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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 6h

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 15m

jinx

carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 17m

I know,

I shouldn't have scrolled down through the comments because of course someone posted a picture of this ..... item

a close up of a man 's face making a funny face

ALT: a close up of a man 's face making a funny face

media.tenor.com

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 22m

Well who knew?

I did not have "reinvent the merkin" on my fast fashion horrors Bingo card

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 10h

me,

half way into Sober October,

(punk rock and endurance might still save my life)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sc8...

Green Day - Hitchin' A Ride (Video)

YouTube video by Green Day

www.youtube.com

carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 11h

Dear Dog,

is Mel hitting the sauce again?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 16h

I recall an investment wholesaler I met at business lunch, classic big Boston Irish democrat, complaining bitterly when Presley won the primary

Because the district would lose “all its clout in Congress” he said.

I thought to myself that’s not your real problem with her guy

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 17h

You (we) need video of that moment playing on loop on CNN and every legacy TV news outlet ASAP

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 21h

honest question,

what is the quality of LLM produced slop going to be when it's mostly just regurgitating it's own slop?

(how much worse can it be? stay tuned to find out soon)

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 1d

or....

historical fiction circa 1960.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 1d

yes,

BMW clearly understands and has implemented 21st century enshitification.

Promise your customers a great product, deliver a lesser product and charge them a monthly fee for it's basic use.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 1d

honestly,

if you're the kind of guy that buys a new B-mer (and likely Armani suits at retail price)

you deserve the monthly fee for heated seats.

Cold? zip up your under utilized Patagonia vest or throw on your Burberry scarf

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie who?

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 1d

in our brave new world of constant disinformation

one must have the skills of an expert media critic and a graduate level researcher just to stay somewhat sane.

Even those with said skills are having difficulty keeping up.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

I actually applaud the editors act of resistance,

sure the story was going to run regardless.

But let's make the photo just off enough that every time Donnie looks at the Time cover he's coveted his whole life and so will hang on the walls of all his resorts,

He cringes inside.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

for all the commentary on how that cover was a Leni Riefenstahl hommage,

I realized that it would perturb Chetolini.

both for his lack of hair and the blooming neck waddles coming up from his shirt.

He is as vain as he is corrupt to the core.

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Merry Miller @monetpainter.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

time to press some suits, polish my oxfords, dust off the bowties,

and make my bespoke tailor great grandfather proud in the great beyond again.

Would that other American men would join me, but I know better that to expect that

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

I'm ambivalent about hats,

But I keep waiting for the pendulum to swing back from overly casual dress all the time & everywhere,

I started going 100% business casual at the office during the lockdown, and now I hate that I mostly still do.

Fortunately I just got a new batch of dress shirts, so...

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

cowboys hats should only be worn while riding or immediately before/after riding a horse.

Any other time makes one a "dude" in the original derogatory meaning of the term.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 2d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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carlring.bsky.social @carlring.bsky.social · 2d

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