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🕷️🕸️ taryntula 🕸️🕷️ @peepsaregood.bsky.social · 4h

when will truck tunes take this act live across the country, the children long for live truck tunes

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 10h

Still from the movie Captain Phillips showing the pirate leader pointing at himself with two fingers with text that reads "Look at me, I'm the Hut now"

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 9h

They’re saying that it should be that 0-20% is F, 21-40% is D, etc. It’s dumb.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 9h

Oh geez, I found the post, and there are a couple people in the replies using the “it’s not fair that 0-60% is an F but the passing grades are only 10 points each” argument. That’s my least favorite one.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 10h

Aw, she’s so tiny!

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 10h

I’m skeptical of the “done with the best of intentions” stuff. They’re starting with wanting their stats to look better, and they’re backfilling the explanation.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 10h

It was never implemented officially, but I had to sit through a bunch of presentations about how actually doing that is better and fairer.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 11h

And winning enough cycles in a row that the opposition is forced to moderate.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 12h

Lil stripey pals

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matthew @pahuski.com · 19h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna put this out there before the big protests next weekend:

“Person who attends protests and has zero political involvement beyond that” is just not a common type of person. Like, at all.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 13h

I was NOT raised in a faith tradition that focused a lot on evil and damnation and fire and brimstone, but these people have me thinking about it a lot lately.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 14h

Evil.

Isabela listened as the flight crew detailed what to do in case the cabin lost pressure
during the commercial flight to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.
After the instructions, another passenger loudly asked why they were hearing a presentation if they couldn't do anything with their waists, hands and legs entwined in chains.
A federal agent then walked over and said,
"Just ask God."

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 14h

This is terrifying. ICE kidnapped a woman with a U visa and tried to send her back to Central America to be murdered by her abusive ex-husband.

‘Bring her back': Delaware abuse victim rescued from ICE deportation

ICE detained a Delaware victim of domestic violence, despite her living with protected legal status. Then the Attorney General stepped in.

spotlightdelaware.org

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 16h

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 17h

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 18h

Have people like this never been in situations in life where they genuinely do not have any good options, and there are obstacles beyond “not wanting it enough?”

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 18h

Once again, I am humbly suggesting that the city of Wilmington put a statue of Columbo where the old Columbus statue was.

Big gray Columbus statue pedestal but I changed the words to say Lieutenant Columbo and the Columbo premier date

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 18h

That is also fantastic.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 18h

Visiting Nosferatu in a Nor’easter.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 18h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social · 1d

The most beautiful google review I’ve ever read. They should delete all the other ones

Very memorable. Exquisite ingredients.
When eating small fish, I seemed to imagine that I was a polar bear eating fish on the glacier.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 18h

HBD, Mark! 🐈‍⬛🥳🎁

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

I love the concept, but I’m not sure if I’m up for another two hours of this much body horror.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

NW: The Substance

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Abigail was fun and gross and stupid.

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