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Hollywoodland Multimedia Designer • Writer • Painter Manifesto: All that glitters, has a high refractive index. Now get thee down, and be thou funky.


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Mt Pleasant's avatar Mt Pleasant @jekllnnhide.bsky.social
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they should perhaps turn their attention to the gibberish that has come out of Rump in the last couple months. He has genuinely seemed to be high on drugs, or have significant dementia. Jesus with this bullshit.

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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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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batkaren's avatar batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social
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Stop doing things for shits and giggles. You’re just making the Shits and Giggles Fairy stronger. Hungrier…

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Kim Shumway's avatar Kim Shumway @kimshum.bsky.social
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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

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Andrew D Thaler's avatar Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.

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Woodrow Peel                     🆗🆒's avatar Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social
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BAD NEWS: Lee Greenwood saw his shadow. We’re going to have 6 more days of fireworks.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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WOW Reminder: Olympus Mons is vast. It's 22 km high (over twice as tall as Everest) and *600* wide.

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batkaren's avatar batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social
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‘Dark and brooding, Heathcliff stared across the misty moors and muttered, “I hate Mondays, but damn I love lasagna.”’ Emily crumpled up the paper. No. Something just wasn’t working.

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Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦's avatar Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social
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Needed out over some satellite maps and picked a great spot to watch the show! My nerdery again comes in handy 🇺🇸

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Criag's avatar Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social
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I went home to Oklahoma and my dad's neighborhood now has a roundabout. I commented "how European of you", and he made me get out of the car.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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How I picture your second most difficult aunt, whilst wearing her Sunday morning church finery.

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Babsmageddon's avatar Babsmageddon @babssignal.bsky.social
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I picture her like this, if that's all right.

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Michael Jay McClure's avatar Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social
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Server: May I take your dri— Second Most Difficult Aunt: Tell me about the ice. Server: ? SMDA: tray or pick? Server: ? SMDA: Formed. By. Tray. Or. Pick. Server: A machi— SMDA: Chilled tea no ice Server: & for y— MJM: Champagne Server: GREAT choice SMDA (looking at menu):🎶I can hear you🎶

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Woodrow Peel                     🆗🆒's avatar Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social
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“𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦”🇺🇸

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David Mack's avatar David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social
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If SNP loses Marzipan & Wensleydale, all hell will break loose.

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Kurt Busiek's avatar Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social
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Labour has gained the Paisley seat! And has also gained Lothian East! Labour holds Narnia! And Argyle! Numbers coming in soon from Treacletart!

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Given his weird fetish for actually setting off a nuclear weapon (which he’s had since he met Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin in 1986 — yes, his Russian contacts go back that far), frankly, it’s not hyperbole. And the Supreme Court just basically said mass murder is cool so long as it’s “official.”

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Sunny Moraine's avatar Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
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Being real, there is a significantly non-zero chance that NONE of us will survive a second Trump administration and I promise you that is not nearly the hyperbole it might sound like

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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"you will outlive them" my guy thousands of people will not. Alito and Thomas already have blood on their hands after overturning Roe. Not everyone they have harmed has lived. Not everyone will live. They are killing people right now, today.

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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It's harder to count victims of cuts to the social safety net but they're out there, too. They sickened and or died of stress related and treatable chronic illness they could not afford to treat that was exacerbated by constant precarity.

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Like... "you will outlive trump and Thomas and alito" buddy are you sure about that cause there's tens of thousands of victims of trumps shitty handling of covid who who would argue that point except they're dead. They did not live through his administration.

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David Mack's avatar David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social
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The likelihood of that outcome decreases markedly if Trump wins the election and ships me and millions of others off to concentration camps. So maybe skip the “silver lining” horseshit and just vote Blue no matter who this November.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Are they aware they can hang both? Because… freedom.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Well the Chaliburn sword is still English, but the French poet Wace’s translation of Geoffrey’s story of Arthur into Old French, is… French. This entire thing is a saga of French appropriation of English legends.

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𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧's avatar 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 @bretbatson.bsky.social
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As it turns out, they do not serve breakfast all day. So, my hunt for flapjacks persists.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Be sure to use the weirdest substance imaginable as paper. If you’re already going whole ham, make it out of dyed pigskin that glows in ultraviolet light, reinforced with spider web silk threads. Then store it someplace odd. Like the mystical basement freezer of the Baskin-Robbins in suburban Fargo.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Way to go, rando Hollywood AirBnB “guests” from elsewhere, you’ve now made me tired of fireworks. The dogs in my building are so terrified, and it’s pissing me off.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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What’s stupid (and frankly, unnecessary) is needless chaos at the convention like what occurred in 1968, and led to Nixon winning. Something the Republicans tried to get us to do, when they were lying about Hillary’s health at THIS EXACT SAME TIME during her run for the presidency.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Those of us who wanted Kamala Harris to begin with in 2020, knew we were voting for her anyway. We’ve already been here for four years. Welcome to the party. Vote for Biden and we’ll have her for another 4 years, AND the next 8 after that.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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When you vote for Biden, you’re voting for her anyway. That’s what these racist douchecanoes are worried about in the first place. This shit has nothing to do with Biden’s age (who’s mic volume was intentionally lowered, btw), it’s got everything to do with her race and sex.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Here’s the pull quote: A host of biological changes underpin ME/CFS. "It's a systemic disease," Nath continued, "and the people living with it deserve to have their experiences taken seriously."

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦's avatar Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social
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Smokey Robinson, 84, killing it at A Capitol Fourth. Or as the New York Times, Economist & Washington Post would say - give him a walker and get him out of here.

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Karen K. Ho's avatar Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social
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He is not happy, but at least I have prepared him for the fireworks tonight

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Jake_Vig's avatar Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social
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Trees make blood-curdling screams when they fall in a forest, fyi.

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David S. Bernstein 's avatar David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social
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Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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kim's avatar kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social
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the stars on the american flag represent the number of movies Samuel L Jackson did in 2004

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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What’s hilarious is the he probably still thinks he’s relevant. Nobody gives even the slightest of shits what he thinks.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Perk up (somewhat). It’s also VERY likely that 90% of these responses are from conflict bots, not actual humans who truly misunderstood the research. The biggest problem Twitter has now, is with shear detritus. It’s a porn bot and conflict bot fest.

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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What has Biden done for America? Every single dot on this map, is an infrastructure improvement project, established by Biden: -Semiconductors & Electronics -EVs & Batteries -Clean Energy Manufacturing -Biomanufacturing -Heavy Industry -Clean Power -Climate Resilience -Roads & Transportation

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swirlOsquirrel's avatar swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
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Cool. Now do William Barr. Barr seriously needs to be disbarred.

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Viktor Winetrout's avatar Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
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The next James Bond should be weird. Like he wears welding goggles and he’s afraid of balloons

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Paul Krugman's avatar Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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I haven’t been paying as much attention as usual to inflation indicators. But we’ve been getting a string of good news.   One source of inflation pessimism was the high ratio of job openings to unemployed workers. That issue has now gone away, with unemployment still very low 1/

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The Spaceshipper 🚀's avatar The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.bsky.social
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Knowhere, art by Pete Thompson

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