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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · Nov 23

I don't expect a "follow back" from anyone, and I'm ok with that. While I might find YOUR content interesting, you might not have any desire to pollute your timeline with MY drivel.

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Deborah Teramis Christian 🌈 🎲 🇺🇦 @teramis.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, cat-friendly peeps in the Eugene or Portland OR areas: I have a friend moving from Springfield to Portland who has 6 cats, & needs to rehome 4 of them. 😟
If you can help with kitty adoption, pls DM me. Or reshare this with othes who could maybe help. They're sweet older cats who need love.

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 20h

Passive voice is a tool of the authoritarian. You see it in a lot of news reports about police shootings too.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 20h

"Pregnant females" but they don't usually find using "female" as a noun to be cringe.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 20h

Sure, that works. I think the phrase "pregnant person" is used in the generic sense, such as "Tylenol should not be used by a pregnant person without a doctor's advice." Conservatives will then shout "just say 'pregnant woman'" but that would leave out minors. I guess then they'd say... 1/

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

The "you're taking him out of context" people sure get awfully stingy with context when it suits them. (And let's be honest; whenever you give them more context it gets worse. Here's Trump's "nuclear uncle" speech from July 2016.)

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, you get 300 characters in a post, but 3,000 in the alt-text, so use it creatively - like this account does ALL THE TIME! bsky.app/profile/noco...

Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Sep 9

Star Trek Enterprise scene. We're in sick bay I think and see Captain Archer in a sleeveless workout type shirt. It's not a tank top, though, I'm pretty sure they don't have those in the future. Anyway, he's talking to 2 folks we only see from behind and his hair is a little unkempt and and he looks tuckered and irritated. Also the whole picture is blue because I suck at doing screenshots. Closed caption reads, "I HAVEN'T SLEPT VERY MUCH, BUT I'M DOING THE BREAST I..."

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

That's also the alternate argument whenever someone decries the phrase "pregnant people" as some agenda. What do they propose we call a pregnant 14 yr old? "Pregnant woman?"

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, first place my mind went too.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Gone are the days of "no comment," or even "can neither confirm nor deny." Now we're just saying out loud "yeah, we did a coup." (Or whatever. The article just hints obviously at "something.")

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Scalise actually got shot and they didn't skip a beat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congres...

Congressional baseball shooting - Wikipedia

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

Happy "Ada Lovelace Day." Celebrating women in STEM, it was named after the women widely regarded as the first computer programmer, working with Charles Babbage on his "Analytic Engine." findingada.com

Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

I remember a sign from a protest during his first admin. It said "not all Trump supporters are racist, but for them it's not a deal breaker."

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. To paraphrase David Pakman, we're not disagreeing on whether the marginal tax rate should be 20% or 25%, but rather about "who is a human being," and deserving of rights.

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

To paraphrase David Pakman, we're not disagreeing on whether the marginal tax rate should be 20% or 25%, but rather about "who is a human being," and deserving of rights.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

This is always an interesting table to follow over the years. In times of heavy deficit spending, more states slip into the "taker" category as everyone is effectively "taking." Texas, specifically, will switch sides based on oil prices.

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 2d

My youngest went to a Waldorf school for a few years, a system which generally seems to avoid black in the early years. (I didn't notice it at ours - I think they were ok with it.)

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 3d

"Welcome, to Movie Phone..."

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 4d

When he ran in 2020, he used the same platform from 2016. "The current Administration has exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen against citizen." www.salon.com/2020/08/24/r...

Republicans just copy and paste 2016 GOP platform for 2020 Republican Convention - Salon.com

The unedited 2016 platform still includes an attack on “the current Administration

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 5d

#8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...

Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...

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suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 5d

For Jesse Watters the other day to actively say on air that he's fine seems like a big step; for the longest time, his health condition (at all) seemed like it was off limits or something.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 6d

Just getting on now!

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 6d

And if they had caught Nixon before they brought down Agnew, we would have had a REAL preview if Agnew had been promoted.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 6d

Someone's going to have to wipe a lot of ketchup off the fake gold walls tonight.

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 6d

I'm honestly surprised he pronounced it "Nobel" instead of "noble."

suddenoutbreak.bsky.social @suddenoutbreak.bsky.social · 6d

Well, it's not like he flattened her tires so he could drive her home, right? people.com/tv/fox-news-...

Fox News' Jesse Watters Jokes About Flattening Future Wife's Tires So He Could Drive Her Home

'She hopped right in the car,' Jesse Watters recalled of giving now-wife Emma a ride home after he says he let the air out of her tires

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