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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 5m

do people know you can actually do this entirely inside your own head, 100% securely and for free

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 9m

I am so eager to pay for Internet services at this point in my life for various reasons and it pisses me off when it’s impossible. Plz take my money microblogging

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 28m

I’m aware that this is never gonna be most people’s solution. But it might be mine if this place gets more annoying

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 28m

I’m starting to wonder if the solution is … Mastadon honestly. You can choose your own local environment, have locked accounts, Big Accounts are structurally much more difficult to become and their reach is less

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 38m

That post makes it seem like he thinks the problem people are having is they are jealous of his followers

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 4h

that was the implication yeah 😐

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 6h

congrats!!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 9h

I’ve read like three paragraphs of Martin Luther’s writing and that was enough to know the Germans didn’t need our help on this one

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

I wonder what this kid thinks about Nancy Pelosi, if Iraq is really the Only Important Thing. Big fan?

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Baby food is really expensive right now!! Also I think my son’s car seat was twice as much as my daughter’s and it’s the same model

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

I use a service which is $26 a week, I think that’s on par. (We do it for environmental/like-it-better reasons not cost.) Doing it yourself is extremely cost saving though, especially with multiple kids, if you’re very cost conscious I think you could get started for under $200.

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Like this

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

I think this is true about like, “Tylenol causes autism” but frankly their health moves aren’t even internally coherent enough to explain this way. I think multiple people believe different things and they all take turns doing things.

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

when I was young and Republicans shut down the government my friends who were troops thought Obama was obligated to give Republicans anything they wanted to get them paid. I am positive that despite the appearance of a role reversal “Dems need to eat shit ASAP for the troops” will carry across

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

that last part is true!!! imo. or maybe it’s the lack of FREE third spaces which the disproportionately impacts teens

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

And it’s not like all the benefits of the private space are imaginary. Like sometimes drunk adults wander into the public park, or people bring their big dogs to “enjoy” the playground equipment. It’s probably good for us to keep our social muscles in shape navigating those circumstances buuuuut

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Yeah like I think it’s good for me and my kids that we take them to public parks on the regular, but would I do that if I had a yard of any size? Certainly less, very possibly never

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

A lot of the third-space boosters don’t engage with, or even truly understand, that third-spaces are going to be filled with people you personally would not choose to hang out with, that’s part of the reason some cultures retreat to private spaces

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

People are bad at estimating how hard it is to conquer anything

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Some days it’s not shocking to me that we elected Donald Trump as POTUS it’s just shocking it took us this long

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

And in case his meaning was not clear, he went on to loudly clarify that he meant we could conquer and/or kill every other country in the world and yet, amazingly, choose not to. You can’t top that, history!!

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

Out at breakfast there was a guy loudly talking about how America was the greatest and most morally upstanding country in “all of history” because we generously allow every other nation to exist

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

I went on a walk and thought about this and concluded that the on-again-off-again things, one of the weirdest parts of it all, are probably because multiple people (some of whom are probably unknown to us) are seizing the reins and none of them have a unified plan for anything

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

[most viscerally personally unpleasant person you've ever met] I am going to revolutionize America’s civic culture

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