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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 12h

Who will wipe this blood off us, bro? What water even IS there for us to clean ourselves, man? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent, homie?!

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 1d

It really does feel like the internet is analogous to the advent of the printing press. One day you’re like “oh hey books are cheap now” the next day everyone’s talking about a pamphlet titled “Ye turnip is yon toole of ye popish dyvill “

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of when Ben Stiller told Gene Hackman how important the Poseidon Adventure was to him

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 3d

He’s got a hat. You know, like Jesus.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

The only way to do it imo

Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

Sweet or sour?

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 4d

Freakish Crows HATE this one weird trick

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 4d

'Ophelia' (1852)
the Tate, London
Sir John Everett Millais

Paul D'Amato
from his 'Water for the People' series
a woman in a white dress floating in her back in a flooded street next to a car and a couple of bystanders, her arms extended

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 5d

“Thanks boss!” is going to be the epitaph for an entire genre of journalism.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 5d

Man, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found all but exclusively among ordinary people. It’s not a great situation, but at least we have that much.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 6d

I feel I have to be careful with arguments like this, as I’m self-aware enough to know that—for me personally—this is the quickest path to becoming a reactionary.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6d

I am under 35. All of my higher-ed teaching experience was within grad school so fairly recent. I am not some crusty boomer. And I have seen this. It has gotten worse! Far worse!

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 7d

Looks like a homemade Wide Awakes sticker, spotted in the wild in Philly!

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

Homemade Wide Awakes sticker seen on a Philadelphia lamppost

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 11d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11d

Lookin good, little dude!

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11d

Man, it is just intolerable. Every day a new outrage. I don’t know how this ends.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, politics is not the lecture hall, and rolling up to the protest with reviewer #2 and a bibliography seems unlikely to get results.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 12d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 14d

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 14d

I greatly appreciate how you explain the rationale behind ideas other people would present as simple rules. Understanding these things has really helped me improve my wardrobe.

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Martin Guerre (real) @albemuth.bsky.social · 14d

You’re telling me sucking up to fascists while they go after other groups doesn’t work? And then they just come after you? Damn, somebody should write a poem about it.