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🌮 All you need is love. West Texan. Data Scientist. Byzantine & Late Antique History. I’m the Golden Retriever boyfriend. He/Him “The Gospel takes away forever our right to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.” —Dorothy Day

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 2d

The death penalty is always wrong in any circumstance whatsoever, and it always has been.

We humans are not responsible enough to dole out a punishment that can’t be taken back or apologized for. We should never have that responsibility. Nor should we ever have.

Joe Arridy was a mentally disabled 23-year-old who was falsely accused of r*pe and m*rder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Colorado. He was put to death in 1939, but was officially pardoned in 2011, since evidence proved he was coerced into confession.

Arridy was known for spending his time on death row playing with a toy train, given to him by the prison warden. For his last meal, he requested ice cream.

When questioned about his impending execution he showed "blank bewilderment" and it was clear that he didn't realize the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die." He even saved some of his ice cream for after the execution.

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 5h

Ugh

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

You can protest oppression and also support it at the same time!

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 5h

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 5h

But “Wellnam” for Middle English, methinks. 🥰

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 5h

Eadnamgiffanmoot, I think— a good name giver assembly/committee! Or maybe Eadnam, for short. 😁

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 5h

Current Ziggy Status: sleeping on his daddee while daddee is watching liberal propaganda (the “I Have Had It” podcast)

Jason with his laptop and Ziggy Stardust the pug” asleep between his legs, just dead to the world. It’s a very sweet and touching scene!

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 6h

I borrowed it, you can too! I give you my blessing. 😁

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone who has ever had them and has been to Barton Springs knows this feeling.

Some folks are lucky enough to only know the nipple-thermal-shock. It’s a real thing, regardless of anatomy! Barton Springs is chilly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A diagram of a dude going into a pool of water via the stairs.

The label says: They say the first step is the hardest ...
But it's actually the third step, right before your balls go in the water.

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 6h

My late father taught Beowulf and other Old English things when he was still in the classroom, and so I learned a lot about how epithets were constructed in both Norse and Old English— skrubbahjælf— the scrubbing helper—seems about right! “That which helps scrub the chew things!”

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 6h

A teethpeeste for sensotooth teefs.

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 7h

(In this case it was oatmeal, and I’m the Scots peasant here, Jason’s people do not have opinions! They are busy judging me for not grinding things on a metate and I welcome this deserved scrutiny)

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 7h

Tfw you send your boyfriend to MallWort in the middle of the night and he asks you “which [ingredient]?” And you become possessed by all of the immigrant mothers and grandmas that taught you how to cook and you say “THE CHEAPEST” and he comes home with the good stuff.

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 7h

Or maybe “scourchewins”?

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 7h

Scrubchewins. If we’re going with Middle English!

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 8h

I have never watched “The Boys” but I know enough about it to be dangerously stupid and there have been times where I’m tempted to ask if it’s “Homelander” he’s been watching and…

Well…

I’m not that brave, y’all. I’m simply not. He’d turn me out n my ear.

Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 8h

(It’s “Peacemaker” btw— but I love seeing him wince when I ask. What’s this show? “Eagle-tights? Freedom man?” He: *dies a littles* me: I love you? He: 😡)

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 8h

Me: making cookies and rocking out to a podcast*

*starts dishwasher*

Jason: (in the living room, watching something)

*turns up the volume on a song called [paraphrasing] “Please stop fucking my heart in the ass”

Me: if I asked you, what the hell was going on right now, could you tell me?

Him:….

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 11h

JUST @ ME NEXT TIME GAAAAHHHH😭

When the pharmacist finally calls you back.
(Picture of a woman in a business meeting checking her phone)

Woman with phone: That's my drug dealer. I gotta take this.

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Beta Ray Ben @betarayben.bsky.social · 13h

Saying you think Johnny Cash was uncool is such a deep self-own, I would jump into the ocean and live with the sea cucumbers.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 13h

That's just because Nixon believed he wouldn't get away with it, and because the media landscape at the time made him right about that.

Which is why Nixon's accolyte Roger Ailes made it his crusade to remake that landscape so someone like Nixon WOULD get away with it.

And here we are.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James.

So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former personal attorney) who would.

Even Nixon made efforts to hide his corruption.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 13h

Who.

In the FIERIEST hell.

Thinks Johnny Cash.

Is uncool.

…I just wanna talk.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 16h

wtaf are you talking about

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 13h

That's right, Patel, and that gang is called "Star Trek."

Mama said Spock you out. 🖖🏻

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 13h

I haven’t myself, I’ve only ever seen the silent film! But I’ll bet Jason has, he’s way more versed in film in general, and spooky film particularly, than I am. 😁

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Kevin Atkinson @ikeatkinson.bsky.social · 14h

But I love every iteration of “snorting Tylenol off an uncut dick” joke happening so keep those up please

Kevin Atkinson @ikeatkinson.bsky.social · 14h

Can’t wait to reminisce about the day circumcision became a hotly contested discourse because this is our horrific existence we live in now

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 14h

Lies: 1 in 5 Chicagoans is in a gang.

Reality: 1 in 5 Chicagoans is a drag performer.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 20h

NO LIES DETECTED

screenshot of a post reading "Kash Patel: 1 in 5 Chicagoans is in a gang. Reality: 1 in 5 Chicagoans is in an improv troupe."

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