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Michael James

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Los Angeleno, Humanist, Champion of the Underdog, Hugger of Trees and Strangers, Literary Nerd, Hockey Fan, Purveyor of Letting Go, Being Present, Opening Up.


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I’d do the same if I had Hulu for the same reasons.

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Future skeets from October of 2024: Remember remember, the 5th of November.

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Remember remember…

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Something… 😂🤪👊🏽

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Sounds right. Clearly more effort and yeah, I remember it was much better.

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I feel like the Orange Julius had a secret ingredient. Cocaine maybe?

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I feel like we’re besties on two points of interest now.

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So I feel like the orange Julius was way tastier, but I don’t guess I had one beyond about the age of 15. So you’re saying they’re the same?

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Our government has behaved badly without any admission in Central and South America most notably perhaps inChile but really all over the place even basically assassinating Che Guevara in Bolivia. Also buy drugs down there and disbursing them in American inner cities is pretty reprehensible.

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I’m inclined to say “exactly,” despite my lack of real familiarity with Iranian politics and exactly how our puppet the Shah came to power. (Im nor familiar with our western hemisphere escapades, er atrocities, ummmm crimes!)

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Mmmmmm, I get an Orange Bang whenever I see the chance. Yum…

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Yep. Even then though.

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I’m all for fixing that.

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You’d have to go way back. As it is the R of the Heritage Foundation sell snake oil and effectively triangulate to bring in just enough groups, (fundamentalists, the wealthy class, gun lovers, anti-abortionists, white supremacists, libertarians, xenophobes and morons,) to be viable.

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Damn. I thought Jules was a woman but alas, no. (I googled.)

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Stupid and wrong-headed no matter.

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Thanks so much for that. (I still attribute it to the acquaintance who said it to me 20 years ago as if he was so damned clever.)

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I’d say it needs some advance notice to try to gather enough participants to make an impact. And megaphones. I had to abandon the bird app and my humble 1300 moots but large accounts there should be engaged. How else could this be a real thing?

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This is me gauging interest at the moment. When I had a large Twitter account, I would just retweet until I got the interest that I wanted. That doesn't fly here, so everyone who wants it to gain momentum should post about it. I'm only in charge insofar as I brought it up

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I’ll need some insight because I’m not clear on any differences in aging that would play into this. I am open to that info tho.

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Yes. Lynn has always felt like a brother from another mother so I’m in on sharing and doing whatever I can.

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How does this get momentum?

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I think of all the underrepresented, underserved and discriminated against groups in our society the single most marginalized group has got to be the poor.

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I think man is used as the singular for mankind? Def the patriarchy.

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There used to be a phrase went something like If you aren’t a liberal as a young man, you have no heart. If you aren’t a conservative as an old man, you have no brain. I think an old conservative came up w/ that one as a verbal/mental parlor trick bcuz there’s nothing to it.

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Why are they still showing these wrecked pics of Whitney Houston on the mag covers at the supermarket?

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At least it’s not the Big Bang tv show.

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Trust me when I say I get that. My quality of life improved dramatically when I got divorced. What was funny about as your turn of phrase. I don’t hear no skin off my chin every day and it tickled me. 😂🤣😂

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Weird link but thanks for drawing attention there. Please keep up the good work. On another note some friends and I are seriously looking into joining you in the land of my ancestors if Trump succeeds in taking the Presidency. It will feel like the inevitable end of the empire.

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So, just to recap the week, the 34-time convicted felon was once again credibly accused of raping a child, has even more concrete connections to Jeffrey Epstein, the corrupt justices he appointed gave him unlimited power to commit crimes... and the media is demanding Joe Biden drop out of the race.

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Well good for you. (And also, you crack me up!) Happy 4th funny friend. 😜

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..is someone who lets you help. It’s no secret that a liar won’t believe nobody else. It’s no secret that ambition bites the nails of success. Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief, all kill their inspiration and sing about the grief. Thick with insight to the human condition.

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Ha-ha! I’m glad you get it. I find they’re so out of fashion these days mostly. But yes-he’s an artist of the first order. When I was the bird app someone referred to him as the epochal poet of our day and I can’t disagree. I mean even that song we were talking about. It’s no secret that a friend..

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Aww. Been there. Tough time of life for sure. Be kind to yourself in this season.

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Celeste Ng's avatar Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️