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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, that should be 'beaten', like I should be eatin' that O'Fromager

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 2h

1) The French have beat us at our own game

2) When are they opening here, though?

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 8h

I refuse to read this. I’m worried it will ruin my initial interpretation of the headline

I Was Today Years Old When I Learned What A French Taco Is, So I Tried One, And, Uh, It Was An Experience

The French are really playing it fast and loose with what they consider "tacos."

uk.style.yahoo.com

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 2h

Just over here realizing my vague antipathy towards philosophy majors might be a personal retcon related to an ex in-law and deleting a bit of grumbling

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 9h

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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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · Dec 10

POV: you've committed the perfect crime, disposed of the weapon and and hidden the body, but now you arrive back at your pasture to find you are well and truly fucked.

Detective Columbo stands behind a wooden table with two irregular cow tools in it. He holds a 3rd cow tool and looks at it with his other hand scratching his head. He says, "Gee these tools are really something, aren't they? Y'know, my wife, she says they lack sophistication. But I just think that adds to the charm... Say... Don't they usually come in a set of four?"

Caption below the panel reads, "Cowlumbo tools."

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Sep 27

Will Ferrell has officially reached GOAT status. 👑

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 27

Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:

Will Farrell on his trans friend Harper and why bigotry needs to get over things that aren’t hurting anyone and are none ot their goddamned business.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 16d

"That law changed strict bright-line media ownership rules that prohibited acquisitions of local stations by chains and moved them to a discretionary system where regulators could approve such acquisitions"
www.levernews.com/the-origins-...

The Origins Of Kimmelgate

A 1996 law from a Democratic president created Donald Trump’s censorship machine by consolidating media, broadband, and tech firms. We can stop it.

www.levernews.com

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 4h

Bluesky used to be a cool place full of people saying "you're right" and "agreed!" But I posted one really dumb thing and now it's a toxic place full of people saying "I don't agree" and "that post was dumb." Says a lot about society

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Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · 5d

Just two ghosts in the haunted forest!
9" x 12" ink on Bristol paper.

Commission for @plante.bsky.social of his son and pup in scary sheets. This was a wonderful study to do that helped me unlock a strong storybook vibe!

A child in a sheet ghost costume and straw kitty hat tries to desperately keep his costume as his dog pulls on it happily. They are in a forest that is bright and cheerful.

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Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · 5d

"LET HIM SPEAK!"

9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

Somewhere, in the Deep reaches of space, an assembly has gathered on a space station. During a heated discussion on the design and capabilities of mecha, Isamu Kurogane (Lance) stands tall and dares to speak the truth. "Every Gundam is worse than Voltron because his hands are lion mouths!!!" he declares without shame. His bravado has impressed the Red Comet, Char Aznable, while confusing and insulting Amuro Ray. The delaration is heard to mixed reactions by many other mecha pilots (not by Shinji Ikari, he is doing his best to ignore him).

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chryon priestess to Janus d^=.=^b 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏴‍☠️🍉🪽🪶🚲✋🪬🤚🧿🦊🍄🧚‍♀️🐌🦋🪾🍀🌲☠️ @witchesink.bsky.social · 7h

Its incredible how much of history and how little of learned history is affected by purposeful famine

@cnni

CNN International

This New York student won a $250,000 prize for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato

Famine cnn.it/2FyefcU

Reply:

Calling the Brits a "devastating microorganism" is a little weird, but I'll take it.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 17h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Hamiltwan @hamiltwan.bsky.social · 23h

Can you imagine the poor ghost who is trying to write in blood on the walls but there are 11 Presbyterians in the room ignoring it while they argue if they can proceed with a simple plurality or if they need a full majority.

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

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 14h

I am tired of this chest funk

moktoberfest @mokie.bsky.social · 14h

I am lurgy, destroyer of plans

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 16h

For Halloween, I'm dressing up as going to a social function where the one person you know disappears and you don't know who to talk to and there are no dogs or cats around to pet and all the conversations you overhear seem inscrutable.

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 16h

Konrad von Carstein, with a speech bubble drawn to imply he is speaking the quoted skeet

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