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Primordial Platypus

@perfectclarity.bsky.social

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Abolitionist in theory, incrementalist in practice. Here because I needed a place to keep track of the social unraveling and for silly nonsense (which I need because I paid attention to social unraveling). He/him

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10h

Metric Tip

xkcd.com/3164/

Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 12h

FWIW, birthplace is a historical fact. AGAB is a doctor’s best guess.

Even aside from sex changes, intersex conditions would dictate that sometimes the doctor gets it wrong, even if we concede a binary.

This is just an assertion of their bigotry as fact.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

I spit on the reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court, not that it can get much more degraded than it has already become by the repulsive actions of its disgusting GOP members.

You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.

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trapezohedon.bsky.social @trapezohedon.bsky.social · 13h

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13h

like 70% of discourse is

1. making up a guy to be mad at

2. making up a guy to be mad defending

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

There is a certain class of person on the Internet who makes arguments in the vein of "*I* don't believe this absurd position but there is a moron standing just out of frame who *does* and we must respect their feelings," and I am tired of it.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry but this is just so so so so so so so fucking bad I don't understand how some of y'all are still subscribing to this rag

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 22h

ffs, @nytimes.com

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
Did Women Ruin the Workplace?

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 15h

We’ve officially reached the “even the small to medium outlets ask to license footage and photographs for free and say they will credit me,” stage in journalism.

Wow, I got shot in the face with a tear gas canister and got like a dozen kinetic projectiles but PLEASE yeah here you are!

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16h

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 18h

Not me testing to see if the morgue's password is just "morgue"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I know you've been holding your breath for *my* take on the election, so here it is.

BREATHE.

Now, It's a Party

Before diving in, I should apologize for light posting over the past month or so. I'm in the home stretch for the book I'm writing on John Doar and the Civil Rights Division. The draft is due to my pr...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

How it started. How it’s going.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19h

incredible pun work in the replies. bluesky, the official social network for dads

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

logging back on to discover the jury did not return a verdict in the sandwich guy case. what the fuck lol

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Cadence ”Port Game Use Crane” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 19h

Still amazed that there’s a “we should be socialist” and “what??? civic duty??? Cringe!!!” social current that isn’t even parallel but overlapping

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20h

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients

link: mysnapmap.com

r/boston
u/Past_Election_5005 • 1d
Made a website showing Boston area restaurants offering free/reduced price meals to SNAP
recipients
I Made This!
mysnapmap.com
Hoping this could help some people

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Ed @ed3d.net · 20h

Why are you people reading a Douthat screed, please like and appreciate yourselves instead

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Chip Ahoy @chipahoy4000.bsky.social · 1d

“Sorry, don’t mind me I’m just stretching my legs.”

That Norman Rockwell paining of the guy standing up to speak his truth

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office.

Democrats swept all 13.

That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular).

They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.

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Claire M @cmmullen.bsky.social · 1d

The selected works of Eugene V. Debs volumes I-V are currently only $2 (ebooks) at @haymarketbooks.org

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 1d

More like aw shucks amirite

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

This is a screenshot of a viral meme from Twitter (now known as X) that plays on the idea of a secret group chat. The meme shows a user named "SWAMP SAM" (@mardirooster) posting a suspicious question about plotting against a "sultan," which leads to them being briefly removed from a "grand vizier chat" before being added to a new, secret version of the same chat.

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Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget the gravy!

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

starting a rumor that this year thanksgiving will have a trick or treat component but instead of candy and chocolate it's side dishes

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Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 1d

If you undermine the basic competency of government bureaucracy, you undermine the claim that the government can get better outcomes than private enterprise. No amount of data is going to push past that.

Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 1d

a man and a woman are sitting at a table in a restaurant and the man is saying people are idiots leslie .

Alt: A brown haired man with a mustache wearing a brown long sleeve shirt and a blonde woman in a red shirt are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating breakfast and the man says "People are idiots, Leslie."

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