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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 26m

Guy just walked past me with a copy of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and I'm fighting every urge to go nerd out on Superman with him

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 58m

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 3h

It is their agenda to do all that yes

Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 3h

This and other phrases I used on the track when trash talking and playing roller derby

ceej @ceej.online · 3h

if I block you on here it’s usually for your own good

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 3h

Gen X logging on

DD Coutts @deedeecoutts.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is going to be my mantra for the next four years

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 4h

I was a Rush Limbaugh listening , Bob Dole voting Young Republican

My first job out of college was in social services and I served a community where some people worked 80 hours a week and were still in poverty

That's when my brain clued in that everything in my worldview had been a lie

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 4h

Though his legacy is enormous and will stand high among the greatest talents of our time, the man himself–so generous and knowledgeable–will be missed even more by all those who were lucky enough to count him as a friend. 3/3

Cover art for Action Comics #800 (2002), Acrylic paint and colored pencils on gessoed board - 11 ¼ x 18

Superman lift a car overhead with both hands. In the foreground, the artists holds hands to his head in panic.

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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 10h

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 5h

"I made a few substitutions on your list. Now all cookies."

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 5h

We were exposed to the real world outside of our sheltered privileged upbringing and came to the side of reality where justice was needed in the world.

I'm proud of us for seeing it where others just stay in the white privilege echo chamber

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 6h

Cosplay I was kicked out of Legoland for

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 8h

Murphy Anderson covered Strange Adventures 221 (1969).

A gigantic Adam Strange runs amok in a city.

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 6h

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 7h

Busy doing what? It's not like he is working.

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 7h

That little bitch Mike Johnson could bring Congress back and get some news cycle but he is so stupid he is going to leave a news vacuum for the No Kings rallys to take all the TV time this week

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 7h

I know there is a schism on interpreting some of these finer points but I adhere to Gambler Orthodox faith and apply this to all games of chance

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 8h

The Gambler died for your sins and you won't even follow his most important rules to know when to hold em, know when to fold em

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 9h

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 11h

Can confirm. Rose’s pots are stunning but her bubble wrap magic is itself a thing of legend and beauty.

If your idea of a half hour well spent, is in the untangling of a tricky knot, then delicately unwrapping your pot will add to the pleasure of owning it.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13h

Buy a lovely tentacle pot! Safe shipping all around the world due to my magic bubblewrap skills

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 15h

Tim Burton’s The Muppet Movie

Josh Hilby @ilprofessore.bsky.social · 18h

Werner Herzog’s Jungle Book

Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 18h

Kevin Smith’s Oppenheimer

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 20h

Same in DC. It’s been two months.

Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 19h

Rodger could be a cat or a person and this skeet could still be the same

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 20h

Rodger is never prepared for the consequences of bugging me, i.e. me grabbing him, squeezing him, and saying “look at you!” in a funny voice until he mews and squirms away

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☢️Dangerously Radioactive M. O’Lybdenum☢️ @perchorin.bsky.social · 20h

Panera execs desperately tracking down this guy’s phone number

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 20h

Remembering the time they experimented with (but never sold) fried caffeine at the Texas State Fair.

"...with the power of three Red Bulls in it."

"I was actually pretty upset. I thought I had a real winner," Zable said today. He had
two entries that the judges tasted, including fried biscuits and gravy and - wait for it
- fried caffeine. "Caffeine is really bitter when you're working with it, but I figured out a way to mbine it with this lemon filling that made it so that it wasn't bitter at all — it just had this lemon jelly donut taste, with the power of three Red Bulls in it. Judges didn't
go for it."

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 20h

I walked into a skateboard store today and the clerks first words to me were “oh, did you used to skate?”

And I would now like to report to an assisted living facility because instantly I became eleventy billion years old

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Potomac Ripper Inclusive @potomacripper.bsky.social · 21h

This is the guy Trump just gave $20 Billion to instead of the American people