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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards. In the pocket of Big Dame. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 18d

I'm telling myself this is the bit where it looks as if all is lost but the heroes persevere.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 12m

While I am on this tack, the hospital where my Mom had her appointment had all these purple flags outside for people who'd died of opioid overdoses & I'm sure their hearts are in the right place but it's like Wendy's having a display to remember victims of clogged arteries.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 14m

Where's the Drugdash guy who cuts corners when you need him?

Wall Street Journal headline saying "Three New Yorkers Ordered Cocaine from the Same Delivery Service. All Died from Fentanyl."

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 19m

If drug abuse is so bad for you why don't any of these people ever die?

Everyone says they're all coked up like a value meal!

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 1d

One reason all our politicians are octogenarians is because when they were saying stupid and potentially damning things in their thirties they were doing it over a round of drinks at the Alibi Club, not in public on the giant permanent digital archive of all things ever said.

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Found Star Trek Episodes @foundepisodes.bsky.social · 4d

If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken. Happiness comes from Star Trek, not relationships.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 12h

To pay the "post about something good that happened today" tax, my Mom & I went to the quilt display at the Town Historical Society, we had a walk, I grilled resulting in a good dinner tonight & meal-prepped veg for the week, & because of Walktober I think my calves are getting a little toned.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 12h

It's weird that we're all going "At least Dubya didn't do [awful thing Trmp is doing] but he gave us ICE AND Roberts & Alito, which are the means by which Trmp is doing much of this evil stuff!

It was terrible & shameful! It's that this is so much worse & we all have Constant Bad News Machines now.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 12h

I got the new Taylor album & it really is...like, the music they'd play in a gentle step aerobics class.

Maybe it'll grow on me?

My Mom: This is just like what happened to T. S. Eliot when *he* fell in love!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 15h

Welp, only one person wrote back.

That's *me* told!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to send a non-Charlotte Bartlett invitation to birthday stuff, i.e. operate from a position of "This person actually does like you & would enjoy spending time with you."

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 16h

They had room above the fold for another vague hating-on-the-Democrats article; got their priorities in gear.

If I deep-cleaned the house could I bribe my Mom to cancel her subscription?

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 16h

He is a murderer, he is a murderer, he is a murderer, & the New York Times is letting him off the hook with this "suspected of" framing.

My Mom was outraged at how little coverage the protests got in the paper; I wonder what will be enough to get people to cancel subscriptions.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 16h

7th boat attacked illegally, killing 3 men, and bringing the total number fatalities to 32. As usual, no info on the identity of the men, and no proof of drugs, was provided, just a vague claim that the men were part of ELN

U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels

www.nytimes.com

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 19h

Roses are red, the Roman god of time was Janus...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Back when I was young, the question was "will capitalism kill us through its relentless extraction of surplus value from nature-obliterating technology?" Turns out no, it's dumber than that, the capitalists actually want to build solar panels now but that's not ok because it's soy or something.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 21h

Legacy media after letting a bunch of decent reporters, editors, & researchers go:

Sign outside a restaurant that should say "Now hiring all shifts" but says "Now hiring all shits"

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 21h

(Books are never things you don't need.)

(I really don't like the way reading is turning into a Spiders Georg situation.)

(I am reading "How to Do Nothing" & she mentions people downloading attention-building apps & then clocking out of them immediately because they were so boring.)

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 21h

Help me, imaginary Jane Goodall in my head, please keep reminding me to stop buying things I don't need because it's bad for the planet!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Cary Grant showing off his acrobatic training!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh, Mortimer, don't be so inquisitive. The gentleman died because he drank some wine with poison in it."

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is another one of my Mom's jokes; she's the funny one who should be online.

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Boston had Head of the Charles this weekend but Britain had HEAD of the CHARLES if you know what I mean!

They were killing kings before it was cool!

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The UK kicked off the whole "killing the king" thing; give credit where it's due!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The UK kicked off the whole "killing the king" thing; give credit where it's due!

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

All the retirees in LL Bean quarter zips today basically had the "Mussolini hanging upside down dot jpeg" mindset.

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Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This is about the OpenAI guy stealing other people's art to train his robots:

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn
That the Union makes us strong

Gräfin Frightenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 1d

My Mom & the other women protesting were discussing the people who have driven their cars into protesters & they were...not frightened but *aware* of it but it didn't stop them!

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