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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 5h

Herman Cain 2.0

Darth Hippy @darthhippy.bsky.social · 5h

I mean he is already giving sermons from beyond.

AI Charlie Kirk Preached From Beyond the Grave at Prestonwood Baptist Church

Speaking artificially from heaven, we presume, the AI voice told the crowd to "dry your tears."

www.dallasobserver.com

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 5h

Claims to understand trans women, but doesn't know about the shark?

Ikea knows about the shark, and they're a massive international company.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 11h

Oh...no...I don't like where this is going.

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 11h

08 Oct 2025

Heathcliff lies down on a Tony Montana-sized pile of catnip, broadly grinning. The full moon above him is in the shape of a grinning cat with sunglasses. Two owls watch, and one says "It's a catnip harvest moon."

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 11h

...when you remember Leni Riefenstahl's post war career as an "ethnographic photographer".

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Mae @spiderpolice.bsky.social · 1d

yuritober day 7 but one of the girls is really big

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crunch element @mopinks.bsky.social · May 10

making crumbs to clean up later

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 1d

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 1d

Ridicule works. It's hard to come off being a tough guy when you're staring down someone in an inflatable frog costume, especially when they're twerking at you.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 1d

Shooting at clergy is not traditionally considered a winning strategy.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Femcel Succubus 🔞 @boobkiwi.bsky.social · 2d

A comic where a woman is forcing kiwi to sign a contract.

The woman says.
“YES DOLL! SIGN THAT CONTRACT AND BECOME WHAT YOU WHERE ALWAYS MEANT TO BE
MY PROPERTY!!!”

Legal Eagle appears and says

“Actually, here's why that probably wouldn't hold up in court.”

And the girls respond
“LEGAL EAGLE!!!”

@BRYNKIWI

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 1d

Literally why the English civil war happened.

Literally.

And the founding fathers specifically hated the mere idea of the executive doing that.

Literal basic US legal history.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 1d

We let US solar manufacturing die after 2008. It was a decision made by Republicans to fuck with Obama.

Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 2d

That chart 📊

A bar chart comparing the US oil and gas exports against China's green tech exports in 2024 and 2025. In 2024, China's exports were $180B to the US $150B. In 2025, it was $120 to $80B, China and US. The chart says: China earns more from exporting solar panels, batteries, electric cars and other clean energy tech than the US does through fossil fuel exports.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

Global warming made Canada too hot to dress like Santa for judicial reasons.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite thing about the robes on the left is they look like Santa robes, and my second favorite thing about the robes on the left is *the justices and their clerks also called them "Santa robes"*

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

...every time you horny plural post I'm like "oh something like that has happened with us"

I guess it's not that weird after all.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

American gun culture is shit, and split between people who hate even orange tipped cap guns, and people who think they should be able to drink drive if they have a concealed carry permit.

I just think it would be neat if un-athletic kids got to do a meditative target practice sport.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

Don't like that sports just means ball games in people's minds.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

The biggest reason I think kids should have an air rifle range in school is because it's a genuine sport and if you're not a long limbed cardio monster, it's eminently doable.

It's a sport I could have loved and had fun with if it was available to me. Instead I got to suck at soccer for 6 months.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

I never understood ball sports...I could never play them for shit.

Lifting, running, and shooting sports have my heart though. I don't miss soccer, but archery was amazing.

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It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 2d

I don't mind people enjoying sports, but wow does it just flood the timeline when they do...

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