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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 2d

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

You can’t go “Connecticut mode”, you fucking pervert. You have responsibilities.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

Trench war baseball

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

Unfortunately a slow grinding attritional battle to the death naturally favors Detroit.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take is that outside of Montreal the Quebec microbrew scene is not that good.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 14h

portland frog protestor with that “If only you knew how bad things really are.” 4chan post below it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

In an impressive bit of technical artistry, Apple has hidden the actual things I want to see on my lock screen.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

I thought this was an Art Deco architecture photo for a second

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

How does anyone on the east coast do this shit. I want to go to bed.

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

Your honor, I submit to the court that the Evil Wizard standard has ample precedent

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

Seattle (good), Detroit (evil)

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

Baseball!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Working on some pretty interesting stuff that I can’t post too much about with being identifying that has pretty compelling evidence that white racial liberalism (technical term of art, don’t be weird about it) was geniunely very strong during during Trump first term prior to COVID.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

The most interesting insane deranged right wing discourse you get is like “are Finns just snow Jews?” meanwhile “does ACAB include Ms.Frizzle?” is like a replacement level topic in lefty circles

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Weird right wing people are not interesting because they’re mainly just stupid or racist. Weird left wing people are insane in interesting ways. This is why we will wins

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

one thing that's funny is the weirdo canadians/nazis on x the everything app increasingly have to monitor this place to get their rage fix now. you won! enjoy your cool app with your cool friends

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Uniqlo long underwear, thermal undershirt, flannel. I walk freely among the cold, taunting it. It cannot touch me.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

SaaS (Slaying as a Service)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

Happy verasight free survey data day to all who celebrate

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

Imo middlebrow is: written for adults, doesn’t insult your intelligence, characters and the world have actual emotional depth etc, has some artistic ambition rather than fan service slop, but also has it’s highest ambition as entertainment, telling good story, etc

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14h

Recurring gripe of mine, but there’s less genre media than I’d like that’s neither “The monster is actually a metaphor for the trauma of late stage capitalism” nor “but the one thing the demons of hell haven’t counted on is Capt. ShootMan KillDude, USMC”, like I want more middlebrow, c’mon

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

OIG offices sometimes have 1811 series people on staff. Trump is cutting them. The EPA has a few armed agents whose positions are going to probably get cut. You cannot build an army from these people, they will not all be on your side, but they are what is available and they are better than nothing

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah we are in Regime Politics territory now and everyone of these people needs to be hired by organizations like CA DOJ fucking ASAP. You need people with guns and the legal authority and training to use them who are not predisposed towards the regime, and you need them now.

Philip Bagley @pb102.bsky.social · 15h

And hiring damn near every FBI guy booted by Trump and his enablers they can get their hands on

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

By far the most disturbing ads though are the ones where actual human actors are listlessly reading an AI generated script. It feels like something fucking ripped through the veil into our world with that shit. Possessed people to make them to pretend TVs are touchscreens to sell shitty zombie games

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah I’m going to keep hammering this drum: who the armed men in the employ of the state are loyal to is consequential, they are not an undifferentiated mass, and specifics matter a lot here. Blue state govs and big city mayors need to be quietly looking through FEC records and making staff changes

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15h

i think this fundamentally misstates the constraint: if he uses the police to directly obstruct ICE operations, he gets hit with the Insurrection Act. if he puts the cops in a position where they have to choose which orders to follow, they will currently not pick the governor.

starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 17h

this kind of wishcasting around pritzker ignores that he hasn't once wielded the power of the state in a creative way since DHS and ICE invaded us

the rhetoric's good and he plays a governor on TV very well, but there's no evidence of a capacity for clever use of power, unfortunately

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly it’s almost a relief these days to get an online ad for something that’s comprehensible & normal. Like ok, this is a product, you are wanting me to think the product is desirable, I understand this, this is legible to me. Instead of some incomprehensible algo gibberish for a scam game.

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