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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 15h

It's Halloween season: an excuse to misuse makeup like I'm 5.

A selfie of me bending down and looking very stern. I drew tribal-like lines and dots with black eyeshadow, red lip liner, and silver eyeliner on my face.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 1d

Love this tracker from UPenn. My favorite is the expense breakdown. USDA Farm Service spending is up 788.7% YTD. Farmers can STFU. TIPS interest is up almost 200% over the past 90 days, understandably. Wild data. Great charts. Props to econ/fin nerds. 👍

budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker — Penn Wharton Budget Model

The Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker reports the federal government’s daily cash operations, including daily spending, receipts, and deficits.

budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday 🎉

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 2d

This tree likes to pretend we get fall in SoCal.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 2d

And, now, the project will cost more, too. Up by a smidge of a few dozen millions in just a couple of days.

I am so shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

Aha, so, the new WH ballroom project has already grown in size from a capacity of 650 to 999 people, and the construction hasn't received all the approvals...

Just you wait. We'll end up with an ugly ass, half-built Trump Tower as the East Wing.

🤮

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 3d

I attended yesterday's LexisNexis Protege webinar. All I could think about as I watched Protege draft legal eagle documents was just how the Spreadsheet was supposed to revolutionise work and how much paper pushing we still do. AI is a glorified Spreadsheet iteration, not the cotton gin, people.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 4d

"Now, I know this might sound crazy -
But I've smelled the plastic daisies,
And it seems we've found ourselves in Hell."

- Avenged Sevenfold, "Mattel," 2023

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 4d

I just have to say that I am exceptionally proud of Moldova's strides toward EU membership.

And, I also realized that my passport expired. 😂

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

My least favorite part of grief is that it just doesn't end. Time does not heal like people say - it's a myth. I just go on and play pretend like the gaping hole isn't there.

Selfie of me, pretending like all's dandy.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

Aha, so, the new WH ballroom project has already grown in size from a capacity of 650 to 999 people, and the construction hasn't received all the approvals...

Just you wait. We'll end up with an ugly ass, half-built Trump Tower as the East Wing.

🤮

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 6d

One of our neighbors placed gargoyles at their gate. Fuck gargoyles. I want Thor guarding my entrance.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 6d

At first, I was impressed by the thieves' audacity and efficiency. Then, I was less impressed because they lost one of the diadems as they flew the scene. The Louvre continues to entertain the masses with security mishaps.

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

Sam Rivers 💔

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

These jackasses had the USMC fire live 115mm rounds ON LAND today AND last night. There are fucking civilians all around Camp Pendleton. Newsom had to shut down the I-5 due to "life safety risk."

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 8d

When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 8d

Join, or die.
- Ben Franklin, 1754

These are the times that try men’s souls.
- Thomas Paine, 1776

This We'll Defend.
- Continental Army's War Office, 1778

I can't attend the rally because my child has a swim meet, but I will wear yellow.

#nokings

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

It's available for free from local agencies, but public education is lacking and extensive availability is far off.

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

My governor doing governing

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 9d

CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen
CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen
CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen
CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen
CalRx® Insulin costs $11/pen

Available starting January 1, 2026.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

Positively superb, Governor. I saw the news about Albuterol - that's awesome, too. Another consideration should be a more extensive availability of naloxone, please. Just the other day, I saw Costco selling a pack for $55, but counties have been trying to provide these at no cost for people.

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

The current administration managed to ruin even this.

Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

John Bolton is finally getting his and I can't even enjoy it. So wrong.

a close up of a man wearing a shirt and tie

Alt: Jim from The Office nods his head in disappointment.

media.tenor.com

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

👇💯

F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco.bsky.social · 9d

How the fuck is D’Angelo dead but Mitch McConnell is still alive

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

🪦 Ace 🎸😞

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

Attention male metalheads!

Just because I occasionally quote Metallica lyrics, appreciate Avatar's music videos, and have a thing for drums, doesn't mean we're besties.

Jeezusss.

We are not the same. Ok?

Thank you. Carry on.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

Difficult assignment, this defining one's musical tastes.
1. A7X
2. Metallica
3. Elvis Presley
4. Queen
5. Rammstein
6. Rage Against the Machine
7. Eminem
8. Fever Ray
9. Carla's Dreams
10. HIM

Bonus. Michael Jackson, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Prince, and Carl Orff... 🫣😅✨🎶

I am wild, ok?

⛧Nameless Aerialist⛧ @namelessaerialist.bsky.social · 9d

1. Ghost
2. Rush
3. Gorjira
4. Tool
5. Alice in Chains
6. Lamb of God
7. System of a Down
8. Slipknot
9. In Flames
10. Bad Religion

(・ヘ・✿) Draiky (Spooky Variant) @draikanicg.bsky.social · 10d

Define your music taste with (I'm making it 10) artists:

1. Ghost
2. Streetlight Manifesto
3. Cake
4. The M Machine
5. deadmau5
6. Skrillex
7. Killswitch Engage
8. Dreamcatcher
9. Rancid
10. Mumford and Sons

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