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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 19h

In the first one if I recall there's a big fight with your "biggest rival" at the end, and when I fought him my reaction was "who the hell are you?" Remembered other guys way more!

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

in addition to the many other names mentioned, I'd throw Robin Pecknold into the ring as a contender

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

there's already a shortage of air traffic controllers so what is the point of this threat except to raise the salience of their power in this situation??

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

The Yankees being eliminated makes for a wonderful crisp Thursday morning

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

unlike him, liberals have object permanence

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 1d

America's self image is very western European but we really do have more in common with other American states than anyone in Europe tbh

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 2d

every day is a new frontier in scandals for them to ignore

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 2d

same reason they have their stupid pseudo-insurance companies: in group signalling with massive liabilities and downsides

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 3d

Haven't you heard? All of politics is just aesthetics now

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 3d

chipped beef on toast. chicken feet. liverwurst.

i could go for all of these right now tbh.

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 3d

i am a veteran of the forum wars and do not wish to return to the trenches

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 4d

People also love to pretend manufacturing processes and such are not technologies

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 4d

I have been told by many reliable sources that they are unstoppable and popular, though

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 6d

I think it's increasingly clear he's having more bad days at least

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 6d

prayer warriors rise up

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

hold on just a second here

blue sky screen shot from Bill Kuchman saying "Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin" quote posted by Adam Weinstein saying "Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

blue sky screen shot from Aaron Rupar saying
"Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and had no public events on his calendar today"

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 7d

do we think when they post it to his account Trump sees it later, and claps himself on the back for being such a genius? do we think that he understands that they're posting it on his account?

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 8d

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 8d

Hardcorn

Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 8d

it also does not, contrary to what they think, incentivize Democrats caving. If anything, it'll incentivize digging in and insisting on more in a CR than health care subsidies.

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon character is standing in front of a box that says to report post

ALT: a cartoon character is standing in front of a box that says to report post

media.tenor.com

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 9d

or as we say in the business, "a day ending in y"

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 9d

This website got the shutdown it wanted and now let's see how they are handling it? By getting mad at Chuck Schumer again of course!

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 9d

sometimes i poke my head into a discord's politics channel and see some of the stupidest shit masquerading as genius and remember why i keep that shit muted most of the time. sometimes it makes the stupidest bluesky posters seem like geniuses.

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 10d

All Yankees fans should be banned from Bluesky

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10d

if we want bluesky to have the oft-invoked "juice", i need baseball posters to step up this postseason. none of this namby-pamby "we lost but i like your team and im rooting for yall" reddit crap. i wanna see bloodlust and vendettas. i wanna see death threats. i wanna see feral, ape-like hooting

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 9d

I’ve come around to the position that they should pass the CR and save the real fight for the end of the month. But even if your position is the opposite (fair enough, it’s not an easy call!) then I don’t think defectors are worth getting worked up over.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9d

55-45, Senate GOP short-term funding bill FAILS.

52 Republicans + Fetterman (D-Pa.), Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), and King (I-Maine) vote YES.

44 Democrats + Paul (R-Ky.) vote NO.

It needed 60 votes to pass.

Shutdown hits at midnight.

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Strategic Butter Reserve @euphoria5l.bsky.social · 9d

I think nuclear option is higher probability (but don't know how I'd rate it)

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