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Nasty, brutish, and short.

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Merge two films: The Mission: Impossible

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This one is written on my protest sign.

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Joke's on you, since nyone buying one of those clearly has a humiliation fetish.

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Let him be cremated so he can go out the way he lived: making the air hotter and smokier.

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Resisting the urge to make a Dr Cannard is a *quack* joke. Not enough francophones on this site yet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard

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The lesson from France is that sometimes you have to hold your nose to defeat fascism. You can't beat it with your own ideological purity.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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The French left has been in disarray for a few years. The last Socialist leader was very New Labour-y and pulled the party to the centre, alienating everyone and causing the left to splinter. I guess the dour tone is from the assumption they won't be able to cooperate or coordinate.

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France voted in a left wing bloc instead of the fascist nepo baby in the photo.

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Or using them to grab your ankle to pretend it’s compound fractured when it was barely nudged.

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This is so dumb but I concede the WHO’S! A! GOOD! BOY! 👏👏👏👏👏 chant was exquisite.

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Just sucks to see him handed the chance to make sweeping changes knowing he’s a do-nothing who leans right.

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Yes and no. Starmer is basically John Tory. The worst possible man on whom to waste a majority.

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THANK YOU! I was sitting here stewing over the omission.

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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈's avatar David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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Trump and Biden were neck and neck before last night. If Trump gets in, your silver lining won’t be very silvery at all.

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I always loved The Outsiders: “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.“

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TIRED: writers hate writing, but they love having written WIRED: corporations hate making content, but they REALLY hate having made content

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What a year you're having. My sympathies, Kate. Hope the second half is full of joy and good health to you and all in your orbit.

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Pretty sure the LAPD think one Black person is enough to qualify as a protest.

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I’m a fan, but was there really nothing else that deserved these column inches? Democracy dies in a dancing-boyfriend article.

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Silly question if you’ve been conscious since 2016. Things can always get worse!

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My Scottish cousins made fun of me for taking my shoes off every time I walked in their houses.

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As a Canadian I get the ick even seeing people do that on TV. It’s such a social faux pas here.

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If you’d ever watched a hockey game you’d have called them that years ago. *Two minutes for slashing*

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Rebecca Gardner is now banned from entering Canada. SORRY.

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I copy pasted it five times, just to drive the message home! (And fill the character box.)

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No property taxes collected in that city! Plenty of sectarian grumbling, though.

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A palette of jewel tones in the backyard this week. Amber, ruby, sapphire, emerald, citrine.

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Had to resist the temptation to write it as S****-H*****.

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Shoutout to all my fellow nerds who read Dave Barry Slept Here as a tween and have never been able to see the names Smoot-Hawley since without collapsing into gales of laughter.

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Amazing news, though it’s tinged with sadness thinking of how many people died before this scientific miracle could be developed.

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I had a guard at the Vatican Museum approach me in front of the Martyrdom of St Erasmus and ask to borrow my Italian/English dictionary. He flipped through it and handed it back to me, kissing his fingers and nodding at the painting. His finger was pointing to the word "Tripe", haha.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)'s avatar Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @plutopsyche.nicomaramckay.com
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I wouldn't have been able to complete my master's in history under covid lockdowns without the Internet Archive's collection. The Internet Archive pays for books the books it copies and makes them accessible to people who could not otherwise read them. Support their work. Sign the petition. Thanks.

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