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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 2h

makes me want to form a cross-disciplinary squad of Dedicated Haters to bitch about the genre

joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 2h

I had hair down to my ass for a while and it was *phenomenally* heavy - also I kept sitting on it accidentally. I have much less hair + half my head shaved now.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 4h

I have had exactly one of these, and it was only possible because I was unemployed and my partner could not mess with my packing before I ran the washer.

(he is a chaos gremlin who will MOVE THINGS to maximize chaos because being orderly is 'wasting space' to his mind)

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7h

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting that they lived apart: all the situations I've seen where the women knew about each other were polygamy compound situations (or became them)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h

wait W H A T

the fucking Trump annex is going to be BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE REST OF THE WHITE HOUSE???

next4d2l.bsky.social @next4d2l.bsky.social · 10h

Grossly huge. Vaughn Hillyard reported on Dateline White House that the completed structure of the ballroom alone is set to be 9K square feet. Which is materially larger than the size that the entire White House was yesterday.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 10h

yeah i mean he's basically like 'look i am a 46 year old man, i am several decades too old for this shit. also i have a partner i like to spend time with and [redacted] and if i'm working 9-9-6 i'm doing a whole hell of a lot less of that'

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 11h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 11h

they want to SA their interns, not poop themselves to death because we've gutted the FDA

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 11h

big 'trying to make fetch happen' energy

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 11h

i am more in tune with the sv tech scene than uh, most people given my physical proximity and computer-based employment, but i have literally never heard of this shit

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 11h

companies my partner talks to keep trying to sell him on this and i always visualize the conversation like so:

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 11h

"we have a new ai company"

*look inside*

it's just chatgpt wearing a moustache

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 17h

I have found an EXCELLENT meme for the church history lecture on Wednesday (which includes the Great Schism)

Pope Francis looks repelled by a diagram of the Orthodox theological position that the Son and the Spirit both proceed from the Father alone.

In a second image, Pope Francis points approvingly at a diagram of the Filioque, in which the Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son together.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 12h

i, physically in san francisco and knower of many ladies both in and out of tech, have never fucking heard of this

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 12h

or a man would just have a whole ass other family across city/the county/the country (depending on feasibility of travel) without the intention of getting a divorce. i think the most i've seen irl is 3 simultaneous families, btw.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 12h

bitch that is MY HOUSE

(it is also the rest of america's house)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

Tens of millions of people are set to lose food stamps in weeks and conservatives are celebrating it right in the open on social media. They’re gleeful about starving children, literally saying “fuck them kids.” Yet another reason that “pro-life” is a misnomer. They’re loudly pro-death

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 15h

i am a professional people-looker-atter, and probably the main thing that is missed by folks is that people actually have quite a bit of consistency within the rules of their own universe, it's just that they are probably inhabiting a wildly different universe than you are.

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