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Fnord Borgly

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · Feb 10

Robbins: We’ve had dark ages in the past.
Marshall: Does it feel like a dark age to you?
Robbins: It’s starting to feel that way more and more, but my porchlight is burning night and day.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 1h

OK but are you saying Republicans have agency too?

Citizen K @citizenkryptik.bsky.social · 11d

People remain infinitely more mad at hypothetical Democratic sins than the actual GOP sins that said hypotheticals would be responding to.

Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 2h

Hoping you're in your 20s.

Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 2h

They did invent the Anti-Social Behaviour Ordinance.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 16h

It's all fun and games until it's 630am, dressed as the cactus from final fantasy, handing out burritos in the local park.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Report from Antifa headquarters

Currently inflatable dancing mascots are planning the next dastardly action by feeding burritos to the homeless this weekend

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

75K+ people follow this person on here for insights like “maybe the solution to our problems politically is for Charles Schumer to imprison Donald Trump physically in a dungeon.”

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 11h

We all want the pain to stop, and I'm getting the sense that spending your days doom-gooning with your Discord buddies and then screaming at everyone else might not be the most effective coping strategy.

Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 11h

Evergreen, sadly.

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · Mar 7

People are starting to realize that their One Weird Trick isn't going to fix what's ailing the country, but rather than try something more productive, they're getting angry at elected officials who know that there is no secret button that will take them to before the 2024 election.

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Louis @monstertime.bsky.social · 18h

We need people to virtue show (build libraries) not virtue tell (put up tacky yard signs that turn people off the whole concept)

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 13h

It'll be the "Innsmouth look" for wingnuts.

Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 13h

They didn't, because he isn't.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 15h

i am actually stealing “we should run our nation according to the rules we approved and wrote down” for my sign

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Betsy Cazden @betsy-cazden.bsky.social · 15h

"Your job as a reporter is to stick your hand outside and tell us whether it really is raining or not" has become increasingly relevant.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile, the major outlets are pissing on our leg and telling us it's raining.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 15h

After he's gone, will people get the fillers removed or will "Mar a Lago face" persist as some weird fash totem?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 16h

Every billionaire should be treated as an existential risk on the level of a loose nuke.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Caitlin @hellocaitlin.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the money 👀

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Orcish Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Orcish Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 19d

Law's stuck in 1778
How I wish I did not practice now
A letter of Cert came from our kings,
The shittiest logic I've ever seen

Goddamn them all
I was told we'd use the rules of America's past
They'd break no laws, "stop the steal"
Now I'm a broken man with a damn JD
Aghast at Barrett's bad decrees

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 1d

Save them for stock!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 1d

I'd go just for the Riz sets. (Loved his article about his first JoCo cruise and learning to embrace his inner blerd.)

Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 1d

Oh the year was 1778...

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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