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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 4h

You have to have politics that aren’t just “fuck you, mom and dad” or else you’re going to have a bad read on how politics works, but many fail this simple test

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 4h

Right? My WWII age grandfather (he broke his back as a teen, however, so the military wouldn't take him) fucking hates Trump. It's my born-too-late-for-Vietnam Fox News brained father who is like "maybe America needs a strongman," not my grandfather.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 5h

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 5h

Kid looks like a cunt

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 5h

Noooooooooooo

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 5h

I don't recommend standing in the ruins of your own life for any amount of time, but being able to go "well, I survived" is a nice feeling

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 5h

LORDT this is the truth. It does, eventually, bother you less. You know you'll survive it!

My rejection sensitive dysphoria and general anxiety are fuckin nuts and the only thing that's ever helped was failing so hard, there was no possibility of pretending otherwise.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5h

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 6h

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 5h

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 6h

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 5h

Stab him again a few more times, just to be sure

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 7h

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield in Britain.

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison

Former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in HMP Wakefield in Britain.

www.rte.ie

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot think of a worse fit, actor to character, than this combination. Jesus Jones.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6h

It seems the reports of a ScarJo-Disney rift may have been exaggerated

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

‘Tangled’ Live-Action Movie Back in Development With Scarlett Johansson Eyed to Star

Michael Gracey remains attached to helm Disney's new version of the 2010 animated film after the project hit the pause button earlier this year.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

Like, this isn't a revelation, but I'm currently watching Attack of the Clones and it is fucking unbearable

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

God, Anakin Skywalker is such an incel bitch

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 9h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 10h

See, if you're thinking "we should make a deal with Trump to get that, though!", that's how you end up an emaciated shrimp in Ursula's garden smdh

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 10h

Antifa sends messages using ultrabright headlights. Outlaw those and you'll cripple their communication.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 12h

"I'm the only one who can save you from the Antichrist" bro save yourself some anti-perspirant first

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

peter thiel has gotta be the wettest of the oligarchs

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

peter thiel has gotta be the wettest of the oligarchs

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 13h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 12h

Those are awesome!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13h

folks, youre not going to believe this but ive been reading revelations and the only way to keep the 7 seals secured and stave off the antichrist is to give me all your money

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 19h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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