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Pookleblinky

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All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is. Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Nov 24

A shitpost so powerful it causes a pontypool language virus situation

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 49m

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12m

It's cool how when you try to search for the solution to a computer problem now you can pick from an AI summary, several out-of-date videos by a guy with a shitty mic, or some forum posts on the publisher's site dealing with an obsolete version of the software

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 9h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

9:09am - 9/9/2025 180K Views

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 9h

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 12h

[best read with a French accent]

“I am so very sorry sir, without a reservation, there is simply nothing I can do for you.”

2 photos of a fluffy black-and-white cat with a pencil-thin mustache. They appear to he looking up and speaking in the first, scowling in the second.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 17h

it's so weird to me how right wingers are like "the left LOVES soros" and I've literally never heard anyone on the left even talk about the guy. like he's not even some kind of minor celebrity. no one seems to give a shit about the guy except the right wing.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 34m

Crazy how with these people it's always AI that's "here to stay like it or not" and never like gender affirming medical procedures or something

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1h

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Aug 27

Pineapples grow like they’re trying to prank you into thinking this is how pineapples grow

A pineapple farm that looks like Ripley should burn it in Alien

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 33m

In the early doge firings, they fired people who were in probationary roles: someone who'd been there 20 years after a promotion to a new role, were lumped in with brand new hires. And then rehired *as new hires*

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 36m

They'll fire a thousand people, and then selectively offer to rehire like the 100 worst fucking people.

They've been doing this across the entire government for almost a year. So much so that Black women's unemployment has spiked massively due to it

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 39m

The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men.

This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 42m

Guy whose entire fitness goal to be able to roll up into a ball like an armadillo, he's spending hours a day practicing his armadillo skills

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Lord Juiblex @lordjuiblex.bsky.social · 1h

You get leprosy from having sex with a leopard. I will not be taking any questions at this time.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 53m

It's like $4 on psn now, very cool so far. I like the grumpy goat whose shit you keep smashing to gain abilities

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It was like $4, very cool

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

Got Guacamelee, played up to the big creature chasing you unstoppably across an obstacle course.

I like the dimension-switching puzzles, very cool mechanic. More games should do that.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

Looks from here like the goal is to create confusion, and focus public attention on a subset of the most outrageous firings — to distract from the other firings.

We shouldn’t be fooled, and should demand that all the illegal shutdown RIFs are made null and void. /end

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

But it took weeks or months of confusion before some had their (lawless) RIF notices revoked.

As was widely reported, several NIH scientists, including a major-award-winning Parkinson’s researcher, weren't fully de-RIF’d until @durbin.senate.gov caught out RFK Jr at a Senate hearing about them.

RFK Jr. told Congress no working scientists were fired, but these top NIH brain scientists are still facing job cuts

"As far as I know, we have not fired any working scientists," RFK Jr. had told Congress.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

After the White House fired too many people, they then seemed to revert firings of people who would look bad to the public.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

In April there were widespread firings (RIFs) across HHS. Many people at NIH were lawlessly fired.

It was reported as more people getting RIF notices than the White House intended. Many scientists got included.

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.

www.wired.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · Jan 8

some people heard that going up to the biggest meanest motherfucker in the whole prison yard and picking a fight is the best way to earn the respect of your fellow inmates, unfortunately no one told them that in order for that to work you have to WIN

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