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Do you ever think about how America’s foremost rocket scientist and the founder of Scientology spent several months doing drugs and jerking off together in the desert to summon a magic wife?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7h

Buddy

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7h

Lmao Vance is not and has never been ready for the big leagues

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 7h

As a heuristic this has an incredible hit rate

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 9h

Which brings us right back to "every MAGA accusation is a confession".

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

The aspiring fascists in the Trump administration are clearly terrified by the idea of mass protests, showing up to a No Kings near you is going to do more for the struggle against fascism than your entire corpus of microblog posts

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Also like, free advice: if a woman is asking about something like “attachment style” that you don’t know about, you can just say “I’m not sure what that is but it sounds interesting, can you tell me more about that?”

One thing people like doing is talking about their interests!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

My model shows that Monica Belluci, Salma Hayek, and Elizabeth Hurley are the 3 greatest actresses in history*

*Methodology: who did Pubescent Erb have a huge crush on?

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Essentially every criticism of Schumer’s procedural aggression ends up being “why isn’t he doing as minority leader things McConnell did as majority leader”

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Like what

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Giving Schumer a 0 for procedural aggressiveness *while has the government shut down* is a choice

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Right like “what if the only people you ever spoke to were also speedfreaks with personality disorders, but they’d also gone to Ivy-plus schools many years ago where they half paid attention to humanities classes

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

The imp of the perverse within me wants someone to ask him about V FOR VENDETTA

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

Wrong analogy.

This would be like if the plumber spent a solid year warning you not to hire a *different* plumber because he's a sociopath who would deliberately break open the water main & flood your house, but you chose to do so anyway *and* gave the other plumber an exclusive 4-year contract.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

As a threshold matter: skill issue, I can be superficially charming without mechanical aid

But like what is the plan when you have to actually talk to target in person for any length of time?

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 8h

Freeman on the land

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

If I wanted to see artificially large breasts I would simply look at pornography like an adult

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 2d

Gamers’ brains are so cooked dude. The woman on the right is gorgeous and beautiful. Straight gamer men literally can’t find normal women attractive anymore.

Designed With
Gamers In Mind Designed With
Activists In Mind

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

To be fair that is how cultural production works in their epistemic bubble

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 9h

Why are these people so bad at reading

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