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Gamma Donna

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Earthling, human, live-in Gamma of 3, retired music educator, domestic violence counselor, and tiny shard of the Cosmos. ✨ “We are here to help each other get through this thing…whatever it is.” • Kurt Vonnegut 🚫 DMs w/o permission = block

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · Jan 15

Resist much
— obey little.

• Walt Whitman, 1885

B & white image of a smiling woman from bygone era, touching her straw hat with one hand and resting a big pitchfork on her other side.

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1m

My 8 year old grandddughter is bugging us every day for candy corn ‘now’. I like it too, but it needs to be Brach’s. 🎃🧡

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 57m

My Goddess!
I’m one big shiver on two feet. 🎵🖤🎵

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Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

😉

a man wearing a top hat and a purple suit is holding a glass of water .

ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a purple suit is holding a glass of water .

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

I fell down a small rabbit hole the other day looking up writings on the ludicrous term “influencer”, which the media keeps using it as if any of these people are anything other than self -aggrandizing opportunists.
This one’s decent:

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How the Word 'Influencer' Lost All Meaning

Are we all influencers now? Or do we just need new terms to describe online people with personal brands who sell products and themselves?

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

Why $20B — no wait, it’s $40B now? Safeguarding Bessent’s buddies investment bets in Argentina, of course.

Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 1h

WHY WE CRY FOR ARGENTINA

Hedge funds and billionaires with ties to Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are heavily invested in Argentine stocks and bonds, betting on Milei.
The bailout uses U.S. taxpayer funds to "bail out Bessent's buddies."

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve suggested the pronoun “It” for years for this malignant (psychopathic) narcissist predator. I still wish my usage had caught on. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, Jan. 🏆

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, — despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—…

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

No Kings.
“…and when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love…”

Mad Wanna-Be King Trumpty Dumpty,is a legend in his own rotting delusional brain.

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You'll Be Back - Hamilton (Original Cast 2016 - Live) [HD]

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 1h

…one hardly even notices the corpses anymore…
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KIMMEL: HELLHOLE 1 - PORTLAND #SHOWMEYOURHELLHOLE #PEPPERSPRAYFROG #satire #kimmel #comedy #frogs

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 3h

Because neurons that fire together, wire together there are myriad songs for each moment of life on The Happy Planet. For our blue moments:

“You ain’t been blue,
No, no, no.
You ain’t been blue …” 💙

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Annie Lennox - Mood Indigo (Live)

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 3h

How much money does the Predator-in-Chief & his oligarch patrons hope to personally profit in their scheme to tamper in Argentina’s upcoming election? Pathocratic gov’ts do NOTHING for public reasons. There’s always a quid pro quo. I’ve read no one asking the actual question. Qui bono? Who benefits?

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 3h

How much money does the Predator-in-Chief and his oligarch patrons hope to personally profit from in their scheme to tamper in Argentina’s upcoming election? Pathocratic gov’ts do NOTHING for public reasons. There’s always a quid pro quo. I’ve read no one asking the question. Qui bono? Who benefits?

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 5h

Yep… their compulsion and passion to have absolute and unrestricted control over a living beings. Textbook malignant narcissism.

“It is the nature of the pathology to bring about death and destruction; ideology or any other outward claim is only the pretext.”

Bandy X. Lee

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

“Those boys were just goofing around” is just a paraphrase of: “it’s only locker room talk”, and “He was just joking.”.

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

😉 🐸

Frogs falling down from a blue sky with scattered fluffy white clouds.… text on image:

Chance of Frogs … 80%

(Adapted by me years from a screenshot the movie Magnolia)

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

Watchers…always watching…
Cool. 🖤

Each story we tell of the stories we live is a fragment in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve never had a talking airport. I feel so cheated.
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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 7h

They made him 3D model dioramas of the WH rooms and spaces he’s remodeling. He gives spontaneous tours of renovations in progress. But, sure… he brokered a peace deal.

Powerful grasping men tend to shove a Demented leader out front, so HE can be the puppet & the dancing bear everyone focuses on, whilst they dismantle & remake the state according to their agenda.

Decades ago, the world's three major superpowers were ALL headed by Demented leaders. Remember? There was Reagan in the US, Deng Xiaoping in China, & Brezhnev in Russia. In fact Pope JPII was Demented in the end, as was NRA head, Charlton Heston.

WHY would powerful, ambitious, grasping men WANT to be managed by a competent leader?”

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 9h

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 8h

Yep. Exactly what my long ago saved text says… I saved it just BEFORE g to he 2016 election.

Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 9h

There must be a Twitler figurine for his tiny playhouse rooms don’tcha think?

From RawStory: “The tenser things are, the more he moves the [diorama] pieces around in his spare time,”

Of course he does.

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Spaceballs (8/11) Movie CLIP - Dark Helmet Plays With Dolls (1987) HD

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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe he has a tiny Predator-in-Chief figurine to play with in the dioramas.

Rapidly deteriorating neurological function in tandem with decompensating Cluster B personality disorder. This was always where it was going. Always. And the autocrat-oligarchy knew it.

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