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Johnnyπ

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IT specialist/consultant, music aficionado in training, travel lover, absolute nerd, man of 1,000 names, and jack of all trades. [email protected] https://linktr.ee/johnnypie

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · Sep 8

PSA: Lethal force to prevent kidnappings is legal.

What is the legal definition of self-defense?

Explains when you can fight back if you're attacked or if you feel like you're in danger.

www.illinoislegalaid.org

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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 4d

Sand dune flora.
#stunday #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #scape #bloomscrolling #grasses #sanddunes #flowers #nature

Field of colorful earth tone ornamental grasses and white blooming perennials on a sand dune on the beach.

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sooooo gd tired of this fucking kakistocracy.

NPR @npr.org · 16d

UPDATE: President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up

President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.

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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 21d

Just for everyone who has possibly been caught up in the whirlwind of bullsh*t around the FCC violating the law to silence Kimmel, there are basically 2 realms for him to engage in illegal speech. 1 is obscenity. 2 is defamation. [1/4]

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Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyol.bsky.social · 21d

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21d

Censorship never stops with just one book, one newspaper, one person. The end goal of censorship is always complete control.

For Christ's sake, Kimmel just showed a video of the President's own words.

Stop capitulating. It will never save you in the end.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 21d

lmao. LMAO even

usatoday article:

usatoday.com
After Kimmel suspension, Trump sets sights on Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers: 'Do It NBC!'
Anna Kaufman
USA TODAY
Updated Sept. 18, 2025, 11:59 a.m. ET

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 22d

As a forever student of the French language, please say it correctly. Gi-yo-tin. The 'i' makes an 'e' sound (closer to 'teen' for Americans)

yves_G @whygee.bsky.social · 23d

found this pearl in the ‘50501’ subreddit;
h/t: user ‘mindfulmafia’

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 22d

Still wild to me it took down services across the board on release.

Kurt @kaatokunart.bsky.social · 22d

silksamus

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 22d

Are we paying attention yet!? This is exactly why I was crashing out this time last year saying, "History dictates we have 1 decision to make come November."

It really doesn't take much brain power to extrapolate what comes next.

Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 23d

They are going after teachers and professors. THEY ARE GOING AFTER TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS. You all see what's happening right?

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 23d

Okay Google, play Sneakers by Opiuo

RIP

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23d

Planning to honor Robert Redford by finally watching Sneakers.

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Mixmag @mixmag.net · 24d

Launching today, BBC Radio 1 Dance's launch week will feature "new and archive sets" from the "biggest and best DJs"

BBC launches 24/7 Radio 1 Dance station on DAB+ for the first time

It joins new stations BBC Radio 1 Anthems and BBC Radio 3 Unwind, which officially launch today across DAB+ and BBC Sounds

mixmag.net

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 24d

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

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AerysRabbits @aerysrabbits.bsky.social · 28d

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

- Thomas Jefferson

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 28d

Fascism is not simply politics.

Fascism uses politics as a tool to achieve and maintain absolute power over people.

We don't debate fascism. We fight it.

Know the difference.

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Dorothy Zbornak @cheesecake18.bsky.social · 28d

How is it political violence if he was not an elected official/politician. He was a hate monger and promoted fascist views. Oh by the way there was another school shooting today, in Colorado, but nobody is talking about that. So we’re still okay with kids getting murdered all the time I guess.

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

No glitch. More than likely, it was the amount of traffic hitting the web server for Media Matters causing an error. Never worth checking thoroughly though. Too many rabbit holes.

Source: I LOVED these tickets in my IT careers past. 5 minutes of work, 15 minutes charged at a couple hundo an hour.

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

*Checks watch*

I expected the propaganda but I really thought we'd have at least one night. *Sigh* Its only Wednesday my dudes....

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 28d

FBI: We have no suspect and no known motive

POTUS: It was the "radical left"

www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

Checked them all, all good. Sounds like an ID10T error to me!

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

Checked them all, all good. Sounds like an ID10T error to me!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28d

To all of the people posting "political violence has no place in this country," political violence in this country would like a word.

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

Ah, I suppose. I was thinking it was because of his own stupid actions that this became the end result would classify it. But that's a bit of a stretch.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 28d

Media please shut the fuck up about deterioration of civil political debate. We have a massive lying and gaslighting problem that begins at the White House and ends with Kirk. That's what's making people desperate.

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Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

I think this would actually qualify him for a Darwin Award!

Johnnyπ @johnnypie.bsky.social · 28d

Wait, so would Charlie Kirk be in the running for a Darwin Award!? 🤔

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Sarah @thetigersez.bsky.social · 28d

I’m going to have as much empathy for Charlie Kirk getting shot as he does for innocent children who are victims of gun violence

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