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RJ Sliva

@rjsliva.bsky.social

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I will bake you a pie and build you a table to set it on.

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · Oct 18

Are we supposed to re-introduce ourselves now for the new people? The hills I am currently dying on:
*Swath, not swathe unless you are actively swaddling an infant
*Use the phrase “pun not intended” = jail
*Use the phrase “ooey gooey” to describe anything = jail for 1000 years

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 4d

This is why I am delighted to be a sustaining member of Spencer Pride, a beacon of light in one of the reddest counties in Indiana.

A person quotes the bible at Spencer Pride, asking them if they are unaware that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Spencer pride repiles : I mean, inheriting a kingdom sounds like a LOT of work. Is there an intern we can test out first?

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Bluesky for alerting me to the only version of this song I can stand to listen to (on repeat)

Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 5d

Necessary viewing

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 5d

Downstate Illinois is basically Indiana anyway sooooooo…

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 5d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 6d

As a former NU club player whose field was under the current lakefront stadium (from the long ago far away when IU had the Big 10’s only varsity program), I wish them: luck

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 9d

Heartened to see we are all on the same degenerate page with this one

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 12d

Why has no one suggested Turd Ferguson

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 13d

Honey, do you need anything from the condiment sow?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 14d

Microscopic in the face of All This, but whyyyyy is my go-to radio station so committed to every track on that goddamn new Geese album. Sir if you could dial that soulful warbling vibrato down to maybe a half tone I would be considerably less stabby this morning

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18d

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General

QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 19d

Write “anti-ICE” with a backwards B without writing “anti-ICE” with a backwards B challenge

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20d

It’s bad enough that these assholes lie to us, but the absolute transparency and stupidness of their lies takes it to another level.

But that’s the point. These people are stupid. They’re clowns. But the obviousness of their lies is supposed to grind us down.

Shell casing with ANTI - ICE written on them stupidly

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 19d

In fairness, it appears to have started off as ANIT-ICE, who knows

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20d

There’s something less than fully candid about describing a single bullet with “anti-ICE” scrawled on it as “rounds that contain messages…that are anti-ICE in nature”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

FBI official: "What I can share with you is that early evidence we're seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature. Again, this is just the most recently example of this type of attack."

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 21d

Are we sure it’s not the Crapture because that would explain some things

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 21d

Hoping Jesus is in the market for a pet and interested in Rapturing the goddamn rat that keeps eating my backyard succulents

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 21d

Hey Luke, took these pics in a cemetery in KC and thought you might enjoy the limestone shelf fungus

Late-1800s tombstone carved to look like a tree trunk (maple?) with a climbing vine and three nice shelf fungi

Late-1800s tombstone carved to look like a tree trunk with climbing ivy and a large shelf fungus

RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 22d

I have a work meeting at 8:00 that morning but neither my project director nor I are likely to be on the list, so guess I will go over my notes after all

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 23d

Got sucked into the side of TikTok commenting on the trend in American evangelicalism right now—where there’s a growing belief that that the rapture will happen this Tuesday—September 23rd

This is due to a of set of things happening in Israel interpreted through a tangled "Left Behind" theology+

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jag @i-am-j.ag · 28d

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 28d

An award-winning university professor got fired for posting a screenshot of a Newsweek article that directly quoted Charlie Kirk without any additional commentary on his personal social media

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28d

absolutely repugnant, gutfeld completely dismisses the assassination of melissa hortman, calls it a "bull shit" example of political violence

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 25d

Kansas City. Bbq. Trains. Stupid cool architecture. A bar with books. 👍

Brisket, pulled pork, pickles at Jack Stacks, KC

S’mores espresso martini on espresso martinit Thursday, Afterword Books & Cocktails, KC

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RJ Sliva @rjsliva.bsky.social · 25d

Seven hours in, I like Kansas City.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26d

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Sep 12

When you thought he was trans, it was proof all trans people were scum. Now that he’s cis, he gets to be the victim of the murder he committed.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 12

“I have no idea why he did this.” A young man's descent from model student to suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. on.wsj.com/48gbtoN

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 11

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.

New York Times tomorrow

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

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