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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 8m

There's literally no other way for say, Jeff Bezos, to be critical of the institutions and scheme of governance supporting Trump without pointing a finger at himself-- the point of which is to say it's a great way to tell at a glance if media is independent or not.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 10m

One thing that gets paved over by them misidentifying capitalism is that painting capitalists as communists is the only way for a stenographer-pundit to satisfy their oligarch owner beefing with another oligarch. C.f. "Marco Rubio's bizarre anti-capitalist turn"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 47m

“.. Nevadans have a front row seat to.. Trump’s transformation of the U.S. economy from a free market to a command economy, complete with the ability for Trump to manipulate the market.. in favor of his own investments, .. friends or family.”

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

everyone in media basically dreams of getting a gig as solid as that one doctor in dune (1984) who gets to drain baron harkonnen's sex disease ulcers & talk about how beautiful and attractive they are

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 5d

Honestly the Eva pilot episode has a density, nuance and execution level of physical comedy that might not have been achieved in a western production since Playtime (1967) like, the iconic missile grab, everything Misato does with the car, whatever that initial reunion between misato & Ritsuko is…

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 10h

I've joked before that the Democratic party is more of a money laundering scheme than a political project but, like. Stephen, they will FUCK YOU UP if you come for ActBlue. Like literally the only thing you could do to make Democrats fight back is touch their shitty email money

Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 10h

ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all.

Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 12h

The original reason Catholic and evangelical interest groups got together; so Bob Jones could run a racist college and still get tax breaks

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 12h

Wanna hear something really funny? Last I checked word mute doesn't check content warnings.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 13h

And suffering few, if any, consequences for being unethical or cruel as long as you "win" !

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry but if you use Mastodon you're not allowed to make fun of Isekai titles. You do not get to complain about the content warnings put into the title of the show. Ohh you have fornophobia? And you watched the vending machine anime? Shut up!!!

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 14h

Dang we the temperature really dropped fast.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 15h

This is definitely part of it for me now that you mention it. Like now I care a lot about basketball and baseball, although that's largely owing to the quality of players drastically increasing for the past two decades

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 15h

Most games since then are the story of some tragic error. So few games where it's just two teams just trying to outplay each other. I guess there was that ravens team that was trying to outplay it's quarterback and did actually

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 15h

I just don't like tackle football as much as I used to and I'm not really sure why. Honestly haven't ever enjoyed it as much since Rams Titans in like 2000 or whatever year that was

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

One big change from the great depression is that soup lines are illegal in around 39 cities now, to punish the unhoused.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

9/15 can't move because they need the cash on 10/1, and 1/15 can't move because of GOD, so that leaves 4/15 and 7/15. 4/15 is tax day so that would be annoying, which means 7/15 gets moved up to 6/15, resulting in a two month quarter. Great. Thanks for nothing!!!!

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

I just found out the reason one tax quarter is two months is because of Christianity. (And also the government wanting an influx of cash on Oct 1 at start of Govt Fiscal year.) Clergy tax year starts Jan 1, so that couldn't be moved, which means they had to move est. dates of 4/15, 7/15, 9/15--

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

I pretty much bailed out of all my retirement shit yesterday. Feels like it's time for the rug pull and if I'm right too early the downside cost is probably minimal.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

this isn't even an ACA plan btw

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 16h

Health insurance going up $45 biweekly next year for less coverage.

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The BanG Dream Is Over @meltface.xyz · Jan 28

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 17h

I think Nick Land originated it, he has a significant connection to Peter Thiel and Yarvin and all those freaks. Although in his younger days he wasn't really as problematic.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 17h

I hate to use the term given its originator but there is a certain hyperstition quality to it, where the joke and myth kind of encouraged people to define the bounds of the plausible as far as they go.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

(I take it extremely seriously.)

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

Ideology doesn't affect my relationship with money at all. It's basically a task/game that is materially going to be what it is regardless of how I feel about it. Then again, maybe I wouldn't feel like the material circumstances were agnostic to my feelings if I never read any theory.

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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 1d

I married someone who had a lot of anxiety about dealing with money and that part of the marriage didn't work out well. It was impossible to plan big things with her like a house, and basic stuff (e.g. taxes) was 10x more of a hassle than it should have been.

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