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dave

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Retired software engineer living in portland. Into puzzles, programing, and politics. I don't post much.


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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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PRO: A good way to cover up the bullet holes. CON: Use of woke “Thou/Thy” pronouns.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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It's been two years. This day must be avenged. Vote.

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My dad would only allow the A/C to be set to 10 degrees below the temperature outside.

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Not sure why blusky forgot me. I had to reset my password (back to the old one) and revalidate my email address.

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Today’s CPI report shows meat & poultry are among the highest items pushing inflation. Maybe that's because just 4 companies now control processing of 80% of beef, nearly 70% of pork, and almost 60% of chicken. Without competition, corporations can get away with price gouging.

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Billionaires don’t care that Trump wants to free Jan 6 insurrectionists. They don’t care that he says he'll be a dictator on “day one.” They don’t care that he calls opponents “vermin” to “root out.” All they care about is more tax cuts. This is why they've returned to Trump.

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dave's avatar dave @duckdodgers.bsky.social
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Nothing wrong per se, until they start acting like somehow the're better than everyone else and should somehow be in charge. Then I have a problem with them.

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Billionaires apparently think that by backing authoritarianism they can create an oligargchy wherein those pesky plebians can be forced to work.

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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FYI, the lottery is a regressive tax disproportionately paid by the people who can least afford it, and little of the proceeds actually go to community funding. We should fund community services by taxing the rich, not by conning working people into thinking they'll become rich.

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dave's avatar dave @duckdodgers.bsky.social
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I definitely miss the ability to slam the phone down into its nearly indestructible cradle.

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Revy Skeets 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Revy Skeets 🏳️‍⚧️ @catgirlfingies.bsky.social
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Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

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Artologica 's avatar Artologica @artologica.net
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Via mastodon (mosstodon), this cracked me up

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Ned's avatar Ned @thewesterhazys.bsky.social
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You can't even see the country we like to think we are from the country we actually are.

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Our carceral system works by using the worst people — Chauvin, Dahmer, and other outliers — to induce us to accept and even applaud inhuman conditions involving assault, rape, grotesque neglect, and deliberate abuse. It’s not a strategy that would work on a healthy or decent society.

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George Takei's avatar George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
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Polls this far out from the election are inevitably wrong and therefore useless. So why does the media commission and publish them? Because they benefit from generalized anxiety about the election. They want us to fear, obsess, and wring our hands. Let’s not give them that satisfaction.

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Deth Veggie's avatar Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social
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Look, I get the instinct for schadenfreude when a bad thing happens to a bad person (and Chauvin is a truly awful person), but prison should be safe, for ALL prisoners, no matter their crime. Even murderers, even rapists, even literal Nazis.

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From The Athletic: Simone Biles won the World Championship for the all-around, making her the most decorated gymnast of all time. nyti.ms/3ZMpZyh

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Stonekettle's avatar Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social
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Notice how Republicans are threatening REVENGE? How they're promising to start another civil war in retribution for arresting Trump? They're NOT saying he's is innocent. Just like both of Trump's impeachments, they KNOW he did it. They're just mad we won't let him get away with it.

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