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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1m

I'm in section 428R but am right there with the 200-level person

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1h

Holy cow this is some bonkers fiber art. An actual opposite of the typical “Is it cake?”

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A piece of “Cake” that is fiber art made from yarn and polymer clay. It is a layer cake that has a blue and white decoration that mimics the decoration on the plate

A piece of “Cake” that is fiber art made from yarn and polymer clay. It is a layer cake that has pink frosting with roses on top and the yellow cake “layers” are a floral embroidery pattern

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 2h

Both for the immediate implications as well as the adding to the pile of “Christ, this is ANOTHER statutory power that’s going to have to be explicitly defended and restored when we rebuild this house fire from the smoldering ashes of our laws.”

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 2h

Remember folks, for Democrats, a "Violent threat" is paraphrasing a joke that's the better part of a century old to describe how disliked someone is.

For Republicans, bringing a gallows to the Capitol and trying to storm Congress is patriotic and peaceful.

Their words are, as always, meaningless

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 2h

It's nice to feel seen.

...no, not like that

Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 3h

gameplan

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 3h

Still love that the last DM from my cousin before I cut him out of my life was telling at me about comparing conservatives to Nazis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 4h

Just a country chock full of absolute hayseed rubes

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 18h

And there's a 0.00% chance that Susan Calvin would stay a woman.

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

The ol’ Wolverine *snikt* “It hurts every time.”

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

Pentatitty = a capella quintet at a strip club

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

All new meaning to the old coot going “Weather’s comin’, I feel it in my bone…”

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

I made sure to ONLY get my Kleenex from companies that source from timber firms that use regenerative forest practices…

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

If Hollywood had any courage that’s what John Wick would have been.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

The idea that you can look up into the sky at night and photons that were first generated 14,700,000,000,000,000,000 miles away and at least half a million years before us hairy apes started setting things on fire just BANG RIGHT INTO YOUR EYES is utterly bonkers and wonderful.

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

Admitted, astronomy + dinosaurs is less cheery…

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

“Look, bummer about Ya Boy Charlie, but I’m just built different.”

The one thing I SO greatly appreciate about Trump is how he gives no fucks about whether you’re his ally or enemy, he’s going to shit all over you whenever he feels like it…and the GOP just keeps lapping it up like its caviar

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

LOL used “amazing” twice in the same sentence.

BUT THIS IS ASTRONOMY. SUPERLATIVES AREN’T SUPERFLUOUS.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

It must be nice to lock everything about your view of the world into amber and never, ever change.

I mean, not really, it looks like these crusty assholes are always incandescent with rage, but it must at least be simplifying to have their weltanschauung reduced to “triggered, lib?”

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

Being a telescope facilitator volunteer at a planetarium gives me regular reminders thanks to the patrons that being able to look into a small glass circle and see a planet a literal billion miles away with amazing clarity is FUCKING AMAZING.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

Me to ChatGPT: "I put on my robe and wizard hat..."

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like this sort of thing is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Online/app-driven sports betting has functionally zero redeeming qualities, and a cubic fuckton of negative externalities.

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 22h

Funny how me from an alternate universe just showed up

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1d

(okay, the gourds are in fact lying dSHUT UP)

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't know what part of "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers," you didn't get. They're not taking the expansion of Christmas territory lying down.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 1d

There’s going to be some brutally swift epiphanies about the concept of “crime is a social construct”.