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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “

@curole.bsky.social

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Chaplain, artist, curmudgeon, cat person. Basically decent but also sweary. Recommended 18+ or with parental supervision. I nuke trolls, bots, and anyone else I find sufficiently annoying. No DMs, followbacks or asking for $€£¥ on the first date.

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · Aug 17

For those special people in our lives.

Tomato Like A Hearse , @tomatolikeabus.bsky.social · Aug 17

“Oh, yes, Schopenhauer! Did you know his mother wrote him many letters until finally disowning him? No wait, this is good, I’ll read one of them out loud. To you.”

You are not an evil human; you are not without intellect and education; you have everything that could make you a credit to human society. Moreover, I am acquainted with your heart and know that few are better, but you are nevertheless irritating and unbearable, and I consider it most difficult to live with you.
All of your good qualities become obscured by your super-cleverness and are made useless to the world merely because of your rage at wanting to know everything better than others; of wanting to improve and master what you cannot command. With this you embitter the people around you, since no one wants to be improved or enlightened in such a forceful way, least of all by such an insignificant individual as you still are; no one can tolerate being reproved by you, who also still show so many weaknesses yourself, least of all in your adverse manner, which in oracular tones, proclaims this is so and so, without ever supposing an objection.
If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying.
JOHANNA SCHOPENHAUER
LETTER TO HER SON, THE PHILOSOPHER ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
6 NOVEMBER 1807

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 2d

See what a pastel wig can do??

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 2d

Well get on it then 🤣😇

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 2d

It’s October, you can go to the haunted big box store and get a ridiculous wig and/or fake cigar.

I mean, i got a flamingo hat, so.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 2d

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net, even if what it took to get there was standing firm on liberal values, demonstrating some spine, and refusing to throw trans people under the bus.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 2d

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 2d

If you are curious about the religious movement that’s one of the drivers of the current political situation, i recommend reading this book.

I’m a religious professional, I imagine I’m well informed, and I learned a bunch of stuff i had no idea about.

Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social · 3d

Very grateful for this new review of my book, The Violent Take It by Force, by Stephen Waldron in @readingreligion.bsky.social.

readingreligion.org/978150649778...

The Violent Take It by Force - Reading Religion

A propulsive account of the network of charismatic Christians that consolidated support for Donald Trump and is reshaping religion and politics in the US.Ove...

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

The apostolic exhortation is Pope Leo's first since his election in May. n.pr/3VWUvEJ

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

n.pr

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 3d

Wherein I particularly need to go the f to sleep, but also am bored, but not bored enough to doze off.

C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 3d

Which is almost, but definitely not, Natchitoches.

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 3d

Willamette, dammit.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 3d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Aroostook County Democrats @aroostookdemocrats.bsky.social · 5d

Ask yourself WHY is the ultra right wing zealot, Leonard Leo, spending so much money trying to kill Absentee Voting in Maine??

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 3d

PDX has had around thirty years of practice, they are getting pretty good at protest. Ngl i miss that weird town.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 3d

Same.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4d

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 4d

If you can put it on fry bread you can probably put it on a funnel cake.

Except beans, they’ll fall through the holes.

C. L. Curole “Less Panic, More Disco 🪩 “ @curole.bsky.social · 4d

I spent way too long trying to figure out if that was powdered sugar and jam, or parmesan cheese and ketchup, and I’ not entirely sure it isn’t powdered sugar and ketchup.