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Hoppy Croaklightly

@hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social

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Amphibian. I have the Great Frog on speed dial. Frogs are the best result of the Big Bang by a mile. If you can manage it, please donate to PBS. Tax/Spend. Brekekekex koax koax! "wE aRe SoRrY tO SeE YoU Go"

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 4h

Capitalism makes bastards, er, batrachians of us all.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine if any of the many empty suits running the world today had an iota of Shackleton's leadership and poise in them.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

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Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 5h

"She has become chronically unpopular, with a historic low of 2% approval as of March 2025".

Damn.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 5h

Abby, Bert, Chuy, Denny, Elmo, Finn, Gil, Horst

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 5h

"Your intolerance of my intolerance is intolerant!"

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

"In the future, everything will be frog."

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

"inflatable frogge is the hottest new fashion trend."

Sounds like something that someone with a warehouse full of inflatable frogges would say.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

Resist the tentacles of fascism!

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

Doesn't surprise me.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

Sock puppets!

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

Just like they play piano.

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · Jul 20

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 6h

I apparently blocked him at some point in the past, because I don't know who it is.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 7h

Doesn't BLM have to show cause for pulling shit like this or otherwise get sued by the developers?

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 7h

*Scary John Williams music*

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 7h

Tragicomedy.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 7h

A very Hobbesian take. That's not a compliment.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 7h

butters-scotch

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”