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👻👻👻boonoteat👻👻👻 @donoteat.bsky.social · 19h

this is a dark day for california's many historic downtown parking lots and strip malls

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 19h

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 2d

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · 4d

ridgewood mutuals would you like to get coffee while my hair dries. forgot most of you migrated here

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · 12d

The waiters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the waiters

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ends his reelection campaign.

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▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.com · 15d

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 17d

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · 18d

americans may decide they're tired of the rules-based international order but they are not going to enjoy what comes after

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 18d

Holy shit

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · 27d

“if it injects it leads”

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 27d

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 28d

Jewish Insider, the magazine which yesterday called the professional antisemite Charlie Kirk a bulwark against antisemitism, has released an article attacking Isaac Chotiner for being "obsessed with Israel" and for "tripping up" Israel supporters with leading and interrogative questions.

Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker's interrogator out to trip up Israel supporters

Chotiner recently devoted six consecutive Q&A interviews with guests about Israel, many of them contentious and combative

jewishinsider.com

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm sorry, why did the NYT poll Israel/Palestine in the NYC mayoral race

Results of the NYT mayoral poll by topic, showing 43% of those polled think Mamdani would be best on Israel/Palestine

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · Jul 31

Lana Wachowski is living the dream

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · Aug 4

Do we have anybody like this?

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · Aug 4

the ruling liberal Democratic Party of Korea elected its new party leader last weekend and I don't think he's a fan of the opposition party whose leader and ex-president launched a failed coup biz.chosun.com/en/en-policy...

Throughout the election period, Representative Jung maintained a hardline stance against the opposition. On this day, he also emphasized, 'Is it possible to achieve substantial cooperation with the forces that actually intended to kill President Lee Jae-myung and Jung Cheong-rae, Park Chan-dae, and Kim Min-seok?' and stated, 'Dealing with the internal rebellion should come first before cooperation.'

He targeted the People Power Party, saying, 'The internal rebellion party must be dissolved and its roots must be cut off. We are currently in a war against rebellion,' and added, 'I will push forward with judicial, media, and legal reforms like a storm and tackle them with lightning speed.'

He said, 'There is no victory without a fight, and there is no stability without victory,' and continued, 'I will handle the fighting, so the president should just focus on work. I will take on the dirty and dangerous work of fighting, and the flowers and fruits of cooperation, integration, and stability will be credited to President Lee Jae-myung.'

He defined the People Power Party as an unconstitutional party and mentioned that it is subject to a constitutional court ruling for party dissolution. He also proposed the establishment of a special committee for the eradication of rebellious forces as a tenth innovative pledge. This indicates his intention to continue the offensive against the People Power Party.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 4

anyway I hate them for reducing me, for reducing us, to this. I have no illusions about the necessity of it right now, or how things were in the past, but it's still a degradation from how things were even in the comparatively recent past. I hate the politics of eternity and the death of the future.

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · May 29

faggot son or hon daughter

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · May 16

the thing is 3rd parties are de facto illegal in this county, indeed arguably so are political parties period in the traditional European sense

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · May 15

the last tweet here is at odds with the other two — it’s not like attempts haven’t been made, they just don’t go anywhere

@mcmansionhell

is there any more failed strategy than Democratic Party entryism

people get really mad and defensive if you say this but it's been clear for an extremely long time but especially after the 2020 election that this party can't be reformed from the inside or out

imagine if we spent the last 15 years organizing for an independent labor party that could seize this particular moment with both hands. makes me want to (redacted)

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · May 16

this is so funny. James Comey beastmode

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · May 15

"We are aware of the recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, directed at President Trump. We are in communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran,” says FBI Director Kash Patel, reacting to Comey’s “86 47” seashell arrangement on Instagram.

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · May 13

Drop the “Land”. Just Air Battle. it’s cleaner

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · May 12

A somewhat hot take: the intense localism of U.S. politics is bad, generates both nepotism and other forms of corruption, and shuts out talent because they happen to have been born in a very red area or state. More people should move and run for office!

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · May 1

winnetou syndrome…

Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · Apr 23

feel like there’s an iron law of Grayzone similar to the one for TERF posting, where if you’re associated with that label however tangentially it eventually becomes the only way you can write

Sam @samd.bsky.social · Apr 23

oh my god Ken klippenstein’s latest story is that these pentagon leaks are all part of an evil plot by the military to unfairly take down Pete Hegseth

Uniformed military officers and Pentagon officials I've talked to agree with this assessment, and they agree that those trying to defeat Hegseth are operating dangerously outside their lane. As one said to me over the weekend, "you can't say you're defending your oath and the Constitution while working to undermine it."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that "the entire Pentagon is working against" Hegseth. Whatever you think of Hegseth or the hyperbole, this is not good for America.

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · Apr 14

plus, a sucker really is born every minute

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Tetra, of some repute 😵‍💫 @tetrarchy.bsky.social · Apr 14

you gotta think of it as monetizing the latent gullibility of a massive chunk of the country. like think of every insane survey answer you’ve seen, that’s made you ask “do these people experience reality in the same way as i do?” there are tens of millions of them

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Apr 14

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Apr 14

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.

We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.

That would be the end of democracy.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Apr 14

"They are treating Kilmar Abrego Garcia less fairly than the people accused of witchcraft in Salem were" is objectively true and helps drive home how outrageous the situation is bsky.app/profile/keiy...

Keiya @keiya.tinyfairy.xyz · Apr 14

Those accused of witchcraft got trials. Not necessarily fair ones, but there *was* a hearing.

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