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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 10h

What are you trying to be, a jacked boomer?

Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 10h

Dissatisfied with microplastics (woke???), we've gone for something more visceral and brought back eating lead paint chips

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 10h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 10h

Despite the horrors, and my persisting hysterias of course, a small bright spot is I've made decent progress at Chinese cooking. I'm able to do takeout quality, now to figure out how to do it in under two hours 😹

Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 12h

Meme format, text messages reading "Sofia and Kirsten reunite for a period piece tonite" with eyes emoji, "Sofia and Kirsten reunite for a period piece tonight queen??", and the first message repeated again.

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 13h

Hit the pen a little hard walking into Aldi with this on full blast lmao, mood tho

music.youtube.com/watch?v=iaPF...

We Live So Fast (Remastered 2006)

YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 15h

"It is through the same slippage between the "right" to vote and electoral "duty" that the divestment of the political sphere is signaled."
- Simulacra and Simulation

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

If you are interested in old New York gay history, watch old episodes of The Emerald City, the first TV show made for gay and trans people. 1977, right before AIDS. My old film teacher Gene Stavis produced and interviewed in it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQW...

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

All of this to say all the people supposedly above you have generally abdicated any engagement in whatever they're supposed to be in charge of, and they dgaf so why should you?

Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

Their requests would sometimes be absurd, obvious non-starters, and I'd try to get them to understand that. I'd end up doing the work anyways.

Anything I requested was usually shot down or deeply hindered. Several things I wanted to do are now huge businesses in and of themselves 🫩

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

All decisionmaking (if it ever happened rather than getting kicked down the road) could only happen in the brief possibility space of a Teams call, though most of that call would be meandering chatter about whatever buzzword or bullshit they heard from another executive

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of reports, analysis, financial models, deep industry research, etc. often for things they would request which were so obviously nonsense.

Then they wouldn't bother to read or even skim any of the material I produced, again for emphasis, at their request 🙄

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

Very succinct thread, can attest to this at least anecdotally. Spent years trying to get executives to engage with any of the things they asked for, constantly warning them about severe threats to their business.

Finally they told me to pound sand. Yes the company has completely collapsed now lol

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

The voluntary illiteracy of executive decision-makers is an underrated part of how we got here.

Information comes through to them by meetings instead of written reports (which they seldom read much, if any, of), and they operate chiefly on rumor and vibe rather than any sort of hard info.

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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June LaLonde @junelalonde.bsky.social · 1d

It's either cigarette music or non-cigarette music

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

We need to canonize Matt Levine as one of the greats of American writing

eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 1d

postmodern finance theory

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite little details in DS9 is that Ben Sisko's Dad runs a restaurant, in a world full of replicators, in which no one has to work for money to survive. Why? Because that is what he wants to do. It's simple, but it is one of the most optimistic things about Star Trek.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

It truly is one of the best albums ever recorded, that's the skeet!

music.youtube.com/watch?v=O7no...

Glamour Profession

YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic

music.youtube.com

Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly his performance in this episode is hot garbage

Happy Thanksghouling! @spacefordogs.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly haunted by Bill Maher’s hair in an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Scarier than any Cronenberg body horror. The way it moved…there was a…lag. As though it had a mind of its own, but not a very smart one. I last saw this ep months ago

Former American actor Bill Maher with an executive mullet in the 1989 episode of Murder, She Wrote “Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble”

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 2d

This is incredible

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3d

From: Fair, then Partly Piggy (1988), dir. Toshio Hirata, Oh! Production

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17d

everybody who said i'd neither the courage nor intellect to buy two different kinds of weed at the weed store got pretty quiet all the sudden

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 2d

Obsessed with him oh my god

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 2d

Economy going so good even the Turkish mafia fronts are doubling prices

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Saint Juste @saintjuste.bsky.social · 2d

There's something Derridean about misinterpreting two texts at once lmao, lead pipe!

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe this is real

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · Mar 21

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (Chunsoft, 2012)

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Oct 5

bobby "boris" pickett nailed it when he described the monster mash as a "graveyard smash." anyone who was there will tell you, that's exactly what it was. only none of us knew how to put that feeling into words. bobby changed all that. he changed it forever

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 3d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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