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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 8m

Guys, I think we can take them

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 2h

Almost experienced death by Christmas tree AMA or whatever

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 9h

"In the event I am incapacitated, I, Jonathan Be Good, would like a drizzle of glue poured over me. This will serve as a nice cheesey appearance, along with the cheese."

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 11h

What a fucking pussy

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

🤦🏻‍♂️

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 23h

Corkscrew like a duck

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 23h

No.

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

Zylla, one of the coolest punks you could ask for, made a new video about why fascist appeasers suck. It's real good, so give it a lookie-loo

Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 1d

My new video essay, You Can't Appease Fascists, is now live. I think this one is really important. I hope you watch it. youtu.be/g6K2UnQiggk

You Can't Appease Fascists | Cat's Cradle

YouTube video by Zylla's Athenaeum

youtu.be

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but wtf happened?

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

You're an artist. Make something.

Gonna start saying that to myself

Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 1d

'You're an engineer. Build something.' from Iron Man 3 works every time for me. Brain too full! No words coming out! Talent has fled the building! Oh wait no there it is

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

Some jobs absolutely should be replaced by robots. Not for money but because they're so physically destructive to the body

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

About halfway through an ER rewatch and it's kinda amazing and depressing all the large and small ways this show can feel ahead of the times, progressive even

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

@mainelymandy.bsky.social well that's ironic lol

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 1d

FYI: Zach Cregger's newest film WEAPONS is finally coming to streaming, with the Julia Garner-led movie sprinting to HBO Max next week.

WEAPONS Sprints To Streaming On HBO Max Next Week

Zach Cregger's newest film WEAPONS is finally coming to streaming, with the Julia Garner-led movie sprinting to HBO Max next week.

dlvr.it

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

This is my shocked face.

Buncha fucking monsters

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 1d

Been on Linkin Park tear lately and I honestly think Reanimation was their best album

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

lol ok I know Dr. Manhattan wasn't quite that caked up in the comic

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

Life is a brutal cavalcade of pain and misfortune which often find myself feeling overwhelmed by.

But then @mainelymandy.bsky.social says she loves me and suddenly I don't feel so bad 🥰

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

lol cry hard about it

Al Lane @allane625.bsky.social · 3d

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

www.alternet.org/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court 'expects to run out of funding' in hours due to shutdown: report

Both the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the federal judiciary itself is about to run completely out of money to do anything beyond basic operations, according to a new report.The Hill...

www.alternet.org

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

As the possessor of numerous Criterion discs, yeah...

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

Then yeah, couple days maybe

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Otoboke Beaver
John Roseboro
Gunship
Chris Stapleton
Castle Rat
Nox Arcana
Rosegarden Funeral Party
DeVotchKa

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 3d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

The Killers
The Beastie Boys
Paramore
Tyler, The Creator
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Scene Queen
Chappell Roan
My Chemical Romance

Kunt Vonnegut™️ @op-ivymoon.bsky.social · 3d

Divine your music taste in eight artists:

Ani DiFranco
Portishead
Against Me!
Cheap Perfume
Dillinger 4
Every Time I Die
Bikini Kill
Devo

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

Like pants pants? Maybe a couple of days? Depends on what I do in them

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Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like the movie much but there's a scene where he drunkenly leaps from a window and shouts what to me sounds like "meatbag" and its lived rent-free in my head for years

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 4d

Next book:

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 4d

Particularly impressive is the way Beuhlman mak e s the characters yet likeable, but still feel *of* the world they inhabit

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 4d

5/5. Weaving together surreal horror, earnest drama, and pitch black comedy, Between Two Fires is a masterful tale of redemption and forgiveness through a phantasmagoric medieval France wracked by war, plague, famine, and much, MUCH worse

Bisexual Soft Dumbass 🍉 @christoherward.bsky.social · 18d

Next book: Between Two Fires