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Retired. Widower. Formerly "that FC with the voice." Still one of the most ancient shitposters on the internet, though.

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Technically, Los Angeles is part of Sydney harbor.

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..so, Sunless, but in first person.

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Read my latest, which has prompted three men to angrily email me:

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Today’s my birthday, and if you’d like to do something encouraging for me, please subscribe to and/or tell your friends about my newsletter, The Bugbear Dispatch!

I write about the impact of authoritarian evangelicalism on individuals and society, among other things

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else

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I do believe in the Great Pumpkin, I *do*!

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so much of Korean cinema's stylized violence and horror stems from having been censored until the late 90s/early 00s while also dealing with barely processed trauma responses from the Japanese occupation, the war, dictatorships, suffering under imperialism, and then rampant destructive capitalism

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I'm sorry, why are you showing us the cantina from Mos Eisley

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it's true, everyone knows that lips are measured by length. It should be km.

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d4 smooch. That's the upper limit, I think. All of the further Platonic solids have pairs of non-contiguous faces, or sets of lips for this case, so they wouldn't all be touching all the others anymore even if you could mash, like, twenty peoples' heads together that closely.

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Ohh, Costco. Of course. Costco has more of EVERYTHING.

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I'm having an existential crisis now because somehow I remember using spell-check in WordPerfect, which would'a been 1989 or so?

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Nah, never will. It's *really* decentralized. Anyway the science fiction shop is a nice little place.

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Tbf I also like posting stuff without having to write out content warnings for things like “eye contact” and “clouds.”

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I've looked at clouds from both sides now, and those things are fucking scary.

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I have also seen lewds of Boldor. Of course it was a furry artist that did it.

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A niche, a slot, an orifice... always something.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧'s avatar Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social
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Daphne Gottlieb is one of my favorite people, and a wonderful queer writer/performer who has rocked my world on many occasions. She recently had a costly, annoying battle over the rights to one of her books and she needs help recouping the costs. Please give/share!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-daphn...

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Director, Basque Space Program's avatar Director, Basque Space Program @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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Kevin Roberts just literally threatened to ignite a hideous civil war

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🥺 wizard all burned out but still doing her best

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Ask it what species of cisticola that was.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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someone on Twitter pointed out that the NYT to Biden at this point is exactly Piers morgan to meghan markle- a pompous legacy media figure that has reacted to being rejected by someone they were sure would want them like a deranged stalker bent on revenge at any cost

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Or the classic "jail or the army." Not as common as it used to be because of how weird the US has gotten about drug charges, but I do know at least one person..

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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

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One of my greatest delights was getting to interview Julie Peters, a trans woman who kept a growing personal archive of queer history in Australia and in turn became a vital source of trans history in Australia.

Be your own archivist. Shape history.

www.thecurb.com.au/julie-peters...

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Because the headline would be "Biden Too Weak to Stand Unsupported." The Times and the Post, CNN and Sinclair, have a Narrative, and they're going to stick with it.

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The head of Bluesky T&S is @aaron.bsky.team. He's doing a great job and has my complete confidence! He also is doing an extremely hard job and has 15,000 priorities at any given moment, and every time he tries to explain things people collectively lose their shit at him.

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Yeah, that's a reason to have SOME kind of labeler going on, not for big one vs. small one or whatever. Doesn't matter so much what kind, just make sure you're wearing shoes when you play outside.

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The other issue with that is that it makes it practical to be a shithead at scale. If I can make a new account and go to a big account's mentions and get 10000 people to block me as individuals, I've just wasted 50000 seconds (about 18 person-hours) of my enemies' time. I win!

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They're both found dead in the green room at the next debate, knives plunged into each others' vitals

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I'm talking to Sammie about election law

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As my comrade Cheryl Rivera has correctly written: “There is no resistance to capitalism that has not been met with batons.” If you don't deal with policing, policing will deal with you.

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They could have gone with "Parents Ignorant about Bad Books," and then been "Mr. PIBB" for short.

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Easy to catch, difficult to survive catching them.

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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In 2000, Virginia requested the return of their colours. Then-governor Jesse Ventura replied simply: “Why? I mean, we won.” Repeated calls in 2002, 2003, 2010 and in 2013 for the 150th anniversary have led to the same reply. Minnesota remembers its own. /END

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I've seen Sickles' leg at Walter Reed. He used to toast it on the anniversary of its loss. Bit of shame the shell didn't hit him in the head.

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The Court's immunity ruling is, I think, usefully understood to be a continuance of the putsch from 2000, which put Shrub in power. Notice how many of the current Justices had some hand in it. We memory-holed the Brooks Brothers riot, but that was a clear warning we should have heeded.

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I don't think she knows what France is.

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Haven't read Rakesfall yet, but ETIKtE is very good.

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Doctora Malka Older's avatar Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social
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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

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We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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I vaguely thought about Scotland once, about 30 years back. Grandparents were from there, I had valuable skills, they claimed to be desperate for people... nope, disabled kid. Perhaps if I had quietly drowned my entire family.

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