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Dropped Mike

@rebrafsim.bsky.social

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“jokes” header by Dave (Cactus) my best stuff: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ofbhd4x65yjzuoh27ceq3n76/feed/aaab23k2b5q3a

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Jul 3

interviewer: can I get your references?

me: *sighing* probably not; nobody else does

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 21h

editor’s note: you forgot to tell them the change you wanted to see in the world was supposed to be good

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 4d

“go ahead — here’s your pardon”

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 5d

😭

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 5d

*“in ‘armed conflict’” = shooting

*“cartels” = people on boats

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump says the US is now in “armed conflict” with cartels in the Caribbean.

Trump declares that drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are ‘unlawful combatants’

President also said the US is now in a ‘non-international conflict’, according to a White House memo

www.theguardian.com

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 7d

no way i’m falling for this a third time

Sign reads “Parking for BJ’s in rear of building.”

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 8d

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Jul 7

boss: are you planning to work today?

me: I already did

boss: no, you have to do it all day

me: what

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 10d

this is lovely

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 10d

also noting he DID throw 1/2 of the fucking world under the bus (“all ‘men’”), so it’s NOT how you do it. but hey

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 10d

this is how you do it… “you don’t have to like [whatever group you’re disliking today] to believe deeply in their fundamental rights, like everyone else’s.” you don’t throw anyone under the bus for votes or anything else, ever

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Feb 27

[restaurant]

waiter: would you like water?

me: yes please

waiter: still?

me: I literally just said yes

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Dec 15

sure, everybody hates snake oil — until their snake starts squeaking

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Jul 3

interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation

me: no, YOU give ME an example

interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive

me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go

interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 17d

😂

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Mar 8

I often confuse reptiles and amphibians. actually, if I'm being brutally honest, they pretty much never know what I'm talking about

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · Mar 10

interviewer: it says here you’re not afraid to challenge authority

me: no it doesn’t

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 18d

fascinating

Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 18d

Why every Sankey diagram you've ever seen is wrong. open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...

Why every Sankey diagram you've ever seen is wrong

The current debate over the Primary Energy Fallacy, has shone a light on the humble Sankey diagram. But what if those diagrams are missing something increasingly important?

open.substack.com

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 19d

seems kinda obvious now that I think about it that in a fight between people who support fairness and people who don’t, the fairness side is pretty much by definition gonna get its ass kicked

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 21d

🎶more than power,
more than gold,
yeah you gave me your heart,
now I’m here for your soul🎶

Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 21d

Someone needs to put a new light-bulb in Melania.

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 23d

lol

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 23d

if you ignore all the shitty things I’ve said and done, I’m also pretty angelic

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Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 24d

this is why I’m buying the $110,000 one. I’m always a step ahead…

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 24d

Which one? 😂

slate.com/business/202...

The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man

“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

slate.com

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 24d

I think they see them (like immigrants) as among the weakest, politically, and so among the easiest to dehumanize/demonize without “too much” pushback. once you dehumanize some, the rest will fall in pretty fast succession

Dropped Mike @rebrafsim.bsky.social · 24d

the entire game is that THEIR violence — which is their entire objective — has to be framed as warranted/justified/necessitated by the (usually fictional or wildly mischaracterized) “horrors” being inflicted by “others”

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 25d

The supposedly Christian Right's response to the violence that took Charlie Kirk (a violence they claim is abhorrent) is to call for greater violence against—well, everyone who doesn't align with them politically and theologically, apparently.

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