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☀️ Starshine

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Dec 31

One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy

and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Dec 31

You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Dec 30

I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 6m

America's unions will see you in court.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19m

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 51m

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 45m

the whole thing was an exercise in learning who not to trust.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 52m

it was obvious from the moment the attack happened that this was not only a tragedy for Israel but was going to become a tragedy for Palestine, and I still remember who was cheering it on.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21m

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 3h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 18h

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 45m

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 39m

all scientists can be classified according to just two variables: whether they're more mad physics or mad biology, and whether their hubris is in calling up what cannot be put down, or seeking to understand what no man was meant to know

we were definitely not meant to know about that worm with a hundred buttholes, for instance

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 38m

if we get ameromaidan its going to involve inflatable frogs firebombing a walmart at some point lol

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Trent @trentthor.bsky.social · 47m

My sweet summer child! At Costco you walk into an enormous room with 20 foot tall ceilings and the entire vault is refrigerated. Welcome to America.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1h

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1h

Milk Guys are about to go nuts

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

I mean one issue with academia is they dont really do that lol

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1h

“Stop making pictures of MLK as a participant on WWE with Generative A.I. “ is not something I thought I’d ever see the daughter of Martin Luther King posting online like 👍 we are so cooked right now

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

to be clear i meant eliminating all student debt and the numbers will be higher bc spouses family etc but yea Its not the most optimal use of the money

but ive come around on it bc i think it buys you the most lifelong party membership and its not so suboptimal that its bad policy in itself

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

Its so fucking funny man

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

So what are you working on that youre most proud of

[two paragraphs explaining a bunch of audio processing work flow optimization she has zero understanding of]

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

like depending how you define staffer…thats a few hundred people at the low end?

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

I’m just some rando whos never worked in journalism but uh its weird as hell for the editor-in-chief to do a 1 on 1 with all staff right?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the full memo.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

Ehh i can’t recall them doing party messaging like this vs rando republican elected saying something

But also it doesn’t alter the calculus at all.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1h

If their wildest dreams come true and a few dozen people are massacred in a week, this does not lead to them staying in power

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h

Dr who meme

Is burning 1 billion on a shitty season of a show good business?

Depends on the context

Make your money running half the worlds servers? Literally doesnt matter

All your money comes from the good television factory? Terrible

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2h

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h

too many of you are focused on bari weiss throwing around memos at third place CBS when you should be focused on fundamentals like throwing out the runner at first base with two outs

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

girl who gets srs and almost ods on acetaminophen to become better at rust

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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