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Brian Griffith

@qlippot.bsky.social

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Fleeing the birdsite before it burns down.

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 10h

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 11h

You open the cabinet and it's just Sinbad in there.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 14h

"This is fascism" and "here in Duckburg" scan the same

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 14h

About time we got frogs back.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 15h

this guy just Gaston-ing his way through a mental health crisis

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 15h

he gets to take it out when Mother says and not a second sooner

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah like

this is the future liberals want

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 17h

Blessed is any life a cabbage wizard graces

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 17h

Also can't help but notice that not only is that person not blocking you, they're blowing up your mentions.

Seems a li'l bit unserious.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 17h

didn't we already do this and just call it "Species"

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 17h

we found the weirdo

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 17h

Your hair got rull pretty

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 18h

to attack Virginia in 2026 or just to attack the concept of 2026

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 19h

I could murder a bear claw right now

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 19h

I just think crepes are tasty, man

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 20h

A little bit extra toasty can be tasty.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 20h

Just gonna hand him something that purports to be the "Noble Piece Prize" and see if he notices.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 20h

He's your grandpa who gets mad at windmills and thinks magnets are kinda sus.

But he's got the nuclear football.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 20h

So, there are no foreign military bases on American soil. None. Very much not a thing we do. We'll put 'em on your soil, you don't put 'em on ours. American exceptionalism, or whatever.

That's about to change apparently.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, meets with Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on October 10, 2025. (REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)

"Today, we’re announcing a letter of acceptance in building a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho," Hegseth said.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 21h

Same energy.

a woman in a yellow shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a map of the world

Alt: Shot over the shoulder of a man being interviewed on a newscast, as his young daughter stomps in, clearly having a great time.

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 1d

Sure was a fun choice for the Grauniad to make this a clickbait headline.

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 1d

hard to keep the earses crisp when you let all the magic glorp out

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 1d

a picture of a lion with the words do not recite the deep magic to me witch i was there when it was written

Alt: Aslan, who is also kinda Jesus, saying "Do not recite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written."

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Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 1d

Seinfeld-based meme format, Jerry looking confused at Kramer.

"Gogo what's going on in there?"

"We're waiting for Godot."

"Not this evening, but surely tomorrow."

Brian Griffith @qlippot.bsky.social · 1d

I'm admittedly a bit out of the loop on that front. Was just thinking that if you can get 20 tables with identical terrain set up this easy, that's a tremendous boon.