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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 5m

Ah yes. The Republican ratchet.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 20h

And that's really not fair. I feel like we should all get a turn.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 20h

It looks good, but can someone help me flip my car over to put that battery in? Looks like a two person job.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans don't believe in democracy.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 1d

I'm celebrating Columbus Day by going to Safeway for cinnamon but insisting I'm actually at Publix and killing or enslaving most of the staff and customers.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

Someone tried to give them a thin crust pizza and they're all running from the terror.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't join The Force to not use force every time I want!

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d

New @nejm.org
One-shot gene therapy for a type of congenital deafness enabled some children to hear for the first time, and 3 of 12 kids achieved normal hearing
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2400521

DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness | NEJM

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children...

www.nejm.org

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

Touching grass isn't enough for some of you.
Some of you need to smoke it.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

@danwilbur.bsky.social You're gonna be busy for a few days.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

It's like trying to nail Jello to a tree.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 2d

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans assume that since they regularly commit loan and real estate fraud that everyone else must do it too.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans assume that since they regularly commit loan and real estate fraud that everyone else must do it too.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 4d

So ridiculous. If Antifa even had a founder they'd *obviously* be in a polycule anyway.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has calls with foreign leaders the way I have arguments in the shower.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago. He called, he said, 'I can't believe it. Everybody is liking me now,' meaning him. I said, 'more importantly they are loving Israel again.'"

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

The children's book will be called The Bravest Inflatable Frog

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Let me guess. It'll be "Dr." Oz?

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

And a sudden desire to buy gold?

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

All of the journalists allowed near Trump are either right-winger suck-ups, or people who know if they ask a hard question they'll get banned, so they don't because they're chicken.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Better do it soon. Sundown comes quick for Trump these days.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah this is totally how a government should be run...

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. It was their opponents who called them anti-technology. What they were against was replacing skilled weavers with inferior automation and no plan for jobs. Kind of like now. They beat up factory owners, just FYI.

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Zever @zever.bsky.social · 6d

Summary of the AI business model

Power strip plugged in to itself with the light somehow turned on

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