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Actual Bear

Actual Bear

@actualbear.bsky.social

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I love my family and friends, coffee, history, science, and games. Living with Lewy Body Disease, the most metal way to die. Please forgive me if I don't follow back, I only follow accounts with mostly or all original content.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 1d

One aspect of American exceptionalism that I’m struggling to let go of is the idea that a dictator would never get this far without “the system” acting to protect vital institutions

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 1d

Ballrooms for me, Hamburger Helper for thee

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 1d

The NYT gets worse by the day, it's appalling, they've just given up and given in

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed, but how do we get there?

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't want your pleasure
He wants as no one can
He wants to know the names of
All those he's better than

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll just wait for the app

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

“Put his mark?’ He bulldozed the entire East Wing

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

This administration is playing a weird game of Mother May I

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

Your Holiness, are there other people in the room that no one else seems to see?

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

I remember seeing her busking in Harvard Square when she was still at Tufts, what a voice, what a presence

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2d

All must kneel before President Zod

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

But that's how Grandma spelled it on the jar

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

He made the cranes run on time

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

Frightfully sorry about the destruction of the monasteries thing and asset seizure, old bean, water under the bridge, eh

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

Newly retired from teaching middle school and glad I don't have to put up with yet another trend like this

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

My wife was at a design conference a few years' back and the keynote speaker was a legendary portrait photographer who'd taken photos of Trump. He asked Trump during the shoot, "How do you keep your balance when you're in the middle of this constant storm?" His deadpan response: "I am the storm."

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

American workers finishing a job that was once bungled by a foreigner, in this case, Osama bin Laden

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

"Brown liquid?" "Military campaign?" When history is written, NYT, what do you want your legacy to be? As a euphemism factory running cover for this administration? He will capture or eliminate all media anyhow, you might as well go down swinging. Find the outrage.

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 3d

"If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows."
--John Kenneth Galbraith, on trickle-down economics

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe Trump is a Roberts-baron

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

And this time the shitting on people is only implied

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

Ever look up at the night sky and think, There's so much that Mike Johnson doesn't know

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

That Nazi tattoo
Has just about offed me
I got it to prove
I'm not BosNyWash-y
Just because it's a skull
It ain't Totenkopf-y
[apologies to Fountains of Wayne]

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

What ever happened to, "If you rent, don't remodel?"

Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 4d

He starts by saying there is no evidence that Mamdani is antisemitic. And then goes on to suggest guilt by association with various pro-Palestinian groups, and attack him for what he has failed to say, rather than anything he's said.