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Shiv Ramdas

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Storyteller. Ignyte, Nebula, Hugo finalist. Work in
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CHOAM Nomsky đź’­'s avatar CHOAM Nomsky đź’­ @thielman.bsky.social
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I'm just like... not even remotely prepared to concede that Donald Trump winning in November is a foregone conclusion.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Not nearly same level as that Banger but Archie comics spent decades referencing the band The Archie's and their Billboard no. 1 hit Sugar, Sugar and got so many fans writing in to ask where to get the song that they created a studio band called the Archies, released Sugar Sugar and it went to No. 1

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again” is the most telling line here. They find all this boring I guess.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Gonna be an 88 win team till die aren't we

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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You could talk me into Kamala very easily but yeah the idea is kinda tactical suicide barring a public health thing

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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All I want is a world where Nintendo runs the Mariners the way it does Nntendo

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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"Balance" means printing obvious Republican lies about Biden and also printing obvious Republican lies about what Republicans think.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Me knowing the Conservatives are about to get decimated while the next PM of Britain is going to be a shaved stoat

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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The greatest biryani place in the world says to every customer that if you need anything else with the biriyani the cook has failed

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Ahh I see what you mean. Thank you for clarifying.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Saw a rerun of this as a kid and for some reason the shot where they bite a kid on the ass is imprinted in my brain for life

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Which is fine too, I am happy to do confrontation, just checking to see if that is what you meant to do first

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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What you're sharing makes it worse if it reads the way it - now the disease is back thanks to that family from abroad. Not sure why lapse of time is considered a factor in whether to care about it or anything else is though. this weird "get upset" syntax makes your response feel confrontational

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Ahhhh youre here finally!!

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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All of you liking this owe me an apology and a confession that yo are only here for the politics

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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My entire presence on this site is proof of the exact opposite of this, nobody follows me for politics, they just put up with it because of the other stuff

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"I like beer and mass murder"

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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This is actually a great breakdown because it actually gives you a group by group single frame shot of levels of collaboration with the far right across different ideologies

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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If your garland weighs less than you,do, you are an irrelevant politician

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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They really meant it when they said they wanted to go back to traditional European values huh

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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"When Daniels was asked if she feared Trump returning to the White House, she envisioned him trying to make an example of her. She suggested his followers may be “more bold” in the future because they could perhaps obtain a presidential pardon from him for any illegal acts."

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Way too many companies are making really really foolish decisions because they either are run by people way too deep into the culture war, or more likely, people who even more foolishly believe they can Musk their way to profit but that only works for one guy, and his companies are going broke so

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Pundits: Trump would never try to assassinate a political rival Trump: Hang Mike Pence

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Alito probably faps to this

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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its also better viewed as a statement on capitalism than art value. You have the investor class who expect to get whatever they want because of their wallet whenever they want and and he gathered them in a place to publicly be told No. Profundity is not the only metric that we need use here.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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as as act of pettiness it is art though

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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what if that plant is belladonna

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Banksy is the kinda figure I'd have loved to get deep into and spend weeks researching except doing any of that kinda defeats whats so interesting about the figure in the first place, master pysch job

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I want you to say the sentence "I live in the 21st century and there has been a public figure doing public things for nearly 20 years who constantly makes news and we have literally no idea about anything at all about them" and think about what you just said

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Banksy is remarkable and I don't mean art or even this, but the guy/gal/person has legit just stayed anon after decades in the public eye in an age where every clown with a phone cam is out trying to Sherlock their day away, genuinely just remarkable to manage.

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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot's avatar Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social
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Banksy-funded migrant rescue boat detained in Italy after saving 37 people

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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dude where have you been all my online life me2 is one of the 5 best games ever made period end of story

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I have no idea, last week he wanted to be a dinosaur, 3 weeks ago he was a robot

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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OH GOD THIS IS GOING IN THANK YOU

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I decided to buy the chiddler an aquarium tank. It will not contain fish. However, I have no intention of letting his mother know that last part. Neph and I will collab on letting her think piranha is coming. He will love that. win-win. Send your parenting queries via dm(pls don't actually send)

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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not touching that idea with a bargepole one day he will be stronger than I but he will never forgive

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Excellent idea, will look into it or at least a donation of some sort

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I am being threatened by my family to under no circumstances buy my nephew a piranha for his birthday like he is demanding and I wasn't really going to but I do not respond well to peer pressure so

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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The Hobbit is not a movie it is a psy op by people who hate movies and also other people

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Dr Blake isnt the one being talked about though. The main clue being I've actually watched the show and Craig Hall plays a cop

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