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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 9h

wealth is wasted on the wealthy

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 9h

skill issue

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 14h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 15h

cowards

mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 17h

in 2012 i blasted tom clancy on twitter for working on a rainbow six game set in NYC where the villainous cabal that players would be sent in to murder was dedicated to opposing wall street corruption and predatory banking

he got real mad but then a year later he died and the game got cancelled :)

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 17h

#blessed

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 20h

when i was praying last night god himself told me "oh hank? yea that guy's a piece of shit. bro's name is not even written in the book of life lmao"

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h

pure gang shit top to bottom

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h

yeah i sure hope nothing happens to her from that dizzying height

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Dune, Link, and now Gwen? no thank youUuuUuUuuu @trashphalt.beauty · 22h

Alt text: a series of screenshots indicating that Rose Wang, the COO of BlueSky, follows the Heritage Foundation

Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 16d

Um.

Just um. Yeah.

This is a problem.

Is bluesky safe?

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h

hell there was an fbi report in 2006 warning of widespread coordinated infiltration of law enforcement agencies at all levels of government by white supremacist right-wing militias across the country but that did not stop blue governors/mayors from gargling cop balls or writing them blank checks

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h

this reminds me of when joy reid suggested a computer hacker time traveled 10+ years into the past to forge her old homophobic blog posts

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 21h

kavanaugh: it's okay to racially profile people when making arrests, that's fine now

brownshirts: ok cool we'll just go ahead and segregate this huge buildingful of arrestees in different vans by race

exec branch bobbleheads: how dare you suggest we're racially profiling anyone how DARE you sir

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 23h

composite image of three different photos depicting a young zac efron shrugging as if to say "hey not my problem lol"

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

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

if 6-7 years ago counts as "recently":

elder

Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios, by Elder

3 track album

beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

like the inverse of that dril "racism dial" tweet

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

ages has it been since my woodchuck-branded pint glass last tasted its namesake

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

"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is in Portland meeting with ICE, Border Patrol and DHS officials; Nick Sortor posted video of Noem saying a prayer for the safety of their officers at the start of the meeting.

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

what would the iksar do

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

just made my magical 120th student loan payment, making me eligible for PSLF unless the jackals ripping the copper out of the walls of the federal government figure out how to fuck it up for me

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 1d

did she learn that from her "ree-lah-ter"