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Fred.

@freeloosedirt.bsky.social

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LA area Liberal. Lakers and Chiefs fan. Sobriety. I spin vinyl records. He/Him. If I don’t already know you, I’m more likely to block you from your DM than reply to it.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2h

Please read this amazing piece of writing from my daughter

The Muck, 2 AM, Bill and Fred, and Me

On alcohol, family, and true love.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3h

<goose chasing meme>

What services?

What services JD?

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 4h

This needs to be the start of an Oceans 11 type movie

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · May 15

Wait so the Accountant is a murderer and the Brutalist is just an architect???

Hollywood you so crazy!

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

Is this what a “growing legacy” looks like?

Graphic plotting out the number of internet searches for “Charlie Kirk” over the thirty day period following his murder and which shows an initial spike and then a steep decline back to what was occurring prior to his death.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand your mindset. Have you never heard the “First they came for…” poem?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the things I’m angry at Trump for, making me defend John Bolton is near the top of that list.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know anyone in a position to do something about it?

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Some of it got into his ear canal and gave him a nasty ear confection

Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Ngo is *still* complaining about that one time someone threw a milkshake at him?

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

MIT confirms the “place where the smartest people are” stereotype.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

Breaking: MIT rejected President Trump’s "compact," which offers colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching reforms. It is the first school to do so.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Give this judge the peace prize

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Federal judge rules federal agents must wear visible identification, can’t use riot weapons against peaceful protestors. Ruling follows agents pepper spraying and tear gassing journalists and a priest in Chicago.

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Trump didn’t really think he was going to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year. They’re just working the refs in an effort to get the award next year, in the run-up to the midterm elections

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Fred. @freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 2d

Are pickles a vegetable? Asking for a friend.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Framing it as Trump simply going after his political enemies is misleading because to a fascist every other living person is their political enemy.

You’re his political enemy. You just haven’t been identified yet.