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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 4h

People will have you believe these inane tics are the cunning work of a marketing/political genius

ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 5h

It’s Wilhoit policing. Encounters with cops are a brief inconvenience at worst for me, a hazard to life and limb and fortune for thee

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 6h

None of the department heads from Trump I who implemented inhumane policy, nor the spokespeople who defended/lied about it, suffered a moment’s discomfort from their media colleagues, who presume they’re just playing a role and bear no responsibility. It would be nice if this changed but, you know

ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 6h

Small but significant thing that Obama never had to deck himself out in Elmer Fudd gear and pretend to be a hunter for an afternoon

ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t have the math at hand but the ratio of “Regular reminder” posts to factually accurate statements seems pretty dire. Some things are counterintuitive and some things are just incorrect

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 18h

Quick, get one of Rod Dreher’s ex-cop Furtive Movement Discerners on the line to show us why blasting a praying clergyman in the fucking face is the very essence of good policing

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 18h

I aspire to be the very last person saying “calm down you hysterics, you’re going to feel silly when they land this helicopter and take off our blindfolds and zip-ties”

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 1d

Tokyo Japan, or as everyone knows it, “the city of 35 million single gay males”

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

Klein was right that we have to live with one another but wrong about what we should do about it

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

A country-western singer, from Australia, named Urban, who doesn’t want sexytime with Nicole Kidman—this whole dealio stinks to high heaven, Hal

ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

When this happened to me, with a patch of wet cement that wasn’t blocked off or marked in any way, my suggestion that the guys yelling at me find a piece of cardboard, a marker, and someone who can read and write to make a sign for them didn’t go over well at all

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

Oh absolutely

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

Fuckin years/ How do they work

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2d

It is well worth it

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

Bring forth a new nation, conceived in normality and dedicated to the proposition that all folk are created normal and are not to be weird to one’s fellows

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

It’s obnoxious and seemingly a variety of this:

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

People should also understand that it is not a given that a police department in the US is under the practical control of the ostensible political head of their state or city. I don’t know the specifics in IL but Pritzker has to be concerned about giving an order that won’t be followed

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

This post hurted me, emotionally

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

I live in a city of 35 million people and I’m not sure I even know how to go out anymore

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 3d

It drives me nuts to watch Americans repeat this pollyannaish thing. These guys revel in the masked-death-squad look. It’s what they signed up for

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

I also appreciate that they included her explicitly stating “I assumed up until now that ICE violence was always provoked by protesters and now I realize that I was wrong,” because other people who ALSO have that misconception might hear it from her when they won’t from us

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 4d

(Also, no matter how narrowly you try to describe a hypothetical poster who uses leftism as a tool to be a jerk, someone will inevitably take furious issue with that characterization as a personal attack, the “hit dogs holler” concept made flesh)

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