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Also @[email protected]. He/him, cishet xennial nerd in urban Cascadia. Gradatim.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 17m

The world would be a better place with more use of the verb "hoik".

George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 7h

That moment when you see the lint sticky roller being deployed and are more than aware you will hoiked off your comfy chair for defluffing purposes

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 5h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 50m

Oatmeal that's halfway to chocolate chip cookie dough. *nods* This is the way.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe with the "To Cogitate and to Solve" shield on the front, and the back reading THE FOLLOWING IS A FIB, BUT IT'S SHORT

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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 1d

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, the whole thread.

👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 1d

You really should check out the whole thread…

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Sri Lanka. This is a rare case where I think the outfit would be better without the giant gold snakes around his head. Maybe add a cape, but I think the rest of the outfit (what little of it there is) is so great that he doesn't need the snakes.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

I love what Portland is doing so much. Joy is resistance. Dancing animals are resistance. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

"You expect me to go on Fox News and just put the truth in front of those human rabies cases?"

"No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to lie."

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Rick Astley is ready when we are

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Lucy holding the rabbit for Bullwinkle

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Howling in the streets and fireworks. I wasn't watching the game but I can guess how it's going!

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Dressing the officers themselves in reflective neon hi-vis would be another good step.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Circus peanuts are definitely the packing peanuts of the intentionally-edible peanut world.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 3d

I thought they were a deliberate callback to the wizard-alchemist in their tower?

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 3d

"siflay hraka" is not the sick burn I thought

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 3d

"siflay hraka" is not the sick burn I thought

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 3d

I think you and so many others are working so hard because (and so that) it isn't the end.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

Hijinks.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

cats practice the buddy system. "hey. hey! what are you doing in there without me to keep watch for you? anyone could just sneak up and ambush while you're busy"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 5d

No, that's a rime day. A prime day is when a computer program or other statement of formal logic produces exactly its own definition as its output.

V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 5d

No, that's a slime day. A prime day is when you're accosted outside a wedding by an old sailor who tells you at length about his voyage to the Antarctic and the spiritual and psychological harms that violence visits upon perpetrators.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 5d

no no that's a grimes day, a prime day is when you say "i don't know" on "you can't do that on television"

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 6d

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 9d

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

Acorns on the grass

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 9d

ipads folded in half seven times crammed between the bricks

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 9d

I agree, but the Constitution says otherwise.