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Great news for Wisconsin voters!

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Related. Miss you, Paul!

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IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Peter Weir did this too, for his director's cut of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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This time the Times has gone too far.

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Go into your photo roll and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud.

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I choose to believe his realtor was Zia McCabe of the Dandy Warhols.

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He's right, and Democrats in Wisconsin will need help! This is the first time since 2010 we've had anything even remotely resembling fair maps, and while there still is a slight GOP edge, there is a real opportunity for Democrats to take control of at least one of the legislative chambers this fall.

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Make a band bready Pita and Gordon

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I'm a hard-eyed realist about electoral politics, that's why I'm advising the Democrats to shove aside the elected vice president and replace her with someone who'd vacate a purple- or red-state Senate seat

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John Pfaff's avatar John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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I think that's what makes it a fairy story, though. A key element of fairly lore, especially in the British Isles, is that the fae operate under their own rules and that if you don't understand them, that's your problem.

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This like when a kid knows what a joke is and how they're structured but doesn't get what makes them funny, only with political analysis.

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Friends notwithstanding, Wegmans is the one thing I miss about living in Virginia.

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John Heaton's avatar John Heaton @jheaton416.bsky.social
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what is your favorite black and white movie?

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This would require the third parties to field candidates. I just got my absentee ballot for the August primary here in Wisconsin and while the Green Party has its own section on the ballot, it's completely blank. No one filed to run for any of the eight offices up for election.

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This, this, a thousand times this. If you were to just preemptively block anyone who ascribes any sort of power or influence to the DNC, you would miss nothing of any value.

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Good morning Third Grade! Today we will learn that Judah fucked his daughter-in-law (because he mistook her for a prostitute) and the resulting baby was an ancestor of Jesus. Billy, stop crying.

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Now that Anatole French's comment about the majestic equality of the law has become the the basis of a US Supreme Court ruling, I expect to see an opinion next term saying there's no constitutional prohibition on selling poor Irish children as food.

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges"

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This is much more sophisticated a joke than I would have expected from Ziggy.

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Hitting the trifecta of discontinuation in that third picture

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Looking forward to this collaboration!

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This was not a good TV show, but the theme ("Time For You" by the Tories) is a great modern power pop song that has stuck with me all these years. youtu.be/0TKmncJYksU?...

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I might maybe fiddle with the order of the bottom three a bit, but Paul's ranking is close enough to mind to make no real difference. #DoctorWho

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It will just add "further research is necessary" to the end of everything it generates.

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One thing that's clear from the end-of-season wrap-ups is that a lot of people liked "Rogue" a lot more than I. It's not that I thought it was bad, it just didn't do very much for me. #DoctorWho

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Furthest I've ever been by latitude and longitude: N and E: Berlin, Germany (52.52º N, 13.41° E) W: San Francisco (122.47º W). I've driven on parts of Hwy 1 that are farther west, but I don't really remember where so I won't count it. S: Key West, Florida (24.556° N)

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This rewards offer from my credit union will be very valuable when I'm at my closest Food Lion grocery store! (In Hopkinsville, Ky., 500+ miles away)

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Community got a shout out in the NYT Games Strands puzzle yesterday

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I saw it at a film festival with no expectations or foreknowledge and really enjoyed it! One of the highlights of the weekend.

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Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit

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I grew up in a town that is home to a prominent, fairly conservative Christian college and at the time was said to have more churches per capita than another place in the US, and even there the Ten Commandments weren't on display in public schools.

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I was pretty active in the TWoP Buffy forum back in the day and I can assure you that in that corner of the fandom, vanishingly few fans appreciated how long and drawn-out the Adam and Glory arcs were. Maybe the Whedonesque or The Bronze fans felt differently.

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Why is my carefully and lovingly crafted animated GIF not moving? If should hold on the marquee and then cut to Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson walking out of the theater and Nelson saying, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title."

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At the risk of painting the residents of your fine state with too broad a brush, I wouldn't rule out it being about the specific holiday being observed.

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I am reluctant to deny someone's lived experience, but this is so out of sync with my own life that I have trouble believing it. Maybe one spam email gets through my provider's filter each week. I've never gotten a phishing attempt by text. The Insta comments I see are legit. No phone scams.

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