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Joe Auerbach

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Professional nerd. Hobbyist nerd. Biological nerd? he/him I think I wrote a book? It was sort of an accident, but it's in my linktree: linktr.ee/joe.auerbach

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · Jan 3

If you're a radical leftist, a progressive, a liberal, or even just a plain old Democrat, I'm probably on board with your politics.

But in this political climate, that shit doesn't matter because we're not even in the ballpark.

So until the room changes a LOT, I'm focusing on other shit.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 36m

Seriously, I'm no longer Catholic, and I have been a druid longer than I was ever Catholic. But even I think that ice arresting Jesus is probably a bad thing.

It's not unpredictable but it's probably bad.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

Basically tho, ICE just arrested Jesus.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

So yeah, no that's really what it's called. The Monstrance is usually only ever brought out on specific holy days for veneration during which it's displayed on the altar of the church (an altar btw which usually houses a holy relic)

Catholics believe it is actually Jesus, because transubstantiation

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 3h

This is the thing I used to buy magic cards for. I would just grab a booster pack and make a plot out of it. It was my go-to just after college.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 4h

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 5h

Hard to believe we didn't get a budget done on time.

Brian Schatz on Twitter: The Republican House has worked 12 out of the last 79 calendar days.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 4h

H8 that for you

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 9h

I’m again saying for the 1000th time that you can tell a lot about a person based on how they talk about kids

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

I really appreciate how some dudes stormed into your comments and proved you right

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

If I'm honest, I don't think she should have ended up with either of them. Neither one of them was good enough for her. She probably should have had a partner with a brain.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

And I suppose pickle them faster because.... That's literally the whole point of pickles.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

That is a very smart thing to do. It does not make me feel any better about my rotten cucumbers but....

Making quick pickles has been a huge, healthy snack option for me lately. I'm just going to have to get smarter about when I buy them and use them.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

Gus Is almost certainly correct here. Super smart response.

Gus @kerago.bsky.social · 6h

If you are in America then your supply chain is likely all messed up due to workers being targeted by ICE, so your veg ain't fresh

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, that's almost certainly what's going on. Thanks for the reminder.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 7h

She was epic. it's a loss.

merritt @merrittk.com · 7h

RIP Diane Keaton i loved u in the Young Pope

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 7h

A lot of hay gets made about how expensive it is to buy healthy food and that's not super true when it comes to vegetables EXCEPT

Why is is that lately every single vegetable and fruit I buy goes bad inside four days? Why do I even bother?

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

It's just not a fair comparison because Taylor Swift put out a cute little album about how much she likes her boyfriend and how hard touring is and that's fine.

Any other year I would have grabbed two or three songs from it and stuck them on a road trip playlist and that would be that.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the thing. I think Life of a Showgirl is a fine album, if a bit ambitiously named. It's not my favorite but I like it well enough.

But I've been listening to Hayley Williams so much that Taylor is barely registering because Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party is so fucking good.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

What the hell did autocorrect do to me there?

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

Or her hours to the right parties.

I legitimately think he's a good actor, it's just that's not enough. You also have to not be box office cancer.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, remember the early 2000s when everyone was yelling about how the Republican party was authoritarian and we were called alarmists but then it turned out that we weren't alarmed enough?

Good times.

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 12h

Not that you wouldn't look great in that shirt...

Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

There were ... Other clues.

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Joe Auerbach @joeauerbach.bsky.social · 13h

My daughter would ONLY say da da for like a whole year. It was amazing.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s some photos of known antifa terrorists.

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