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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1h

rise and shine 🎷

Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 16h

you also can't forget the impact morbius had on meme culture for a hot second

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chekov's ghost light @catfort.fightins.online · 17h

i've been saying, fascists can't handle joy and silliness. it breaks their narrative of VIOLENCE and EVIL LEFT ATTACK AMERICA. Portland Frogs are an antidote to rightwing poison, a visible and tangible way to break the thrall they have on mass media

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chekov's ghost light @catfort.fightins.online · Jun 9

i'm manifesting a MAGfest's worth of people surrounding that Miller asswipe and caramelldansen at him until he cries

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NeilC @darkmaterials.bsky.social · 17h

Every single birthday card that's explicitly from a husband to his wife is always like "Hey thanks for putting up with me. I sure am a weird slob but you found a way"

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🏁Joey Oblivion🏁 @joeyoblivion.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I think you should be a “pickitup artist”*

* Play ska and start creating music that is danceable, socially conscious and reveals your true penchant for puns.

David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah I think you should be a “pickup artist”*

* Pick up a paintbrush and start creating art that is sensitive, vulnerable and reveals your true soul.

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/sO9qLb_GkZE?...
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Anxiety

YouTube video by Megan Thee Stallion - Topic

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1d

she is absolutely unparalleled

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1d

now that's straight up adorable

Broken Record @brokenrecord.bsky.social · 1d

New cutest band related thing ever just dropped, here’s our drummer Nick and his future protégé

Our drummer Nick with his baby in a matching Broken Record shirt and onesie

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1d

who's gonna tell her...

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 1d

?? do tell

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in an office .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk in an office .

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

We have friends everywhere

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

the atrocities of ww2 spawned the dada movement. i've been saying for a while that we need Absurdity in the world as a reaction to its horrors and in this case, it's also acting as a tool against them in real time

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

thank you! could really use this right now

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

turns out not everyone is a reliable narrator

which is why i try to have more charitable interpretations of things and hold accountability where i can, even if it's not mine to hold, cuz i'd rather that than blaming and judging and all the other hot new trends

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

nah, not at all! personally i'm also really tired of people in my life drawing unfair conclusions or having super distorted views about things we were both there for. it's maddening

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

oof, sorry. that sucks

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

hate is so much easier. that's why every weak person i know is so filled with it

but at the end of all of this, what are we left with? i really don't know

Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 6d

increasingly angry but, and i have to remember this, still full of love
let's go 🎺

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 2d

"I get 5% off on everything in the store just because I look like-
I mean, just because I am krusty the clown?"

"How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy
magazines kept me in business during that first, shaky year?
By the way, here is your new issue of gigantic asses."

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

the lack of pizza parties in adulthood is shameful

Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 2d

well i learned a new word today

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

"The reasonable listener of 'Not Like Us' would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations."

“Not Like Us” is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion. A reasonable listener would not equate a song that contains lyrics such as, “Ain’t no law, boy, you ball boy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’, since 2009 I had this b**** jumpin’,” with accurate factual reporting. Accordingly, the reasonable listener of “Not Like Us” would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations.

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 3d

but what if things get spoOoky

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · 3d

I assume if someone's profile says they're "spreading positivity" they've hit someone with a car and kept driving

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Ska 🏁 is 🏁 Back @skaisback.bsky.social · 3d

and some folks are too stubborn to even acknowledge those "surprises" because being the angriest person in the room has always gotten them their way

Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 3d

Looking at things from all angles and using all info before making a decision is a great mindset to have. Deciding that you've already seen all the info you need in your life and you don't need to let new information in anymore? That loops back to confident incorrectness and a lifetime of surprises.

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