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Kat Su Yeah @katsuyeah.bsky.social · 9h

have you considered we can maybe choose someone better than both of them in the 3 years we have before another election or are you too used to compromising on human rights to have that cross your mind

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 56m

Bold of you to assume they care more about winning than the donors' money

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 59m

Pretty sure there is no way to be a progressive if you formerly worked for Blackwater, but the BARE minimum requirement is that you call for the death penalty for Eric Prince and reparations for Iraq

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1h

So, for years radicals and folks across our communities have warned that beneath Asheville city hall's "progressive" facade was a vindictively conservative government that hates the people of this city and will happily collaborate with fascists.

And here we are. Are y'all listening yet?

David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 20h

Asheville mayor Esther Manheimer personally thanked Kristi Noem today, in case you're wondering how things are going here. #avlnews

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky search isn't broken, the devs are just overloading the system trying to find posts that they can use to ban random trans women

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 2h

Fuck yeah Reptar ftw

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 2h

Flying cars seem much more like something people want because it looks cool in science fiction than a practical technology that solves a problem. Also, most people suck at driving hard enough in *two* dimensions.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4h

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7h

A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18h

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 6d

just realized the dril drunk driving tweet also works for regular driving

wint @dril
drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 4h

Even weird Labubu knockoff beats that guy 😂

Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 4h

Let's be real tho, Labubu vastly cuter than Mayo Pete. Likely wiser as well.

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🦇Demilich Lalla the Adored💀 @diesegenchukfi.bsky.social · 1d

Ratboy(Pete Buttigieg) at microphone with speech bubble above quoted post

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 14h

Yes

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 14h

Please take care of yourself and yes do what you need to not get so burnt out that you implode! 💚

Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 15h

If this guy wasn't such a fucking prick I'd almost admire what a weird bastard he is

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.