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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 58m

"Everybody's all like 'Don't play with dead things' and 'don't use that chainsaw on the whale' and 'don't do heroin' and you know, they're just like Mao."

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 22h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

The likelihood that the DSCC was involved in this hit piece being published is not zero, which I say as someone who worked comms for a non-establishment Democratic congressional candidate and had to resign because the DCCC planted a similar hit piece on me in our local paper to hurt the candidate.

CNN
@cnn.com
A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising
Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a
"communist," dismissed "all" police as bastards, and said rural White Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. cnn.it/47sXon6
[photo of Graham Platner]

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 6h

A special kind of audacity

4 frame comic. Someone with a mic is doing a voxpop in the street and approaches a man with a black shirt and a baseball cap. He asks him : sir! do you think kids
should have their whole
life destroyed because of
some silly posts they
made on social media?

The man replies :
I guess
it depends
who we're
talking
about.
are we talking about foreign
students having their visa
revoked for making a single post
citing literal quotes from the
president's favourite racist
and transphobic podcaster?
or are we talking about a
bunch of 24 to 35 year olds
holding positions of power
advocating for gas chambers
and praising german fascists
over a period of 6 months?
also, it takes a special kind of
audacity for a v.p. who advocated
for mass firings of people over
their posts about charlie kirk to
go on the charlie kirk show and
claim that adults who are practi-
cally the same age as him are
too young to face consequences
for their violent rhetoric.

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Phil Fletcher @philfletcher.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s a bit of #behindthescenes fun with Hacker T.Dog at last nights fab gig Pryzm Brighton

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 6h

I really hate that the "we need to get weirder and make weirder art!!!" got adopted by people who morally panic over a pup hood being worn at pride/furry convention and or harass artists offline for...making weird art?

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 8h

No. As a general rule, I reserve top third for type and the publisher handles the rest. We dedicated a newsletter to the topic recently if you'd like a more detail on that:

theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/setting-type

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 8h

Generally yes, but don't think this time. Been doing the work of 1.7 people these last few weeks, and think I'm gonna make the call for today.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

In today's least surprising news

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 9h

The sad thing is that it's generally not even a money thing, it's just stubbornness. Same with the AC.

Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 10h

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=415I...

Baby Driver - "This Is A Halloween Mask!" Scene

YouTube video by FelixB

www.youtube.com

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夏朱優衣イラストレーター @natsukayui.bsky.social · 9h

デザートは別腹なの！

#漫画が読めるハッシュタグ

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💫Kiora~ @kioraofmyst.bsky.social · 1d

Taking applications for people to do hag stuff with.

Comic cred: cassandracalin.tumblr.com

Comic by https://cassandracalin.tumblr.com

Comic features a person who receives a text asking to hag out but was a typo to hang out. Person replies no let’s actually hag out and the final panel shows two people dressed like witches (hags)mixing things into a cauldron.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 9h

Happiest of Birthdays, Roxi!

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 18h

Me: You know, I read Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, most of his short stories, but I never read Twain's "Connecticut Yankee" as a kid. Saw plenty of media derived from it, though.

Chapter 7: So, this is why the Catholic Church is evil.

Me: Aaaaah. There we go. Good on you, Clements.

Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to Nick Offerman reading "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

"It's been three days, and these people have never heard of coffee, tea, or tobacco."

Me: oh God, the DTs would be horrible.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 18h

"Bring your child to work day" going horribly wrong.

Skipai Otter @skipai.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, this was a really bad thing to do, also put said doctor and employer, aka hospital in a really bad situation with no insurance for said unauthorised personnel in said operating theatre.

Surgeon should lose licence.

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Brain surgeon arrested after 'letting daughter drill into patient's skull'

The neurosurgeon and doctor appeared at Graz-East District Court on Tuesday, both pleading not guilty to minor bodily harm following the incident that allegedly unfolded last year

www.dailystar.co.uk

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 19h

Had a Jackfruit BBQ sandwich that was heavenly.

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M-AAAH!!!-tty 👻 @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 23h

mArGarEt ThAtChEr SaiD…!

Who gives a fuck what the public urinal said? With the power of hindsight, we can now determine that Reagan and Thatcher’s economic policies have been unmitigated disasters for the vast majority of their citizens.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.”

🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 19h

Reps?

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 23h

The problem with vegetarian options where I live is that 90% of them are super phoned-in. Seriously, most of them are just some shredded carrots in a tortilla that hasn't been seasoned, nor cooked, nor sauced.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 19h

As a carnivore that tries their best to accommodate their veggie friends and lovers, you're damned right on that.

Restaurants, there is more to vegetarian than salad, cheese, and tofu.

That said, have been to steak joints that do a mean portobello burger.

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Duhveed @duh--veed.bsky.social · 1d

Years of scientific studies have shown that these are the different types of yeens there are. Both Triangle Ones and Raisins can be more wimpish or wompa.

A wimpy-wompa is a perfect in-between.
There might be ones that fall outside of this spectrum, expect more info from respected sources soon.

Scientific chart of the hyena (yeen) spectrum. From wimpy to wompa. Theres also raisins and triangle ones.

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Alex @alexdz.bsky.social · 1d

"Why do people get upset with remakes? It's not like they replace the originals"

Capcom execs: We replaced the original games, why re-release them?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 20h

Arriving to the battlefield in your pee-stained colours.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 23h

A coat of arms has to be impressive, full of symbolism, it's important, it represents an powerful family or person, so you have to think long and hard about its design and take it very seriously.

Or just put some underpants on it.
Like Lord Jan van Abbenbroeck did;

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Gildedtongue @gildedtongue.bsky.social · 21h

Stan Sakai rarely was one to sugar coat things.

Leina @bowsette.bsky.social · 22h

Jeez, this Usagi Yojimbo story I'm reading, about how those in power sought to pervert the teachings of the Bible to further their propaganda, feels frighteningly on-point.

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