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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Fully Depreciated" is a tax and accounting term that indicates the asset is past its useful economic life, the sort of incredibly nerdy business reference that I would make but in this context its about a young woman, which prompts one to ask, well, how would her value be going down

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 8

This detail from the WSJ’s new Trump-Epstein reporting also seems pretty bad www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member Joel Pashcow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Pashcow letter included a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.” The woman’s name is redacted in the image.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

i cannot imagine having a brain which makes you think this and not "it is regrettable that the Republican party could not maintain a cordon sanitaire"

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 9h

What's Chuck Tingle hiding

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 10h

One thing I like about Gundams is that I don't -need- to paint earlier

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 10h

Built a Master grade Gundam this weekend

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 18h

A reminder, that today, on here, the tone of the website is what it is but out in the real world, Democrats are holding the line on the shutdown, MTG is slagging Republican leadership for the shutdown, and Thune and Johnson are on TV waxing rhapsodic about ANTIFA controlled cities

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 18h

2028 will be pretty bad

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 18h

Its like closer to the Mongols but worse at war and with shittier weapons, and like yeah when the Spanish show up with like guns and stuff everyone was like 'oh wait I know who deserves to get straight up murdered'

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

there are a lot of takes on the Aztec Empire, some of them intended to avoid ethnocentrism, which take the position that Mesoamericans like dying to atrocities, which makes one wonder why the people making those arguments believe the Spanish did anything wrong.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

the consecration of the Templo Mayor, which had occurred just 32 years before the Spanish arrived, killed a substantial multiple of the Srebrenica Massacre.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

we talk about the Aztec Empire as though it was an institution of great antiquity, but its worst abuses started in the time of living people's grandparents or great-grandparents. it had been growing more and more extractive and murderous as long as the current generation had been alive.

hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 19h

this is cursed, there's a reason the peoples under the aztecs were willing to help Spain out and it wasn't naivete

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 20h

This elicited a long, weary sigh from my desk

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 20h

Supportive of BLM protests, not supportive of riots, also not hard to figure out or parse

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 20h

*dramatic act of pointing at self, silly voice* M'wa!? DISINGENUOUS why Erb that's materially accurate

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 20h

I mean especially since it's in response to the powerlessness of not winning the most recent election, as it always is

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

Bradley Whitford in Star Wars:

Brad: "So, gloopy you know how he blinded himself?"

Al Pacino: "my friends name is Glup shitto. Doesn't like to be called gloopy. Just a warning"

BW: "so he starts juggling these lightsabers and he's really going until he starts turning them on.."

AP: "Hoo-ah!"

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

While any further reporting on hostilities or massacres will be discouraged, the fallback position, if absolutely necessary, will be, "President Donald J. Trump secured this peace agreement. It is up to everyone else to uphold it."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 21h

The boss said the war is over, so now, nothing in the material world can be allowed to gainsay him. Any supposed facts to the contrary are in error or falsified.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

"No I meant like we need to focus on other stuff" yeah I know but also if you win you win did you know that

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

Okay but if you win every election you would beat authoritarianism

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

Hey! he could also be shot in the street

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 21h

“Tom Maroney says hi” www.detroitcatholic.com/news/the-sto...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

There's a weird political split right now between american bishops and the pontiff that will be interesting, Am Bishops are kinda right wing-ey and very Reform/evangelical in their outlook (that's an insult) and Leo is, well, meeting with immigrant leaders

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

Look its a big tent

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

I had weird family members who were anti-Catholic and I still deal with anti-Catholic stuff from time to time which is a nice reminder that its still very much there

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

I couldn't afford to insure my family and myself without Obamacare and its protections and that fact isn't lost on me

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