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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 16h

If 18,000 people showed up for No Kings in Reno, that’s 4.5% of the Reno metro population. If that figure holds up nationally then Moron is toast.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 20h

#NoKings

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 21h

The median age at the Reno #NoKings rally seems to be around 65, just in case anyone tells you it’s just a bunch of disaffected college kids.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 21h

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 22h

With MSRS at the Reno #NoKings rally.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 1d

My brains are now mush. Can I go home now?

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 1d

A drawing of a Valkyrie. Caption reads: “Enjoy the day of Freya.”

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 2d

Credit: gambargin

A drawing of two late Roman soldiers being attached by a horde of Goth girls.
Soldier 1: “Run…! Tell them Goths are coming.”
Soldier 2: “Hurry! We cannot hold them much longer! Rome must be warned!”

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 2d

Big same.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 2d

The admiral in command of SOUTHCOM, which has the Caribbean in its remit, just stepped down after less than a year in command. I bet we're going to find out just how bad the intelligence used in those attacks on alleged drug shipments was.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 2d

A Babylonian engraving showing a man and a monkey. There is ancient writing all over it. Caption reads: “I love a man in cuneiform.”

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 2d

GAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Headdesk! Headdesk! Headdesk!

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 3d

“What radicalized you?”

A three and a half foot hobbit once said there’s some good in the world worth fighting for and I’ll be damned if I disappoint him,

julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 3d

Me at the office.

A Tom Gauls comic showing a woman in a lab coat walking past a secretary at her desk.
Secretary: How did the meeting go?
Lab coat woman: Add Dr Bentley to my ‘Mortal Enemies” list, downgrade the vice Chancellor to ‘Vanquished Foe’, and classify the entire Biology Department as ‘Untrustworthy Allies’x

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 3d

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 3d

A picture of Mae West in a sequin dress and fur coat, admiring herself in a hand mirror. Caption is the quote: “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 3d

Wearing my new white lab rat earrings. 🐀

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 4d

Me too, Bettie. Me too. 😊

A picture of Bettie Page, wearing a black bra & panties and glasses, holding a telephone receiver. She’s saying, “I’m sort of the intellectual type, you know, glasses ‘n all.”

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 4d

I just received this lovely thank you card and stickers from @aliceinbondageland.bsky.social

You’re very welcome, Mistress.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 4d

Incidentally it’s a tie between the ankylosaurus and the stegosaurus.

A picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Caption reads: “When you grow up, people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is. They don’t even care.”

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 5d

A picture of Columbo, pointing, “Just one more thing…when you were busy ‘discovering’ America, was there anyone else there at the time?”

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 5d

Anger is a healthy response to cruelty, actually.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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julian/juliette @julianet.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting trivia: The Hebrew word used in the Ten Plagues is "tz'fardayah" which is singular. So it should really be a Plague of Frog. I like to assume it's a giant kaiju frog.

Three people in inflatable frog suits protesting outside the Portland ICE facility. Caption reads: "Exodus 8:2-6: But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...The frogs shall come up on and your people and on all your officials."

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