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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟

@skepticalsinik.bsky.social

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Photog, foodie, nature nut, bit of a draw-er, woodworking, Tolkien, things and stuff and whatever. 🇨🇦 Canadian "Slow down, huh?" "That's what I recommend. You know how it is. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Time creeps in its petty pace."

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · Oct 31

Pencil face. Jojo, an old friend.

I'm not always gonna just post my hobby stuff, but it's my first day here and I want to establish a more... um... wholesome following than on my previous social media experience. More art, less politics. More nature, less religion. More Tolkien, less CNN. 🌻

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 13m

Yeah, I was so pissed when it first appeared and tried to find a way to remove it. I've just gotten used to scrolling past to some credible search result.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 15m

I did...

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 16m

That's fair. I should have done so.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 20m

I ignore the AI nonsense. 🤷🏻‍♂️

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 21m

That's what I was saying. A lot of people think only right-wing whites are racist... which is of course not true. All the negative replies you're getting are from white Dems. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Dr. RL @papierg.blacksky.app · 22h

I sincerely believe this!

——they do not! As a collective—Status quo!

The walk should be about dismantling racism/hate—in every institution, organization—hell the grocery store—everywhere! That is what’s leaking into their privileged lives. Very few white people that know how to check their racism!

Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 1d

THIS! Because again if white people wanted this to STOP 🛑 TUDAY it would stop. So yeah these little angry walks they going on today does nothing but show hey we just upset it’s happening to us now and we have to push back just a little.

DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta take people for who they show you to be. Racism exists in dems and leftists. And we do a huge disservice to not talk about that. These same do gooders will flip out if they have to center Black and Brown folks and not their own desires. And that’s a lot of what we all witnessed.

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 29m

The rattled white people in the comments/quotes, though. Dems, too. Big surprise. 🙄

#BLM... unless it makes me uncomfortable/threatens my proud whiteness/makes me feel guilty in any way.

Listening is the least we can do. Today is a great day to start.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 23h

White people attending these “No Kings” gatherings need to appreciate the fact that Black people are keeping you safe from police, by largely staying in our homes.

Black people did not meet and discuss this. Strategic patriotism like this is part of who we are. Always has been. ✊🏽🇺🇸

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 40m

What did white dude who reposts Newsom just say?

I'm Canadian... and as time passes, I find the line between white Dems and Republicans get hazier, especially when a post like this one makes them feel uncomfortable. They switch from "Resistor" to Mississippi Deputy in 1961 real quick.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 46m

But you have this handy new app, yeah?

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 1h

Far more Boomers have crawled out of a dingy bar and simultaneously puked and shat right out on the street in front of everyone.

You gonna take credit for that, too? Or just the internet thing?

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 1h

Lol, yep. 👍 That's a good thing, too.

🎃 Ichaborbs Crane 🎃 @ronninator.bsky.social · 23h

To all the weird debate perverts who keep saying bluesky will never be Twitter: exactly

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 4h

Always satisfied with a four. 👍

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 16h

Yep, 100%! At least until there is a justice system that will hold these people accountable (a couple centuries in, and a guy gets skeptical 🤨) then those are the two choices; let things go as the have and fail, or...

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 17h

I believed this to be true in my heart of hearts...

...right up to the point where someone takes a swing. Then it's defense, and that is also an appropriate response.

If the CEO of an insurance company or pharmaceutical company causes many people to die, when do we call the response self-defense?

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 17h

Nae bad.

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 1d

[re: new fans of MTG]

It actually isn't weird at all. You're Center-right Dems. Marge is saying Moderate Right-wing stuff. You're now a fan. Same as with the Cheneys. It doesn't take much to push you over to their side. She says a few more anti-Trumpy things and she'll be getting an award!

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming ANY American harping on Mamdani isn't doing so with a shred of racism/xenophobia is the fucking reeaaach, sport. 🙄

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 1d

100%.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

Doc ordered me to stay home and rest for three days... and yes, I needed that! Time to get busy, though. I've got work to do!

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

Still... 28% will go for the sex offender corporate pig rather than, what... the Brown guy? The "Socialist?" The Muslim? Dems have some serious 'splainin' to do when this is all over. I mean, I get why Slick Willy Clinton endorsed Cuomo; that one makes sense.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

And they're doing it again with the likes of Newsom and Pritzker... they never learn.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

That's why there's quotations... I'M not saying it. Centrists do. They're all evil.

𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

This wee-prick asshole will 100% tailgate you at 5am on a wooded county road with his stadium-grade LED lights blinding you during a snowstorm and will pass you around a blind curve.

[🖐 lived way out in country. has experienced this many many times. has also seen that guy in the ditch up ahead 👍]

Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 2d

Perfectly normal vehicle. Honda civic for scale; highest part of civic hood is at bottom of passenger door of truck.

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

"The lesser of two _____."

Evils.

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 @skepticalsinik.bsky.social · 2d

They really think it's going to have an effect on... anything. It, of course, won't at all. None. All the protests and "boycotts" have made no difference whatsoever. I think they just really need to *feel* like they are doing something. Scary. Disappointing. And the regime will keep going unchecked.