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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 4h

My daughter has a school assignment to write a scary story in just a few lines, and I showed her this from Clickhole, which is some of the most efficient horror scripting I've ever read.

Clickhole headline: "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It's Like to Be In Space"

Astronaut Barry Wilmore, pictured in an orange spacesuit, says "“You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 26m

Oh, I may need to add salt next time! I've just been doing regular baths and they only sorta work.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 27m

I'm insanely careful; wouldn't have taken it if I hadn't already been cleared by doctors for it. My new digestive system really screws with medicine absorption, especially for me, and there's only a few pain pills I can take. No Advil, NSAIDs, etc...

Tylnol doesn't do shit for me (lolfuckrfk).

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 47m

Yup, copying this idea. I’m going to the next protest as a frog. And to my kid’s bus stop on halloween.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 54m

Probably TMI, but I don’t care anymore.

Hemorrhoid number two in three months. And it’s more painful than the last. I had some left over Oxy from the last one and that’s not even working. And the ERs around here are a shit show, I’d end up sitting for three hours.

Fuck. Everything.

elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire

ALT: elmo says burn it all down in front of a fire

media.tenor.com

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 8h

Damn, that’s really too bad.

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CNN @cnn.com · 18h

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai takes the Nobel Prize in literature for "visionary" work that "in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art" https://cnn.it/46JoWVe

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

These movies are my guilty pleasure, and this is great news.

IGN @ign.com · 1d

George Clooney says Ocean's 14 is still on track, and that they've received a budget from WB for the upcoming heist sequel that would reunite the original cast. bit.ly/4pVOXrL

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

Today would be good.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

when are they going to start wearing swastika pins? are they already?

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

He's literally talking about bombing citizens and how he "took away free speech" and this is the breaking news.

We are so, so, so broken.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

NEW: Trump says there's a "good chance" of him going to the Middle East this weekend.

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 1d

If you think a game about going after the KKK would be controversial due to the current political climate, it's a good sign you should make a game about going after the KKK.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

God damnit.

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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 1d

DUDE

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

He is literally telling us he’s going to be bombing U.S. citizens he disagrees with. He’s going to kill them extrajudicially.

Again, there is no antifa. It’s made up. He means anyone standing against him.

We are one move away from a hot civil war.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

Literally what Snyder warns us about. Trump’s constant use of the word extremist is a very notable escalation.

This is bad, chat.

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Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 1d

Deep. Sigh.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

That’s legitimately a nice thing. Yay nice people.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

It’s kind of amazing, ngl.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

This proves to me we’re living in a simulation.

The odds of this happening naturally are zero. The Architect is just using discarded 1980’s baseball movie scripts. And it works.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 2d

I am no Schumer fan right now. But this is good. More of this.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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