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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 2h

Even trying to put myself in the shoes of his exact target audience, Hegseth sounded like a fucking idiot.

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jazzagold.bsky.social @jazzagold.bsky.social · 5h

Girl, we are fragile, you have to be careful with us! Glad to know these were just regular prayers and not you know.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Freida Parton
“I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 16h

in 11 days, Robert Roberson is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the murder of his daughter who wasn't murdered but just died tragically after being a medically fragile kiddo, struggling for a long time

everyone agrees: she wasn't murdered

so then WHY is this Autistic man scheduled to die?

Robert Roberson thanks his supporters from death row as they rally at Texas Capitol

Roberson, 58, is set to die by lethal injection in Huntsville in less than two weeks, marking the state’s third attempt to execute him for the death of his...

www.dallasnews.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 17h

DMX: I am not a humble man, but I am a peaceful man who breaks bread with all kinds, but once you have raised my ire, I am an unstoppable force. (Straightforward, powerful)

Aesop Rock: Cops thrive in times of economic distress because they make overtime via civil unrest (Circuitous, bewildering)

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 17h

I was just having a discussion with a friend about how even though DMX and Aesop Rock are on polar opposite ends of the rapper vocabulary size chart that the first verse of DMX's X Gon' Give It to Ya and A.R.'s None Shall Pass have similar levels of information density.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 17h

Unironically, yes, and unironically I love it.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 17h

Absolutely astounding that every single time basic income is attempted anywhere for any segment of society in any amount, everyone benefits, but so few such programs are actually adopted.

Well, not really that astounding when you remember who controls the largest bulk of the capital.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

this would literally fix us

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 17h

She's a class act for sure. I feel like she's one of the souls that hold up the sky.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 18h

I am so confused. Lingo has been around since I was a child. It is literally Wordle: The Game Show.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(...

Lingo (American game show) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 19h

Foul omen. I have the same hot lead feeling in my stomach that I had when I learned that Leonard Cohen had passed away the day after the 2016 election.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

He's actual 4'9".

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe articles like this are part of a deliberate effort not just to frame climate change as primarily a matter of individual consumer responsibility, but to encourage the public to blame disabled ppl specifically & view assistive tech as an extravagance humanity can’t afford, while (1/2)

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 1d

let’s not memory hole the time a zionist group doctored and circulated a video to make false claims about activists at the opera house on 9 October 2023 and the two women who exposed the hoax have been removed from their positions at the ABC and NSW Police, one of them unlawfully.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

You're just telling lies at this point. You know this won't happen.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

You gotta pick your poster type early on. Me? I'm ... there. But consistently.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

"Mathematical proof that a diamond is certified to have been sourced ethically without slave labor or funds going to a warlord."
<REGULATORS BOO!>
"Untraceable money explicitly designed to be used on black markets using a DOD anonymity project to ship drugs worldwide."
<REGULATORS CHEER!>

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

I apologize for any misunderstanding — I'm aware, and I'm referencing such projects. I'm angry that "money for criminals" and "receipts for monkey jpegs" are totally tolerable to the duopolistic forces controlling our elections, but "tracking supply chains" and "unriggable elections" are anathema.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

And when everyone around you is willing to lie for you, and thinks the solution to every familial problem is to pray about it, abuse can be all but in the open and everyone has to pretend they don't see it, or at least that they have no responsibility to it — it's the father's business, after all.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

...and that's the problem. In the real world — in our shared consensus reality — you have to exist alongside people who are DIFFERENT than you. You don't go to school with racially, sexually and ethnically homogeneous members of your Protestant Baptist-adjacent subset who are willing to lie for you.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

I had an older half-brother who had become a delinquent. In hindsight, the issues that led to it were obvious, but my mother laid the blame squarely at the feet of public school and the community it represented. So she kept me and my siblings out of it. We joined a group of like-minded individuals.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

Public education has been deliberately sabotaged and homeschooling is remarkably effective if a child is self-motivated. The broader issue is the goal: in nearly every case, homeschooling is intended to separate a child from the community, reinforcing absolute patriarchy in the nuclear family.

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