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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 23m

I’m kinda perplexed at the notion that a scrum play isn’t true football

Also perplexed at the notion that it’s somehow unfair, when any team is allowed to do it

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 38m

Kavanaugh was the only conservative dumdum among the Six Horsemen who even bothered explaining his awful views and for that he is the one being pilloried

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 39m

Sort of tragicomic that Brett Kavanaugh is getting (deservedly) skewered for his concurring opinion in the Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo shadow docket order, when the SCOTUS majority stayed the trial court’s 4th Amendment order with *no opinion at all*

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

She stood with Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders and called for a “Reconquista”

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

The president of Columbia University behind “if you protest Nazism we will expel you” had won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · Apr 29

sometimes history really does just serve up a perfect example on a silver platter

go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=G...

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

Eh. Could imagine Deloitte running a consumer survey and a bunch of respondents lazily responding to “farm-grown,” and PepsiCo is now trying to use the stat to promote their new “yup, we’re just good ol’ down on the farm fresh“ branding

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

Hard not to see some whiffs of PepsiCo trying to appease/mollify RFK Jr. and the cohorts of right-wing wellness bros, particularly on the note that they’re switching from seed oils to olive and avocado oils on some of their product lines

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

Idk doesn’t really pass the smell test

The stat comes from PepsiCo’s own press page, probably came from some market research as part of their rebrand project. The specific wording is 42% don’t realize they’re “made with real, farm-grown potatoes”

www.pepsico.com/our-stories/...

From potato to chip: The next chapter of Lay’s

Lay’s – The #1 Potato Chip brand in the World(1) revamps its look and its recipes to celebrate its heritage while paving the way for the next 100 years.

www.pepsico.com

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

I think the image moderation tags are automated and the service they use is, shall we say, imperfect

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

Mistakes were made

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

The Jacobins, uh, very arguably good guys?

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1h

Not only that, I hear there’s a big baseball game

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2h

They’re basically deformed tiny shrimps

A diagram of anatomy of a barnacle, showing a section along the anterior-posterior midline, and showing how the internal anatomy is clearly crustacean (legs, antennae, etc.)

A diagram showing the lifecycle of barnacles. The juvenile stages are recognizably crustacean, akin to little shrimp

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2h

The discovery in the early 19th century that barnacles are crustaceans (crab / lobster / shrimp relatives) and not molluscs (mussel / clam relatives) was a significant driver toward systemization of zoology and thinking about adaptation & heritable descent

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 5h

Satire is dead

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 17d

Douthat: so, w– would you say that in your mind, the government is literally the Satan of the New Testament

Thiel: I mean…I would. Yes. I would.

Douthat: What makes you sure it‘s, y’know, Satan?

Thiel: the Food & Drug Administration‘s safe & effective standard for new drug applications