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James @james.tarnation.lol · 3h

one really good lesson to teach children is to beg for handouts from their family and friends so their schools can continue to operate. it's also important to reward them with plastic crap. don't forget to skim 35% off the top.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 3h

How would you know that?

Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 4h

Nope.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 6h

No, that's nonsense.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 11h

You really don't. The like and share buttons indicate (vary degrees of) endorsement, following never has.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 12h

Trump bible doesn't have Matt 25 or the 9th commandment.

Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 13h

Or Liberace!

Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 13h

You can convince 1000 people to cut their meat intake substantially (25% or more) more easily than you can convince one person to go vegan.

(These numbers are pure guesswork but in good faith)

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 13h

!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 13h

What, like beef cheek?

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 13h

All I know is, when they're on vacation they'll fuck ANYTHING.

German tell you they on vacation, cover ya booty.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 15h

Columbia MO here-this gets us! College town on the border of two regions.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump is really all the vices of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, and Charles I crammed into the body of an upjumped gameshow host

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, Stuartism returned

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

Grocery store fried chicken.

Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever ya got.

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James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri might be "The Show Me State", but they're very strict about public nudity.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

Except in Columbia, where we are the "Show Some Hole State."

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

Some one chalked "PRE-CUM" on the walk outside the fancy new med science research building.

I appreciated it.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. I don't even think there IS a consumer version of this technology right now that would be profitable but not ethically poisonous.

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

I'm anti, but mostly because of the behavior of the companies involved. If Sam Altman got into the fish business, I'd be anti-Trout.

If decent people were selling the same tech it would look very different!

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Ed Pimento @edpimento.bsky.social · 1d

We've always had a certain percentage of crazy, greedy & crass people, sure but they never had the keys to the kingdom like now.

Maybe people mean it like...shingles? We've always had the dormant virus that is now active?

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