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Martha Smith

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More like Aunty Mame every day. Behold fat femme wizardry, bisexual hullabaloo, culinary feats of derring-do, progressive theology, and kitty cats. Probably posting from the bath. Nashville-->Boston-->SF-->OAKLAND BABY


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I do not remember that! 😦

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It's very hot here in the US, that's why we drink water. It's not confusing.

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Not as that it matters, but Americans consume a statistically unremarkable amount of salt vis a vis Europe www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/mag...

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I have ended up marooned on Europeans having opinions about the US tiktok, and it sure is something. Not only are Americans too judgemental about smoking, we only drink water because 1. Our water doesn't have enough minerals to be hydrating or 2. We only eat salty burgers

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Art by Felipe Rodriguez, the award-winning Colombian illustrator and character designer, who works as a freelance artist for TV series and animated feature films: feliperodriguezart.com

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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects.
www.law360.com/securities/a...

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RainSurname's avatar RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty stunning how the billionaire class(and yes that means the legacy media) have completely turned on Biden. They'd rather have a fascist dictatorship than pay taxes and a living wage to employees. Insane power grab in front of the cameras

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see

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Me thinking up Posts

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.

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Thanks largely to Biden and the Democratic party there is now a kind of global race to get to the mass, chear carbon-free energy. We're going to hit peak global emissions (fingers crossed) this year or next. We're deploying solar at a level that blowing away every single prediction.

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Will Stancil's avatar Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social
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This is the fundamental problem we’re facing, with Biden, with Trump, with politics. We spend many hours a day consuming media. But the content of that media is increasingly determined not by WHAT IS TRUE, but by WHAT EARNS AUDIENCE ATTENTION. Factoids are harvested and rebuilt into those stories.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps

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Drake Ghostwriters' Union Local 616's avatar Drake Ghostwriters' Union Local 616 @donachaidh.bsky.social
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Little girls in a stadium full of people rooting for pre-professional women's soccer. Tweens wearing #equalpay shirts. High schoolers seeing themselves as the next ones on this pitch. Women's sports are the future if we don't fuck this up.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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mary🐇's avatar mary🐇 @mary.my.id
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can we put some other ppl as the face of online privacy instead of snowden and assange

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I lived in London at the end of The Troubles; I think that the IRA committing to a peace process with Sinn Féin as their political arm was a great victory all round. That the Tories betrayed the people of Northern Ireland with Brexit should be our great shame, and I am not surprised by this result.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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honestly the people I want to hear from rn are disability theorists

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Bibim Guksu (Korean spicy cold soba noodles) with lettuce, red cabbage, sugar snap peas, cucumber, carrots, corn, scallions, and sesame seeds

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Howard Ashman stan account 's avatar Howard Ashman stan account @michaelchu7.bsky.social
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Jack Quaid is hot and I fear that he is only going to get hotter, also this pic makes me laugh because why did the costume designer decide to make it look like he's swinging around 11 inches of schmeat

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President Tightrhymes's avatar President Tightrhymes @prestightrhymes.bsky.social
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Unpopular fact: Most people who claim to want a viable 3rd party aren’t willing to put in any of the work at the local level to actually build a viable 3rd party from the grassroots up. Voting for a random presidential candidate once every four years isn’t going to do anything.

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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More importantly: We are now less than three hours from the end of the 2024 Romancing the Vote auction!

Will we get to $950,000 total raised over three years? We'll find out soon!

www.32auctions.com/organization...

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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🏳️‍⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime's avatar 🏳️‍⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime @josie.zone
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I just don’t get what the “I can’t bring myself to vote for Biden” people think will happen if their plan comes to fruition. None of them seem to care about The Revolution beyond abstraction, much less have an alternative system to promote. I don’t even see leftists advocating for the Green Party!

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.

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Derek Powazek's avatar Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social
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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.

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Dr. Robin Bond: academic working for nothing this summer 🧪's avatar Dr. Robin Bond: academic working for nothing this summer 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that my worldbuilding consultation on RtV is still at $190, which is under what you'd pay for a regular consult with me.

If your bid goes over the normal consult fee, I'll scale what I'm willing to do accordingly.

www.32auctions.com/organization...

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The White Cat, fairy tales translated by Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess d’Aulnoy in 1698. This version was published in 1847 but unfortunately the illustrator is identified only as “J.W.”

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"flubbed"? He mispoke between a billion and a trillion and corrected himself? That's a flub?

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The.Simpsons.s4e12.Marge.vs.the.Abigail.avi's avatar The.Simpsons.s4e12.Marge.vs.the.Abigail.avi @popeguilty.bsky.social
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My hot take is that conservatives know that nobody wants them and it only makes power hotter for them, the knowledge that they are forcing themselves upon an unwilling public that is powerless to stop them. They don't want everybody to agree with them. They want to force themselves upon us.

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Emily J. Edwards's avatar Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social
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it’s honestly hilarious to me that all of these think tank buffoons (and journalists!) bust their testicles to try to elect a man who would throw them in a deep fryer if it was monetarily beneficial and politically expedient

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It's his pool now. They should bring him a margarita.

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The only creature that needs a vehicle that big is a bear.

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Also moose. North American massive motherfuckers get whatever they want. It's literally the least we can do.

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I feel very strongly that if a bear wants something, we should give it to them. That includes your picnic basket, your pool, and your vacation house at Tahoe.

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford 's avatar Very Very Common Mike Dunford @questauthority.bsky.social
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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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aaand predictably, Sulz has started the anti-Kamala attacks ,guy really thinks he can swing the election to whoever won't raise his taxes, this POS needs to be put back in place the American people ASAP

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