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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Nov 12

since bluesky doesn’t have a drafts folder i’m just going to write my drafts under this post. nobody look, these aren’t finished yet

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 4h

please explain to me how diane keaton dies at 79 and another 79 yo who lives off mcdonald’s and stares at the sun is doing fine

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 8h

seeing lots of flags at full staff. seems nobody in my town respects diane keaton

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 15h

i think it’s just captive whales refuse to drink their tank water

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 15h

capitalizing ice like that is such a tease

youtube thumbnail caption “killer healer eating ice” but ice is all caps

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 16h

going through the trouble of cooking and mashing them is love. whole potatoes would have knocked him out

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

will the portland frog get milkshake ducked

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

creating the department of microwaves and wondering why i didn’t win the Safe for Metal Forks Prize

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

it was a long shot anyway but there’s no way the Gaza ceasefire holds now that trump lost the nobel peace prize

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

it’s going to be awkward when ICE accidentally kidnaps Qatari soldiers

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/q...

Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

they should also do a nobel dipshit prize

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

for everyone to show up to work on christmas

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

wake up babe new costco sundae dropped

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

had this saved in my phone from somewhere i don’t remember

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

a Cars prequel called Car

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

mine do not simply “fall”

slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

fine let them scatter everywhere

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

i’m joining the war on anti-fascists on the side of anti-fascists

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

a little chamber that catches your toenail clippings like a pencil sharpener

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 3d

the thing i hate about freddy krueger is how much of a bastard he is - but would the movie even work if he was nice?

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

then how will we get people to give to calico cut pants dot com

abc7.com/post/gov-new...

New California law limits volume of ads on streaming platforms: 'Much-needed peace and quiet'

Thanks to a new California law, you won't have to scramble to turn down the volume when a blaring commercial comes on a streaming platform.

abc7.com

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

guys it’s fine he just needs 1 to 2 liters of blood and he’ll reanimate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

CNN: Does the administration still plan to abide by that court ruling?

STEPHEN MILLER: The administration filed an appeal this morning ... ... ...

CNN: Stephen? Stephen? Can you hear me?

MILLER: ... ... ...

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

i think one thing that might save us from authoritarianism is the fact that everything they do in public can be recorded and put on the internet for the entire world to see. unfortunately, AI is very quickly becoming an easy scapegoat, which is probably why they love it so much

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