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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 3h

Me, looking at the driveway I share with my neighbors: Sporting goods?? Why you fat cat sons of bitches…

Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight I learned that having a driveway with a basketball hoop is elitist.

Have these people ever taken a walk? One single walk?

Angela George wrote: My other problem with WiSh Li$t is it puts having a family/house with a basketball hoop on the same level as all these other expensive and unattainable things. Average people are unable to afford buying a house or having kid and Taylor is throwing that in our faces.

Dr. Drew Donna Folk responded:
Yep, that's a great point. & That billionaire disconnect again. The song is just tone deaf on many levels.

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 7h

Just saying shit right out loud

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know a better illustration of the bankruptcy of certain niches of the Very Online Socialist Left™️ than celebrating the deaths of 100,000,000s from disease & starvation bc the USG has used USAID as a mechanism for subversion. Like, do they think the U.S. won't just use a different agency?

A post calling USAID a moral atrocity based on a socialist think tank discussion of three or four examples of the USG using USAID to launder efforts to subvert regimes it doesn't like — which, by the way, include the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the kleptocratic authoritarianism of the Maduro regime.

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 14h

Did 'Gen V' Just Become Required Viewing for 'The Boys' Final Season?

Picking up immediately after Marie (Jaz Sinclair) miraculously healed her dying sister inside the Elmira prison, Gen V Episode 6 hits the ground running as the show leans harder than ever into its X-Men influence. Did you not know Gen... Read more...

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 1d

They’re all failed reality tv stars. All of them.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1d

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Jen(na) X @jenx459.bsky.social · 1d

Isolating and labeling women trad wives just because they want a family is such a bullshit take.

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 1d

Normal person: I like this!

Online Leftists: Being happy is capitalism. BURN IN HELL. -- wait why aren't they joining our movement? what the fuck

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 1d

"Or maybe I’m just projecting, and thought my favorite artist shared my opinion that marriage is outdated and unnecessary for women."

This is literally the meme. She did the meme.

Viral tweet that reads: Black Panther was a fine movie but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end the Black Panther turned to the camera & said "i am communist now" & then specified hes the exact kind of communist i am

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 1d

I built my career on calling out celebrity worship. I’ve long believed there’s a direct line from the Kardashians to Trump, so I’m not thrilled about defending the Coca-Cola of pop music here.

But goddamn if social media groupthink isn’t fucking us in the ass from every direction.

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 1d

I love how nearly every comment on this article is some flavor of “Are you shitting me with this?” Facebook, same thing.

Here in the hivemind? Crickets, of course.

I know this is hard to grasp, but you can simply not like something without making that dislike a righteous crusade. Crazy, I know.

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 1d

The conservatism that's resurgent in the U.S. wants women to get married and have babies—so Taylor Swift's latest lyrics about getting married and having babies genuinely bummed me out.
www.jezebel.com/the-life-of-...

The Life of a...Tradwife?

The conservatism that's resurgent in the U.S. wants women to get married and have babies—so Taylor Swift's latest lyrics about getting married and having babies genuinely bummed me out.

www.jezebel.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

it just kind of goes unremarked upon that these two paragons of christianity are fucking, have been fucking for years, as both are married to other people

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 2d

I'm no political savant, but I would simply not announce to federal workers that I have no intention of paying them.

Unless, of course, flight delays are the only thing that make my Keebler Elf dick hard then OK yes I can see the play here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3d

The alt text 😭

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

I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression

Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth

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Melanie Jean @princessmom122.bsky.social · 3d

It’s one really out of step Democrat. Relax, Novak.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve long assumed Trump would try to do stimulus checks before the midterms. What I didn’t predict was Democrats trying to help Trump do stimulus checks before the midterms.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 5d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 3d

Welp, Diddy Asked for a Pardon

While the president responded to a question today about whether he'll pardon his late best friend's female accomplice -- The answer was, "I'll look at it," by the way. -- the former host of The Apprentice confirmed that Diddy has... Read more...

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 3d

Delusion: Bluesky took down my post because they can't handle the truth and then they totally caved when I called them out! posting always works you guys!!

Reality:

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d

whenever posts are hidden from view, it's part of moderation (manual or auto), or the servers are having trouble keeping up. i wish i were around then to poke at things at the protocol level. i'm not a mod but your post isn't even in a grey area, so it's hard to imagine they'd hide it on purpose

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

obviously i think about this scene all the time. who doesn't. but the lesson is important:

social media isn't a community. it's just a business.

so exercise some goddamn business sense and don't play stupid games with the ToS if you want to keep your account.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktB...

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Enki 🍀 @enki.bsky.social · 3d

Quote posting the CEO of Bluesky discussing harassment with a picture of a guy seconds before he was shot...

Seems unwise.

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 3d

Apparently this is the post that got Link banned: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

PDSls

Browse the public data on atproto

pdsls.dev

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d

"Bluesky is probably under enormous pressure from the government to censor users or shut down" come on people, the government isn't scared of your posting and they probably absolutely love that this site is full of people who say extremely Should Talk to a Lawyer things

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 4d

I know hating Jay is the thing now, and I’m not going to get into the “should a certain fuckwidget be banned” debate because smarter people than me have waded into those thorny waters.

But this is prescient as hell. This platform became rife with wreckers and, well, they’re gonna wreck shit.

TechCrunch passage that reads: Graber may even have foreseen some version of this conflict when Bluesky was starting out with vision of a
decentralized system that allows users to migrate elsewhere if they're unhappy with company leadership. As she reportedly wrote in Bluesky's founding documents, "The company is a future adversary."

Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 4d

Finally got caught up on the whole waffles debacle. If I may:

Contempt for your userbase is good actually.

Norman Rockwell painting/man standing meme

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