Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social
Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator.
Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.
Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.
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This is just amateurish buffoonery that confirms this Administration’s foreign policy is alternatively Russian-directed and totally directionless. Such an embarrassment. Our enemies delight.
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is just amateurish buffoonery that confirms this Administration’s foreign policy is alternatively Russian-directed and totally directionless. Such an embarrassment. Our enemies delight.
People always think they’re different and special.
A year after Trump made inroads with Latinos in Pennsylvania, a majority nationwide disapprove of his performance and policies, a Pew Research Center report found.
A year after Trump’s inroads with Latinos in Pennsylvania, a majority nationwide disapprove of his job performance and policies
Approximately four in five Latino adults say Trump's policies "harm Hispanics," a higher share than his first term, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
People always think they’re different and special.
The Luddites were 1) correct and 2) the opposite of lazy.
If you’re churning out 3,000 glops of pink slime podcasts every week, I put it to you that you are a slopmonger
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Luddites were 1) correct and 2) the opposite of lazy.
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If you’re churning out 3,000 glops of pink slime podcasts every week, I put it to you that you are a slopmonger
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you’re churning out 3,000 glops of pink slime podcasts every week, I put it to you that you are a slopmonger
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It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.
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It’s frightening that an asshat like Pete Hegseth is in charge of our military. He’s a danger to patriots like Sen. Mark Kelly — and to the entire world.
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It’s frightening that an asshat like Pete Hegseth is in charge of our military. He’s a danger to patriots like Sen. Mark Kelly — and to the entire world.
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The NYPD will continue to park on the sidewalks in front of their precincts, everyone else be damned.
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD Rejects Ending 'Self-Enforcement' Scandal at Precinct Houses - Streetsblog New York City
Police brass are refusing to implement a major reform recommended by city probers earlier this year. And the agency won't say why.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The NYPD will continue to park on the sidewalks in front of their precincts, everyone else be damned.
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I'm tired of the stereotype of gamers sitting around all day eating doritos and drinking mountain dew. It's reductive and insulting. There's a broad variety of bullshit food and beverages we eat all day, and it's time to acknowledge that.
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I'm tired of the stereotype of gamers sitting around all day eating doritos and drinking mountain dew. It's reductive and insulting. There's a broad variety of bullshit food and beverages we eat all day, and it's time to acknowledge that.
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Remembering that time in 2017 when Trump told a national Scout gathering that “we have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College – popular vote is much easier” and reminisced about “a cocktail party" where "the hottest people in New York were at this party.”
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Remembering that time in 2017 when Trump told a national Scout gathering that “we have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College – popular vote is much easier” and reminisced about “a cocktail party" where "the hottest people in New York were at this party.”
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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this is my super bowl
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
this is my super bowl
Spoiler-free Wicked: For Good review:
I’m pretty sure this is going to be like the first one where I enjoyed it a lot more watching reactors on YouTube watch it because they have to cut out a lot of it.
I’m pretty sure this is going to be like the first one where I enjoyed it a lot more watching reactors on YouTube watch it because they have to cut out a lot of it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Spoiler-free Wicked: For Good review:
I’m pretty sure this is going to be like the first one where I enjoyed it a lot more watching reactors on YouTube watch it because they have to cut out a lot of it.
I’m pretty sure this is going to be like the first one where I enjoyed it a lot more watching reactors on YouTube watch it because they have to cut out a lot of it.
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So, essentially, we are to believe that a high schooler created multiple fake songs with the name they were using professionally, had a random stylist use one in a video, made a Myspace and on topic tweets over a long period, and sent out promo for this music all as a ruse nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So, essentially, we are to believe that a high schooler created multiple fake songs with the name they were using professionally, had a random stylist use one in a video, made a Myspace and on topic tweets over a long period, and sent out promo for this music all as a ruse nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...
It’ll be both. Trump’s entire lifelong legal strategy has been do whatever takes longest and wastes the most money for other people.
2/ The dismissal is without prejudice, meaning the gov’t *could* refine the charges. But because the statute of limitations has run here, that’s complicated. The gov’t may try it under a savings provision, appeal Judge Currie’s order or both.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It’ll be both. Trump’s entire lifelong legal strategy has been do whatever takes longest and wastes the most money for other people.
Without prejudice because abject bad faith is a magical get out of consequences free trick in this admin.
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Without prejudice because abject bad faith is a magical get out of consequences free trick in this admin.
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All this. It’s exhausting.
It’s weird to see everyone suddenly discovering a thing I thought we all knew was true for the last nine years.
Great thread.
It’s weird to see everyone suddenly discovering a thing I thought we all knew was true for the last nine years.
Great thread.
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All this. It’s exhausting.
It’s weird to see everyone suddenly discovering a thing I thought we all knew was true for the last nine years.
Great thread.
It’s weird to see everyone suddenly discovering a thing I thought we all knew was true for the last nine years.
Great thread.
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"My SWAG is that many tech people who do not agree with DOGE's aims nonetheless agree with their methods."
i think this is accurate
i think this is accurate
By methods, I mean, "doing tech-centric things without oversight or pushback".
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"My SWAG is that many tech people who do not agree with DOGE's aims nonetheless agree with their methods."
i think this is accurate
i think this is accurate
I took the week off because I’m going to lose vacation days otherwise and I’m already getting neurotic about wasting my time off doing nothing because I’m a sane, well-adjusted person.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I took the week off because I’m going to lose vacation days otherwise and I’m already getting neurotic about wasting my time off doing nothing because I’m a sane, well-adjusted person.
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The idea that an enlisted member doesn't know what premeditated murder, torture, violation of treatment of detainees means is saying they have zero respect for the troops.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The idea that an enlisted member doesn't know what premeditated murder, torture, violation of treatment of detainees means is saying they have zero respect for the troops.
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I'll believe the resignations when I see them...but certainly telling that people want to leak this sort of thing. 1
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'll believe the resignations when I see them...but certainly telling that people want to leak this sort of thing. 1
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BLITZER: “I just want to be precise - should members of the military obey clearly illegal orders?”
Republicans like @RepLisaMcClain now openly say the military should ignore their oath to the constitution, and follow Trump no matter what.
This is how democracies end.
Republicans like @RepLisaMcClain now openly say the military should ignore their oath to the constitution, and follow Trump no matter what.
This is how democracies end.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
BLITZER: “I just want to be precise - should members of the military obey clearly illegal orders?”
Republicans like @RepLisaMcClain now openly say the military should ignore their oath to the constitution, and follow Trump no matter what.
This is how democracies end.
Republicans like @RepLisaMcClain now openly say the military should ignore their oath to the constitution, and follow Trump no matter what.
This is how democracies end.
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Maybe this is why he hates Black people. It all comes down to the dozens.
Some quick-fire yo mama jokes had him crying to his actual mama.
Some quick-fire yo mama jokes had him crying to his actual mama.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Maybe this is why he hates Black people. It all comes down to the dozens.
Some quick-fire yo mama jokes had him crying to his actual mama.
Some quick-fire yo mama jokes had him crying to his actual mama.
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I have always done that but that's my ADD. Now it's a tricky game of is it ADD, Covid, weed, or menopause. Lol
The bit where I'm turning into my mom, who would put her keys down and then immediately search the house for her keys.
Nobody in her family had dementia or anything; she just had the absolute worst memory for details, and it did not improve with age.
Nobody in her family had dementia or anything; she just had the absolute worst memory for details, and it did not improve with age.
Do people get smarter after menopause? I can't be this dumb for the rest of my life 😩
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I have always done that but that's my ADD. Now it's a tricky game of is it ADD, Covid, weed, or menopause. Lol
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oh I have add life hack for this exact scenario:
you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"
you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"
I like the days when I walk to another room and instantly ask: The fuck did I come in here for?🙄😂
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
oh I have add life hack for this exact scenario:
you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"
you just need to repeat the thing you're looking for as you move from room to room. As soon as you leave a room you forget what you were looking for. So just walk through your house saying "keys keys keys keys keys keys"
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"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"