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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 7m

as a white person I endorse this statement without reservation

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 9m

RACCOONOSAURUS!!!

easily the biggest one I've ever seen, in life or pictures

Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 13m

👑 Raccoonosaurus 👑 and friend.

Great size comparison photos showing how huge Raccoonosaurus (on the right in all these photos) is, compared to a normal sized raccoon.

I think his size is likely in part due to genetics & knowing where to get constant sources of food.

#mammals

A black and white night photo from my garden giving a good size comparison between Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and a normal sized adult raccoon. There are shrubs and plants to the sides and behind the raccoons.

Another black and white photo from the garden showing Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and a normal sized adult raccoon on the left. Shrubs and plants are to the side and behind the raccoons with small landscaping rocks on the ground in the foreground.

Black and white photo from the garden showing Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and an adult, normal sized raccoon on the left. Raccoonosaurus is huge, and, I think, very friend shaped. I think we could become the best of friends and he could help me assemble a raccoon army (should I need one).

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 11m

that huge empty dome

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 12m

but you can't expect a quisling to know or honor that fact

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 13m

just really nailed it, didn't he?

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 26m

you're shorting Kavanaugh: he's also a famous drunk

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 27m

without a doubt!

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 28m

it's really laughable that this ersatz person is considered "smart" or "intelligent"

anybody who assisted the rise of a charlatan of this ilk should apologize and sit down

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 38m

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 31m

this thread puts it about as succinctly as one can (and this is a consistently good follow, fwiw):

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 43m

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 38m

twenty minutes?! I'm with him: fuck that literal noise

(and he's beautiful, btw)

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 41m

fills your heart with joy to realize in tangible, concrete terms that we vastly outnumber the cops, the regime boosters, and their voters

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 47m

watched the first ep last night: I think he's really talented, but I don't think I'll continue, as I'm creeped out enough by real life right now

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 48m

well... not like that, I'm pretty sure

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 50m

I had missed this, but I'll dial in to get the humor

it's kind of odd to have lived long enough to be part of the Age of Bullshit, but here we are

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 1h

not everybody is slut-shaming her, pal: a lot of us are slamming the fact that she's a bullshit person who writes bullshit and pours out bullshit any time she opens the fetid hole in her face

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 1h

he's amazing: I never knew shit could be stacked that high

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 1h

pretty funny how this humorless asshole had his staff come up with something pithy and is now repeating it to any credulous media talking head that will have him on their show

if life was truly fair, hell would be real and these people would be in it

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 1h

"asshole" is probably the best term for Booker

"self-aggrandizing asshole" is perhaps the most exact term

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 1h

jfc

thanks for this: those parents will learn, and repent at their leisure (perhaps), that children determine their own path, whether one likes it or not

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 9h

this person deserves a beatdown with said watch stretched across the knuckles of his assailant

then he can have what’s left

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 9h

he’s still going to beat her

The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 9h

maybe they didn’t view this as sad

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 16h

Supermarket cashier here. I prepare orders for Just Eats, Deliveroo etc to collect from the store. Yes we do judge you by your order. The saddest ever order was 20 cigarettes, a bottle of vodka and a pregnancy test.

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 9h

why? who is the constituency for that?

serious ask

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 10h

seems powerful if this makes sense to them after smoking it

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The Magnificent Skinbag @magnificentskinbag.bsky.social · 13h

Nixon: a criminal
Ford: by abetting RMN’s crimes, he made sure they’d happen again
Reagan: a horrible person who more or less repealed taxes on the wealthy
Bush 1: war criminal
Bush 2: also a war criminal
Trump: need I say more