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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 1d

They have portable MRIs, why would you need to go to Walter Reed for that lol. Like I'm sure the medical unit at the White House is not set up to do open heart surgery, the idea they don't have access to common diagnostic equipment found at moderately equipped hospitals is absurd

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 1d

It's not getting headlines anymore but it's still embedded across executive agencies, killing grants and contracts.

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 1d

You know some made up right wing think tank is going to give Trump a peace prize now and he'll talk about it non stop as if it was a Nobel

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

Right, to the point that scrooge says giving him a day off on Christmas is essentially picking his pocket, because he's getting the weekly wage and only working 5 days instead of 6

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

And he'll say the opposite a week from now

Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

So much fluid. Hearing it more and more.

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

If anything, it's a story about having a dead end job with a shitty boss and having to put up with it or you'll be in a worse situation

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not 100% sure it's sincere, but I think she does have an eye on a post-maga politics

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

My brother is into midcentury furniture and he's been trying to find a tv cabinet that could work with a modern tv and the dimensions are always off. He ended up finding a bar cart with a cabinet and modifying it to hide a TV

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 2d

To be honest, he wasn't...like this...before. he's stewed his brain on twitter

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 3d

She's sort of giving west coast Alan Grayson vibes

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 3d

I don't doubt there are some mentally unwell people who develop delusions, but there's a lot of "my aunt's cousin's sister's neighbor knew a woman who fell in love with a fae once"

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 3d

I had to run wire from the back left corner where my breaker box is all the way through to the front right corner of my house and it only ran like $2k, mostly in materials because of the amount of wire. And I got like $1500 back in rebates

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 3d

No it's definitely you

Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 3d

Well somebody missed the point

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think anything is, it seems like bullshit ragebait

Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

That's an ethical question, but I don't see how prompting AI to make a reference image move isn't animation

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

Back in my day, we called this animation. You can debate the ethics of using AI to create animation or do voice work, but at the end of the day, it's not functionally different from animation

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

Mandatory educational materials that parents are required to read and sign explaining the link between conversion therapy and adverse outcomes, including death

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

That's not how that works but ok

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

I imagine the play here is they're planning to backdate terminations to 10/1 and say those people were never furloughed

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 4d

Here's Trump today on whether he thinks furloughed federal workers should receive back pay:

“For the most part, we’re going to take care of our people,” he said. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

I think the path forward will be following the lead anti abortion states. Require "providers" to have licenses, admitting privileges, ban insurance from covering it, anything to make the business as costly and unattractive to operate as possible

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

Do what faster? Are you under the impression OMB has been somehow constrained the last 9 months?

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

That doesn't require a shutdown. There's nothing Vought can do during a shutdown he couldn't otherwise do

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Gustave @raspberrycordial.bsky.social · 4d

Antifa is a radical group of 80 year old women that requires army deployment to quell