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Patrick Fenelon

@patrickfenelon.bsky.social

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Foreign Policy. NBA. Democratic Socialism. Cats. i will fight Elon Musk in Outer Space Twitter: @patrick_fenelon

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · Sep 1

I only had him for a year. He had medical issues the whole time. I'm glad I had every minute I did with him

Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm going to miss you, little man. Rest up.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1h

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Pornhub Out of Context 🎃 @nocontextpornhub.bsky.social · Jan 18

This movie is okay but it's no Bladerunner.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3h

potentially the most accurately officiated/announced play in sports history, the umps and the announcer knew exactly what was happening on a once-in-a-lifetime play

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 3h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 4h

There is an ever shrinking group of Pac Mans and they are all lost in a maze of their own failed idealogy (radical centrism) chasing ghosts

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 8h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

NFL is kind of cool this year, every team sucks at least a little bit

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 21h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 4h

He can end it at any time.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 15h

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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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

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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Jordan @slclunk.com · 7h

It’s amazing that Israel went so batshit they lost the “throw Palestinian prisoners into the sea” lady.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 10h

Unconditional support for the Israeli government is counterproductive for both countries. If Trump can get tough, why not Congress and every potus? The Israel right-or-wrong position AIPAC, right-wing Christians, and some US Jews have held is no longer unassailable. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

What now for Israel and Gaza?

No one will be the same.

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Clotworthy Spookington @lizbenbrooks.bsky.social · 13h

“Cheung invoked his favorite thought experiment of considering how a farmer half a century ago might view our current reality.”

50 years ago was 1975.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 9h

postmodern finance theory

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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 18h

Joe Carter
LF
Debut: 1983 - Retired: 1998
TOR - SDP - SFG - BAL - CHC - CLE

Joe Carter at baseball-reference.com

Career stats of Joe Carter

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 8h

Good dogs

El Zilcho @elzilcho.bsky.social · 8h

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Moose meets a herd of cows on the South Dakota prairie.

YouTube video by Dakota Film Co.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 2d

BUSTER KEATON

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15h

Spotted on campus: clearly some kind of landcow

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 9h

A story with the opposite theme of the Open Boat would be "Man vs Nature: The Road to Victory," starring Troy McClure.

Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 9h

I posted the wrong link before. This is the correct one.

Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 9h

The Open Boat is, in my opinion, the greatest American short story ever written. If you have never read it, you should do so public.archive.wsu.edu/campbelld/pu...

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 9h

Also, wrong link

Here's a better one public.archive.wsu.edu/campbelld/pu...

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 9h

The Open Boat is, in my opinion, the greatest American short story ever written. If you have never read it, you should do so public.archive.wsu.edu/campbelld/pu...

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 10h

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