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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 8h

Miss that guy

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 9h

They did til last year - RIP $1 churros you are missed

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 10h

He’ll be reliving that throw when he’s 90

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, what a heartbreaking way to lose for Philly

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 10h

The word is he just wanted to watch a man die. Which doesn’t make sense because he ALSO admitted to getting high on cocaine, shooting his woman and fleeing to Mexico. So, he’s seen death. A problematic fellow, to be sure

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10h

Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, he might’ve shot a man in Reno, too. Sources unclear

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 10h

Roseanne Cash’s dad. Guess he tried music too, maybe?

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Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Senate Majority leader reassuring the public re: the "basics of ACA" (& his reassurances are lies) is interesting. Particularly in the midst of a government shutdown w/ some role reversals occurring. Signals need for defense of ACA; possible weakness.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

This is how the conservative majority on the supreme court behaves now too, it's nuts

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

Kind of an incredible thing about the entire Trump administration and maga movement generally is that nobody acts like their reputation matters at all. They have no notion of establishing and maintaining credibility about anything. No concept of being known as reliable. Like complete wild animals

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 11h

How’re those subscriptions doing there, Marc? <slow clap>

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11h

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 11h

“Oh yeah, you and what Army?!”

“Oh, Tom! He’s right over there getting a Costco churro”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11h

All this only happened because we let one guy control the military. True democracy would be every citizen having one soldier

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t know if it’s all of Colorado, but I was startled to see when driving in the Denver area the freeway on-ramps are set up as little drag races with both lanes going green at once instead of alternating lanes. Fun once I got used to it! ‘Murica!!

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13h

In the late 1980s, there was an anti-authoritarian protest movement in Poland called The Orange Alternative where people would wear "dwarf hats," and it made arresting them look ridiculous

Orange Alternative protest in Poland with people wearing dwarf hats

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 14h

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 14h

I agree with this, MAGA is cooked, but hopefully there’s a bloc that can be convinced that they get a ~personal benefit~ to helping others, having a thriving economy, since that seems to be the primary motivation of many of them

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 15h

I appreciate the “whoa we sure wouldn’t like the shoe on the other foot” conclusion. Should make maga think. Alas.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

this antivaxx malaise is just so terribly modern! a willful crisis of authority. we're not going to "evolve" out of it; we need to eradicate it.

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 16h

This bodes well for my pitch: ice cream - the forgotten treat too delicious to ignore anymore

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 16h

The New Deal must've been so cool man, new president shows up and goes "alright fuckers, New Deal time, rule one is everything rocks, rule two is no more shit that sucks, rule three is you can afford food now"

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 18h

the horrors really gotta stop persisting for a day or so

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