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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2h

Extremely funny that they thought something hosted by Metaxas had any shot at mainstream appeal.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 6h

Also have some familiarity with Northern Oklahoma and agree that tulsa sits right on a cultural borderland

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 6h

Very much agreed. I'm from the borderlands of the upper midwest and heartland by birth, education, and current residence and you can feel the difference going further north or further south. And Fargo, Sioux City, Omaha, and Wichita are very much the farthest west Midwestern cities.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 6h

I understand being horrified and disgusted by the misery caused by these USAID cuts, but I think a big lesson to be learned is that the capricious and cynical largesse of the American empire cannot be relied upon to help people.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 7h

Weird then that the farmers keep voting for subsidies over sales.

Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 7h

These people so thoroughly resent that there is a huge and thriving American cultural scene that wants nothing to do with them and that the best they can attract to their cause are has-beens, never-weres, and b and c tier acts.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing how many suburban tract home dwellers there are utterly terrified that they might be somehow obligated to live their life in a way that might involve direct close contact with another human being.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

Nice mantis friend. I found one on my trashcan a week ago:

A green mantis on the lid of an outdoor trashcan

The same mantis, further down on the can

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

If for no other reason than that there's barely any left. The massive contraction of legacy media in the 2010s was somewhat offset by a blossoming of new media outlets, but they've been more than decimated in the last five years.

Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta supercharge our downward spiral in the educational rankings!

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't be shocked for him to wind up here in Iowa. Our state GOP loves to import failed right wing ideas and policy makers from further south.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

A little preview of what it will look like nationally when/of the fever breaks.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧵

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 1d

I knew I was a grown up when I got more excited for the Shark vacuum my parents got me for my 28th birthday than I was for the PS4 I bought for myself over black Friday a month later. (Ten years later, I still have both and use the vacuum way more)

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

In much the same way people can only conceive of things getting worse in totally apocalyptic terms (again, like in the movies) rather than, say, Russia in the 90s style social, economic, and political collapse or even just severe recession

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

Good Lord.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

Thank goodness governors have the power to overturn Citizens United. Weird that none of them thought to do that before.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

It fucking sucks. Been there with my grandmother and my father. Wish I could say it gets easier, but it doesn't. Only advice is to lean on the people you can trust and try not to bear the entire burden of care if possible. Be merciful and generous to yourself; I didn't and it only made things worse.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with venture capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

For no reason at all remembering how it was reported that SBF and several of his compatriots were heavily abusing amphetamines as they embezzled billions of dollars.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2d

i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

Gearing up to do Civil War II by making sure that everyone who is or might be in military service knows that I won't pay them or respect them, but I will demand that they have perfect hair and shiny shoes while they commit war crimes for me.

Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

According to the poll it's actually under 50 women who are the least willing to vote for a woman, which sounds pretty suspicious to me.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like the actual percentage of those unsettling to vote for a woman is pretty low and weirdly it's lowest among under 50 women.

Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 2d

So heterodox!

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Spock's Brian @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 3d

Actually mom the Nintendo switch is a sentient being and you telling me to turn it off is eugenics

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 3d

Truly nightmarish panel.

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