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Blood River Flow

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 30

Enough with "I'm running on COMMON SENSE values." I want absurd values. Clowns on every train. Possum cops. The government pays in live goats. Worms in every gas tank. A war on clouds. It can't go any wronger than what we've already got going on, here.

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 5h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

I "fixed" it by zooming all the way in but also, importantly: this sucks. THIS IS NOT AN APP

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

hey man what the fuck happened to reddit and how do I fix this

screenshot of firefox instance with a reddit tab open to the homepage, showing a zoomed out vertical scroll of tiny images and impossibly small text on the left panel

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

"I dated a folk singer" is probably one of the least surprising things you've all learned about me on b sky dot app

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

When I was a kid my mom had this technique where she would slap us in the back of the head so fast it was like one of those martial arts movies where you just hear the sword and the samurai is putting it back in his sheath when the guy falls. Already gone by the time we're rubbing our head.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Jul 29

It's Pearl River Flow Lore Time.
I dated a folk singer. She lived in the painted apartments on Fortification Street, the pictured location known to my Jackson followers. We were better friends than lovers and had more adventures than romance, as may be imagined.

boring zillow photo, a bit washed out, of an apartment building with huge murals all over the front, featuring "tribal" south american themes, aztec birds, and melting psychedelia - and a zebra and some tigers and a six eyed wolf

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Aug 10

I'm working on another map related thing and I swear there's gotta be some parts of the Mississippi/Louisiana/Arkansas border where it's legal to commit crimes because you're not in any state. Or maybe double-illegal because you're in two states at once.

borders and rivers in black and white, featuring a big Mississippi river srving as a border, with lots of weird cut-outs for old channels and loops

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Aug 19

Round image of text saying "I ouro on my boros till"so that the I is at the top

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Aug 28

my kid's extremely colorful and awesome self portrait also looks like a shitpost and I love it

crayon on paper drawing of a girl with a tall head, extremely long neck (extremely) in a rainbow shirt with a white cat and hearts on it. The girl has a ponytail, smile, and b lush and very narrow eyes

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Aug 29

Wife: I don't want to go. I feel like the rich mothers are judging me.
Me: I'll go. I'm fine. I'm real good with the moms.
Wife:

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · Aug 30

me each time I refresh the webbed site blu sky dot app

B&W photo of Orson Welles (older, large, bearded) looking pretty excited about something

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 17d

Primitive brushstroke painting of an unknown white person with pointed brows, large upper gums and normal gtop front teeth, no chin. They look excited

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

Zooming in, I'd make a similar argument on the "Gulf Coast" which certainly has a core, but rapidly gets fuzzier and fuzzier the farther you get from Mobile.
My knowledge of the Adirondacks is like 3 people deep, so this is good to know. I always need to know what Tennessee zones exist out there.

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

You wouldn't be wrong to do so, boundaries are all imaginary to some degree, but I'd definitely extend it northwest of that spot. Not northeast, though!

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REVENGER G/T @revengergt.bsky.social · 9h

I found out there’s a guy at work you can really rile up by saying “no I think you’re wrong, I think baby yoda and old yoda are the same guy”

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 8h

Many other things aside: they can ONLY look at things from the view of the bosses. If they didn't have to pay each worker so much, obviously they could pay more workers.
(this is not true of the labor market, the secret market that "free market" propagandists always forget about)

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

when I was looking at Baton Rouge I was thinking about how much bleed over there is from each culture and how there's islands and inlets and peninsulas all through this thing.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

Yes. Though it's usually just called "the delta" if you're in it.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

hell, it may even be at a 4th crossroads - Mississippi delta. That would also track.

Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

One must not confuse the map with the territory. I see a lot of little things I'd change, but I think that's the point of the thing.

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

on this one you can see that Baton Rouge is at the tri-point of Acadiana, Piney Woods, and Gulf Coast culture, which tracks

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

this is the higher quality version of the above map:

www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

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Blood River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 9h

IF the search function worked today I'd post my "Atlanta-Memphis Cultural Zone" map but this is interesting enough to warrant a look on it's own

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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