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Alexander Williams

@floatinginwaves.bsky.social

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Living in God’s own country and now trying this website as well. Same handle as on Elon’s Twitter. Interested In news and comedy. He/him

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 21d

It’s not even politics as vacation, it’s politics as sport. Telling Klein you think it’s morally wrong to want to bring back Jim Crow is like telling David Beckham or LeBron James that it’s wrong to play for a different sports team. They‘re in entertainment playing a game.

Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social · 21d

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/poli...

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

for a start, if you're going to make the case for a Progressive English Identity - a thing that can absolutely exist if it is willed so because again identities aren't static - you should somewhat obviously start by unlinking it from whiteness!

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 1h

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Sep 4

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2h

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1h

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3h

Live look of everyone who made free speech their pet issue over the last decade:

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 2h

“white working class” is an inherently reactionary concept. it takes working-class issues - which apply to all working-class people - and turns them into white racial issues, which erases working-class POC and only divides working people.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

sorta feel like the core central division in conservatism is "hierarchy is inevitable, so it must be made just and virtuous" and "hierarchy is inevitable, so all it does is just and virtuous"

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 2h

You find calling trans people “fetid troons” funny.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3h

Yoda: "Defenders of justice, the Jedi were. Serve the will of the Force, we did."

Luke: "Huh. Dooku told me something weird about that when I was meditating last night..."

Yoda: "This time, what did that fucker say?"

Luke: "Something about cultural imperialism?"

Yoda: "My life, fuck."

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 4h

It cannot be stressed enough that the majority of right wingers that engage in culture war nonsense are people who have PsyOp'd themselves into seeing "pattern recognition" everywhere in the same way that biblical numerologists have a heart attack every time they see the number 666 somewhere.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 21h

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, this very much is consistent with the principles of the modern Republican party

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 4h

Dammit

Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 4h

Glaring at my spouse “well I don’t know how you expect us to raise more children after our previous Nannytron 6000 quit when she heard you use ’that word’ to a friend.“

Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a pretty great film.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 5h

Sure dude

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 7h

"queer person has homophobic family"

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 1d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

Chappell Roan Declares She's “Voting for Fucking Kamala Harris” Following Backlash

Recent quotes about the 2024 election and “problems on both sides” of government had fans saying H-O-T-T-oh no and led to dual clarification videos from Roan.

www.vanityfair.com

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 5h

“In every age and every place, the deeds of man remain the same”

Henry the eighth as portrayed in an unflattering contemporary portrait.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7h

This is obviously cynical and insincere, and using right wing rhetoric like this, or the presence of women and minorities among the right, to delegitimize any efforts at race or gender equality is in fact doing the right wing's job for them.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 10h

enriched corn meal
@guntoucher.bsky.social
[XENOMORPH ALIEN SKITTERS AT FULL SPEED DOWN CORRIDOR CEILING]

ME: (sighing) is this about sex or death

[XENOMORPH STOPS, UNSURE HOW TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION]
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 10h

BayBayFriend
@baybayfriend.bsky.social
I asked ChatGPT to call the cutie store and no one knew you lol. But then I went to the cutie store myself and everyone knew you. What ChatGPT actually did was call the same Qdoba location 15 times and make outrageous threats against the employees that fell just short of actionability
August 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Alexander Williams @floatinginwaves.bsky.social · 6h

Joe Pesci portraying a property developer named Ronald Grump and meeting Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.