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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 4d

It would be different if all the purchases were from artisans or independent builders & craftsmen.

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 4d

Doesn't sound angry enough. 😉 JK , I love seafood too. Not sure about leeks. Are they like ramps?

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

and lets say I put $65 down to make the minimum due on my credit card and before that payment goes through the NYTimes takes the BS $4 away, and my whole payment to Chase gets marked late with an additional $35 fee added. And this happens all the time since it tries the payment twice per day.

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

I was only able to get so far in the cancellation process before I would finally have to accept one of their special deals (the last of which was $4/mo) but here's the problem for me... $4 might not seem like very much but I run my accounts bone dry at least 3× a week [cont'd 2/3] 🧵

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

PovertyLine Update: I was finally able to cancel my subacription to @nytimes.com after literally 3½ hours on my phone — a feat that I had aimed to accomplish 6 months ago. I dont have any political beef with #NYT or any problem with their journalism. What I have is a money problem [cont'd 1/3] 🧵

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

Or perhaps @stephenking.bsky.social himself could enlighten me as to the meaning of the title #RoseMadder

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

I never read Rose Madder, but perhaps @moviessilently.bsky.social can enlighten us since she suggested a re-release of the color (not the book).

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

These cards were actually painted with their real #watercolor #paints back when you thought they only had #50ShadesOfGrey
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 6d

Winsor & Newton's new colors for 1887! Be the first to try!

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

I was just coming on here to reverse-mansplain (ask a lady a question) about why there didn't appear to be any fading. Even for spending so much time closed off from the elements, this is comforting to artists like myself (acrylic, here) to see that their paints have some color retention.

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

What you're noticing is the doublespeak of the ones who think their disguise is working. These people know full & well that they have no love for Jewish ppl, but flying the occassional blue & white flag is a fun, nasty little "see, we can get their money too, you libtards — way better than votes!"

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

They don't love Israel... Not the REAL Christian Nationalists, and they will tell you as much. Shirley Phelps-Roper was all-too-eager to tell me about "filthy Jew this" and "greedy K**e that" when I interviewed her for SFGN.

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

Sheldon Adelson... he 💀 tho...

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

I guess you would be looking for someone in the #JewsForJesus movement or perhaps the late owner of the #SandsCasino, #SheldonAdelson, who literally made his dying donation to just two politicians: Donald Trump & Bibi #Netanyahu.

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

They used to make the guy who pulled the lever on the electric chair wear a mask too... and the KKK of course had to wear the whole sheet set to try to disguise themselves, but these types always give themselves away by their own actions in the end...

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

I'm just gonna swerve out of my lane for a minute so we can talk about #AuntRuckus & her brain problem... She thinks she's not in #Kansas anymore!
Oh, you think I shouldn’t talk shit about #BlackRepublicans in other states? You must not know me very well.
Butcha will...
It's a #NoFilter Day.

Photo of Danedri Herbert, the current chairwoman of the Kansas #GOP that taunts her for defending the #YoungRepublicans when they were caught using #racist, #sexist and #violent language in their not-so-secret #Telegram group. Herbert is black and the meme calls on her to address #DEI issues as she was somehow chosen to be GOP Chairwoman when #black #women only account for 2% of the Kansas population and only 0.3 percent of #Republicans in the state.

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

They forgot to #MAGA, and they're settling for trying to #MASSA (Make Americans Support Slavery Again).

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

They forgot to #MAGA, and they're settling for trying to #MASSA (Make Americans Support Slavery Again).

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 6d

They forgot to #MAGA, and they're settling for trying to #MASSA (Make Americans Support Slavery Again).

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 8d

I haven't seen The Pitt and I'm not interested in The Studio but I did see Adolescence and I really dig that constant "1 camera scene" trick they do by following a character until they speak with or pass another character at which point we are now following that person, etc. and it's done tactfully.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great lyrics:

"They say pressure makes diamonds

How the hell am I still coal?"

#musicsky #lyrics #writing #songwriters

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great #LYRICS:

"Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby,

But I'm a monster on the hill."

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great #LYRICS:

"If doublethink's no longer fiction

We'll dream of Huxley's Island shores."

#musicsky #lyrics #writing #singer-songwriters #words

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great #LYRICS:

"Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby,

But I'm a monster on the hill."

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great #LYRICS:

"If doublethink's no longer fiction

We'll dream of Huxley's Island shores."

#musicsky #lyrics #writing #singer-songwriters #words

SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

Without naming the band, singer or artist, give us 2 lines from a recent song (>≈ 5 yrs) with really great #LYRICS:

"If doublethink's no longer fiction

We'll dream of Huxley's Island shores."

#musicsky #lyrics #writing #singer-songwriters #words

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SignFire - J.D. Terrill @signfire.bsky.social · 10d

They DO actually look like boys that people's parents *SHOULD* warn them about... The warning might sound something like:
"Be prepared to, one day, after years of a strained marriage, suddenly walk in on something highly uncomfortable involving your neighbor's children." 🍸 💅

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