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@aviberry.bsky.social

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If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s taking a bath in a haunted house. (he/him🏳️‍🌈✡️) 📍Salt Lake City | 🇺🇦

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Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is what logging in to BlueSky for the first time felt like

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 7h

WE ARE SO BACK

The couple you can’t believe are together pt. 3

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 2d

Your old phone:

Andy doesn’t want to play with Woody anymore

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 5d

You can pry my Diet Coke out of my cold, dead hands

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Drinking as little as one can of diet soda a day may increase the risk of nonalcohol fatty liver disease by 60%, while drinking a sugary beverage could raise the risk by 50%, a new unpublished study found. https://cnn.it/42veP3P

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 6d

Desperately need SNL to bring these two back (and also: could this be the couples costume of the year???)

Grant (Marcello Hernández) and Alyssa (Jane Wickline), the couple you can’t believe is together

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 6d

I got invited to one this Friday, and I’ll be sure to report back as to whether the fire is worthy of admiration or of scorn

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a better chance of a hurricane in Salt Lake City than that ever happening

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 6d

Many times I have been invited to a bonfire party, and many times I have been disappointed to find there was only a campfire. Don’t say you’re lighting a bonfire unless you’re actually lighting a bonfire

This is a bonfire. It is big, hot, and impressive.

This is a campfire that would get you sent home at tribal council.

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 13d

That’s how they would sext

Mr and Mrs Twit from The Twits by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 18d

Good fucking GOD, @npr.org what is WRONG with you

Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 18d

Genuinely shocking levels of institutional rot going on in the US. The push to 'both sides' every question has left fucking National Public Radio to say "hey maybe tylenol really does cause autism, many people are asking questions"

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

The persecution complex is so real. Once I heard someone say that the Missouri Mormon Extermination period was “as bad as the Holocaust”

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

Tbh, at this point I think Mormonism has gotten watered down so much that it’s turned almost protestant, and is generally a pretty standard religious culture.
The Joseph Smith era of the Church though? Oh absolutely a cult. I think Joseph Smith is one of the most successful cult leaders in history

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

The Rapture isn’t real, but it does feel real to a lot of Americans, and I worry that this movement may become violent also, like so many others.

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

And it’s not just historical, either — things still happen today. Examples include the Peoples Temple (Jonestown, 1978) and Heaven’s Gate (1997), where Christian or syncretic beliefs about the imminent end of the world motivated extreme behavior, including mass suicides.

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

Big Liver is behind this, I just know it

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

Christianity has its origins as an apocalyptic movement. Tons of events in the history (the Crusades, the English civil war which briefly placed a pause on the monarchy, or the migration of Mormons to Utah) are a direct result of Christians believing that the end of the world would be any day now

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 20d

My birthday is the first day of spring, so today is when I’m at my weakest

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 21d

I thought she was going for the giant phantom jellyfish look

Giant Phantom Jellyfish

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 23d

Melania looks great

Donald and Melania Trump meeting King Charles III.

Melania’s outfit (I mean a Giant Phantom Jellyfish)

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 23d

WTF is the Dept of Homeland Security doing interpreting Bible scriptures?!!!

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 23d

Rabbi says the Department of Homeland Security is misinterpreting scriptural passages as it seeks to hire more ICE personnel.

Commentary: Hey, ICE, stop misusing the Bible to recruit agents

Rabbi says the Department of Homeland Security is misinterpreting scriptural passages as it seeks to hire more ICE personnel.

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · 25d

What do you know about how Gen Z communicates?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 25d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · Sep 11

Insane that this awesome video by @jj-mccullough.bsky.social is only three days old and it’s already out of date. Things have changed so much.
youtu.be/x54Xzz_vgnA?...

How POLITICAL COMMENTARY changed since the 90s

YouTube video by J.J. McCullough

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · Sep 9

And this is letter thing is different than all the other times Trump blatantly lied about not doing something that he obviously did?

Avi @aviberry.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Doctor (David Tennant): Don’t you think [he] looks tired?

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spooky lukey 🎃 @buffyfanboy.bsky.social · Sep 1

august 31st / september 1st x