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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards. In the pocket of Big Dame. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 18d

I'm telling myself this is the bit where it looks as if all is lost but the heroes persevere.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 7h

To pay the "post about something good that happened today" tax, my Mom & I went to the quilt display at the Town Historical Society, we had a walk, I grilled resulting in a good dinner tonight & meal-prepped veg for the week, & because of Walktober I think my calves are getting a little toned.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 7h

It's weird that we're all going "At least Dubya didn't do [awful thing Trmp is doing] but he gave us ICE AND Roberts & Alito, which are the means by which Trmp is doing much of this evil stuff!

It was terrible & shameful! It's that this is so much worse & we all have Constant Bad News Machines now.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 7h

I got the new Taylor album & it really is...like, the music they'd play in a gentle step aerobics class.

Maybe it'll grow on me?

My Mom: This is just like what happened to T. S. Eliot when *he* fell in love!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 10h

Welp, only one person wrote back.

That's *me* told!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to send a non-Charlotte Bartlett invitation to birthday stuff, i.e. operate from a position of "This person actually does like you & would enjoy spending time with you."

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 11h

They had room above the fold for another vague hating-on-the-Democrats article; got their priorities in gear.

If I deep-cleaned the house could I bribe my Mom to cancel her subscription?

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 11h

He is a murderer, he is a murderer, he is a murderer, & the New York Times is letting him off the hook with this "suspected of" framing.

My Mom was outraged at how little coverage the protests got in the paper; I wonder what will be enough to get people to cancel subscriptions.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 11h

7th boat attacked illegally, killing 3 men, and bringing the total number fatalities to 32. As usual, no info on the identity of the men, and no proof of drugs, was provided, just a vague claim that the men were part of ELN

U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels

www.nytimes.com

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 14h

Roses are red, the Roman god of time was Janus...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Back when I was young, the question was "will capitalism kill us through its relentless extraction of surplus value from nature-obliterating technology?" Turns out no, it's dumber than that, the capitalists actually want to build solar panels now but that's not ok because it's soy or something.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 16h

Legacy media after letting a bunch of decent reporters, editors, & researchers go:

Sign outside a restaurant that should say "Now hiring all shifts" but says "Now hiring all shits"

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 17h

(Books are never things you don't need.)

(I really don't like the way reading is turning into a Spiders Georg situation.)

(I am reading "How to Do Nothing" & she mentions people downloading attention-building apps & then clocking out of them immediately because they were so boring.)

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 17h

Help me, imaginary Jane Goodall in my head, please keep reminding me to stop buying things I don't need because it's bad for the planet!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Cary Grant showing off his acrobatic training!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh, Mortimer, don't be so inquisitive. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it."

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is another one of my Mom's jokes; she's the funny one who should be online.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Boston had Head of the Charles this weekend but Britain had HEAD of the CHARLES if you know what I mean!

They were killing kings before it was cool!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The UK kicked off the whole "killing the king" thing; give credit where it's due!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The UK kicked off the whole "killing the king" thing; give credit where it's due!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

All the retirees in LL Bean quarter zips today basically had the "Mussolini hanging upside down dot jpeg" mindset.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is about the OpenAI guy stealing other people's art to train his robots:

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn
That the Union makes us strong

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

My Mom & the other women protesting were discussing the people who have driven their cars into protesters & they were...not frightened but *aware* of it but it didn't stop them!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

I know the G-d stuff is a dealbreaker for many & I respect that but "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" goes incredibly hard (a guy & I sang a bit of it today).

I wish protests had singing sections. Also had I the skills I would set a video of No Kings footage to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Xz...

Judy Garland: Battle Hymn of the Republic

YouTube video by nyboxers73

www.youtube.com

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"If all we have before us is the struggle, then we will learn to love the struggle, the way a weightlifter loves to pick up heavier & heavier things because it means she'll increase her gains. We must become Happy Warriors."

Paolo Montarsolo as Bartolo whispering in the ear of Heather Begg as Marcellina, an eighteenth century man gloatingly telling a skeptical looking eighteenth century woman something

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"It's great that there are a lot of us & we're fired up but this is going to take so much work and time to fix."

Heather Begg as Marcellina, a woman in elaborate eighteenth century clothes, seated, looking up with an expression in which hope is fading to resignation

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

You know how in "Space Case" he wants to go trick-or-treating every night? I sort of want to stand in the center of town with a placard in favor of a worthy cause every Saturday.

"Literacy is not a luxury! Return to phonics! Fund & staff our public schools!"

"Volunteer at a retirement home!"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

NYT Vows section: He's a Broker, She's a Yoga Teacher, Together They've Murdered Three Homeless People.

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