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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1h

Ugh Cerberus livery, need my girl in alliance colors.

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3h

The FUCK is this bullshit? The Ring Verse around the White Tree of Gondor? No fucking way bro. I hope the Tolkien Estate gets your ass.

Etsy drop ship bullshit with the ring verse surrounding the white tree of Gondor, something that people who've only watched the movies would buy. Someone once sent Tolkien a chalice with the ring verse on it and he was offended and decided to use it as an ash tray.

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Liam @wtyppod.com · 8h

No one is safe until we all are.

Happy Purple Day, dm me if you need help with resources on domestic violence.

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Liam @wtyppod.com · 9h

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 23h

you guys need to have some respect for yourselves and stop holding podcasters in such high regard

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 23h

you can just eat a normal meal

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

PS: everyone of those guys but Al Schmidt (who’s a decent guy) is MAGA now.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

They were 100% like this. When I was younger, I was a libertarian. I hung out with GOP types, I even went to a fundraiser for a friend of mine for the GOP national convention delegate in 2008. I was so shocked with the racism re: Obama, I dipped. The bigotry was always there.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

the train in this case is a philosophical stand-in for things not being dogshit

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the reminder not to skip the gym today.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about how nice the trains would be if they didn’t stop that recount in 2000

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for the reminder to continue to shame my colleagues when I find they’re using AI

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

blackshirts and reds should be required reading in all American civics classes

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

my most conservative opinions are that people who smoke on transit and drive without plates should actually be arrested with full force of the law

I would let a shoplifter walk over a driver without plates or subway smoker

Liam @wtyppod.com · 2d

Stop smoking on the El or you will be keelhauled

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

erotica trained on sonic / BR class 101 slash fic from ao3

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

Had someone swear up and down that you could see Teddy Pendergrass’ ghost at the tree he hit on Lincoln Drive.

This was in 2009, before he died.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2d

What’s the best ghost story from your hometown?

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty nice frog.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

even worse

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

10kL listeners understand this sort of gatekeeping

Quorators @quorators.bsky.social · 9d

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

fuck I did the grocer's apostrophe by accident, never living this one down

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

shakespeare: resonates so resoundingly with audiences that many of his lines have become idioms used in the modern day, often unknowingly anymore

modern people: yeah nah he was mid actually

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

that said I've said before a reader's should try to read outside of their preference every once in a while. for example, if you read classics all the time, try something new; if you read a lot of non-fiction, try some historical fiction; if you read YA, try reading a book

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

classics are considered classics because they're actually good, whining about them being bad is incredibly unserious

like bitch about Shakespeare all you want there's a reason they will be reading and performing him until the end of time

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 3d

Funny, that's where I am in my rewatch.

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