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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis

@thrownintosol.bsky.social

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Tired and barely functional. Autistic et al. Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky! Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9. Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 . I typo and repost a lot!

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · Dec 14

Autistics who hyper-fixate on the predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at great distance should be called Oortistics.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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Hannes @rucean.bsky.social · 1d

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1h

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors: Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 3h

UXO cleanup was not something USAID did, that was a State affair. In Gaza, we kept advocating for more UXO work, but it was always tied to the ceasefire negotiations and Israel's desired "humanitarian bubbles" - the project which became GHF. As a result, no meaningful US-funded UXO work occurred.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

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Andrew S(poooky) 👻🎃 @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 3h

I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.

From SKYRIM, Ralof is bound in a horse-drawn prisoner’s cart. He explains that he used to be married but women don’t like the cart.

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Dwuff 🇿🇦✨ @dwuff.com · 10h

Short form horror

An ad for Ethiopian Airlines with a smiling woman carrying a tray making eye contact with the viewer. It reads "the smile that never leaves you alone" in all caps.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 5h

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 6h

the US valorization of the Great Rural Man is so tiresome

living in a city, or in the middle of nowhere, changes nothing about one's character

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 6h

nothing he said is too egregious either

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 6h

it's all Freedom of Speech until it's not a a right-wing saying shit

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CNN @cnn.com · 7h

A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a “communist,” dismissed “all” police as bastards, and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. https://cnn.it/47sXon6

‘I got older and became a communist': Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful's raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 6h

"Not even Boris Johnson"

he's always been a lazy git who thinks he's smarter than he is, this is unsurprising on every level

Politico @politico.com · 6h

Not even Boris Johnson can escape the tempting clutches of AI.

The former British prime minster expressed love for the technology and commended large language model ChatGPT … for praising him.

Boris Johnson admits writing books using ChatGPT

Former prime minister said ChatGPT was “frankly fantastic” and AI would help society “because we’re all simple.”

ow.ly

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 16h

oh yeah!
bed

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 16h

i am jealous of maths autism, ngl

my brain cannot comprehend money and amounts

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 16h

man, this pic

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump presented his latest gilded D.C. vanity project at Wednesday’s lavish White House dinner for his billionaire backers.

Trump Unveils Another Architectural Project to Billionaire Donors

The president unveiled his latest prestige project—a giant triumphal arch—at the lavish White House dinner for his ballroom donors.

trib.al

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 16h

and with the Major Order being to take Automaton plants atm
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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 16h

considering he hasn't mentally moved for decades, this tracks

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 16h

developing a theory that donald trump and the anxieties that brought him to power can be understood solely by looking at TIME magazine covers from the 2000s

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mc escher ass image

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 20h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 17h

this is not a drill!

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 17h

hell yeah!
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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 17h

truthbaby, real

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 17h

TIL that it's a reference to a Brazilian saying, 'cobra vai fumar' (a snake will smoke), used in the same way as the English expression 'and pigs might fly'. People were sceptical about Brazil's commitment to the war effort, doubting that their involvement would mean anything substantial. 1/2

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🎃Woooo Spookybill🎃 @spoonbill.bsky.social · 18h

I liked how Brazilian Army forces fighting in Italy in WW2 had a shoulder patch of a snake smoking a pipe.

Second World War Brazilian Expeditionary Forces patch of a green snake on a yellow background smoking a pipe. The word 'Brasil' is at the top in white letters on a royal blue field. The entire insignia is bordered in red.

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