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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 11h

Saw one of them doing genocide apologia about a month or so ago. It's hard out here

Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 22h

My favorite part about this app is that some of the most insightful leftist posting comes from a Kirby pfp in an age gap relationship and some of the most reactionary takes I see come from a lib with a John Brown pfp repeating DNC bullshit

Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 22h

I feel like there’s power in knowing 10,000 people are mad about your words.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 5d

Why yes hello, what stage of capitalism is it when a well-to-do town's train station gets locked up and is subsequently turned into a police station?

Wall of train station with sign that reads "Highwood Police Substation"

Interior of train station. Empty benches and boxes on the floor.

Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 6d

This is not unique to Trump, but I will never be able to wrap my head around the rich’s obsessive overuse of carrara marble.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

the tone deafness is beyond parody

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Decorative Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social · 6d

we need a civ with a bassoon solo

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 12d

The cynic in me thinks that they're doing this specifically so they can kill and copyright strike the fan projects that have released original film scans over the past few years.

4k77, 4k80, and 4k83 are very well done

Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 12d

Holy shit, Disney is finally releasing the original Star Wars Trilogy scanned directly from the original negatives?

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 15d

A criminally underrated aspect of the increasing unaffordability of homes is that our financial crises are becoming low-rent.

There is currently a subprime loan crisis for cars. Two lenders have gone bankrupt and delinquencies are at the highest level in decades.

Subprime Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy After Bond Default

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 24d

The world would be a better place if more people were capable of empathy and abstract thought. You shouldn't have to go to solitary confinement to support prison reform

onion person @junlper.beer · 24d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 27d

However, one thing that the article is correct about is that the Dutch oven is the only well-crafted thing Le Creuset makes.

Nothing says basic like a Le Creuset pepper mill or coffee cup.

Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · 27d

1. Cheugy was slang that became dated almost immediately. This article is written by a millennial.

2. You don't like Le Creuset because nobody in your life is discerning enough to buy complementary colors.

3. Overconsumption and heirlooms don't mix. You hate the marketing not the product.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Oct 4

I do not consider myself a Taylor Swift hater by any stretch of the imagination, but as someone who doesn't care for her music it feels nice to see Swifties hearing what I have been hearing for the past 10-15 years

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Oct 2

I'm watching Kamala and the DNC at large not only learn nothing from losing the past election, but actively throw trans people under the bus while they continue to court a mythical conservative centrist that has not existed in 30 years. There is no reason to think that Hasan is off base for this.

Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · Oct 1

lol
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...

From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Hasan doesn’t think things would be better for trans people right now under Kamala

Explore this post and more from the LivestreamFail community

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 29

Also, the few things in this video that "no longer exist" can be lumped into the retail experience, which is something that was directly destroyed by the financialization of everyday life.

Free cookies and lobster tanks kill ROI. If you miss them, be mad at private equity and the soulless c-suite

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 29

The most pathetic part of this type of nostalgia bait is that this is not a bygone era. You can still do/have 90% of this stuff in 2025.

It's also very telling that late 90s/Y2K nostalgia is just consumption as opposed to anything contributing to culture.

grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · Sep 29

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 27

I'm sure they are, but the train being 1-2 hours late (sometimes more) puts a real damper on the whole thing

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 26

I took a train to Cologne. When I got to Cologne, a guy asked me how I got in and I told him I took the train and that it was nice. He said that I was the first person he met who had anything nice to say about DB.

The worst European train is better than our best Amtrak route.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 23

That 54% figure is much more dire than taking it at face value would suggest. 21% of American adults are functionally illiterate, which is characterized as having a 4th grade reading level at best.

A majority of children were left behind.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 22

I'm not the first person to have had this musing, but that "good times create weak men" poem actually holds true because a lot of the social progress we've had in everything from labor laws to medicine to public health is being undone by people too dumb to remember when people simply died

PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · Sep 22

Marx failed to consider the capitalists being so fucking addled and stupid that they ban vaccines and tylenol. Capitalists vaccinate their fucking CATTLE.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Third Reich killed millions of people in 12 years

Pinochet also killed 40k in 17 years and his specter fuels Latin American fascist movements to this day.

The problem is not that 2025 is forever. The problem is that these things do not end passively.

Fascists tend to go down swinging.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 18

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 9

You can develop exercise intolerance if you overexert yourself too hard after covid. I had a 4-6 week period where even light physical activity would make my heart rate shoot up for no reason. Take those walks slow and keep them short for a bit

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Broke: Idiocracy is a documentary; only idiots are having kids.

Woke: Idiocracy is an imperfect look at an anti-intellectual society, but we aren't there yet.

Bespoke: Idiocracy is a documentary. Also Crocs are mainstream and I don't know how Mike Judge predicted that.

Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Aug 17

Broke: Snow White failed because of Israel ☹️

Woke: Snow White failed because it's a lazy production and there was a PR campaign to blame its failure on Rachel Zegler before the movie even released

Bespoke: Snow White failed because everything in "woke," and Gal Gadot cannot act

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 4

I can tell this guy was raised by salespeople (derogatory) because his startup "ideas" are:
-a solved problem
-a solved problem (group chats exist)
-a solved problem (it exists and tastes bad)
-too broad and too vague
-a solved problem (cash exists)

R.L. BurnStein @prairiepatriot.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Flock CEOs website is interesting…

Great start-up ideas boss! The masses demand and upgrade to the toilet!

Website of Flock CEO

Garrett Langley
Bio
I am a byproduct of my parents (both in sales) and my education (ECE from Ga Tech). I like to write code and sell things. Industry doesn't matter to me. Products that solve a real problem for consumers.
Work History
• Firethorn (acq Qualcomm) - imagine if Mint, Venmo, and Apply Pay were in one app, but on a Motorola Razor - 3rd employee
• Experience (acq Cox Enterprises) - trying to make live events more fun for fans and more profitable for teams - Co-founder, VP
• Clutch (incubated at Cox) - imagine if everyone owned a garage full of cars, matching the perfect ride for the situation - Co-founder
• Flock Safety - imagine if we could eliminate crime, we capture evidence to make it easier for police to do their job - Co-founder, CEO
Startup Ideas
• Toilets - impacts the whole world. hasn't changed in hundreds of years. plumbing is tricky though.
• Constrained social networks - path (RIP) remains my favorite social network. constraints breed creativity.
• Wine - could you make a guilt-free (i.e., no alcohol) wine?
• Vertically integrated technology companies in big, old industries (Atrium for XYZ)
• Mass consumer company using crypto
garrettlangley.com

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Sherman's March to the Erdtree @stuartpolen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Is that a Checkpoint? I don't think I've seen one in that colorway before

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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