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Mark Roddy

@markr51.bsky.social

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Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance. He/him.

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · Mar 26

#beach #dogs #photography a moment of calm, perhaps before a storm.

A dog standing at the edge of an ocean beach. Gentle waves are breaking over a rock. The cloudy sky hangs low over the beach and transitions from white to dark grey.

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 16m

Fascist culture has a long history.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 17m

He quite frequently admits that he doesn’t know anything. I guess he gets credit for admitting he is an idiot.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 24m

They shouldn’t exist. Full stop.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 25m

He never advocated for or tried to implement a public single payer healthcare system.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 59m

In the midst of the stunning fascist takeover of the republic, the neoliberal center right continues hippy punching like it’s 1999.

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 14h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 20h

We are all antifa’s girlfriend.

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 20h

I’m still waiting for my protest checks.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 20h

This morning’s #sourdough cranberry pepita bread. The camel is guarding it until it has cooled.

Cranberry pepita sourdough bread cooling on a rack.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven and Hell are ridiculous concepts.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

How do the uber workers make a living at those rates?

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve just taken an exceptionally long time to get to another constitutional collapse. More than 160 years since the last one. That is basically all that is exceptional.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

What does chickpea flour do for the bread?

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween costume idea: go out as a wildly unqualified zombie head of the CBS News Division named “Bury Weiss”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

We've produced the reaction: a plague of twerking frogs and other inflatable animals.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Chaplin tried.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

Or rolling over in bed and a rib goes wonky.

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

If I stay up till 11, instead of waking up at 3 and doom scrolling I wake up at 5 and feel less awful about doom scrolling.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

A contagion of idiocy seems to have swept through the tech billionaires. Thiel and Ellison were always right wing nonces, but wtf happened to the rest of these vile clowns?

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Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

Eating toast with no hands is actually quite difficult.

Mark Roddy @markr51.bsky.social · 1d

Catherine Connolly kept posting #SmearTheBejaysus #SpéirGorm jokes long after they had peaked.

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