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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 4h

It's literally abortifacient, so def on brand for the "prolife" administration to use it on people they don't like.

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 4h

How so? They were both created by Congress.

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 13h

My own university in California ended up on The Daily Show because the college Republicans hosted a "w**back race" across the quad. This was in like 2006.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 16h

Will we be the only ones without lead poisoning?

Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 16h

Want to bet you're the antagonist?

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 17h

The last one I was at had a group that fundraised to pay for the spay/neuters, cat shelters, and food (I think to keep the people living there from feeding them just whatever) and they called themselves the Cattaché, which is a very good pun at an embassy!

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 17h

Can you just show them this "handout?"

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 17h

I learned that some embassies that find themselves with stray cats actually just TNR them back into the compound for this reason. They figured it's better to have community cats they know are fixed and vaccinated (as long as they aren't fighting) than to have a rotating cast of unknown cats.

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 17h

dipper from gravity falls is holding a dollar bill in his hand and says this is worthless

ALT: dipper from gravity falls is holding a dollar bill in his hand and says this is worthless

media.tenor.com

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking embarrassing

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, this is so, just... Blue sky, The Internet, idk. 😂

I'm unsure what you've awakened or how to put it back.

Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 1d

Crout?? Is she not baby?

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 1d

Literally hitting the release valve on the things that might make their base get mad about the shutdown, but fuck the people trying to improve public health or sending out the Social Security checks, am I right?

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 1d

They said they're looking for ways to pay law enforcement, so you can bet ICE will be too.

Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's not my birthday.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 2d

H-how??

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 2d

They hate federal workers because career civil servants understand the laws they operate under and tell the GOP that they can't do whatever they want when they're in power.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.

Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1N1kt

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Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 3d

Devour Your Nice Things
Burn the fancy candle.
Wear the special-occasion dress.
Pop the good bottle.
Scribble hurry slowly on the first page
of your leather-bound notebook.
Gorge on your pearls,
your cashmere, your silks.
Use the high-end eyeshadow
until the silver pan winks back.
Baptize your wrists in Baccarat Rouge,
a little extra for the collar.
Devour your nice things—
don't let the best go cold on your plate.
The anticipation of living is empty calories
and you were meant to be full.
Elise M Powers

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly a bike ride by itself probably scares them plenty. There's a reason their side uses huge trucks and ugly boats. They don't have the cardio capacity.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 3d

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 3d

The shade was a much appreciated addition!

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 3d

Candles and crystals/polished stones are always solid choices.

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