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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 52m

I wrote lyrics for the Battlefield 6 menu music, they go like this:

Chili dogs, chili dogs;
Eating 'dem chili dogs
Pour the wine in a glass
drink it up have a blast

It's based on my horrible unhealthy dinner tonight

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 2h

Good thing he had the top down

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11h

“My lawyer will have me out in an hour.”

A cat is handcuffed by one paw with tiny pink cuffs to a fallen piece of furniture.

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 6h

Just back from my local No Kings protest. Feels good

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 6h

The message I'm trying and failing to convey is that the international relationship doesn't depend on having the dictator. Why is the UK helping Ukraine? Because Ukraine bows before the same dictator?

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 11h

Once again I got into a conversation with a Canadian Monarchist, which I think is the funniest combination of things ever

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 11h

I can guarantee you that "bows before our dictator! Gives him lovely presents!" is number 573462463274523764326 on the list of reasons the UK would support or not an ally in wartime

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 11h

I'm telling you if some of the biggies like Canada or Australia or even New Zealand ditched those assholes, kicked them to the curb like Barbados did, it'd start a landslide and the rest would follow

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 11h

Do you think Barbados has worse ties to the UK now that they've ditched the dictator and become a republic? I highly doubt it. Either way "we won't do it because we're lazy" is not a compelling reason to me, but we're obviously never going to agree here

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 11h

That's when I say "then get rid of them? Lots of other countries did recently" and I'm sure you have a great comeback to that (my favorite was: "we need a dictator because tourism dollars!") and I've had this conversation a thousand times

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 12h

It's not just you. I've had people tell me "move to Canada" and, like, then what? Become a "subject" and make an OATH to follow a king? No matter how bad the US gets, fuck that noise

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Plug McSassy @sj.gg · 14h

here’s how unready mariners fans are for this

i was in a hw store in seattle when suarez hit the gland slam. a lady jogged to the front of the store to ask what happened. “a grand slam? wow! …. with 3 runners on base??” as if maybe a Mariner’s Grand Slam would be worth fewer than 4 runs

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POKEY THE PENGUIN @pokeythepenguin.bsky.social · 1d

YOU MAY ENGAGE WITH POKEY!!!!

HERE I AM!!!!

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 2d

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

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サナダシン＠絵仕事中 @sanadashin.bsky.social · 1d

おはようございます

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Plug McSassy @sj.gg · 1d

when are we gonna get a pope who’s like “fuck the poor, it’s their own fault”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · Nov 20

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 1d

So my stupid Star Trek question is: why don't they ever use Transporter Room 1? Did they beam up a bunch of smokers and can't get the smell out or something?????

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Thevaultoftheatomicspaceage @atomicspaceage.bsky.social · 1d

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

This guy's just-woke-up-from-a-coma act is so good I'm gonna have to steal it. Boss asking you about that missed deadline? Hearing about it for the first time. Wife mad you forgot your anniversary? Sorry I'm not familiar with that person. Weef? Is that how you say it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes if I tap the power pedal on my vacuum too quickly it'll fail to start and just go "wheeeeeeeezzze", and I find that very relatable

blakeyrat 2000 🐀 @blakeyrat.bsky.social · 1d

This is just another grift. They're going to scam "donations" from MAGA die-hards and never deliver jack shit

◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

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ChatsVoid @chatsvoid.bsky.social · 1d

This body is mine…

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 3d

Travis Chapman

Painting of a raccoon water skiing being pulled by an alligator that has got to be swimming very fast indeed there are boys are markers the sides of the river marking out a slalom course that the raccoon is skiing

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