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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · 9d

Trying to not let the world get me down is its own full time job

Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · 22d

I think in retrospect a fun element of your book (not the only one) is the way it aimed to predict the future of influencing and got it (as I believe you’ve written elsewhere) wrong in an interesting way

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · 22d

You ever think about writing a book about people who are obsessed with trains

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · 23d

He died while I was in the hospital with some mysterious kidney failure and I was fully fucked up on dilaudid and I’ve been informed that I told every nurse who entered my room, every time, that James Gandolfini had died

Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 23d

James Gandolfini was born today in 1961 #botd

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 24d

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 29d

one of the things that was most jarring about being undercover in nazi chatrooms for my book was how often violent videos were posted in the channels. executions, murders, blood. purposeful desensitization to violence can be detached from ideology and just entail inurement to the sight of death

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 29d

memes and violence and racism and antisemitism all meld together in the acidic stew a ton of young men dip their heads in daily online, and that shit can cook your brain fast

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 11

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Sep 4

I agree with this - Leslie getting on city council (and beyond) makes perfect sense for the character, but it was the show’s shark jump.

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Meli @mismatched.bsky.social · Sep 3

Get vaxxed if u can babey religiondispatches.org/lying-to-sav...

Lying to Save Our Lives: Why You Should Say Whatever It Takes to Get the COVID Vaccine

Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get vacci...

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Sep 2

A screenshot from the old TV show “What’s My Line” that reads: “I saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Abraham Lincoln April 14 1865.”

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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · Sep 2

Preview of the announcement:

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Sep 2

Idk if you’ve seen the first Alien vs Predator but my hottest take is that it’s among the best of both

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · Aug 30

"How to Report ICE" zines are available for free printable download for these places:
California
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area
Florida
Massachusetts
NC Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Zine request form in folder.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe". Sunflowers in background.

Hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely. It feels genuinely ahead of its time because Matthew Broderick’s character is like everywhere in 90s movies as a downtrodden hero and he read that way then, but now it’s easier to see him as the obvious villain he’s intended to be

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Sep 1

Oh yeah Election hits WAY different as an adult

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Echo @thesilent0n3.bsky.social · Sep 1

It hit me I don’t think I’ve posted miniatures here… so for shits and giggles here’s some #GH minis

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Aug 29

Holy cow!

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · Aug 28

There should be a Criterion DVD for High Maintenance

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Aug 27

Agree

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Aug 24

*monkey’s paw curls*

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Aug 23

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.

Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.

This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

Jeremy @floregonian.com · Aug 23

Tell me something that brought you joy this week.

Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Aug 23

Legendary sitcom performance. One of the all time greatest.

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 22

The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Aug 17

Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement

Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · Aug 16

going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations

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Ava Jerome @muffmacguff.bsky.social · Aug 17

It ended bad but I love where we started

Fiona Apple Bot @fionaapplebot.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh, you silly, stupid pastime of mine
You were always good for a rhyme
And from the first to all the last times, all the signs
Said "stop" — but we went on whole-hearted