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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1h

Elon Musk, the thirst trap?

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3h

Very funny that Manhattan’s actual quote is a lot closer to “everything lasts forever”

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 13h

Ryu no
Blanka no
Honda yes
Guile yes
Ken wanted to but overslept
Chun Li no
Dhalsim agreed to come as a spiritual advisor but caught bad vibes and bailed
Zangief oh hell yes
Balrog yes
Vega no
Sagat yes
M Bison has his own plane

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 16h

You know Azrael was stuck cleaning those cauldrons

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 18h

They’ve had hysterical idiots in every era, including this one where the crime rate is about half of what it was 35 years ago.

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Look he loved Al Green, ok?

former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Tim McCarver redemption arc

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

“The Implication” scene from the same show is one of the best deconstructions of paying lip service to consent while actively trying to subvert it, and the other character is repeatedly telling him how creepy and disturbing it is. youtu.be/zgUvwcU6P7I?...

Dennis Explains The Implication - Scene | It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia | FX

YouTube video by FX Networks

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Tatum hasn't been declared out for the season though he probably should be.

former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Love that he establishes credibility for his "inflatable mascots = ultraviolence" claim by immediately saying he was nearly murdered by a milkshake

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Private Ryan came out 53 years after the end of WWII so I think we're still in Nam range but barely

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

The final William H Macy sequence fully set to "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering fondly how many people thought this was real.

former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

Shattered Obama’s speedrun record

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

America, like the Constitution or Christianity, is understood only as a system of entitlement for ingroups and obligation for everyone else.

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

As an efficiency initiative it sucked but as a narcissistic power trip it was a huge success

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

9/11, Obama, and Covid are the three pillars of rightwing derangement

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

it just feels like something some vizier demanded and Trump signed off on so they had to just do it whatever way he could see it on the news.

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 2d

I'm getting reports that he will still be 22-for-22 this season

former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

And the investigation was because they were seeking tax-exempt status explicitly based on being primarily non-political! Markers of being political is exactly what you'd want the IRS to scrutinize. But, the victimhood must flow.

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like the play here is to make absurd accusations as a pretext to freeze the funds of ActBlue et al in an election year and force them to fight it in the courts, which will obediently slow walk the hell out of it.

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

The sheer chutzpah and anti-logic of saying “if Donald Trump can’t commit as many crimes against America as he wants it will discourage good people from seeking office” is almost impressive

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

And also that’s what you should want to happen! The voters should know if charges are legit enough to convict on! All of that is washed away under the assumption “Trump is entitled to not be subject to the criminal code at all”

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

Hot damn the chutzpah and pure anti-logic of including Trump catching charges in “this will deter good people from seeking office”

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former dog @warybear.bsky.social · 3d

my favorite part is "we were justified in brutalizing them because they got mad after we did it"

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