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Steph

@rantsbydesign.bsky.social

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Lucy's human companion. Singer. Writer. EDM. Cheese. GenX bitch. She/her.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning, Lucy & I are moving to a safer and better location in a few weeks hopefully. We need about $500 this week for bills and $300 for the deposit. Could you please help?

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Thank you very much! ❤️

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 6h

I kind of understand why people stayed longer b/c ... I don't really find community here like I did there, tbh.

It sucks. I was gone once the block button was gone tho.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you for reminding me to block.

Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 6h

lmao same. is Twitter getting too icky now?

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carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 6h

seeing a lot of mufos that haven’t posted here for 6 months show up today all the sudden

Kamala Harris Holding Laugh GIF

ALT: Kamala Harris Holding Laugh GIF

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 6h

which one do you particularly hate? I haven't read anything by Stoller, Yglesias, et al in years. I cannot read that shit or I will vomit.

Jonathan Chait is another one I have always disliked.

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 7h

Which liberal writer do you particularly hate?

Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 11h

I hate her more than any other liberal writer I am think of. She really had it out for us chick Bernie supporters back in the day.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 5d

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 10h

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 11h

I hate her more than any other liberal writer I am think of. She really had it out for us chick Bernie supporters back in the day.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 11h

(narrator's voice)

Indeed, this made Amanda Marcotte a bad feminist.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 11h

My overarching, vague claim that folks who were wrong about Bernie in 2016 are wrong about everything now remains once again undefeated.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 11h

My overarching, vague claim that folks who were wrong about Bernie in 2016 are wrong about everything now remains once again undefeated.

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 11h

10 years ago, Amanda Marcotte was calling Bernie supporters a bunch of racist, sexist, spoiled rich kids and now she's trying to launder the history of the Young Republicans. el oh fucking el.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 12h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, you are 100% correct, but also: I would expect exactly this level of bad analysis from Amanda Marcotte.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

Normalize caring about other people.

They deserve to live and thrive. Everyone does.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 14h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13h

Amen

Exodus 8:2-6

“But if you refuse to let them go, I will place your whole country with frogs… the frogs shall come up on you and your people and on all your officials”

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 1d

❤️ Thank you, will do! I have been checking her paw all day. It seems ok, but sometimes it looks like she is limping a bit. It doesn't seem to hurt her when I touch it, though.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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