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On an adventure! Be better than you were yesterday. (Things I like: comic books, video games, history, rationalism, борщ, victory for Ukraine)


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thanks for your input Sharon, but no.

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yes, often, and frequently it's not

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Vatslav's avatar Vatslav @vatslaw.bsky.social
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Another hospital at the other end of Kyiv is “Isis”,where a maternity hospital and a pregnancy support center are located.There is no military or infrastructure around this center.The targets were women and children.This is “congratulation” on the Day of Family,Love and Fidelity.

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Дика тварюка з дикого мєда 🇺🇦's avatar Дика тварюка з дикого мєда 🇺🇦 @taika-i-titi.bsky.social
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how is China, North Korea, Iran and other countries supplying Russia with weapons to kill Ukrainians in a genocidal war not considered escalation, when a permission for Ukraine to strike military facilities on Russian territory with Western weapons considered one?

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a company that allows devs time for dealing with tech debt is a good company

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Ma🌵🌵hew *Interrobang* Wood 's avatar Ma🌵🌵hew *Interrobang* Wood @matthewbrendenwood.bsky.social
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This is just to say I have not eaten the peanut m&m's that were left in my parked car and which you were probably saving for later Forgive me they are now a liquid so gross and so hot

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Miss Riss's avatar Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social
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This merger is a nightmare. How is being allowed to go through? local to me would close nearly every single grocery store within a pretty big radius and in other areas it's going to be all of them for entire towns. I can even fathom the damage nationally
www.kirklandreporter.com/business/sev...

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September

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The Lion, The Witch, and The Snakes On a Plane

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Linuxrebel 's avatar Linuxrebel @linuxrebel.bsky.social
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Remember this is the guy that wants to be president, again. Lock up your daughter's folks

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Chris Kluwe's avatar Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
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I think it’s okay to feel a sense of disassociation that you as an individual can have an impact, but the solution isn’t to stop doing your tiny part to contribute to the whole, it’s to band together with all the other tiny parts to hold the larger problems accountable.

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TheIndependent's avatar TheIndependent @realindependent.bsky.social
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NEW POLL: Opposition to Project 2025 grows as people learn more about the plan. After reading 19 proposed policies for Project 2025, opposition grows from 49% to 63% (net +14) while support for the plan declines from 31% to 24% (net -7%). We can’t talk about this enough.

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Saucy Rick Havoc 's avatar Saucy Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social
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Time for an economics lesson.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com
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American public transit will never compete with cars on convenience until we stop forcing every home and business to provide copious amounts of free parking, which spreads out destinations to the point that transit isn’t scalable and makes walking profoundly unpleasant.

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she is such total and complete garbage.

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The Emotion Engine's avatar The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social
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I set up my son’s mini PC and it’s incredible how Windows 11 seems to be built around resentment over the very idea of you owning your files and nothing else.

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Tiffany (parentheses overuser)'s avatar Tiffany (parentheses overuser) @tiffanyclay.dev
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Boeing is pleading guilty to a fraud that killed over 300 people. Their punishment is fines. At least one person made a decision to perpetuate this fraud, so why is nobody going to jail? If corporations have the same rights as people, they should face the same criminal liabilities as well.

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he's actually been shredded for a while and even though I know he's a grown man I still find it deeply disturbing.

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Daniel Gilmore's avatar Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social
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One reason why a Parkinson’s expert might have visited the WH 8 times in 8 months is bc a big Parkinson’s bill just got passed and signed. But don’t let that little bit of fact get in the way of your shitty ableist rumor mongering, NYT

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Jesse Berney's avatar Jesse Berney @jesseberney.bsky.social
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The lesson from France is that sometimes you have to hold your nose to defeat fascism. You can't beat it with your own ideological purity.

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Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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By @nytimes.com, I only paid for the cooking part of the site and while I'll miss Melissa Clark, you're a threat to democracy.

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WHAT????? now I'm actually going to watch it!!

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agreed, it's beyond just good star wars, it's a stunningly good show fullstop.

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рікі тікі таві's avatar рікі тікі таві @rikk-tikki-tav.bsky.social
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Oh, and quick reminder –

russians are presiding over the UN Security Council this month. The same people who did this.

#UkrainianView

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spirtanniemal's avatar spirtanniemal @spirtanniemal.com
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i love it how people are quick to call any wrongdoing of a fictional character in a fictional world “war crime”. but when there’s a real war crime irl the same people would make every kind of an excuse from “ehh maybe we should hear both sides” to “what about children in country N?”
#UkrainianView

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Heard some loud bags (air defense guns) outside for the first time since I've been back. saw some smoke behind some buildings. ruzzians hit a children's hospital. these are not mistakes, or accidental targeting. it's pure fucking evil. a fucking children's hospital.

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I'm absolutely ecstatic to see how much people still love Elementary!! it was my favorite show the whole time it was airing and remains my favorite show now. I've rewatched it all twice!

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actually, without any spoilers about when or how, she does 👍

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