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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 8h

The most effective popular movements are multi-pronged. We need the silly frogs and we need the videos showing what thugs ICE goons are and we need judges calling out their bullshit and we need… etc. etc.

Let’s do all of it. Go frogs! Welcome to the fray!

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 1d

The drugs give us the gratitude to appreciate the brain holes

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 1d

It was famously rejected by 20 publishers, and I joke that the 21st didn’t read it but signed him on the spot after a long conversation with him and said to themselves “this man is a genius who is interested in EVERYTHING” and then got the manuscript and said “oh God. What have we done?”

The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 1d

*waving my arms frantically at the hiring manager*

"HICKS! HICKS!"

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 5d

“Respect the hustle but will never open that” was even more dead-on than I expected

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 6d

Seriously. Never heard of anyone tattling mid-rap battle before. Interesting strategy, surprised it didn’t work!

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 6d

I love how Boxers constantly look utterly baffled by the mere fact of existence

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 6d

I would watch a 4-hour compilation of people explaining this to their conservative parents

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 7d

I really liked this part of Hades

Dawn of the Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social · 7d

And fun extra: back when I was in high school, I read about a 3/4-ton sow that guarded a California pot farm. She nearly killed two DEA agents and turned over their car, and they only got out by feeding her weed (she lived for buds) until she passed out.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7d

Honestly and seriously think this is an EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE tactic to use against these weak fascist losers.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 11d

I just may!!

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 11d

I tried mastodon back in the day and it just can’t function as a dopamine delivery system. I’d get more hits of pleasure by staring at my wall and every 10 seconds thinking “at least I’m not using mastodon right now”

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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 11d

My spouse's grandfather does the David Lynch in Twin Peaks yell-talking. The very first time I met him, he said "NICE TO MEET YOU. HAVE YOU EVER ASTRAL PROJECTED? I DID. I GOT STUCK ON THE ROOF." I thought it was a little joke, but it was actually a story.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 12d

The current reaction is to the mocking posts. There would not have been near this level of conflict over the last few days if jay had just ignored the post about banning Singal. There’d be some, but it’s the perception that she wants to project contempt that is galvanizing people.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 12d

I wonder if we both follow the same strategy of “never ever ever ever act like lowtax” which has not only prevented me from getting bodied by lowtax’s ex, but has also helped my life in thousands of other ways

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12d

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 12d

Very often when I go to read the study, it’s very easy to see that it’s being misrepresented.

Most commonly a *possible* implication, but one that would need much more research to firmly establish, is represented as an ironclad finding of causality.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 13d

For real. I bet the transphobes are like “well I’m glad she hates trans people, but wow, she’s such a dork”

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 13d

They can change that rule and did so recently in another context.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 13d

You know this whole thing is worth reading as soon as you get to Mr. C, and can plainly see that it describes JD Vance *PERFECTLY*.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · Sep 25

squirrel: hey can i get that acorn in your yard

dog: no can do amigo

squirrel: why

dog: i don’t know but i need you to understand that i have a massive problem with it

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 13d

they're ttrpg players, how can they not know???

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 14d

Speaking truth to power. Respect.

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The Kakistocrats! @didntneedallofit.bsky.social · 16d

I told the zoomers at work—they look up to me, you see, because I am older than them—that 2002 Walmart was not all it’s cracked up to be. It actually wasn’t that great.

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