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I am a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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we do not have to tolerate this shit

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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reposting with alt text

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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My "I love (but do not eat) dogs" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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If you don't like Robert Frank's *The Americans* (1958,) then we can't be friends.

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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Both abortion cases were punts, not vindications. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
www.jezebel.com/these-are-no...

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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If Biden were to drop out and then trump were to lose an election to <candidate X> then the conclusion is the same.

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Climate News's avatar Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social
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A brief history of self-regulation

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Seriously. Change the filibuster (again) and then expand the court. Just fucking do it.

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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If you like to learn about the universe in ~5 minute videos, check out my new series!

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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With Trump off Twitter and speaking just to his most diehard fans by tin can and Truth Social, most people have no idea or have blocked out what a--pardon my English--bloody maniac he is. They don't get that he will replace the government with, essentially, Proud Boy suck-ups who learned to blog.

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Jeramy Neugin 's avatar Jeramy Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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CNN: CEO Trump donor ABC: CEO Trump donor CBS: CEO Trump donor NBC: CEO Trump donor MSNBC: CEO Trump donor Washington Post: owner Jeff Bezos Wall Street Journal: Owner: Rupert Murdoch New York Post: Owner: Rupert Murdoch New York Times: CEO Trump donor.

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Ardent Freedom Atheist ⚛ 👨 🧍‍♂️'s avatar Ardent Freedom Atheist ⚛ 👨 🧍‍♂️ @potatoe.bsky.social
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Damn right... 😏

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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Only the near enemy has agency.

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Roly 's avatar Roly @rolyh.bsky.social
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Here’s a photo I took one early morning a little while ago that I particularly liked, a runner along the canal towpath near the village of Whatstandwell, Derbyshire 🌱😊

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jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️ @threnody.bsky.social
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i drop this when folks are clicking to read a performatively bad take by a fascist in the new york times. 1—that’ll make it the best performing piece of the day 2—guy writes for national review—the mag william f buckley founded 3—i know you like wordle, but the nyt has always been like this

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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SCOTUS has granted trump, and trump specifically, a kingdom. this isn’t even in question. if trump wins, or trump seizes the presidency, we — all of us, you and i and everyone we know — we live in a different country that we do not know and will have to learn how to understand.

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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The most powerful person in Mississippi is playing the fucking victim. He's throwing a temper fit because power got called out for stealing from the poor.

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This fucker was chosen by ghwb to take Thurgood Marshall's seat.

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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I had a good day. Went down to Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA to pick up a tarot deck that I had ordered a while ago. There was a Pride Festival going on. Unplanned joy.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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as much as i think that debate was bad for biden i also find myself contemptuous of the assorted libs having a full blown panic attack

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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The only reason I refrain from calling bullshit is that I am nigh on 60 now and I've met a lot of really stupid people in positions of authority. Positions that they shouldn't have. Just because my dumbass coach made me hydrate doesn't mean there isn't a dumbass coach who does the opposite.

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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Yeah, I played in SATX back when salt pills were still a thing (pre-sports-drink era.) Coaches were tough, but they made us drink water. Controlled so we wouldn't puke it right back up, but we had to drink water.

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I was an inside linebacker in HS in TX (this was before water was considered 'woke' by coaches, so I was properly hydrated. I just had multiple concussions.) Both my kids do/did performing arts in HS (not in TX.) And I 100% agree with you. I am so fucking proud of them.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The one constant in my conversations about “Project 2025” is that almost everyone is taken aback by what’s in these plans, even people who really pay attention to politics - if not by how radical it is, then by how far-reaching, detailed, and aggressively explicit it is.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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This is why mask bans are suddenly being proposed. If you’re in a place where that’s happening and you think we should prioritize public and personal health and freedom over expanding the powers of the police state then please do let your representatives know why the freedom to mask matters to you

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Nick Mitchener's avatar Nick Mitchener @crossjack.bsky.social
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On the anniversary of the death of Ernest Walton who with Sir John Cockcroft made the first high voltage supply to accelerate particles, here is my fruit bowl accelerator. I made it this morning and powered it with my diddy cockcroft walton. 🧪

youtu.be/uiSBME7u8bM?...

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pennica's avatar pennica @pennica.bsky.social
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Student: What was the earliest indicator of civilization that you've seen? Margaret Mead: A healed broken femur, you see... Starmer: The injured accepting care while they heal lacks the dignity of them fending for themselves!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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these things aren’t just embarrassing for the owner, they’re a danger to everyone else on the road, but even if it were only the former, dropping $100K on a vehicle that becomes undrivable within 24 hours and takes a year to repair is not a product which should be sellable by any american company

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Robert McNees's avatar Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social
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Mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, who established the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, was born #OTD in 1912.

Turing’s work helped make it possible for you to read this. 🧪 💻

Image: The Guardian

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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The main reason I've never bought into "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" is that reproductive labor is basically impossible to automate but the other flaw is capital will invent entirely new means of exploitation before it concedes the need for things like guaranteed income

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