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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11h

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PANEL 1: A GREEN GUY is trapped under a big rock. A BLUE GUY is walking by.
GREEN: Hey, a little help?
BLUE: Crushed under the big rock, are we?

PANEL 2: The BLUE GUY, bending down.
BLUE GUY: And you're SURPRISED?
GREEN: Not particularly, no! I'm just kind of in horrible pain–

PANEL 3: The BLUE GUY, standing up and gesticulating.
BLUE: I KNEW that people can be crushed by rocks. For YEARS actually.
GREEN: What do you want, a medal?

PANEL 4: The BLUE GUY is nailed by a big rock.
BLUE: Yeah, that'd be a good start–hrk!

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 9h

(this isn't targeted at op she's cool)

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 9h

cishet women make fun of trans women taking 15 minutes out of their day to dilate as though that isn't exactly what you do, except with a man who hates you instead of a piece of plastic and a YouTube video

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 19h

idk why "it's always been bad" and "it is now bad in a different way than it was before" are so hard to reconcile for people

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 5d

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 20h

least asinine Noah Smith opinion

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 22h

well, they're social conservatives lol

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 23h

the seattle Mariners are challenging the longstanding belief that you get three chances in an inning of baseball

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

god forbid a bitch want to enjoy the moment!

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

sex acts being judged by their ability to realistically finish someone off in that moment is a consequence of patriarchy but we aren't ready for that conversation

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

they have played us for absolute fools

this fucking sucks actually (literal coolest thing ever)

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

"scissoring isn't real/isn't fun/ is just a porn thing" is the biggest lie nuke of all time

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

One Way Or Another, You Oughta Know, Tik Tok

Lily Alexandre @lily-is.online · 2d

deadly serious question for transgender women: what are your go-to karaoke songs

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 1d

the weirdest fucking thing about the old dying man we elected president is that the thing he wants more than anything, that he’s absolutely desperate for, it is to be liked by the people he is trying to kill

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person of fiancée experience @femiurge.bsky.social · 1d

kinda? there is a significant contingent of people who aren't particularly political and some centrist dem types. but it's mostly nazis and the leftists that are still there hate liberals a lot more than they hate nazis

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons