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QuoProQuid

@quoproquid.bsky.social

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he / him, 🏳️‍🌈 ✝️. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Nov 9

one of the things i like to do in my free time is to create short games about history and politics. here’s a few of them below. 👇

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h

thank god for that

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h

either a tourist or former mayor of los angeles sam yorty

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3h

taylor, the situation has deteriorated rapidly.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h

a representative of the conductor told reporters that, “Ms Tár remains busy with her many current artistic commitments but strives to stay up-to-date with popular culture and open to new collaborations.”

swift and her representatives did not respond to a request for comment

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h

lydia tár back in the news after being spotted liking a post on instagram from @taylorswift about “girlbossing too close to the sun”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6h

is your pop star built for short-form vertical content? is your writers' room prepped for the era of casual viewing? can your governor's clapbacks fit into a sleek listicle?

have we, in our effort to vanquish inconvenience, abandoned god?

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6h

yes, i suppose memes have become a hard currency in the effort to frame narratives around public policy debates and can be understood as an effort to abstract the complex realities of human existence into stock narratives, effectively mythologizing politics but also they're fucking ugly and annoying

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6h

how it's going

a woman in a white dress and necklace is making a funny face .

ALT: a woman in a white dress and necklace is making a funny face .

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

you could very easily do a miniseries about "The Kennedy Women" but i think the only person i can see being interested in running that is ryan murphy and i guarantee he would somehow completely miss the point and also produce 10 hours of the most garish and obnoxious programming known to man.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

very, very sad life that was largely caused by her proximity to the kennedy family. mistreated, then horribly outcast.

she was 27 when ted first ran for senate and expected to put on a smile as he destroyed his own life and the lives of everyone around him.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 9h

ryan reynolds has kind of become a manchurian candidate-style trigger for me in that i will immediately want to kill something after seeing his face or hearing his voice in a mint mobile ad

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 23h

In actual combat — not this fake ass Stephen Miller wet dream — I would have destroyed any of my soldiers doing this to non-combatants. There is no gray area or fine line.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 23h

ok, I don’t like it but I get the logic of the tesla bot. the tesla bot AND james charles though?????

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 23h

I would love to know what the tron ares marketing team thinks its core demo is