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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2h

What does this even mean? China and the US are both big net importers of cooking oil. What are we doing here

Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 7h

Seen about half a dozen quotes of this article making easy dunks about lead poisoning, but they all seem to miss the fact that if you stick to whey you’re mostly fine?? Right-wing chuds are not drinking vegan protein

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a non-profit but the initiation fee is at least $250k

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2d

>looking for a new movie
>ask a theater worker if any of the cast is creepy or wet
>she doesnt understand |pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is creepy and what is wet
>she laughs and says "its a good movie ma'am"
>buy a ticket
>its jared leto

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 1d

They’re like the guys in season 1 of reacher who keep trying to fight reacher

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2d

No one does it better

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2d

@lil_mermaid: i feel disrespected by the shift in candy size naming from "king size" to "sharing size". i don't share candy. im the king

Jan 24, 2016 · 10:39 PM UTC

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

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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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2d

That’s because this is a liberal echo chamber. They do huge numbers on X

The same post on X, the everything app. It has 3 replies, 3 RTs, 2 QTs, 35 likes

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 3d

I am not the biggest fan of Linus Torvalds in general but I do have mad respect for his policy of not caring about distros and just using whatever is easy (fedora iirc, last I checked)

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 3d

Dumb question. Doesn’t the military pay twice monthly? Have any of these people even missed a paycheck yet?

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 3d

Tom Hanks

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 4d

??

Fox News dot com:

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Maria Corina Machado, despite calls for Trump to receive the award
Trump could still be eligible for next year's prize
Rachel Wolf By Rachel Wolf Fox News
Published October 10, 2025 5:03am EDT Updated October 10, 2025 5:08am EDT

Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d

This will be the last time I underestimate the power of British cultural hegemony

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d

Primmer is American! Prymer is British.

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d

He’s right though. No one had heard of him until he “died.” The name didn’t really even exist on the internet

Google search interest in “Charlie Kirk” over five years. It’s zero until it suddenly hockey sticks up to 100

Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d

We ingested code written by one million lazy software developers, and you won’t believe what happened

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 6d

He had an "annual physical" like five months ago, BTW

Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 6d

Time for an oil change

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 6d

First president to give the state of the union while on awake ECMO

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 6d

Yes

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 6d

The old congress doesn’t swear in the new congress. The new congress does.

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 7d

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 7d

Kendall Roy energy

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 8d

Look at my opposition party dawg

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 10d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000