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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them)

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Dungeon Master, video game aficionado, enjoyer of film and television, liker of comic books, and a dork of multitudes. Eater of Skittles. Drinker of coffee. Parent of cat.

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · Aug 6

On the topic of my cat being a goblin:
This is from my previous apartment, 6 months ago, when I was preparing for the move. I had placed one box upside down on top of the other, SPECIFICALLY so that Halloween wouldn't get into either of them. But if Weenie really wants something, Weenie gets it.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 10h

This Jasmine Crockett interview is 74 minutes and 1000% worth your time. It's also a good listen because Crockett is a phenomenally charismatic communicator who knows how to pair information with humor.

Jasmine Crockett SMACKS DOWN Trump after insane late-night rant

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 11h

So, are these the violent leftist trans communists I've heard so much about?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 13h

I'm having a normal reaction to the news that one of my friends is trying for a baby.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

CNN's job, as the press, is to take the pressure that these American businesses are feeling and turn it into political pressure by pointing at the person responsible for the situation.

CNN is not doing their job.
They are doing Donald Trump a solid with this headline.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me?
CNN is making it sound like this is Canada's fault now.

"It was almost like suddenly the whisky didn’t taste good because of where it’s from."

Uh-huh. Yeah. Talks about an invasion will do that to the taste of whisky from that country.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Why don't we have gerrymandering? Why does every vote count the same? Why don't we have political hacks in our Supreme Courts? Why don't our systems allow talk show hosts/podcasters to run the military and the law enforcement agencies? How do our systems deal with uncooperative political parties?

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Right now America is gazing at it's navel, going, "Woe is me. Was democracy always a doomed experiment?"

Meanwhile Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand are out here, like:
"What the fuck, mate? Democracy is doing fine. Why not look at why our systems don't have any of your problems?"

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Shakespeare's kid died of embarrassment when the other kids at school learned his name was "Hamnet."

My condolences to The Bard, Anne Hathaway, and anyone alive today who's name is Hamnet.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Hamnet, you say?

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Finnish, so, you know... I prefer drunken axe murder.

That's the Finnish divorce.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

The founding fathers didn't expect a lot of shit.

AR-15s, Richard Nixon, social media, Fox News, Donald Trump...

And the number of things they didn't expect is only going to keep going up.

It's the job of living Americans to keep updating the system instead of preserving a 240 year old vision.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, but hear me out, though.

The founding fathers' vision is 240 years old. And what they did or didn't expect back in 1787 is wholly irrelevant today.

IT'S BEEN 240 YEARS.

There is no excuse for why the system today isn't stable and robust enough to handle a Trump or a Johnson.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

The American founders didn't expect Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

www.thebulwark.com

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

What do you mean, you're not an artist?
Look at this piece of art you made.

Imagine if Michelangelo, after painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, said, "SIKE! I'm not an artist!"

You'd be like:
"That's not allowed. You painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel."

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Shit.
I'm not even a Brit, and I'm looking around, like:
"Do we need to stop her? Is this a hate crime? Are we doing a citizen's arrest? Does anybody else look like they're about to make a move?"

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Give me tarantulas, crickets, worms, grubs, snails, frog legs, durian, Vegemite, Bovril, natto—I'll try it all. Only one way to find out if it's any good.

But give me white sauce pizza...
Your mother is going to get flowers delivered to her the next day, capiche?

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

- I will try anything once, and haven't found anything I wouldn't try twice... Oh, wait. White pizza sauce. Fuck that.
- The Descent
- "Rakkaus on Lumivalkoinen" by Yö

Ricki Cummings @rickiep00h.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

String beans of any type
Requiem for a Dream
Brown-eyed Girl

Abby Jane 🌙 🏳️‍⚧️ @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Guacamole
The Deer Hunter
Queen's "Bicycle Race"

God I hate that fucking song.

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm confident that Donald Trump will fuck up.
He will do something that a number of Republicans in the House and Senate will find indefensible, and cause them to turn on him. There are visible cracks already.

I just hope it happens sooner rather than when he starts giving kill orders.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

I really hope so too.
And I agree, it's clear that they're losing, they're flailing, they're like an injured animal backed into a corner.

It worries me that things can always get worse. And I worry that the Republicans won't stand up to this administration... until something very bad happens.

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Couple of things come to mind.

A Swedish children's rhyme:
"Polis, polis, potatisgris"
(Police, police, potato pig)

And a German chant used across Europe to call out police overreach:
"Eins, Zwei, Drei, Nazi-Polizei!"
(One, two, three, Nazi police)

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

He thinks it's not politically correct to say that other leaders are rich.

That's not the problem.

The problem is that everyone here came together to sign a peace plan. And you sound like you fell out of the ass of Air Force One, landed at this table, and don't know what the fuck is going on.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP:
Look at me, I'm doing Nobel Peace Prize shit in the Middle East. I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

Don't look at what I'm doing back home. You're not Americans, you can't see what's going on in America.

I'm sitting at the rich people table.
I'm the peace king---PRESIDENT!
Don't cut my mic...

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

MOMENTS AGO: Trump and world leaders sign Gaza peace plan

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Made the Harry Potter fans agnry?

Oh nooo.
Whatever shall I do?
Aaagh...

Anyone who's still a fan of Harry Potter can go ski into a bog for all I care.

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Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Phishin' phor phools.

Outi Harvey 🇫🇮 (they/them) @outiharvey.bsky.social · 1d

Some more pics.