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Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

I actually did not expect that I would find such a robust community of mountaineering disaster enthusiasts on social media, a very delightful surprise 😁

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:37 UTC

Also, just a note, not trying to Well Actually you, it's just that I'm a former Minnesotan and I donated to her original campaign, so her garbage streak pisses me off more than other bad Dems do, lol.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:32 UTC

The cool thing about Gallego is that he primaried Sinema on the promise of being super progressive and then once he raised millions and got the nom, he immediately started showing up on these lists of Dems who voted for shitty right wing bills.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

She consistently votes for every shitty right wing bill that any of the conservative democrats end up voting for. She is utter trash.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Well, she did say she liked men she thought would put her in a psych ward 🙃

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 04:32 UTC

how do they reproduct? 🤔

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

At this point, I just wish my friends would give a shit, but I guess it's too much to expect them to care that there are about to be whole states it will no longer safe for me to go to 🫠

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

I don't understand why so many people are taking that comment seriously. That guy doesn't give a shit about the environment, he's just one of the many, many right wing people who spend all day harassing disabled people who still need to care about covid. (Michael's just catching a stray)

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 03:42 UTC

Also, don't feel bad asking! There are lots of folks out there still collecting them. Especially special editions, something I've learned first hand from trying to get my husband a fancy Dune steelbook lol.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 03:39 UTC

For new, Walmart, Target, Gruv. Best Buy just stopped selling them completely. If you don't mind used, eBay. If you're down for a bit of hunting, thrift stores and library friends book sales.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 06:33 UTC

Years ago, a friend of mine told me that a TSA agent OPENED her tampons during a bag search in front of her. The actual wrapping. Not even my own memory and it haunts me.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

I obviously love libraries, but having worked at my public one as a teen, I've thankfully been disabused from thinking of them as magical. Cleaning off the mystery grime from the book drop offs will do that to you 😂

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Lolol, I was just complaining about this! Like, why! How are they SO bad at this!?

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 06:25 UTC

Lol was going to say just this. As an 11-12 yo girl at that time, can confirm we were all obsessing over him for that year between those releases, bare minimum.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

Oh no, after posting this I decided to look up the story to see what happened and he didn't get his blanket 😭 I hate everything

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

I remember reading a story about a prison going to court to fight giving a prisoner a different blanket (he was allergic to the standard one they normally had). Spent something like 30k to fight giving a guy a new 30 dollar blanket. Sheer evil.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 05:04 UTC

when my family still had a betamax (yes lol), the only two kids movies we had for it were The Last Unicorn and Return to Oz. probably why I'm still in therapy.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 20:57 UTC

any wealthy person out there want to give me a few million dollars a year to start up my Pay Sherpas Who Want To Retire nonprofit??? 🙏

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 20:53 UTC

yes!! Pay any sherpa who wants to retire a salary in perpetuity! The obvious negative consequence will be the hiring of less experienced sherpas without more seasoned ones to train them. But! That could also be solved by paying the new ones to retire too. Everything can be solved with money lol.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

climbers: wow, today is a perfect day for summiting, what could go wrong? K2: 😉

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 20:35 UTC

having just recently read No Way Down... ...yes. 🫠

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 20:30 UTC

hard same. the last time I camped was probably in someone's backyard as a kid, and yet between me and my much more adventurous husband, I'm the only one regularly using the term bivouac 😆

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 01:57 UTC

As you can see from the above screenshot, my MSNBC dad is thriving. I've never actually heard him use "Orange Man" before. I thought that was only an online thing, but he's not very online, so I assume they must say it on TV as well? 🤔

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 01:38 UTC

PSA: please check in on your MSNBC boomers. Yesterday's euphoria may have been too much for them. 💜

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

I still can't believe she's paid extra for a photo package, then they took zero photos and still refused to refund her (until she complained on Twitter where they realized she had a big following) 🫠

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 22:39 UTC

I don't understand why they don't already try tailoring any of their solicitations based on people's ages? Why am I, a millennial, getting texts signed by James Carville?? How on earth could they possibly think that's compelling 🫠

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 15:11 UTC

Adding this to my thread in case anyone needs a script

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 13:14 UTC

The short version is "blue slips" are a tradition the parties do for each other while nominating judges and Republicans have been exploiting the process to slow down Dems from getting judges in place: afj.org/to-transform...

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:40 UTC

lol forgot to say these are the other Dem members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. If these are your states, call! I know lots of folks on the left think this type of activity is pointless, but even if it is, people at this level of government should never know a moment's peace until they retire 💜

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:38 UTC

Whitehouse (RI) 202-224-2921 Klobuchar (MN) 202-224-3244 Coons (DE) 202-224-5042 Blumenthal (CT) 202-224-2823 Hirono (HI) 202-224-6361 Booker (NJ) 202-224-3224 Padilla (CA) 202-224-3553 Ossoff (GA) 202-224-3521 Welch (VT) 202-224-4242 Butler (CA) 202-224-3841

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:34 UTC

Senator Durbin is Charmian of the Senate Judiciary Committee and his DC office phone number is 202-224-2152 and the Committee number is 202-224-7703. (Also, feel free to let them know you want them to suspend the blue slips policy, if you want your call to do double duty.)

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

I called Senator Durbin's office earlier this week 🫡, but I will call again b/c of Roberts letter 😤

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 18:52 UTC

That loon is so dope 😻

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

Oh! If you check it out, you are in for a treat (I think, I hope!) It's very short and charming. It's also in the public domain, so free is nice too: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40426

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

gotta be the first time I've ever seen Dear Enemy mentioned anywhere, jean webster deep cuts

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

a bit late to this thread, but as an epistolary obsessive I have to ask, have you read Daddy Long Legs? It's both my favorite in the genre and woefully underappreciated.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

tbf, I don't think I knew Ginny's name until the story came out about her leaving that deranged voicemail for Anita Hill. If Mrs Alito wants to get on that level, she's gonna have to start drunk dialing!

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

I have so many doubles on cozy game steam codes, let me see if I can stream friend you ❤️

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

Like, how am I ever supposed to have friends/community in this life when almost all my options are people who can't be shitted to care literally at all that this is happening to people / to me

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 06:59 UTC

orange boi to the rescue

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 06:47 UTC

Today has been such a horribly awful dog shit day, so seeing this, truly, thank you, you're amazing.

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

Thank you for sharing this, what a lovely idea, I plan on donating later today (commenting to boost, since there is no algorithm here)

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@lumpelstiltskin.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 07:54 UTC

These two were some of those affected last year (I think they designed the cute gender fluid mug) and here's their store: www.campmustelid.shop (their stuff is mostly cute nature themed)

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