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I used to be on the other site now I’m here. For some reason not really interested in divulging personal information online these days. GOOD TIMES. Thoughts are my own. I don't care if you follow me or not. I just need to vent

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 5d

Yesterday I asked my wife if she’d write a song about my ding-dong and discovered she was unaware of the Taylor Swift song or any of the discourse around it. I really wish people could’ve seen the look on her face

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

aside from the 1989 to 2018 stretch it’s been pretty great

Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 8d

being a dodgers fan must be incredible. you check in around september, and either they win the world series or you start watching the lakers. then if the lakers don’t win the finals you can check stats and start bragging about how many all-stars the dodgers have

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 10h

Be your own Taylor

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 10h

She’s two years from starting an MLM

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 11h

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 12h

vonnegut god I wish my school would’ve assigned vonnegu

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12h

Let's be positive, what are 5 books you'd assign for a high school English class to get the kids on board with literature? I'll start
The Remains of the Day
Fatelessness
A Bend in the River
The Life & Times of Michael K
The Handmaid's Tale

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone has their kink and Ron Darling’s happens to be hungover deadbeat dads

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12h

Ron, I'm sorry, but no matter how you qualify it you cannot say that Blake Snell has one of the "best faces" in the game.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12h

Saying nothing would’ve been a better option

Joe Biden I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives.

The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 12h

Many now recognize that Trump Lives In A Permanent 1980s Time Capsule Of The World. But feels like a lot of the "anti-woke" sentiment comes from a similar, deeply aggrieved sentiment from people outraged they've been asked to learn anything beyond what they were taught between 7 and 18 years old.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 12h

you knew him well

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

tim heidecker rocks

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 1d

Deep respect for the great TC but I must say - Pierce & Buchanan enabled the Civil War, Johnson hobbled Reconstruction, Hoover worsened the Depression, & Bush started two disastrous wars while wrecking the economy. RN has a lot to answer for but he's a few down the list...

T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 1d

The former #1 worst president in U.S. history. Guess who has pushed him into the #2 spot?

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 13h

nick fuentes blocked me on twitter because i made fun of him for picking his nose and eating his boogers on camera and told him i was going to lock him in a gym locker and arc a piss stream up into the air vent

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 14h

you push these guys as to what they mean by "extreme" and it always comes down to "called me a centrist loser on a social media platform"

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 16h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 13h

Brie Brie was always just a left Shaun King if you were paying attention

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 13h

Oh this is a murderers row of people I knew were full of shit 10 years ago

Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 17h

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

“We just put on our hard hats, pack our lunch pails, and show up to work everyday.”

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h

This gimmick sucks. Brewers are awesome; dodgers know them; let’s not be dumb

Brewers manager Pat Murphy: ‘I'm sure that most Dodger players can't name eight guys on our roster. No offense to them, they shouldn't have to know the names, but these are some guys that hopefully they know their names by the time it's over. You never know.’

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 21h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 14h

He’ll commend MTG but can’t endorse Mamdani.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Jeffies on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks."

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 16h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 17h

There was this armenian kid in junior high who saw goodfellas and decided he was Italian

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who believes that the Brewers winning the World Series will suddenly cause Rob Manfred and the owners to come off of their "WE MUST HAVE A SALARY CAP" stance is an idiot rube of the highest order and I refuse to take such people seriously. bsky.app/profile/pass...

Passanthallich @passanthalbot.bsky.social · 20h

@JeffPassan tweeted
The NLCS begins tonight. And it could have a profound effect on whether baseball is played in 2027.

Free at ESPN: Why Milwaukee vs. Los Angeles is a proxy for the game’s greater labor battle and how the result will be used as a cudgel in the fight ahead: https://t.co/lrWojKhUGd

@JeffPassan tweeted The NLCS begins tonight. And it could have a profound effect on whether baseball is played in 2027. Free at ESPN: Why Milwaukee vs. Los Angeles is a proxy for the game’s greater labor battle and how the result will be used as a cudgel in the fight ahead: https://t.co/lrWojKhUGd

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 20h

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest reads like incel propaganda in 2025

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

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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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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