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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · 2d

Pals!! Miss yall but holding strong in Augusta

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

The photos of enormous crowds in Times Square, etc are awesome, but my favorite genre of #nokings post will always be "Here's a photo of 500 protestors in Tinyburg, Mississippi, pop. 350."

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · Sep 17

To be frank, the fetishization of protest tactics and personal/information security theater (theater is a load bearing word) is the leftist version of the Cult of the Operator

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Sep 17

it is safe for mass politics or it is not. it is safe for a normal person to attend a mass protest or it is not. there is no world in which tradecraft shit is necessary or useful for attending a large non-violent protest in which people like my mom are attending protests.

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Sep 17

Social posts made under the guise of staying safe but actually greatly exaggerating the personal danger of protesting delenda est

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Sep 17

there is no difference between 2 & 3 in any way that matters lol. your average normie potential protest attendee is going to hear 2 and think, if they believe you, correctly think "this is a dangerous protest". like basic information hygiene is one thing, don't use your work email, but come on lol.

Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · Sep 16

Big differences between:

- continuing as a public figure under Trump & making political statements despite risk

- discouraging ppl who are not public figures from putting their names on lists of protestors which could be used as evidence against them

- discouraging people from attending protests

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Sep 16

if you really believed this was the threat environment you wouldn't have an account on this website.

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natasha @thefriscobay.bsky.social · Sep 5

anyway go valks it's all about the VALKS

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Aug 24

One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, absolutely, Kieran winning supporting was category fraud, but if he’d been campaigned in lead, he would have lost to an AI Hungarian accent, and that would’ve been a much, much worse shame

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 10

It ain’t housing, go NIMBYs go

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 9

Insane that people dislike tomatoes. Disliking onions is normal. Tomatoes? Are you from mars?

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 9

Tomatoes my beloveds, my actual favorite food

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 7

Standing tall at 14 over here. I even like some of em (half•alive e.g. are a nice cute lil undercard band but wouldn’t be your thing)!

Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 6

When are we gonna talk about how everyone who’s ever insinuated that Mike Yastrzemski was a bad player was doing Mike Yastrzemski rpf because it was fiction from a fan about a real person

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Aug 3

Excuse you, Peach is a young, unmarried woman; just by numbers that’s the much less likely outcome

(No one wants to hear it but Mario voted for Trump at least twice and maybe even three times)

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Jul 26

They! Did!! Not!!! Equivocate!!!! EVERYONE!!!!!

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Jul 16

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Jul 12

The accessible American mid-level state school with a 60%+ admissions rate that still is able to go round for round with everything but the absolute best universities that the rest of world has to offer is a world-historic triumph that these fucking clowns are burning down due to their ivy neuroses

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 12

Universities, whatever their faults, are one of America's most successful products. A massive exporter, they generate innovation and middle class jobs in places where people like Marc Andreessen never visit.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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baseballjeff1.bsky.social @baseballjeff1.bsky.social · Jul 12

Tyler Rogers leads all qualified relievers with an 8.50 SO/W rate. His 6.75 K/9 is among the lowest among relievers.

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · Jul 12

I don't think Trump plots like a super villain to distract us, but I think he does get frustrated when he's getting bad coverage and upset he lashes out at people and things because he's a big baby who's shit his pants and its everyone's fault

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Jul 12

Both the Ukrainian right and the Russian propaganda machine have tried to brand Ukrainian national identity as inherently tied up in right wing politics, but @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social argues here that there is a deep egalitarian current in the development of that identity

Drawing on Ukrainian Republican Roots

The egalitarian history of Ukrainian identity.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Mme. Clavine @mmeclavine.bsky.social · Jul 12

For complete effect you need the tracksuit to be beige, the 50th birthday gift my (Old Jewish Man) dad’s mom gave each of her kids

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · Jul 5

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads:

"Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI"
"you might not like it but shareholders love it"

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