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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt).

It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 19h

This weekend in Minneapolis we have a Prince musical, a Knight's concert, and a No Kings rally

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Why are people evil? Upbringing? Broken brain chemistry? Those are on ALL of us.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

We are all going through shit. All of us. Even the worst of us.

ALL crime is mental illness. Society would be better off if we recognized that. But vilification is easy.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Once you believe that maybe you're just evil because society believes in the concept of evil and irredeemable people, it's easy to believe that maybe you're irredeemable.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my really hot take...

Mass shooters are mentally ill. But we are all to blame for their existence. We created a society that makes mental healthcare difficult to obtain. We made access to guns easy to obtain. But we also created this idea that some people are just evil.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

We are very quick to label people as irredeemable. And maybe we are right.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Every single terrible thing I've ever done as an adult was while I was in therapy or on medication. When we say we need mental healthcare in this country, are we prepared for the idea that sometimes people are just terminal?

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

For all the things I despise about MCI in Kansas City, the smaller checkpoints at each set of gates makes so much more sense from a security standpoint.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Airport screening is such security theater. A suicide bomber could take out 2 planes worth of people all crammed in the security queue.

Dan Stirk @jdanielstirk.bsky.social · 1d

And then TSA gets SO MAD at you for doing it wrong! FFS! TSA explains the procedures all day every day. We travelers are just strangers passing through a strange land. Give a little grace

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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Chris Drosner @wibeerbaron.bsky.social · 1d

These editors just cannot help but step on their own dicks when they talk about literally anything in the Midwest, can they?

Once a sleepy (albeit hard-partying) college town, only truly busy on a handful of football Saturdays in the fall, Madison, Wisconsin, has undergone a population boom, transforming it into a full-fledged city. Its farmers’ markets and love for beer and cheese are still going strong, but now Madison also offers an impressive lineup of restaurants, bars and venues attracting major acts. https://nyti.ms/4h56eux

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

You got a talk to your agent. I'll represent you for a modest fee.

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Mr. Skeets @doctoraculamd.bsky.social · 1d

Simpsons, Milhouse dad says “I sleep in a Cybertruck. Do you?” Homer responds “I sleep in a big bed with my wife”

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United We Drink @unitedwedrink.com · 1d

There was a time in the early 2010s when beer Twitter was loaded with Kickstarters for breweries. Some came to fruition. Many didn't. *cough* Wilderness *cough*
We discuss crowd funding on today's episode. Listen at the link or wherever you get your pods.
unitedwedrink.libsyn.com/151-crowd-fu...

United We Drink: 151 - Crowd Funding

In the early 2010s it seemed like every aspiring brewery was crowd funding to kick start their businesses. After some businesses on the brink of closing tried to capitalize on crowd funding the method...

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. Yes, that NYT thing was so passive in its presentation.

Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 1d

Processing is a tool. It can be used to create crap (Doritos, instant ramen, Lunchables) OR decent food (legume-rich soups, shelf-stable whole wheat bread, chickpea pasta).

So why are we overrun with the crap?

Because THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE LIKE.

Consumers aren't victims; we're co-conspirators.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

I'm 46 and I barely even want people my age running the world.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 1d

Godalmighty. Can we just get a few people in office who are under the age of sixty? Please?

I’m 72. I don’t want oldsters running the world.

The Maine Monitor @themainemonitor.org · 1d

The launch of 77-year-old Janet Mills’ Senate campaign in #Maine reignites a debate about age among Democrats, who spent the year arguing that the party, still reeling from Joe Biden's age-related withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.

themainemonitor.org/mills-would-...

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

GOP: haha kids will be kids, ah you can't hold this 40 year old lawyer accountable for loving Hitler, that's just being edgy! Gas chambers, it's just jokes people!

GOP: WHAT? YOU QUOTED CHARLIE KIRK IN A WAY THAT MADE HIM LOOK BAD AFTER HE DIED ... DEPORTATION!