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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Dec 31

One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy

and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Dec 31

You can be as terrified or nonplussed or unperturbed as you like; the sun will still rise tomorrow & the rent will still be due on the 31st. The world has no romantic narratives for its fate except those we invent, because the world does not die. That is our privilege.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Dec 30

I said it elsewhere, but it’s weirdly exhilarating and addictive to be terrified all the time, and the people addicted to it, when they say this, may as well be saying “I can stop at any time, it’s just the world doing this *to* me.”

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21h

This skeet is gonna just keep aging like the finest wine:

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

Hyderabadi*

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 6h

do you think most other countries dont also have regional dishes?

its not like hyperabadi, barbeque is *everywhere* in the us even if dominant in the south and no plenty of different cuisines dishes and breads are/were until recently cooked outdoors

im italian american this is just silly now cmon

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 7h

barbecue/southern is like top 5 worldwide cuisines. Half of italian is really american but those guys havent figured out how to mass produce a car yet so they can have that one

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 8h

oh lord, shenanigans

Using a GPU as... hard drive?

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dkhunter @dkhunter.bsky.social · 7h

To wit, one of The Onion's more prescient takes post 2012

theonion.com/after-obama-...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 7h

he has the best advice

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YOU HAVE WON A HAM @jon-snow-420.bsky.social · 1d

a terf told me taking bathroom selfies means i have autogynephilia. which made me honestly so sad that this woman had never enjoyed her own appearance and couldn't understand anyone else doing it

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 2d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · Feb 27

Irs agent says fuck the rules take my ledger and badge before commandeering one of the many IRS apache helicopters to chase after a billionaire’s yacht headed towards international waters

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · Feb 27

Unable to make up the mega-yacht's head start, the Apache reaches its maximum radius of action and has to turn back towards land. Aboard the Tax Avoidance III, champagne flows like liberal tears. Nobody notices the USS Auditor, the IRS's Virginia-class nuclear submarine, stealthily closing in.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 13d

This is my politics

Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13d

if you made cop shows 20% more Woke that would be the single most successful use of art to achieve a political end in human history

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13d

Katie Miller demanded to know why NBC ran an episode of 'Law & Order: SVU' that portrays ICE agents “allowing rape.”

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toastface killah @toasty.cx · 8h

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a bunch of lovely people on the left and a bunch of despicable bastards on the right

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

i think without obama you get a lot more factionalism within the gop and trump is basically the platonic ideal of guy to appeal to the post obama gop. Hes basically every rw media guy for the preceding decades rolled into one

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

they were just cranks by the time biden was elected tho

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 11h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

what about agriculture and ranching

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · May 18

Me getting a free pizza from the cute girl at the pizza factory nominally because it was closing soon (like six hours later) and a wink, plus her being like if you ever need help finishing that let me know other times

Me, all knowing and with rizz: oh no I love pizza I can def eat this In a weekend

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 16h

[guy whose only exposure to mythology is the bible] this anime is giving me real jesus vibes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

i more or less quit my job over video models. unwilling to be part of that. sorry.

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Shane Carrow @shanecarrow.bsky.social · 19h

I like that the otherwise bad T3 briefly touched upon that with John Connor: what happens to the guy raised to believe he was fated to become a hero, in an apocalypse that was then averted? A paranoid burnout drifter.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 10h

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