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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

Wait none of you followed me over here from Twitter

How are you people doing Billy Joel chats like it was normal and don't know that obviously if we have to bracket, rainbow trout

I have fundamentally misunderstood the audience on this site

Y'all just met me? Welcome!

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

Hey guys I'm trying to win a bet

Please comment here and let me know if you are aware of the fishfuucking discourse

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is cutting mental health services. Specifically, the people staffing 988 will be unsure of their employment.

What we need to do to help support them is tell their bosses they have saved our lives, or kept us company, or helped.

And insist they tell their staff you said so.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, man, I just happen to be the person the real magic knows. I'm always astounded by what y'all can do.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

It is fucking bullshit that a guy who can and wants to work isn't allowed to because then he wouldn't be poor enough to qualify for lifesaving critical care.

But it'll be a cold day in hell before we merely accept the state of things like this as reasonable.

And that's why we win in the end.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

Okay

Have we thought about leveraging our ability to maintain absolute control over our bodies and faces in front of customers as class praxis, defined as the fleecing of any idiot not aware of how wages work

Play more poker with rich people, they won't believe it when they see you coming.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

Lol you could probably just riff on my thought pattern here and nail it

Dude played shit poker. Never brag to the room generally and then announce you're bored. It's like just rolling over to show your tummy and handing someone a knife with an invitation to the soft bits.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

So like I said.

Not exactly direct aid, but fucking cackle on this one.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

So what had happened was a dude tried to play a card game for money with someone he thought would be bad at cards.

He was not quiet about his fuckery, he thought it was a brag.

Turns out one eyed bitches have an edge in bluffing. My new friend got his next week of dinners paid.

Small wins. Cheers

Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

I should probably say this is under two hundred bucks and the reason I need it is because someone is being a dick to a disabled person near me and I intend to let them underestimate me.

Can't be outsmarted by the wheelchair people with the low IQs, right, what's that say about you?

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

Now and again solidarity looks like waiting until someone shows their bigotry in ways you can ritually humiliate them over and then going hard.

IDK why people do this shit in front of me, like of all the people to fuck up in front of out of sheer stupid cruelty, buddy this wasn't your day

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

I should probably say this is under two hundred bucks and the reason I need it is because someone is being a dick to a disabled person near me and I intend to let them underestimate me.

Can't be outsmarted by the wheelchair people with the low IQs, right, what's that say about you?

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

The reason this might be solidarity is because an informed populace is harder to trick. One needs to understand the board before one sits at the game. When you see people playing that have no idea what the stakes are then you can tell them, and they can react accordingly.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 2d

Today solidarity might look a lot like understanding what precisely posse comitatus is and why people might be talking about title ten.

This is a very good time to make sure we all know what is legal, what is extralegal, and what things which are being shattered are laws v norms.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

It's just my life.

Keep_You_Warm @yarngirl-mug.bsky.social · 5d

@killermartinis.bsky.social I know we’ve not interacted, but I’ve followed you for years on the bad place and now you here.

Watching the Billy Joel documentary, and thinking of all of your Billy Joel tweets/posts over the years. ❤️

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Labor in general. The tables are widely available so long as the administration hasn't yet found them disagreeable for whatever reason. I am sure you are capable of extrapolating by sector.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps you are not aware of the most common injuries in American labor. Sport of any sort does not break the top twenty. Policing doesn't break the top ten.

By far, the most dangerous jobs in America are to do with transport or the production of food.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

I think that a lot of discussion of celebrities is people thinking they're discussing a person and not a machine. My critique is with the CEO, not the artist.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Her whole life is a super weird problem. I feel for the lady on that. Also it isn't in any way her fault that her fans have decided that she runs worldwide cultural hegemony.

But she also doesn't discourage them. She's grown, she's making choices.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

What I do know is that fairly soon we won't have to hear from her fans about how really some shitty lyrics about adolescent angst are somehow relevant to everyone alive because of ticket sales.

So that is nice to look towards.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Not my music, i can respect the talent, I'm not saying she cant write catchy music. but the image has always been creepy af, and the way she's always played it has been peak bucket crabs even when she owned the whole ocean. Now she has to switch her narrative and idk she knows how to.

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Man if Taylor swift gets the wobbles from thinking about dudes playing football i think maybe she hasn't realized that she's fundamentally not human enough to date literally anyone who does labor.

People who fetishize this sort of thing creep me out, its not like her whole career hasn't been teehee

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning.

States may or not be invading other states at federal direction, the general public does not understand posse comitatus or titles 10/32

Bari Weiss and Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are the media

Saddle up cowboys today will be a rough ride

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 6d

I did figure out how to draw a podcasting vole, so we have that

Dude I said it was a podcasting vole, why are you searching the image, it is a rodent with a mic. Which I guess is technically true but it's a shit description.

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