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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 22h

Mention it to his coworkers and they'll shame him. Everybody who works in wastewater knows better.

Or toss him.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds.

Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

12 Polling Places Move Before Mississippi Special Elections, 4 Close

County election officials in Mississippi have moved 12 polling places and closed four since 2024, an MFP investigation finds.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

I have a plea for you. I need an automotive engineer familiar with programming of the safety systems in a crash.

This is both an engineering passion of mine, and deeply personal. Hell, I will pay them an hourly rate.

Story I've tried for years. It feels like I've hit a wall on millisecond logic.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory cat photo

Look at my cat!

Tux cat on clear box wearing a bagel around his neck. He is crouched dos and looking anticipatory.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

Fox Sports played some Kendrick before a commercial.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

It's expensive being poor. From Pratchett:

The reason that the rich were so rich:

Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. .. A really good
pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars.

But an affordable pair of boots
which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who
could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes Boots' theory of socio-economic
unfairness.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

@ziggnet.bsky.social 😂🤣😂🤣

Richie Ryan @richieryan.bsky.social · 6d

To quote President Jeb Bartlet: "What is it with people from Chicago that they're so happy to have been born there? I meet so many people who can't wait to tell me they're from Chicago and when I meet them, they're living anywhere but Chicago."

SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

Good dog! I was wondering what part of the body that was before looking at the other picture.

SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

I received a "congratulations on changing my cc password" email.

I didn't do it. 😬

I like email notifications. Froze credit. They tried applying for a new cc online 2 days later.

SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

*If* he had a wife, I hope she takes a long vacation and he experience how "little" work she does.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

Also gave out a bunch to teenagers who were taller than me and I loved that they still want to dress up and go trick or treating.

SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

Gave out 126 full size bars and 44 Chocolate liquors (up from 26).

A number of parents remembered that my house had candy for them. 😂

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 1d

As an autistic person, it is driving me fucking MAD that millions of "Christians" think this is okay.

Wouldn't interrupting Mass be like an enormous, biblical level sin? You're keeping Christians from being saved. Like you're the fucking Antichrist.

I am being driven up a wall.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 1d

@ziggnet.bsky.social

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a tumultuous world. But I take solace in the fact that the 2010 University of Alaska Fairbanks hockey intro video remains the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen.

SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 2d

25th Amendment

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MechWarrior @mechwarrior.bsky.social · 4d

Steinbeck discussed this almost a century ago.

“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 2d

He's acquiring a collection of sports jerseys.

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 3d

Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.

A stop sign. Under the stop sign, another, red rectangular, sign is affixed. It says "Actually stop. Like, for real."

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 2d

@ziggnet.bsky.social 🤬

WomSAT @womsat.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Over 2,600 #wombats were legally killed in #Victoria in 2024 under outdated wildlife #laws. While #reforms to the Wildlife Act are welcome, they fall short of #protecting our native #animals.
#Takeaction now: bit.ly/3WyBGIg
Image: #HumaneWorldforAnimalsAustralia www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gba...

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 2d

From what I hear Caribbean Spanish make the other Spanish on the mainland quake in fear. 😂

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 2d

@ziggnet.bsky.social 😳

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 2d

oh my God.
💀

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SkinnyGrunt ⚡🦺 🎴 😺 🗺️ @skinnygrunt.bsky.social · 3d

For the longest time, I thought that Siobhán was two different people because what I thought I read didn't match what I heard.

I figured it out.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

Update on those missing monkeys in Mississippi:

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4d

Three monkeys remained on the loose as searchers scoured fields along a rural Mississippi highway where a truck carrying the primates overturned.

Search Is On for 3 Escaped Monkeys on Mississippi Highway

Three monkeys remained on the loose as searchers scoured fields along a rural Mississippi highway where a truck carrying the primates overturned.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5d

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

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