Leah Shaffer

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...

www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:58 UTC

It's ok to interact with bison as long as it's a respectful distance behind two fences. Seriously. They added a second one since people kept climbing the first

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:35 UTC

Drop the most powerful image from your gallery with no explanation.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

Learn something new everyday

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

Glad you emerged relatively unscathed, fandom is a hell of a drug. You're like that social smoker who can have a couple cigs at a party but not get addicted. I think romance fandom is generally respectful if you treat me nice.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:07 UTC

KS supreme court routinely saves KS from its worse legislators. Let's follow their lead.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Merry July 5, #America'sHangover. On this holiday, somebody shows up with donuts and we blearily step outside to clean up the messes of last night or perhaps the last 30 years. I am bringing the donuts, let's get to it.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 19:48 UTC

Just give it to Kamala dude. There's nothing wrong with admitting that your elderly self is not up for what will be a knife fight for the ages.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

That kid is getting his ass kicked in the lunch room

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

All I remember is I definitely had a crush on David and somebody singing about being King of New York, anyways, I am glad it was made.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

I admit to adoring batshit sci-fi horror, so if Tamsin Muir and Jason Pargin had a baby...

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

I think Rick Riordan is a nice guy who helps other writers, um, (checks notes) um Jeff Van De Meer seems like a mensch. Shit, now I am depressed.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

This is sadly probably more realistic at this point than the story of the world working together to save him. :(

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

The ego will do all sorts of batshit stuff to protect itself and its embedded worldview. Tough to have our caveman brain (and immune system) in the modern world.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

To is a good day to get chickens. They are adorable garbage disposals you can feed scraps to and recycle those scraps into eggs.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

They've added feathers to the animatronic velociraptors and now they are adorable Jim Henson Muppets. It makes cute growling noise like my chickens. 🐔🦖

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

I too like to celebrate America with anxiety attack

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

It me

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

Since the media is sort of gnawing its own leg off with presidential conjecture, I suggest we focus on breaking cat news this week.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

I also try to support my body's "burn it down" method for fighting flu but yeah, a little tylenol probably wouldn't hurt

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:18 UTC

The people who have certainty are usually the loudest but much of us have no clue on how best this election should play out. Currently waiting/hoping for some form of new chaos to save or wipe the playing field in an advantageous way.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

I feel this way about dumb shark movies, they cleanse the soul and Jason Statham probably factors way too much into my mental wellness.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:04 UTC

No thoughts, only bad vibes :(

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

shit, goddamn it, can we get atleast one famous author dude who is not a shithead? Rick Riordan is still a really nice guy who helps other authors right?

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:41 UTC

I would like her paired with Liz Cheney so we can get ultimate Girlboss Sauron.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

My hometown was legit wild west so the original town main is littered with plaques describing gun fights, atrocities and various digressions about how "somebody looked at Bill Hickok funny and he shot em dead and the judge was just like, 'meh' it's fine'"

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:09 UTC

Yeah, pretty much

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

#Climate journalists, this is about hacking E. Coli to make us useful materials. It's about fermenting our way to a carbon neutral economy and future. 🧪 #SciNews

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:33 UTC

She done broken, broken long ago, I do think the social web broke more than a few brains. Her trauma and anger all got rewired and went on the fritz.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Just wrote down the phrase "fingering the troposphere," so, you know, I'm learning.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:13 UTC

The less I know about a subject the more ridiculous my analogies. Trying to write about atmospheric chemistry, I write, "researchers have found a new churn for our particle butter" I can make it work. 🧪🌦️

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