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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are doing everything they can to punish Americans for the shutdown they caused & I fear dem leadership is so weak they will just let it happen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 2d

My kingdom for a primary challenger 😞

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Just passing along the news. #kysen

Amy McGrath is Running for Senate

YouTube video by Amy McGrath

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 3d

I don't see openly maga dudes out in the wild very often but when I do they're always acting weird. why are you kneeling in the grocery store to take pictures of the food on the shelves for over 5 minutes and then leave without buying anything?? Snacks too woke??

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 5d

Spirit Halloween has what you need if anyone wants to do a Steven Miller display this year.

Pale & vacant looking prop dummy being sold at spirit halloween for 79.99.

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 8d

saying "I don't understand why I'm supposed to care about that" when someone comes at you with a stupid culture war grievance makes me feel so powerful

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 8d

are we at the part of the movie where people start defying orders they know are immoral yet

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 9d

one of the best things about neopets to me was each pet having its own unique html page you could edit like baby's first geocities.

(Semi-related but the in universe NEWSPAPER was also so cool 😭. So much weirdo preteen art & writing in that bad boy)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9d

A couple folks have called today and said they got through to people, which means we are not crashing the lines nearly enough.

Call, y'all. Even if you're never called before. Especially if you have a democratic senator who you don't trust to hold the line.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 10d

played Hades II for too long today and actually wore down the thumb stick so bad the controller was covered in rubber shavings. I have a problem ❤️

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 14d

My mother is offline (news-wise) and she had no idea who he was. After finding out the things he had said she was very confused why people were being expected to drop to their knees for a white supremacist. I do have to wonder how many normal folks out there are feeling like my mom did.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

line———

Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 15d

Oh no I think I understand labubus now. This is my son.

A plush from the Twinkle Twinkle collectible series. He is a little yellow fluffy star themed guy with a pink face, holding a little blue book.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 15d

oh my goodness!! He is adorable, also that is the highest quality costume I've ever seen on a toddler! He looks ready for the high seas!

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 15d

Common sense is so often just "I did not think very hard about this or consult any experts" + 'vibes' disguised as a logical argument.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 16d

Gonna take some Tylenol to make my autism stronger & more powerful.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 17d

shocking: 32 y/o homeowner realizes that they should probably enrich their life with hobbies instead of smoking weed and playing video games all day. tragic!!

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 19d

kat rocks and is braver than anyone in office right now.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 20d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 19d

imagining some guy in 1940 saying this to the census dork just to get him off his damn porch

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 19d

Peculiar Johnson

United States, Census, 1940

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 20d

talking to a coworker and slowly realizing your news consumption choices mean you live in completely separate realities...

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 20d

"Got any book recommendations about the lives of German citizens in, say, the 1930s? haha, no reason" I say to the government agent stationed at my local books-a-million.

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 22d

i couldn't help myself and made an account for my sims activities. please follow if you like really good and perfect games such as the sims 4.

oxplaysthesims.bsky.social @oxplaysthesims.bsky.social · 22d

First post! I really needed a blog zone to yap about the Sims 4, but kind of like back in the day where people would post TS2 legacies on livejournal. will mostly be posting gameplay and goofs, hopefully new builds and Sims as well!

A sims 4 werewolf running at top speeds but still on her damn phone

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 22d

wondering when politicians talk about the violence and hostility of the left, how often they're just talking about people being mean to them online. close to 90%?

oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 22d

RIP. Watch All The President's Men today if you get the chance. One of my all time favorites largely due to Redford's performance.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22d

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor and director whose passion for activism led to the formation of the Sundance Institute and its formidable film festival, has died at age 89.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 26d

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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🎃 SINfomercHELL 🎃 @infomercial.bsky.social · 26d

There is a type of guy who commits crimes like this, and that type is almost never "orthodox marxist-leninist attempting to be the vanguard of a revolutionary movement". Much more common for it to be a "looked at computer too much" guy

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 26d

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment

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