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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1h

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 6h

Linux is great if you do everything in your browser or in your terminal. Anything in between will either be easy or beyond human ability to do.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 6h

It is pretty funny that he seems to genuinely think he needed the Nobel to enter heaven but a bunch of Norwegian Eurocrats damned his soul to hell and gave some Venezuelan lady his ticket to the pearly gates.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 7h

European guy who responds to the existence of Hong Kong egg waffles by ranting about how the Chinese love stealing.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 8h

If I wanted to grow 30 million I’d put it in index funds, if I wanted to gamble it I’d put it all on black. This combines the boredom of prudent investing with the risk of doing something stupid.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 8h

More broadly, the idea of “knowledge that makes you morally good” is ridiculous and, if anything, would just have us asking why we need continuing study in the humanities when we have that

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 9h

Chief Petty Officer O’Brien put on administrative leave after old pictures of him in spoonface come out

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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 9h

Friend mentioned making a bajorian earring for Halloween and my first visceral thought was "that sounds like cultural appropriation" before I remembered that the bajoran religion does not exist

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

Then take the Chunnel

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 1d

The Brit tires of his rainy tea-obsessed country and seeks the rainy, coffee-obsessed parts of ours

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pecker head @pecker-head.bsky.social · 25d

inquisitive dove #birds

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

Broke: left v right

Joke: state capacity versus libertarian

Woke: busybody v normal people

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks AI

"Mi corazon" significa mi corazon in espanol

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

TASHA: And what I want now is gentleness. And joy. And love. From you, Data. You are fully functional, aren't you?

DATA: That’s an interesting question! Let’s break down what it means to be “fully functional” and see if I am.

TASHA: Sex, Data

DATA: I’m sorry, I’m afraid I can’t help you with that

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

Cutting off the hog people of Babylon from their treats and their healthcare simultaneously… bravo JDPON Don

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

Colombia’s President Petro Claims Colombians Killed in Boat Struck by U.S.

Colombia's President Petro Claims Colombians Killed in Boat Struck by U.S.

The Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded at a time when the U.S. bombed four boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing 21 people. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that the U.S. killed Colombians in one of the boats it bombed in the Caribbean for allegedly carrying drugs.

www.democracynow.org

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

That guy who joked about killing Republicans in text messages to a Republican is gonna be AG lol

Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 2d

FEDERAL LAYOFFS WILL BE IN THE THOUSANDS: WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

Similar story about one of Kim Il-Sung’s guys taking his name after he was killed in a Japanese ambush

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

This is ten times worse than anything Ilhan Omar has ever done or said, and yet she’s constantly accused of antisemitism. Wonder what the difference is

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

What if I have no relationship to Mexico and barely know Spanish but am willing to bring over useless trade secrets?

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 3d

ro khanna coming out as a hardcore antisemite is a horrifying sign of the times but somehow completely unsurprising for him

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 3d

This is the man Ro Khanna is platforming discussing Pizzagate on Joe Rogan in March of this year.

Post of Ian Carroll, the guy in the video, discussing Pizzagate in 2025

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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