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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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Jack Drago - Vast Country Hypnosis @vasthypno.bsky.social · 3h

Jungian @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social meme

We become what we behold.

We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 3h

Special issue (ed. [redacted])

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 4h

My guess is most MAGA churches aren’t exactly lectionary types.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 4h

And perhaps this is an expensive and stupid plot to keep it that way.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 4h

I’m intrigued by the church angle here; the Diocese of Saint Cloud is notoriously MAGA in a lot of ways. Is Winona-Rochester the same?

Also, pleasantly surprised I didn’t see “DFL OVERREGULATED THEM KIDS JUST NEED LOVE NOT SAFETY RULES I SWAM IN THE CRICK AT TWO AND TURNED OUT OK (eye twitch).”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 5h

All three six-fours.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 5h

Nope. They’ve got it locked down good.

Don’t worry about it.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot access the article - was it bog-standard “government shouldn’t spend money/exist” or was there a racial/ethnic component?

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Scotty Ray @theterminizer.bsky.social · 14h

I'm the guy who coughs during every movie or play you ever see. I love the performing arts and I am deeply, gravely ill

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 6h

I am sitting with this for a bit.

Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 7h

I am mentorship-pilled and I am social practice-pilled. I think it should be the responsibility of any artist who has “made it” in their respective fields/scenes to provide some sort of window into what makes them tick for the sake of benefitting those that are eager to learn.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 7h

“King John’s fiscal policies weren’t *that* bad. Did the Barons overreact? The Magna Carta has its flaws.”

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 7h

Ohio has the same issue.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 7h

#blessed

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 7h

“I too enjoy human contact, which is interaction between members of the the species Homo sapiens.”

Naw, ChatGPT would use the wrong species.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 8h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 12h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! And congratulations again on doing a hard thing and doing it well!

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 18h

It’s been a heckuva week. Had my first-ever Louisiana Fall Crud (still got it; both Tucker and I are sneezing, though he’s doing better than I am), started to feel like I *could* do the job for which I’ve been hired (not *well* yet, but better), and my nephew and his wife had their first child!

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 18h

I get it. I’m in the earliest stages of what will likely be a dissolution. (I haven’t really gone public with it, but with the holidays coming people are gonna find out.) I don’t know what Single Wes is gonna be like, since he hasn’t been around for over two decades.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 18h

You *are* inspiring, clothed or otherwise. To do something not only new but so…forward-facing…I respect the hell out of you for it.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 19h

I tried apologizing to @bathorykitsz.bsky.social , but he kept insisting I did a good job with his piece.

Seriously, though, Hindemith. I’ve mangled that sonata multiple times on both trombone and euphonium (doing it on euph alone would probably be enough to anger him).

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 23h

All you peacenik liberals wringing hands over what to do: Yes, of course, vote. It's your primary responsibility as a citizen.

But now more than ever, fulfill your second civic responsibility: Serve on juries. Never has it been more imperative to thwart rogue injustice.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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