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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 2h

If it turns out to be male birth control I’m going to laugh my ass off.

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3h

Is agreeing not allowed?

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3h

He knows.

www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

Trump says he doesn’t think he’ll get into heaven

President Trump, who has repeatedly pondered the afterlife in recent months, told reporters on Air Force One: “I think I’m not, maybe, heaven-bound.”

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone who tells you protesting and voting is meaningless is lying.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Madagascar Military Seizes Power, Then Nation Explodes in Joy

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 3h

I’m amazed he believes in hell.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 7h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 4h

Alex Jones is 51.

a man is screaming into a microphone in front of a sign that says info wars

ALT: a man is screaming into a microphone in front of a sign that says info wars

media.tenor.com

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 12h

Why is he on fire? Nothing else is on fire? Portland is not on fire!

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 12h

Which is exactly why people need to stay non violent and keep showing up in clown gear. They are desperately trying to trigger a serious conflict so they can use it as propaganda. Whatever the enemy wants, don’t give it to them.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 12h

Not for nothin but that’s exactly how they felt in 1940.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

lmao for a hot second I thought you were a tourist

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

White people on the left seriously act like people of color made up racism to sow division & if we can just get in line & absolve them of their privilege we can all get back to the class war.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

Which is why, liberal as I am, I don’t trust progressives.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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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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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

They know these protests are organic, this is a pretext for seizing nonprofit funds and the wealth of whatever rich liberals are getting on their nerves.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

One can only make peace with an enemy. Sooner or later, no matter the losses on either side, they will both have to give up the fight if they want to live in peace.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

See, this is what I expect.

Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a fact.

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Piri Martine @piri.bsky.social · 1d

Which is so incredibly essential. Clowning them is a million times better than fighting them. They WANT the fight to turn it into propaganda.

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