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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected]

@truthaddictvt.bsky.social

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Paralegal in family law, communist (the "tankie" kind), anti-imperialist (anti-US/NATO), pro human & animal liberation, gaming geek (not a gamer), middle-aged autistic baby transfem, some weird combo of polyamorous/lesbian/demisexual/aromantic. She/they

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · May 2

This is a good question and something that sounds fun to write about, so I'm going to do a thread and periodically add to it. I argue that what a lot of people refer to (and unfairly dismiss) as "modern Simpsons" is often a decade or more out of date, and the show has turned a corner in recent years

real nobody @stonerfruit.bsky.social · Apr 28

can you give us a "recent episodes" primer with examples of ones to check out?

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Claire, BOO Haver @progesteronipizza.bsky.social · 35m

You wake up in a daze, everything seems so... fuzzy?

Was it always this hard to think? ..hard.. omg yes!

Why do you feel so empty? getting filled is what you live for, duh!

Were you always so horny? oh ALL the time!

Were you always so fun? like who cares, you are now!

go paint the town pink. 🩷

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 32m

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 34m

perpetual reminder that if cops want to, cops will pick fights with literally anyone over anything at a protest, no matter how they are dressed or affiliated—

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 30m

Senior members of the Democratic Party didn't and don't seem to yet mind

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2h

Amid all the plaudits of Trump for getting this deal done, I've yet to see mention of the fact that Netanyahu has turned the Israeli govt into an arm of the Republican Party and manages relations with the US administration in power at any given time accordingly.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 2h

Hamas agreed to this same deal by Dec 2024. But “Baskin would soon learn that the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington…”
Reminiscent of Reagan/Carter and a different hostage release…

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not going to trust someone who won't even wear a fucking mask at the grocery store to have consistent revolutionary politics

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 9h

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 10h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Why does no one read the law

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

Arms Export Act and Foreign Assistance Acts both have provisions which explicitly state that the president has an obligation to suspend military assistance to a country impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid. The way the administration avoided this was by finding that Israel wasn't doing that.

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 21h

AGP is just so conceptually stupid i’ll be honest. what do you mean it’s a weird pathology to look at my self in the horror and go “wow, my tits look great” like every woman since the dawn of time

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 16h

A ton of modern "criticism" is just people wishing the author wrote a different book and getting mad about it

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21h

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 19h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Xanderpuss @xanderpussrex.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

MICHAEL IAN
BLACK
MEGHAN
McCAIN
*
****
America.
YOU SEXY BITCH
*
A LOVE LETTER TO FREEDOM

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 4d

So glad people are coming around to the fact that @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social is an opportunistic hustler, not a serious scholar or a careful intellectual.

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 6d

"Haidt’s thesis is broader than just 'new thing bad.' In The Anxious Generation and his public commentary you find a dismissal of young people as a thinking, feeling group: they are anxious because of phones, they empathize with Gaza because of phones."

now is not the time to ban phones

why Jonathan Haidt sucks

howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com

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full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · 19h

lmao we are truly living in the Chinese Century

Donald J. Trump & €
@realDonald Trump • 1h
Don't worry about China, it will all be fine!
Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn't want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT

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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 16h

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☭ Comrade Kidfur 🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭♿🦯 @comradekidfur.bsky.social · 16h

We aren't even prepared for war, the only things our soldiers have experience fighting is poorly armed farmers and we keep losing wars to them!

Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 16h

DRYX
@its_dryx
The US government is prepared for
nothing but war. Not a pandemic, not
natural disasters, not poverty &
homelessness...
DRYX
@its_dryx
all the power in the world to destroy,
none of it to sustain regular people.

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 4d

i wonder if anyone told you liberals that the cops were never going to be on your side and that every liberal mayor or governor increasing their funding was simply preparing to use them against you. i wonder if you all got really mad about a slogan about that...

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 7d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

Pritzker’s brown shirts attacking protesters.

Pritzker’s brown shirts. Dude in military gear is also Pritzker’s.

Note the Illinois State Police patch on the dude in military gear.

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

This is really pretty much the history of liberalism from its inception. Liberalism came into the world tied to settler colonialism and slavery

Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

How exactly does Keira Knightly suggest trans people "figure out how to live together" with people who openly want to exterminate us?

Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

There were probably a lot of Germans who said this in the 1930s. Today we call them "Nazis"

Variety
@Variety

Keira Knightley said that before joining the voice cast of Audible's “Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio Editions," she was "not aware" of the fan boycott of all things "Harry Potter" over J.K. Rowling's statements about the transgender community:

"You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect."

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

It says a lot that she clearly thinks she comes out of this looking good, just like with "I'm speaking" during the campaign (and for the people she cares about pleasing, she's right)

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Vice President Harris — who served under the Biden administration as it carried out a 14-month genocide and live-streamed slaughter of innocent men, women and children — shouted down protestors interrupting her book tour.

Video below ⬇️

Harris slams protestor during book tour.

“You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

Also applies to them wrt police forces and ICE, though they'd prefer not to hear the screams when fascist violence is done domestically

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 18h

Whether in Venezuela or Ukraine, liberals are fully willing to support fascists if they see it as necessary to fighting a "greater evil", and they'll do so openly and enthusiastically (and the fact that they think there CAN be a greater evil is very telling)

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