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Ton Chrysoprase

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Silicate Morporkian; head of the Breccia; semi-regular denizen of the pork futures warehouse; member of the Ankh Morpork Poster's Guild. Not always swearing and cynical. If I follow you, it’s because I liked something you posted, no follow back expected.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3h

"Spaying" heh, sometimes I'm not even mad at autocorrect.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 7h

So, I don't speak nutjob very well, but if I understand that last sentence correctly, he's threatening complete economic collapse if we don't make Trump dictator for life.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 8h

Probably should have reelected the guy we all assumed had agency in the matter as opposed to the one who can’t be blamed for anything.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 9h

Not necessarily wrong as correlations go, but the causation seems to be more like their god disconnects them from science and by extension from fluoride.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 9h

Nah. Nobody saves Argentina. They were one of the richest countries in the world some 120 years ago and decided they could be bothered with none of this shit.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 9h

We have a term for gratuitously killing people who are not, in fact, soldiers in a war zone as if they were soldiers in a war zone.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 9h

So, for those who keep score at home:
Throwing sandwich at fascist goon’s flak jacket: assault verging on attempted genocide
Spaying cops with chemicals: saving the country.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 22h

I like fascist goons who don’t get shot (Trump, probably)

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 1d

I was kind of figuring that this peace deal would last in the order of micro Scaramuccis.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 1d

Just curious, what was the original?

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 1d

Well, than no legal institution should be granted the deference they arrogate to themselves.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 2d

Based on my, admittedly limited, experience, the surest sign that a sentence contains no passive voice is a conservative complaining about use of passive voice.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 2d

And the kicker: no passive voice used in the OP at all.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 2d

I’m amazed how long I had to scroll to find somebody pointing that out. It’s baffling how often people dunking on perceived passive voice can’t recognize passive voice. Also, in this case passive voice would have achieved the opposite of the author’s intent.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 2d

Only one way to find out. Would be irresponsible not to, really.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

Public relations. Not that that answers the fundamental question.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. It’s amazing that people still pretend it’s legitimate news.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

By far the best people are international grads or international undergrads who use the vast resources of American Us for graduate studies. Those are also the people who never had attendance requirements after high school. Maybe it’s the Us approach to elite education that’s the problem.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

From personal experience interviewing top state and European/international grads along Ivy and other prestigious Us, it’s the latter group where I start asking questions to check whether people are capable of dressing in the morning without supervision.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, that was mostly intended as emphasizing what you said and maybe a little to emphasize the implication.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

Wit stricter requirements for bigger vehicles/guns.

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Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

Holy shit, in my life time I had a Polish cosplayer, the head of the inquisition, and a fluffy nice guy (as long as that didn’t require rocking the boat). Can’t believe it took an American to actually try to fill the job title. Americans usually only ever manage to do evangelicalism with funny hats.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

“Agitators who have violated the law by attacking“ - that an aw lot of words to avoid saying assaulted. Interesting in the context of the DOJ getting no-billed and people charged for aggravated littering at ICE.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

With viral clips of the police committing assault. Come on WaPo, if you can share the video, you can type the words.

Ton Chrysoprase @tonchrysoprase.bsky.social · 3d

As if Jorpson ever finished a sentence in under 20 words…

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