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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 1h

We grow up, admiring the half-generation ahead of us. Then they die and die, ripping from us the part of our selves we gave to them.

One day, all that is ahead of us will be a booming cliff.

Goodbye, my Diane.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

We grow up, admiring the half-generation ahead of us. Then they die and die, ripping from us the part of our selves we gave to them.

One day, all that is ahead of us will be our own booming cliff.

Goodbye, my Diane.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

You go, girl!

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Bold. No mask.

Looks like the TV hero who runs into danger, surrounded by armored troops, knowing that the script will ensure all bullets miss him.

Idiot.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Trauma all round.

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Damn right.
Damn wrong.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Of course. And all the others we won't even hear about.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Count the non-prosecutions...

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

"I regret..."

Yeah, sure.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

It's all nonsense, really. Though some of the nonsense is more nonsensical than the rest of the nonsense.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

It's all nonsense, really. Though some of the nonsense is more nonsensical than the rest of the nonsense.

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

This is the style of humour I like. Thank you for the smile. I am now one tourist taller.

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Our president? Lie? Surely not!

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Cohn was lawyer to mob bosses. He probably saw the potential in Trump Jr.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

I suppose it's one way of getting his hands on a Nobel medal.

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

I have
I be have
That's the point

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

To get to where

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 4h

Weep. Fight.
Whatever your skin.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

Into the slavering jaws of the demon, she strolls.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

We grow up, admiring the half-generation ahead of us. Then they die and die, ripping from us the part of our selves we gave to them.

One day, all that is ahead of us will be a booming cliff.

Goodbye, my Diane.

sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 11h

Oh no www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

It's a symptom of stupid, shock-jock journalism.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

We laugh.
Compassion dies.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

The name whispered after former members of the Gestapo for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it shouted, too, shaming their shrivelled souls as they remembered the things they did and the things they casually let happen.

In the dark, they endlessly cried like their uncounted victims.

Yes. ICE.

Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 5h

The name whispered after former members of the Gestapo for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it shouted, too, shaming their shrivelled souls as they remembered the things they did and the things they casually let happen.

In the dark, they endlessly cried like their uncounted victims.

Yes. ICE.

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Dave S @dmstraker.bsky.social · 21h

After the Trump Rose Garden club and ballroom at the White House, and now a triumphal (trumphal?) arch, we can expect a continuing stream of expensive vanity projects that glorify the dear leader

Mount Rushmore, here we come.

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