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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 4m

Satisfaction?

Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 6m

We used to have a local (not Greek) place that served both gyros & pizza. They'd put gyro meat on a pizza if you wanted it. I used to order pizzas with gyro meat, onions, garlic, black olives, feta cheese, & *no tomato sauce.* I called it a Greek pizza. Well, I liked it. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

i have also learned to enjoy a Greek-American style pizza here in the Boston area

Samantha Ferreira Is Creating An Anime Mag @sam-animeherald.bsky.social · 2h

My absolute favorite type of pizza is the Greek-style "house of pizza" variants. People call it mediocre, but nothing compares to me, and I've eaten a LOT of pizza.

A simple pepperoni pie from one of these places is pure, 100% bliss for me.

Doubly so if you have fries or potato skins on the side.

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Roy G Biv @plunkettprime.bsky.social · 1h

good read on the same

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www.vice.com/en/article/g...

Greek Pizza Is the Best Mediocre Food You’ve Never Eaten

This staple of Greater Boston cuisine is just OK, but those who grew up with it love it anyway.

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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 2h

ah yeah I remember the story about the british ambassador being chased by wild boar in our woods: apnews.com/not-diplomat...

Not diplomatic: Boar chases British ambassador in Austria

Some situations leave even the most seasoned diplomats unprepared. Take a British ambassador's encounter with a wild boar.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 3h

A cat will complain until you give it a corpse then refuse to eat it.

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BurnieHanders 😨🔥👐 @treetickler.bsky.social · 2h

You have siblings in wisconsin. We have many varieties of cheese sausages, the cheese brat is the quintessential one

a glistening red sausage dripping melted yellow cheese

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 2h

⚡️ Visa and Mastercard cards have officially gone dead in Russia after January 1.
united24media.com/latest-news/russia-cut-off-visa-mastercard-cards-go-dead-in-russia-after-january-1-12303

Visa and Mastercard Cards Go Dead in Russia AfterJanuary 1

Russia's NSPK advises banks to remove Visa and Mastercard cards due to expired security certificates, emphasizing payment security by 2025.

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Don Martin @bydonmartin.bsky.social · 2h

Want to read a Harry Potter alternative about queer witches?

Are you tempted by Prime Day deals, but don’t want to support an evil corporation?

@bookshop_org is having an Anti-Prime Day sale! IT ENDS TODAY!!!

Might I suggest Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire?

bookshop.org/p/books/veri...

Photo of Don holding Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 2h

We kept kosher when I was a kid and my ultimate feral pleasure was Bacos, the crunchy, salty salad topping. I know now that it's nothing like real bacon, but the forbiddenness of it being bacon-adjacent (and still kosher!) made it extra delicious. I would eat it by the handful, straight from the jar

A magazine ad for BacOs imitation bacon. A black background with a dish of rice in the foreground, topped with sliced egg and sprinkled with imitation bacon bits. The rice appears to be resting on a bed of lettuce, for some reason. Behind it is a jar of rice and a jar of BacOs, white text on top of the page reads: "Make a better salad with Rice and BacOs"

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 15m

My parents couldn't keep those around the house because I would keep opening the jar & eating handfuls when they weren't looking. I loved those salty, greasy, smoky, crunchy nubbins of fake bacon. 😍

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Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · 2h

There can be no common ground when the GOP isn't acting in good faith.

NPR @npr.org · 2h

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and reopen the government. n.pr/4q5aheI

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Lawmakers must find 'common ground' to end the government shutdown

On the seventh day of the shutdown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and reopen the government.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2h

Nation Schedules Recurring Monthly Benefit Concert To Streamline Tragedy Response Process https://theonion.com/nation-schedules-recurring-monthly-benefit-concert-to-s-1819580392/

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 59m

Canada vs. America

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2h

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Natalie @hbnole.bsky.social · 1h

Or a hippo!!

Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 2h

This is why I laugh really hard at people who are like “oh it’s a herbivore, it’s safe to pet.” Bitch have you seen a rhino

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 1h

YES. Vermouth is DELICIOUS.

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Jesus Christ @jesushchr1st.bsky.social · 3h

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A.K. Allen @akallen.blacksky.app · 10h

Don't get salty just because we want a space for ourselves. Be RELIEVED that we're building our own instead of taking over yours.

Thank your gods that we only want to be left alone and aren't out for revenge.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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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