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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6h

I know this wildlife documentary seems cute but this is actually a really distressing video, that hippo has had way too much fiber for their gastrointestinal track to handle, they are not suppose to be playing music from their butt like that
honestly you should probably remove this

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6h

Priests don’t have relatives, they’re celibate

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6h

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 11h

IT IS SO JUICY TRASH OF YOU TO DOING DOING

A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 11h

this dumb mfer just be saying anything long after the “I’ll just say anything lol” bit died

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 14h

Right. We already did this once before, and recently. That early-internet copyright legislation is less than thirty years old.

Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, yadda yadda yadda, yeah. Got it. 👍

So now just write laws where tech bros can’t get away with blatant and gleeful theft of IP.

A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 18h

From your mouth to God’s ear

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 19h

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 1d

what, you mean

TALL!! SO TALL!!

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit, is that really true about renewables…???

The dream of 90s environmentalist shorts during Saturday morning cartoons has finally been realized 🥹

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 3d

I do find it funny how community spaces were destroyed to make malls, a poor fascimile thereof, which were then replaced with social media, which is a bad fascimile of a mall but online, and now social media is being destroyed for fuck all

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 7d

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 5d

What’s a beautiful and succinct way to sum this up, and also I want cookies

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 5d

All kinds of objects cause emotions in humans. Art, sports jerseys, madeleines, sleds named Rosebud … evoking emotions in humans just reaffirms that humans are human, not that objects have humanity.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

the Vice President of the United States shouldn’t be allowed to say “fuck this one person in particular”

I know we know this, I know we’ve been saying it as long as these platforms existed, I know it predates Twitter and they used to do it in the newspapers

but it’s just so deeply anti-democracy

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 6d

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

This is how my grandfather told me. A war chief of an enemy tribe led a party against the Cherokee. When

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is terror and pronounced gahneeyayguh

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

You can eat less meat, and when you do, only eat it when you know it was third-party inspected for humane practices. It’s better, yeah, but at the end of the day, an animal is still dying so you can eat it. This is not one of those situations where you can be a purist in either direction, I’m afraid

A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

JESUS CHEIST, MAN, I DIDNT DO SHIT TO YOU

A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

oh lord, this 9th-grade-ass government

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

The avatar really helps this one.

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

I think it’s sweet that you think it won’t just end at the discourse lol

Does anyone want another slice of delicious “mental health is the problem, not guns ▶️ OK, so then let’s fund services for mental health ▶️ wait no, that’s not what I meant” pie?

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 6d

No wonder people turn to the hollowed-out comforts of an AI chatbot in order to feel some semblance of peace…

… only to have it hallucinate at you, right before convincing you to harm yourself.

I know we say “worst timeline!!!! lol” a lot but, like…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 10d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 10d

how do you wire em to sleep healthily for 16 hours a day is what I wanna know

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A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 10d

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