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Tamara Keel, but spooky

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Producer and consumer of the written word. Casual photographer. Liker of cats, cameras, fast cars, and faster apertures. No one is coming. It’s up to us. Cameras: binaryfossils.blogspot.com Cars: carsgoneby.blogspot.com

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · Dec 9

If my car blogging or photography have brought you joy this year, you can help bolster the income of a starving freelance writer via PayPal at:

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15m

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · 23m

Stories like this are why my bio contains a statement of support for trans kids. They need to be able to believe that there are people out there who want them to live their truth, and their own brains are constantly fighting against letting them know that.

Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about the early closeted days as a teenager and a memory I hadn't thought about for ages popped in my head.

As a teen I was DEEP in the Experimentation->Shame->Repression->Repeat cycle that lasted until I came out at 28 and one way I experimented was sneaking make up from my stepmother

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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The Wonder Years of Lead @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 36m

Getting insanely pumped watching the government respond to every grocery costing exactly $3 more every week by picking more fights with singers, this is what I voted for

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2h

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 1h

Like, imagine if there were police standing in the street, doing perfectly legal activities, and you shot one of them in the face with a hard plastic ball full of pepper powder.

You and everyone around you would be instantly riddled with bullets.

But they’re allowed to do just… do that shit.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 52m

I’m no good at Truckle either.

Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 53m

The only people boxing anyone in are your own goons, you lying assclown.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Deputy AG Todd Blanche: "We have organized efforts by domestic terrorists -- and that's what they are -- to do things like box in law enforcement's cars ... they are armed with heavy machinery."

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 56m

Cardle 4/5

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Cardle

Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 17h

It's an administration full of social media grifters powered by feeding manufactured ragebait to Fox News Uncles.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17h

Screenshot of a tweet from @samstein dated 5 October 2025, showing federal agents dressed up like soldiers, and among them people with professional cameras. The text: "The clamp down is about producing content as much as anything else"

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Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 4h

Who of you wrote this?

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 4h

I'm doing the Top 10 folding wings based on your votes. Share your favourite (can be ANY aircraft) below (ideally with a photo and a reason for your choice)

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 2h

“A Logic Named Joe”

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit, holy shit, I can actually invoke my DCLT experience for something:

He's lying.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

rockwell_man: I think drills shouldn't engage in literal physical assault of recruits for any reason, much less to verify a brass check and/or just for fun

that said I do think infantrydork should be punched in his xiphoid process as many times as it takes for him to stop poasting

infantrydork claiming drills laying hands on recruits builds character, including literally punching them in the stomach for fun .

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 2h

Col. Jessep, the Joker, and Walter White are like the unholy trinity of cinematic characters mistaken for the hero by malsocialized young men.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 2h

Col. Jessep, the Joker, and Walter White are like the unholy trinity of cinematic characters mistaken for the hero by malsocialized young men.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 2h

De nada!

Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 3h

…in the Old Corps, in 2000” stuff.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 3h

Millennials like this saw Full Metal Jacket as kids and feel like they were cheated out of the full manhood initiation experience so they retcon their own pasts to sound more hooah.

DI’s and DS’s laying hands on recruits was verboten way back in the Reagan years, so miss me with that ”Back…

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

Dutch merchant in 1647: “Yes I've sold my land for a handful of bulbs, but there is nothing especially alarming about price of tulips.”

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 3h

Is AI a bubble about to burst, bringing down the economy? Although the spending is massive, at this point there’s nothing especially alarming.

The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something of a fool’s errand. Quantifying the size of the capex surge seems like a more productive endeavor — and one that may offer some hints as to its sustainability.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 3h

ICE Barbie and SOCOM Ken… I like it.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 3h

Blessed are the longroofs.

Tim Pitt @timpitt100.bsky.social · 3h

Inside the Rolls-Royce Corniche shooting brake by Niels van Roij Design.

Seats are retrimmed in beige leather, with green-flecked tweed to line the glovebox, storage trays, etc. The carpets are deep-pile lambswool.

Bakelite steering wheel and the walnut dashboard have been restored.

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 3h

Role model right here.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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