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whetstone

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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever.

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dang i gotta challenge some more people

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @purplevoid.bsky.social 2

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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lol i want parties and quests!!

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accept

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @kitchenstaffriot.bsky.social 2

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lol best of 3?

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accept

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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me too! absolutely hilarious. if there’s ever a chance to build parties let’s join up :)

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @kitchenstaffriot.bsky.social 2

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mine too! i figured you have more followers, idk how the ranks work

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whattt that doesn’t seem right

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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @rikibeth.bsky.social 2

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i’m positive i’m going to lose this one but it’s an honor :)

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i finally thought, too late for this year, of a thing within my skillset to offer. next year i will be *ready*

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Shepherd's avatar Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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I am not kidding when I say that Romancing the Vote has out-organized and done more to materially improve conditions in the southeastern US than any explicitly leftist org. Romancelandia ain't here to fuck around.

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cars are very great for people with mobility issues and people carrying really heavy/unwieldy stuff and really bad for society if anybody but those two groups needs to use them regularly glad you’re in a walking place (but not that you’re in a walking place *right now*)

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omg so close to $175k this is such a wonderful, hopeful thing

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some people have never transcribed themselves speaking extemporaneously and it shows i sound barely capable of human speech

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“cop” on her biography might not help much but i think a prosecutor’s instincts might go a long way against this particular opponent personally i don’t want biden replaced but they should put her out front to make the campaign’s case

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Sean Kelly's avatar Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social
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I do know that if there's any ambiguity at all from a legal standpoint it'll end up in front of SCOTUS. Which, you know. Ask Al Gore how that goes.

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i’d like to see publicly funded campaigns for anybody who could gather enough signatures before the primary season. basically reward ground game with access to the ballot, and limit candidates to identical budgets as it is a one day primary would be a coronation for whoever got the big donors’ ears

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if they were all held the same day or week, that “small campaigns can make a name for themselves by campaigning really well in early contests” effect would go away, though

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oh i blocked that one as soon as i checked to see if it was on any of my subscribed lists and it wasn’t

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nope, looks like they’re not in bouie or serwer’s mentions

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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚's avatar ❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚 @tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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All the Joe Biden ads should be "folks, if you vote for me by this Thanksgiving you'll never have to think or hear about Donald Trump ever again" > 300 electoral votes

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The same person has a mutelist of people who respond oddly to Jamelle Bouie, too. Catches all sorts.

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Came for the Flehmen response, stayed for Mike Dunford asking for an email from Spider. I think this one may not go down quite the way that extractive leech of an IP lawyer hopes.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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To begin with, every supposed "centrist" who's yammering for this at the NYT and everywhere else will immediately sandbag any D who might succeed Biden while leaving Trump alone and unscathed.

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like? i do not want the person thinking about a nuclear strike to be in sleep dep

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seems to me that you’d want to facilitate a very well-rested, well-exercised, well-fed president at all times because most of the time there are highly competent staff to do what’s needed & if you hit a crisis that needs long hours, you wouldn’t want the president to be starting from a deficit

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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my mom chose to have me even though the circumstances were extremely far from ideal (she was living in her car when she found out she was pregnant) i have always been very grateful to know that me being here was her free choice i want all parents to choose, and all children to have that same peace

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🔞Neph, Changeling Fucker Surpreme's avatar 🔞Neph, Changeling Fucker Surpreme @nephrastar.bsky.social
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He has arrived.

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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excommunicating the fuckers who won’t respect your duly elected authority because you want to use it on behalf of people they hate, and who have forfeited their right to power because they’re using it to undermine progress, is the energy I wish Democrats would take into the White House JUST ONCE

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i started another recurring donation (had just been ARC but now i figure the fund in colorado is a good choice since we border a bunch of conservative states) highly recommend the set-and-forget donation method, even if it’s not a lot ($5 a month adds up!)

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D is bad at names's avatar D is bad at names @dvosk.bsky.social
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.“ - Rebecca Solnit (1/)

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century

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i would love to read this but a search for “masha gessen authoritarian aesthetics” didn’t pull up anything obviously right. do you happen to have a link?

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81 million people who understood that, had the newly-elected president (not even then a young man) had an aneurysm on his first day in office, she would have served the entirety of his term.

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i get the thinking, that contests in teeny states give less well-funded candidates a way to build momentum and name recognition but ffs why not start in some smallish state with a more multiracial profile at least?

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant.

Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does.

For this reason, hope is what is needed right now.

www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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sometimes the most annoying people in politics can be right. the orange man is indeed bad. if you vote, you shouldn’t vote for republicans under any circumstances, which typically leaves one option

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