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Will Cockrell

@xer0.blacksky.app

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Black man. Cis, straight, he/him. Ally to everyone because if we don't hang together the man will damn sure hang us separate. Don't engage; just block. Would YOU like to kill Nazis with G.I. Robot?

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · Jun 26

Republican voters did this to us, and they did it deliberately, and you are nowhere CLOSE to angry enough about that fact.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 2m

Okay, hear me out --

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I have no doubt the answer is yes.

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 43m

Time Magazine *been* trash, y’all. For =years= now. Focus up.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 4h

idea: vote for people who will call mike johnson a fucking loser instead of saying we need a strong republican party

Alien Super Show @aliensupershow.bsky.social · 4h

these people really are just fucking losers

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h

WaPo: From the Nixon Tapes to not being able to spell a second grade vocabulary word

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4h

Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 4h

Now you too can own The Sexiest Ugly Man In America in plastic form.

preternia @preternia.com · 4h

McFarlane Toys Fallout Cooper Howard is available to preorder at GameStop ($34.99) - bit.ly/4nlBeIn #ad

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

It's because white people can always see the humanity in each other and not in the POC Kirk targeted and actively harmed.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

Phew managed to make it another day without getting a nazi tattoo. It’s hard out here. Just nazi tattoos roaming the streets attaching themselves to people. Stay woke

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 23h

Robo DO know Wal-Mart 👍

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 23h

... probably pretty good.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 2d

running for president in '28, my entire campaign is just two posters, one picturing prominent members of the current administration beneath the banner headline "PRISON", and another of all the leading techbros beneath the banner headline 'WE WILL TAKE ALL THEIR MONEY'

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say one last thing about Platner and shut up. For me, the thing is that he says he got the skull in his 20s. Okay. We're all idiots in our 20s. But he's 40 now and never did anything about it until he got caught. He had 20 years to fix the mistake and didn't. That's bullshit.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

A split screen of a woman and a man talking. The top is the woman (Tina Fey as Liz Lemon) saying “What a week, huh?”. The bottom is the man (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy) replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh my God I hadn't watched it in so long that I'd forgotten the =entire= "Are We The Baddies?" sketch is **specifically about the Totenkopf**.

TechnicallyOwen @technicallyowen.bsky.social · 1d

It's the whole sketch youtu.be/h242eDB84zY?...

“Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

Amazing.

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*Me clicking through* -- "Okay fine, I guess I'll keep a semi-open mind and give this a read."

*starts, sees it's by Matty Yglesias* "And I'm out."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I have comics to write, but I have one more thing to say about Platner:

I think he's a liar.

I am a grown adult with a normal grasp of human nature and reality and I think he's lying when he says he JUST found out it's a fucking NAZI tattoo.

I think he's a liar.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

"In the meantime, he was on Reddit defending other people getting SS tattoos" which let's be serious here, is a **pretty big tell** that he's lying.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

He says he got it by accident 18 years ago while drunk with his buddies in Croatia. He says no one ever told him it was a Nazi tattoo until JUST NOW while he was running for office. In the meantime, he was on Reddit defending other people getting SS tattoos. 🤷

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly don't think centrists believe anything at all. Just as I don't want to see a "mainstream" presidential candidate who hounds homeless people and abandons trans people, I don't want a "progressive" Senator with a Nazi tattoo. The uprights aren't narrow here. This shouldn't be hard.

Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 1d

“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible

Only perfect candidates off the harvard law conveyor belt pls, highly disciplined, all boxes checked, well liked and humble, absolutely no spiritual connection to having a physical body except for severe IBS, volunteered at a soup kitchen in high school, signs email "cheers," etc.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I really liked what he was saying. But if there's any way to recover from "hey man you have a fucking SS Nazi tattoo on your tiddy and thought it was OK to have one," he did not find that path, and it's not puritanical or exclusionary to say so, and its ridiculous to even have to explain this.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

This gif is is more appropriate for this situation than it has ever been, because the badge on his hat is ***literally what is tattooed on Graham Platner's chest***

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Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

... knew I liked this guy.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a teenager, the only time you heard about IRL nazis was if someone saw skinheads or confederates hanging around Morton's Gap, and you'd drive up and provoke 'em into a fight. This wasn't, like an everyday occurrence! Nazis knew not to poke their heads out or normal folks would clobber 'em

Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 1d

Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.

Will Cockrell @xer0.blacksky.app · 1d

"Godzilla Wears A Merkin" is the name of my next band

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 1d

Godzilla wears a merkin which is a bunch willow trees strapped together.

Benny 666-Cults @teeveeben.bsky.social · 1d

Godzilla has a cloaca and when the flap opens you could drive a 15 passenger van into it.