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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 5h

The problem is that lot of other people also grew up as Republicans in the 1990s, and that’s how we know that what you’re saying isn’t true. Maybe not this exact language, and sure some of us tut-tutted about those who used this language, but we knew what we were lying down with.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 2d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...

Abolhassan Banisadr, the former President of Iran, has also stated "that the Reagan campaign struck a deal with Tehran to delay the release of the hostages in 1980", asserting that "by the month before the American Presidential election in November 1980, many in Iran's ruling circles were openly discussing the fact that a deal had been made between the
Reagan campaign team and some Iranian religious leaders in which the hostages' release would be delayed until after the election so as to prevent
President Carter's re-election."

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Daily Tokusatsu @dailytokusatsu.bsky.social · 3d

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 3d

Go further. At the very least we should make each and every one of them face due process. But that can be the compromise position; let the Republicans beg for that due process. There’s an argument for just treating them and their families the way they treat their victims.

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VF5SS @vf5ss.bsky.social · 3d

Transitron!

www.youtube.com/shorts/H4IuK...

自作トランジトロン、合体せよ！ #3dprinting #toystory #トイストーリー

YouTube video by 俺様のなりゆき工房

www.youtube.com

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 3d

I keep hearing things about the latest season of SNW.

We’ve only seen season 1 (busy with kids etc.) and the shine had come off for us by the end of that. Do we just not catch up?

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DiaBrave Sid @diabrave.bsky.social · 5d

So, this here is a special one - G2 Soundwave

@asorohanart did this amazing design a few years back before he passed, and I've worked with the amazing Shins of the Wreckers and @camzilla51 to make it a reality.

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 5d

I love this. Optimus’s truck mode as an ox cart is inspired. More of this kind of thinking please.

Chris McFeely @chrismcfeely.bsky.social · 5d

Transformers is good.

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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking about the Dizzo from Vifam.... I love bizarre quadruped mode it has. Simple transformation, one of the classics of 'rotate the waist 180 degrees.' Main additional thing is the knees on the default legs to be double jointed.

arv-m dizzo rear, showing alternate frontal legs for the quadruped mode

arv-m dizzo quadruped mode, rotating its waist 180 degrees, using the legs mounted on the backpack as front legs, and the above arms now as turrets

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 5d

It was a punchline. Everyone thought it was funny that it was Al Gore’s favorite movie.

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 5d

Mostly people had fun with Al Gore calling it his favorite movie. The reputation was a nerdy failure. Sometimes people would acknowledge that it was neat looking,

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 6d

If they've got you angry with tamale vendors, museum displays and trans kids, you are their perfect dumbass and whatnot.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Mindbender, sitting in a tub of ice, looking at a... microfiche reader(?) displaying a New York Post front page

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 6d

Up all night doing 15 pages on John Milton. By the end I was just pounding out one page per poem but they were my pages. Around 4am I turned on the tv for noise and for some reason it was a live Black Sabbath show, and I knew I would be okay.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 6d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Szkin 🏳️‍⚧️ 💛 💙 @szkinart.net · 7d

not sure how i missed the fact the ISS apparently has cube shaped Haros on it now

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 8d

Last time you ran pro-Trump ads and rightfully got your clock cleaned. Democrats would do better with basically anyone else.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8d

I will never vote for this man. I'm just going to say that right now

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 8d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 9d

With all this complex stuff going on you'd think the shins would lock together. I like the one I have a lot, but I‘m also not pursuing any others.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 9d

If I didn't know better, I'd say the people running BlueSky don't actually believe in decentralized moderation

Vergil @ ✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️ @vergiliaux.art · 9d

BSky hid @asukafield.xyz's transphobia mod list. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Blue Sky's interface for hidden moderation lists, saying the following: "This list, created by @asukafield.xyz , contains possible violations of Bluesky's community guidelines in its name or description." Offered choices are to unsubscribe or go back.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10d

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12d

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 10d

I’m a pretty hardcore Transformers fan and I don’t even know where to get information about this. Where is this discussion about/with SAMG happening?

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 10d

I’m sorry, David.

Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 10d

The dinosaur mode is so cute. This is what I want from Transformers Missing Link.

Transformers Toy Patents @tfpatents.bsky.social · 10d

Filed 1985-01-31, an unproduced car/dinosaur/robot triple changer by Daishirou Shibukawa. He later went on to create Sandstorm as well as Bruticus and Abominus. There are many unproduced triple changers from this time period. JPS61130292U

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g @no-stunts.bsky.social · 12d

you know, in japan, the protomen are called the blues brothers

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Chip @dinosaurrobo.bsky.social · 11d

I’d thought Metal Cardbot was getting a full US release, on store shelves where kids can discover them. Not the website of the guys who bought BotCon. I half expect the preorders will be by fax.

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