derridont.bsky.social
@derridont.bsky.social
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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You ever think about how there was only 1 to 2 months between the actual wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot recording his song.

And how weird and slightly deranged it would be if someone had dropped a banger about a contemporary disaster on its heels.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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"Sing, O Muse, of the world's most divorced man"
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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It never used to be dark by 5pm. They're doing this to demoralize you
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I have anxious disaster brain from navigating a lifetime of disasters, and I genuinely hate how it keeps being proven useful and correct.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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(She made a point about Musk that way too often goes without saying: He is a totally joyless man, so miserable he can hardly tolerate himself)
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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you are correct when you say we are winning this shutdown fight currently but what you have to imagine is, what if we werent?
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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HHS contractor here. We don't get back pay when we're furloughed. All I wanted was for the Dems to hold the line on the ACA demands. I called my senators and told them as much.

Now I'll be out six weeks of income for nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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in terms of cognitive impairment, they say being in the senate is comparable to being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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After a 40-day shutdown over healthcare premiums increasing, 8 Democrats broke ranks to end it.

What they got in exchange? A dedicated Senate vote on raising premiums that Republicans will obviously win.

So, the shutdown was pointless. Democrats just won on Tuesday and still found a way to lose
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Conceding a fight when your opponent has been knocked unconscious and the referee is midway through a 10-count
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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They couldn’t even keep the good vibes from a sweeping electoral win going for a week. We couldn’t even have one week!
the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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> Republicans do possibly the dumbest thing ever and allow the shutdown to be defined around the Republicans defending a suicidally bad policy (?)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Really just an unbelievable series of Ls for people who adopt a realist theory of politics. We have two parties committed to playing this shutdown as stupidly as possible
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM