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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 6h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 2h

What if the majority of Americans have woken up to this and all the other injustices, but they simply don't care? We have become a society of selfish bigots.

Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 6h

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 12h

Sending her ChatGPT's original suggestion, including the placeholder, would've been funnier.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 14h

I consider it progress that my Wordle loss today doesn't bother me for some reason.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 14h

You might think Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. would be upset about this, if he had demonstrated any capacity for empathy, but pruning the weak from the gene pool has always been part of his plan.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Andrea @andreakremer.bsky.social · 14h

I would like to live in a country that is not actively, — even proudly — leaning into stupidity, encouraged by leaders who rely on that stupidity to manipulate and lie to its citizens.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 23h

Just had a conversation with
a nice French couple who said
the problem with American
protests is that we schedule
them one by one instead of
showing up every night until
the change happens.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

I wish they were even pretending to make that argument. They just don't care.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

It would be impossible for me to ride a loud motorcycle up and down the streets and not feel like a giant asshole.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

Can't forget racism, the third leg of the Nazi tripod.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

Has this treasonous regime bothered to do anything that benefits their voters, if not all Americans, or has it just been grifting and staffing cuts to punish people who didn't vote for them?

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

Just broke into the biggest grin when I walked by someone whose speaking voice sounded just like Homestar Runner.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

At a reservoir the other day this red-tailed hawk glided a few feet above my head and landed on a branch to peer down at me. The other humans on the path didn't notice the uncomfortably close raptor, but their small dogs sure did.

A red-tailed hawk peering down at the camera from a tree branch.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 1d

I'm the type of person who still gets annoyed when I hear edited versions of fifty year old songs.

"They cut out a five second guitar solo!" he muttered to nobody.

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Christ! A Skelemrgan! @antichrista.bsky.social · 1d

[sign guy] GUH. What is this stuff called!?!? I feel like there’s a specific name. So, it’s like… sweet. And I feel like it starts with a “c.” Or maybe a “k”…? Ah, fuck it. I gotta go to lunch. Close enough!

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 2d

Does this remind you of anyone who hid from the authorities in Amsterdam? You may have read about her.

The fact that Americans aren't storming the gates of the White House to physically evict our violent tenant makes it clear that we're okay with this persecution and all the crimes in his name.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

So revealing that they can never conceive of people taking political action without getting paid for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 2d

If we were invaded by another country most people would just shrug and assume it was our own government.

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 3d

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever I struggle with imposter syndrome I talk to a few strangers and immediately feel better.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 4d

I find it increasingly difficult to tolerate any news coverage that doesn't preempt regular programming to report on the five alarm fire raging in what's left of our democratic republic.

It's exhausting but I cannot pretend that any of the brazen lawbreaking happening daily is normal or legitimate.

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Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 4d

Good job, Reddit watchdogs. I agree.

An excerpt from a Reddit thread about news helicopter noise:

Loudass helicopters

> A truck took down some wires and a tree on Paulina, it might be that?

> Is this really helicopter worthy news lol

> A pigeon farting is enough to bring out the helicopters, as far as I can tell.

> Seriously. Like our nation is sinking into an authoritarian regime, but sure let's send 3 choppers to the tree falling

Michael LeRoux @rouleau36.bsky.social · 4d

Until they become "habits." I've always had trouble with subject-verb agreement in my first drafts.