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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 · 17d

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 · 3h

Cary Grant showing off his acrobatic training!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 3h

"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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

"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 · 10h

"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 · 10h

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 · 11h

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

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

People dunk on adults who are still into Star Wars or "Wicked" or Muppets but imagine your Thing being Donald Trump?

The people with a room full of Funko Pops or a "War and Peace"-length "Gummi Bears" fanfic on AO3 can hold up their heads with pride; at least they're not devoted to a game show host

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

I feel silly to be this tired from just standing & chanting & holding a sign for three hours; but we went & we also signed a petition for same-day voter registration.

A lot of supportive honking & waving; some dudes revving their engines angrily; a couple of twerps on bikes.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 15h

My good? Crowned with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.

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

My Mom loves the new Helen Oxenbury/Michael Rosen book called "Look What I Got!" so she's been going around saying

"I went to the polls to let freedom ring.
What did I get? They gave me a king!
Oh, dear! Look what I got!
Do I want that? No, I do not!"

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

"Women LOVE the vehicle"

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

"Women don't like the vehicle"

Tintin and Snowy (his dog) in the shark-proof submarine, which is a submarine that looks like a smiling orca with a glass observation bubble on the back, near the ocean floor with fearful red fish swimming away from them

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

Lawyer Shark! (Doo doo, doo doo doo doo-doo)

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

I am offering people Edward Gorey artwork & lunch at a place called The Sea Hag; what's not to like?

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

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."

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

A) Eisenhower is one man I will freely & without reservation own to be smarter than I am.
B) It feels as if I can't delegate *anything* because I may not be as bright as the guy who planned D-Day but in many situations I'm the only person paying attention!

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

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