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@okslacker.bsky.social

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She/Her. Writer. Editor. GenX kid. Mother. Veteran of “New Media.” New York liberal. LGBTQ ally. Live music fan. History, literature, politics, cooking, cats, funny stuff.

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OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 4h

Was Nixon a pedophile or a rapist? I could be wrong (please correct me if so) but was he ever accused of or admitted to pussy-grabbing, etc? Were there ever credible accusations of abuse? The bar is molten in the core of the earth right now. Also: Epstein files please!

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 6h

Not gonna lie. This is the headline that makes me subscribe to the print edition. You guys are a beacon of absurdity and our beat force against stupidity. I’m in.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 7h

Also, smaller sized vintage clothing often started its life larger, but was taken in along the way for hand me down purposes. Quality clothing would be repurposed. (This made me feel better about all the tiny vintage clothes out there)

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 13h

Chuck Schumer says what

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 14h

He is so repellant, like the opposite of a black hole. Negative charisma.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 14h

The hairball my cat just yakked up has more charm and integrity that JD Vance

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot wait for life in the Mamdani era. There are more like him, but the geriatric nostalgia huffers in his party won’t get out of the way to let them lead.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

Every billionaire is a policy failure

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

If I got paid for showing up to protests, that would pretty much be my whole earned income this year. If you guys have been getting paid, LMK how I can get a piece
of it.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like every day these dipshits wake up having completely forgotten that every one of us carries a tool in our pockets that allows for real time photojournalism and publishing. You don’t need the airwaves, or the networks. What is meant to be viral will become viral.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if there will be a whole new type of “maybe it’s time for Grampa to go the dementia care place” conversations around this year’s Thanksgiving tables.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

Better even. Best I’ve ever seen.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 2d

Really glad I got a king size for all of my strange bedfellows. Move over Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney, make some room for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a perfect choice. Hope they do it

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 3d

They can try but I just don’t think the thing has legs.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 3d

Same. And I can’t read a map either. Before GPS I drove everywhere in a panic with handwritten directions in my lap. It’s a real handicap and everyone I tell thinks it’s just impossible to be so hopeless. Oh, it is.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 3d

The 7th inning stretch song has always been “Take me out to the ballgame” Baseball only added the God Bless America part to the ritual after 9/11, in the heady days of Freedom Fries.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 4d

I still believe Team Incompetence will beat Team Evil in the finals.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 6d

All the edges of the circle

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 7d

But they are unlikely to lose their jobs, and thus healthcare, if they protest. So it’s a little easier.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 8d

Untethered to the Facts is the name of my band’s next album

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 8d

History will refer to this as The Failson Era

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 9d

The people have the the power. To redeem the work of fools.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 9d

There was a guy in my mom’s dementia care home who thought he had control of nuclear weapons and liked to press all the buttons in the place.

OK Slacker @okslacker.bsky.social · 9d

Snorted my covfeve