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I have devolved into complete pessimism reading implied class prejudice from those supposedly allies and probably not. Congrats on your educated uselessness. You’re one of them.
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Pinned
#MusicSky

If it had been some other place
Some other time to find me
If I had been in my right mind
Not looking for ghosts behind me

music.youtube.com/watch?v=K387...
Richard Thompson. Take Care the Road you Choose, Live.
YouTube video by Gearoid O'Laoi
music.youtube.com
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Reports now said that Kegbreath told Admiral Holsey that the military will follow all order & not to question any of them. Holsey stated the strikes are illegal & Kegbreath said do it or step down & retired. Holsey step down & retired.
allaboutlawyer.com/admiral-alvi...
Admiral Alvin Holsey Retires Friday After Clash With Hegseth Over Venezuela Strikes
Admiral Alvin Holsey retires December 12, 2025 after one year leading SOUTHCOM. Breaking news on tensions with Hegseth over Caribbean strikes.
allaboutlawyer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I know I'm showing my whole age here but remember that thrill of getting a mixtape from someone? A mix of music that they made just for you?
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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RIP, Steve Cropper. One of the greatest guitarists, he is in this video when the Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd) debuted on SNL in 1978. He's in a white shirt, long hair and beard. Such a tremendous guitarist. He backed Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Booker T & The MG and others.
Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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BREAKING: The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access. The Times is seeking a declaration that the new policy is unconstitutional on its face and an injunction barring its enforcement.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Prediction: Trump's Ballroom isn't happening. No one has decision making power but Trump, and Trump has decayed to the point where he couldn't build a sandwich let alone a ballroom. Trump is just going to shrink and the East Wing will just be a scar and debris. AND he'll find a way to blame Biden.
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#MusicSky

Come let me love you
Let me give my life to you

music.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQQ...
Annie's Song
YouTube video by John Denver - Topic
music.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Geez, I feel like hearing Neil Diamond’s Play Me because it’s ear worming me. I won’t be able to stop myself.
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Early Bluesky was mercurial

You would get compliments from Portland

Then shanked by Seattle
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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JUST IN: Trump has asserted executive privilege over docs sought in #Jan6 civil suit brought by cops. #SCOTUS turned aside his claim as a former president, but now he is sitting prez. But how much is out/waived? w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump asserts executive privilege to thwart Jan. 6 lawsuit
The White House said records sought in Capitol riot litigation are “clearly constitutionally protected.”
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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You either grow out of being a Libertarian when you're 15 or you spend your whole life as an intellectual clown arguing things like

*checks notes*

"Maybe allowing war crimes would be great for the drone strike & missile industries."

Libertarianism NEVER leads to utopia; it ONLY leads to despotism
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#MusicSky

Something calls to me,
The trees are calling me near,
I”ve got to find out why.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=-pWm...
Tuesday Afternoon
YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic
music.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
#MusicSky

If it had been some other place
Some other time to find me
If I had been in my right mind
Not looking for ghosts behind me

music.youtube.com/watch?v=K387...
Richard Thompson. Take Care the Road you Choose, Live.
YouTube video by Gearoid O'Laoi
music.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Collar…physics professor, said that part of what his exams are designed to assess is the ability to solve problems in a certain amount of time…. “I feel for the students who are not taking advantage of this,” he told me. “We have a two-speed student population.”
(Note: two-class students rather)
December 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Hey kids, we are a small Irish family business.

We make lovely things by hand.

Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?

Thanks a mill.

#Boycottamazon

#shoplocal

slated.ie

Reposts would be fabulous.

#SLATED
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Target. We can do it to Amazon and Walmart if we are determined.

Make the billionaires HAVE to reinvest in their fucking stores and workers. Make them un-billionaires.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I have this thing about buying things that are put in boxes and flown on planes.

Local thriftshops, and used book stores are alright by me. My goal is to buy nothing new (except food) until after the midterms. If it appears our Democracy will survive, then I might spend some money. We've crippled
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Buy a book.

Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.

Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Dan Robinson (@bookmandan.bsky.social)
Retired. Interested in just about everything. Avid reader.
bookmandan.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Geez, I just had to block someone because of their expensive meals, privileged life posts.
That’s a first in decades of social media participation.
Read the room, lady.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“You hear ‘students with disabilities’ and it’s not kids in wheelchairs. It’s just not. It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.” Even as poor students with disabilities still struggle to get necessary provisions elite universities have entered an age of accommodation

apple.news/AoD8JmNwuQnG...
Accommodation Nation — The Atlantic
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
apple.news
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM