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Paul Freedom!

@jommyscousin.bsky.social

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Mr. Irrelevant! The Criterion of Embarrassment! Poet in Motion! I fight every fight like I can win! I am a fictional character with no basis in reality!

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be real the biggest issue with Bluesky is that phenomenological experience can only be shared between humans via imperfect language and metaphor but somehow adding a dislike button is a higher priority for the devs smh

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1h

Let's not gloss over his talking up how difficult that was

Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1h

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and this pear

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Jonathan Bacchus. @insurgentsia.bsky.social · 1h

GOOD FUCKING MORNING

Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, accordin...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

dear god what have i done

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

screenshot of an andrewperez.bsky.social post that says "Just the face you want to see endorsing your campaign on the eve of the election" over a screenshot of an acyn post from twitter that reads "Stephen Miller: The Anti-Mamdani vote which is really the pro-NYC vote, the pro-America vote needs to unite behind a leading candidate and that's Andrew Cuomo"

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We're In Hell @wereinhell.bsky.social · 6h

New video: THE DARK WEB IS A PSYOP.
youtu.be/kgjbexyWl2k

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 12h

Perhaps this is embarrassingly naive of me, but one of the major things corroding my sense of self-worth and optimism for the future is just how little doing a good job at anything matters to anyone's success or livelihood anymore. These journalists were crushing it and they were punished for it.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 14h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h

cosign

WIRED @wired.com · 20h

Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don't Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot

Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.

wrd.cm

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rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 23h

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 22h

It's a good thing to believe in ideals and fight for them.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Over the River Into the ‘Hood

Over the River Into the ’Hood

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 19h

Simulation and/or simulacrum amirite

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 19h

Okay wait but what about that weird big freak that one time

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 19h

they're saying zohran mamdani is too handsome to be mayor of new york. they're saying the mayor has to be a weird little freak. it's in the bylaws

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Barbara VanDenburgh @babsvan.bsky.social · 19h

I double dog dare this administration to cancel Thanksgiving, I think that will go great for them

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20h

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down."

Trump official threatens to ground all flights before Thanksgiving in shutdown standoff

Transportation chief Sean Duffy threatened to ground all U.S. flights amid the ongoing shutdown, warning "we'll shut the whole airspace down." As the stalemate drags into the second month, it's adding more potential risk to the aviation system and putting a further strain on air traffic control staf...

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 20h

I suspect this person's political views would make it self defense because like nobody gets that vague about what they believe until it's both over the deep end and beyond the pale

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 1d

"at the transgender coffee shop"

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Robert Ghoulet @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 20h

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

It's one of the things I think folks struggle with is that you're not actually nostalgic for an era of factory work, you're nostalgic for an era of union jobs, massive-scale construction of affordable housing, and mass immigration

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · Nov 12

happy nation, living in a happy nation

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 22h

One thing that I think we need to talk about around shame is that shaming is the lowest stakes and most acceptable option for handling this kind of behavior, and if you're going to ignore shame you're really not going to like the other options for how societies handle this stuff.

I don't want to push people further down the wrong path by condemning them. And I'm all for paths of redemption and letting people walk those paths.
Yet I do think it's not only appropriate but absolutely crucial to be ashamed of shameful things. And I don't think you solve problems without naming them, so I don't believe that naming equates to condemnation. I'm told that naming people Nazis because of their alignment with Nazi ideals and tactics condemns them as irredeemable, which leaves them isolated with no path for redemption. This would seem to suggest both that 1) it is the job of others to redeem people engaged in abuse and harm, and that 2) the only way to get careless people to care is to tell them they're already OK and nothing they're doing is wrong. That doesn't seem right; I would hope that nobody well-meaning is suggesting that. I don't think that is the lesson history teaches us about Nazism is that Nazis weren't accommodated and validated enough. I suspect the people issuing warnings about shame are not saying that, if they are well-meaning. I think they're saying something else. I sure hope so.

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Tameeeeeker @auntieteebag.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we are

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 1d

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1d

Japan’s human rights mascots are Jin-KEN-Mamoru-kun and Jin-KEN-Ayumi-chan.

A pair of mascots with black bangs and with “KEN” written on their chests stand in a park.

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1d

Flavinoid ratios and primal taste powders both sound like bands playing college town basements

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

imagine the freedom of walking into your grocery store, activating the chip flavor combobulator, setting any flavinoid ratios you want, and selecting from a wide variety of primal taste powders to create the perfect chip for you... that's the future we deserve

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

the rare time a child's understanding of wealth works out. frozen burritos are pretty good. whoever invented those probably made a billion bucks. yup, sure did kiddo

Dining and Cooking @diningandcooking.bsky.social · 1d

Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88

https://www.diningandcooking.com/2363023/duane-roberts-inventor-of-the-frozen-burrito-dead-at-88/

Duane Roberts Billionaire Who Invented Frozen Burrito Dead at 88 Published November 2, 2025 9:51 AM PST Duane Roberts — the billionaire …

Duane Roberts, Inventor of the Frozen Burrito, Dead at 88 - Dining and Cooking

Duane Roberts -- the billionaire businessman credited with inventing the frozen burrito -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

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Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1d

What does it mean when the jokes about current events get fewer laughs than the events themselves

Paul Freedom! @jommyscousin.bsky.social · 1d

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Nice investigative journalism you got there

Be a real shame if it got drowned out by a tsunami of hallucinated slop

AI Writing is Taking Over

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