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Eobard Toyotathon @adef187.bsky.social · 10h

Karstens, the Great

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

Also. Also. You know what pisses me the fuck off. Seeing Americans who are all Freedomed up in one way or another being soft on colonialism of all things. Your precious revolution!!!!! Your high flown declarations and constitutions! Is all this anti-colonialism a (shocked breath) posture!?!? Oh my

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

Objection to "Columbus Day" does indeed go far deeper than just the personal hideousness of Cristobal Colon. It is indeed about the genocidal blueprint imposed on two continents that even bears his god damned name

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

We do not need a We Found (did not find, everyone who cared knew this continental mass existed) The Continent Day because we do not need another White Peoples' Day. All the holidays until thirty seconds ago were White Peoples' Day.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

Objection to "Columbus Day" does indeed go far deeper than just the personal hideousness of Cristobal Colon. It is indeed about the genocidal blueprint imposed on two continents that even bears his god damned name

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

Which is fuckin hugely bad and is ably illustrated by what a monstrous fuckass charnelmonger he was

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe my most anti-woke opinion is that this type of thing is really annoying. Columbus Day isn’t about what a great guy he was, it’s commemorating discovery of the Americas by Europeans

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 7h

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A silhouette of a man pointing down to the ground, as if to claim it. In truth he has come to collect it. The man is the Collector of All Things; all things in their time will be gathered by him and taken to the world of shades and shadows. He collects people of course. But also birds of the sky and beasts of the earth. And too, the nonliving of the earth, the still and inanimate, the steel and the stone. And finally the earth itself will be pointed to by the Collector and gathered up as well, so that nothing here remains. The Collector takes everything.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

And as to the soaps, in the days before travelling video games and the Internet daytime TV was always a godsend to professional athletes who have a lot of their down time when other people are at work

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

Absolutely love the Shaker

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 7h

High tide waves crashing over the Brant Rock sea wall in Marshfield. This nor’easter is no joke.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 7h

He has never once been able to do that. Learned at the other place: if you don't block him he'll steal your shit word for fuckin word

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 8h

I am not particularly worried about this one element producing the wrong impression, it just speaks to an incredible sloppiness and an embrace of imprecision that isn't compatible with good news practice.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 8h

It's certainly frustrating to see the CBC set such low standards for its news writing.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 17h

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 9h

The traditional Canadian Thanksgiving propitiation of the dromedary

A photo of me, large bearded white guy, feeding a dromedary

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · 11h

🎞️ “Se la conté a [Guillermo] Del Toro y dijo: ‘Es buenísima. Si pueden, deberían hacerla’. Frankelda ronda nuestros sueños, definitivamente”, narran los hermanos Roy y Arturo Ambriz dozz.es/gsznf4

Dentro de la fábrica mexicana de sueños y pesadillas en ‘stop motion’ apadrinada por Guillermo del Toro

La película animada ‘Soy Frankelda’, de Arturo y Roy Ambriz, apadrinada por el cineasta Guillermo del Toro, llega a las salas con una historia sobre una escritora frustrada del siglo XIX que viaja a su subconsciente para enfrentar a sus monstruosas creaciones

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 9h

But any and all attempts to force that party to a table, and keeping them there, are exceptionally good in terms of advancing the wider cause of peace

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 9h

It's ok to be wait and see about anything, and if your predictions sound a disturbing litany of being wrong it can be preferable. I see no reason to wait; one party to the deal for example has an extravagant and extensive track record with "deals".

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

PSA: It’s okay to be wait-and-see on Gaza and the Israel-Hamas deal. You don’t have to definitively declare what’s going to happen and comment on that, nor take any national leader’s word on what they expect.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14h

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 15h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 14h

I can spin an entire story on the angle of that thumb and the wrist that meets it and if you're like me at all so can you. A frisson. All the more amusing because it's Yogi Berra

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 14h

that fuckin right hand on Yog'

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 14h

ok but seriously #alttext

Yogi Berra, left, and Joe DiMaggio, right, are standing and smiling in the Yankee clubhouse. Black and white photo. The This is postgame; both are sweaty and mussed from their caps and helmets and Joe still has his uniform pants and belt on. Yogi is young; his head is tilted and he has a massive toothy smile, as does Joe, who has a fatherly/brotherly/tenderly right arm around the young catcher, but with his hand draped on his chest rather than clasping or grasping him. Joe looks knowing and avuncular as he often did and both a' dem look incredibly Italian.

Yogi is shorter, he was about 5-8. Even his face is muscle at this early stage of his career, you can only see a bit of his right hand but it is absolutely huge, very distracting actually. His hair is dark and long for the era, his chin is delightful.

Joe is around 6-1 and may still have his spikes on, so he is comparatively much taller. He also has dark hair, shorter. His gapped smile is so great, Joe was a hugely handsome man at this stage. He has a great athlete's wonderful neck, just glorious to look at.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 15h

It would be nice if we didn't use city property to plant and propagate invasive foreign tree species

Especially after we cut down at least a thousand native trees here (n the escarpment too!) in the last decade

A shot of the clubhouse at Chedoke golf course

A ginkgo tree freshly planted at Chedoke golf course for fucking landscaping

Proving the tree, the label is a ginkgo balboa

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 17h

("other road users and bystanders" = child and adult pedestrians, cyclists, other vehicles, infrastructure and buildings, damage from which accelerates wildly as vehicles get larger)

daily dose of estragon @craigburley.com · 17h

The last one is vehicle storage space, the costs of allowing and providing parking, where size is a factor but weight itself isn't

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