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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 51m

He will sleep till noon, but before it's dark...

Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 1h

alt-text: Archie's "Big Ethel" character lopes, disgruntled, through a park. "I REJECT the self that God created!" she says. "I reject God's authority! I'll take it out on ALL authority!!!" Her deranged-looking footsteps take her close to an innocent KEEP OFF THE GRASS SIGN.

Art/story: Al Hartley.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jan 3

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11h

Pondering the equivalent Loki rules. I think Rule One would be "never use a contraction if you can help it when Loki is speaking. He's an eternal deity. He's got time to say the whole word. Also he's fancy and pretentious."

LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 12h

Wile E Coyote's rules were both spoken and very specific.

The Rules:

1. The Road-Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “beep-beep!”

2. No outside force can harm the Coyote—only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.

3. The Coyote could stop anytime—if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” –George Santayana)

4. No dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!”

5. The Road-Runner must stay on the road—otherwise, logically, he would not be called Road-Runner.

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters—the southwest American desert.

7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.

9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6h

most people on the left simply dont actually know or understand what is on fox. i would implore you on this issue to defer to those of us who understand it, probably more than we understand our own families

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 5h

Wary of RFK Jr., Colorado started revamping its vaccine policies in the spring

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues, some Democratic-led states have struck out on their own.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 5h

They’re giving away their game plan. There will be instigators among us.
Be alert.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 3h

It'll always be amusing to me (probably) that in the ST:DS9 episode where Sisko goes into "The Trouble With Tribbles," he takes the place of a Yeoman at the end, and as he leaves the bridge, Kirk checks his ass and gives it a look of approval.

Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 3h

Forget the bird. Follow the river!

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 3h

Why isn't he making license plates?

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 5h

and government workers aren’t getting paid while congress is.

so, basically, we taxpayers are funding vacations for GOP congresspeople while also dealing with the downstream effects of a shutdown.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

Bernie Kerik is one of the worst characters of our time. He was carrying on an affair as police commissioner using an apartment specially reserved for 9/11 crews clearing debris from Ground Zero. He was a convicted felon and helped wreck Iraq. He deserved precisely zero tributes in public life.

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 19h

"Kerik's professional biography is long, fascinating, and so chock-a-block with outrageous and alarming episodes of moral failure that his life takes on a sort of mythic scale, a tall tale of rolling skullduggery." - @nickpinto.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

Fitting that one of the last major things he did with his life was work on the team that tried to steal an election for Donald Trump

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

Bernie Kerik is one of the worst characters of our time. He was carrying on an affair as police commissioner using an apartment specially reserved for 9/11 crews clearing debris from Ground Zero. He was a convicted felon and helped wreck Iraq. He deserved precisely zero tributes in public life.

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 19h

"Kerik's professional biography is long, fascinating, and so chock-a-block with outrageous and alarming episodes of moral failure that his life takes on a sort of mythic scale, a tall tale of rolling skullduggery." - @nickpinto.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 4h

There must be something more clearly connected with human excrement that they could name after him.

Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 4h

They always side with Death now.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5h

Disgusting Nazified Time magazine cover touting the triumph of Trump's will in Gaza

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

in a 6-3 decision the supreme court has ruled time magazine was “very mean and nasty to mr president trump” for using a low angle picture highlighting his neck waddle

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 4h

An edit button that only changes my own copy.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5h

Alt text: The first gif you come to when you click on laugh or laughter. Yeah, that one.

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5h

I used to back into the garage, and now my daughter always does. I take my fatherly pride (eg, "look! she's doing stuff I showed her!") where I find it.

And yeah, she's using a screen, so I can tell myself I dun it the hard way.

Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5h

Oh boy! Less than a decade out, and I've found someone who's mildly interested!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

A famous Dril tweet that reads “issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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