have bizarre conversations? can you handle me going on periodic autistic rants about Farscape or Sonic the Hedgehog or other nerd shit? are you enough of a depraved pervert?

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 10h

you're extremely pretty jsyk!

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 11h

I keep thinking about this. I would definitely choose immortality, but I have a lot of questions about some of the mechanics. Like how elastic would my form be? If I successfully got through an Einstein-Rosen bridge, would I emerge permanently crushed from the intense gravity, or would I recover?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

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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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 11h

oh, fuck. I better tidy up the place.

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 14h

I am mercurial, I contain multitudes. I will never constrain myself to just one bagel order!

that said, for the purposes of my campaign....

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 14h

90% of the time I go poppy seed, the other 10% everything

toasted, with lox and regular cream cheese. that's all I really need.

sometimes I'll add red onion, tomato, maybe even capers, but none of that is really necessary.

alternatively: toasted with bacon, egg, and cheese, and salt & pepper

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 15h

I'm rallying an army of New Yorkers to drive you out with torches and pitchforks for your heresy

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 15h

"Montreal style" wow okay look: yes those bagels are good too, but you've just ensured I'm never voting for you as mayor of NYC

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 15h

I struggle with this. like I don't want to die, but living for-EVER-ever? even once the stars have gone out and there's nothing else left?

but maybe at some point time loops around, or I'd at least go insane in an interesting way... I'm just too addicted to information & thought to willingly end.

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 18h

republicans always make the democrats sound so much cooler than they actually are

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 19h

someone from this app made a cameo in my dream last night, and warned me to beware mollusks on the beach that could bite your head and inject a chemical that would make you *want* them to eat your brain

I replied, "I've seen your posts. if the mollusks were girls, you'd be into that"

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20h

"matthew, why do you have trouble trusting the Nobel Prize committee and their wisdom?"

Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 21h

Right-winger Maria Corina Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is an enthusiastic trump supporter, describes trump as a “visionary," and says that trump was right to bomb the Venezuelan boat, and he's Venezuela’s best chance for regime change.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as ‘visionary’ just days before her victory

Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change

www.independent.co.uk

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 20h

I love this because everything she does over there will immediately be leaked for all of our collective entertainment

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20h

The Nobel Peace Prize IS for war criminals. That's who they give it to!

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 21h

You probably are *the* best writer I know of when it comes to covering trans issues, but yeah, I didn't want to make it seem like that was the only topic you cover exceptionally well.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21h

oops

Text from news report:

“Tensions between Venezuela and America soared following the attack, but Machado insisted to The Sunday Times that Trump was right to bomb the boat.
"I totally support his strategy," Machado said.
"And I've said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It's courageous. It's visionary."”

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 21h

last night's dream largely revolved around a movie that I wish actually existed. I wish I had the means to make it a reality.

🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 21h

Good, I was worried it didn't do you justice! 😅

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🐍Kassss Asssasssin🐍 @kassassassin.bsky.social · 21h

Katelyn Burns is, in my opinion, one of the most effective writers when it comes to clearly establishing the stakes of our moment in history in easily understood terms, and I'd strongly encourage you to support her work.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 21h

It's been awhile since I've done a serious paid subscriber drive on here. I came into this year with 509 paid Patreon subscribers and set the ambitious goal of hitting 1000 by the end of this year. I'm a little behind pace on that now at 802. patreon.com/katelynburns

Katelyn Burns | Patreon

creating LGBTQ journalism

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 21h

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 22h

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 22h

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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