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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 20h

Turns out there's only so many people who want to buy a hideous, expensive novelty car

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

PHILOMENA CUNK: It was actually illegal in England for The Obese to be employed in the film business until 1983. Why do you think that was?
JIMINY GLICK: [ignoring question, high pitched voice] Have you ever noticed how lesbians and British women dress the same? [sudden low pitch] Why is that?

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 1d

Logging on

Bernie Langer @bernielanger.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite early unpublished short stories is about some dumbass high school football players using mellified man as a performance-enhancing drug

Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER: It's mellified man

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 1d

No one on Earth loves books as much as the protagonist of a YA novel

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 3d

2 years ago Nebraska would've found 19 ways to lose this game. Tonight they only found 16, so they won

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 5d

This will be all over the society pages

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 5d

Lee Greenwood had one hit almost half a century ago and now every right wing chud has to pretend to like it because they've alienated themselves from every piece of pop culture that isn't as paranoid and miserable as themselves

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 5d

I think Lee Greenwood needs money

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 5d

He's right and people should say it

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

Your "that's an insult to [thing negatively cited]" rejoinder is not funny; I'm quite confident in asserting that.

Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 6d

I know you're doing a bit, but it's often helpful to first ask yourself if anybody other than yourself will find it funny

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 7d

I think it's that Dem leadership has been so limp and feckless that people are desperate for someone who acts like they give a shit, so they glommed onto him without understanding what his whole deal is.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 7d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 8d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 7d

Love it that the Midwest includes a state that's like an hour from the Atlantic Ocean

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 7d

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

👀👀👀👀

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 7d

[whispering to date while looking at the photo next to my name and seeing my backyard] That's my backyard in my photo next to my name

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d

When I say MAGA is post-truth, one of the things I mean is the movement—along with its fellow travelers and apologists—approaches the world insisting that there’s no such thing as factual reality, there are only words and images that are good or bad for one’s team.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 8d

I am following this debut, and I don’t know anyone who can explain why an opinion journalist has been chosen as Editor-in-Chief. Did we need more opinion at CBS?

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 8d

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 8d

Lots of overlap, but IMO the biggest difference is that Whedon's characters are telling jokes, while Gunn's characters are participating in jokes being told by the director

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 9d

Amy McGrath? The candidate who lost to the second-most hated man in America??

Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 9d

Each year is better than the next

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10d

That slap happened a long time ago I think he's just milking it now

Tim Kelly @timkellysports.bsky.social · 10d

Will Smith said his hand is close to 100%, and he believes he could come in off the bench and hit. He even said he thinks he could catch nine innings now.

But, he said he doesn’t expect to be in the starting lineup tonight.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social · 11d

This rules