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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · Aug 28

At Least The Fruit Subscription Services Run On Time

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This cartoon has four panels. Each is a different scene, but they all focus on the same character, an ordinary-looking white guy with glasses, wearing a polo shirt. I'll call him "Glasses."

PANEL 1

Glasses is walking in a city as he reads his phone. In the background, across the street, we see a group of protestors with signs saying "Stop It!" and "Enough Already!"

GLASSES (thought): Bills, bills... Oh, well, whatcha gonna do?

PANEL 2

Glasses is sitting on a bench at a bus stop, still reading his phone. There are a couple of sleeper tents on the sidewalk.

GLASSES (thought): Oh, wow, the news is awful... We really are descending into fascism.

PANEL 3

Glasses is stepping off a bus, while still staring at the phone in his hand. In the foreground, a couple of men wearing backwards baseball bats, their faces hidden by balaclavas, are wrestling a woman into submission.

GLASSES (thought): I should put my phone away... Can't lose another day to doomscrolling.

PANEL 4

Glasses, now in sweatpants, is on a sofa in his living room, still reading his phone. Through a window behind him, we can see masked soldiers marching by.

GLASSES (thought): Should I join a fruit subscription service?

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it's a step above "Such an interesting topic, very cool and useful info! I am һappy that you shared this useful infоrmation with us. Please stay ᥙs informed ⅼike thіs." (Actual direct quote)

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 2d

Talent agent / screenwriter / junior development exec

Three men sitting at a table. The one on the left wears a business suit, the one in the middle wears a printed short sleeve shirt and newsboy cap, and the one on the right wears a collared shirt with a pink checkered vest and a pink tie.

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 2d

I love to put chocolate chips in my popcorn does that count?

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 2d

Why do you think Zhoran posted that statement? What was the purpose of it? Can you answer that?

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 3d

Do you not understand context at all

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 3d

Who?

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 3d

Yes we have to start with that because *today is October 7*

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 3d

When you're incapable of feeling embarrassment so you makes everyone else feel it for you

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Rebecca Cohen @gynostar.bsky.social · 3d

Omg this is so apt

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 3d

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer:
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 3d

Chancellor Hitler is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to invade neighboring Poland due to what he says is the rampant persecution of ethnic Germans and to support his crackdown on global jewry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NPR @npr.org · 3d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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