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· Oct 4
So, have we had enough of Russell Vought and his #Project2025 yet? Have we had enough of the American military in our streets on these ginned up Reichstag fire excuses?
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
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In the online gaming world with economies, that kind of thing is known as a "money sink."
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In the online gaming world with economies, that kind of thing is known as a "money sink."
Overheard at Publix checkout:
Shopper1: these prices are killing me. Fucking Biden.
Shopper2: Turn off Fox and within hours you’ll be saying ‘fucking Trump.’
Shopper1: I don’t just watch Fox. Ever heard of Newsmax?
Shopper1: these prices are killing me. Fucking Biden.
Shopper2: Turn off Fox and within hours you’ll be saying ‘fucking Trump.’
Shopper1: I don’t just watch Fox. Ever heard of Newsmax?
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Overheard at Publix checkout:
Shopper1: these prices are killing me. Fucking Biden.
Shopper2: Turn off Fox and within hours you’ll be saying ‘fucking Trump.’
Shopper1: I don’t just watch Fox. Ever heard of Newsmax?
Shopper1: these prices are killing me. Fucking Biden.
Shopper2: Turn off Fox and within hours you’ll be saying ‘fucking Trump.’
Shopper1: I don’t just watch Fox. Ever heard of Newsmax?
If it wasn’t such an expensive giggle, it would be funny AF watching MAGA morons pretend they like paying tariffed prices, just so they don’t have to pretend they haven’t made the biggest mistake of their dumb-assed lives.
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
If it wasn’t such an expensive giggle, it would be funny AF watching MAGA morons pretend they like paying tariffed prices, just so they don’t have to pretend they haven’t made the biggest mistake of their dumb-assed lives.
I look for the symbols of wealth inequality in places others don’t. Who the fuck spends $824 on a minimalist bathroom sink faucet, except private equity douche nozzles trying to impress their friends with how much money they can burn on things nobody needs.
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I look for the symbols of wealth inequality in places others don’t. Who the fuck spends $824 on a minimalist bathroom sink faucet, except private equity douche nozzles trying to impress their friends with how much money they can burn on things nobody needs.
The announcers just said what I was thinking while I was thinking it. That maybe this is the first time in my lifetime that I’ve seen the Packers play the Bears at a time when both teams were actually pretty good.
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The announcers just said what I was thinking while I was thinking it. That maybe this is the first time in my lifetime that I’ve seen the Packers play the Bears at a time when both teams were actually pretty good.
I’m watching the Packers game and pretending I’m in @marmel.bsky.social’s living room, drinking cheap beer and pretending I don’t see the fucking cheese hat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I’m watching the Packers game and pretending I’m in @marmel.bsky.social’s living room, drinking cheap beer and pretending I don’t see the fucking cheese hat.
Another tariff blow. Stepped into a @Lowe’s lately? Crappy little Chinese tools that were $8-14 four months, are now $18-45. Throughout the store, same story. And nobody in the MSM is talking about it. Because the Right now owns most of it.
December 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Another tariff blow. Stepped into a @Lowe’s lately? Crappy little Chinese tools that were $8-14 four months, are now $18-45. Throughout the store, same story. And nobody in the MSM is talking about it. Because the Right now owns most of it.
@ChatGPT has been down almost the entire day. You can chat, but that’s about it. You can’t create canvases or read project files. This happens way too often, and it’s really annoying.
December 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@ChatGPT has been down almost the entire day. You can chat, but that’s about it. You can’t create canvases or read project files. This happens way too often, and it’s really annoying.
Thanks for being the first one to comment. I was actually going to propose 4 months ago in a document I wrote that we should start referring to MAGA this way and start taking the word away from them. No one likes to be called “gullible”. Repeat no one,
Love this: "Manipulating All Gullible Americans."
December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thanks for being the first one to comment. I was actually going to propose 4 months ago in a document I wrote that we should start referring to MAGA this way and start taking the word away from them. No one likes to be called “gullible”. Repeat no one,
Indeed, and can we keep talking like this and avoid attacking sitting Democrats? That has never helped much before and it won’t help now.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Indeed, and can we keep talking like this and avoid attacking sitting Democrats? That has never helped much before and it won’t help now.
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These new AI narrators the Washington Post and others are using are so good, now adding emotion and nuanced tones pretty convincingly, it’s easy to see human narrators becoming an extinct species, if they’re not already.
I’m beginning to understand why some believe AI teachers could help solve …
I’m beginning to understand why some believe AI teachers could help solve …
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
These new AI narrators the Washington Post and others are using are so good, now adding emotion and nuanced tones pretty convincingly, it’s easy to see human narrators becoming an extinct species, if they’re not already.
I’m beginning to understand why some believe AI teachers could help solve …
I’m beginning to understand why some believe AI teachers could help solve …
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I priced a hat from The Irish Store. The sale price was fantastic, the shipping from Ireland was a little high, but reasonable.
The tariff added more than the shipping, I noped out.
Trump National Sales tax, supported by dumb MAGA morons, I refuse to pay it.
The tariff added more than the shipping, I noped out.
Trump National Sales tax, supported by dumb MAGA morons, I refuse to pay it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I priced a hat from The Irish Store. The sale price was fantastic, the shipping from Ireland was a little high, but reasonable.
The tariff added more than the shipping, I noped out.
Trump National Sales tax, supported by dumb MAGA morons, I refuse to pay it.
The tariff added more than the shipping, I noped out.
Trump National Sales tax, supported by dumb MAGA morons, I refuse to pay it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good morning. I just got hit with Trump tariffs when I tried to find a new bathroom faucet. A decent entry level model was about $35 a year ago. Now it’s double that. And anything with any quality or style are $100-300+. Thanks, MAGA! (Manipulating All Gullible Americans.)
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Good morning. I just got hit with Trump tariffs when I tried to find a new bathroom faucet. A decent entry level model was about $35 a year ago. Now it’s double that. And anything with any quality or style are $100-300+. Thanks, MAGA! (Manipulating All Gullible Americans.)
I’m listening to Sarah Brightman sing “A White Shade of Pale” on Pandora,
It’s as if Emily Dickenson wandered into a smoky ’60s lounge and refused to leave until everyone shared their feelings.
It’s as if Emily Dickenson wandered into a smoky ’60s lounge and refused to leave until everyone shared their feelings.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’m listening to Sarah Brightman sing “A White Shade of Pale” on Pandora,
It’s as if Emily Dickenson wandered into a smoky ’60s lounge and refused to leave until everyone shared their feelings.
It’s as if Emily Dickenson wandered into a smoky ’60s lounge and refused to leave until everyone shared their feelings.
If anyone on other networks wants to respond to this Mastodon poll, just reply to me. I’ll add your vote :) I really need the feedback.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If anyone on other networks wants to respond to this Mastodon poll, just reply to me. I’ll add your vote :) I really need the feedback.
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To be fair, I also feel this way about Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Helms, Charlie Kirk, and most people who profited from pandering to the lowest common denominators among of human beings. I look forward to feeling it about Rupert Murdoch, soon.
Not a day goes by that I don’t wish Roger Ailes would be born again… so I could watch him die.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
To be fair, I also feel this way about Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Helms, Charlie Kirk, and most people who profited from pandering to the lowest common denominators among of human beings. I look forward to feeling it about Rupert Murdoch, soon.
Not a day goes by that I don’t wish Roger Ailes would be born again… so I could watch him die.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Not a day goes by that I don’t wish Roger Ailes would be born again… so I could watch him die.
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For literally my entire life, American conservatives have been demonstrably, if not empirically wrong about almost every single thing they ever advocated for. Meanwhile, American liberals have been obscenely incompetent at finding ways to make the public understand that.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
For literally my entire life, American conservatives have been demonstrably, if not empirically wrong about almost every single thing they ever advocated for. Meanwhile, American liberals have been obscenely incompetent at finding ways to make the public understand that.
In the 1960s, all it took was a single journalist, Walter Cronkite to impact popular opinion and change the direction of the country. And conservatives swore they’d never let that happen again. And to this day, it hasn’t.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
In the 1960s, all it took was a single journalist, Walter Cronkite to impact popular opinion and change the direction of the country. And conservatives swore they’d never let that happen again. And to this day, it hasn’t.
The irony of course is that it seems to require a maximum level of democratic governance to achieve a minimum level of privacy protection.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The irony of course is that it seems to require a maximum level of democratic governance to achieve a minimum level of privacy protection.
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Decades ago, I had a one night stand with a woman who was going to bring to America a blind Italian singer no one ever heard of. I nodded politely. All these years later, hearing Bocelli brings back fond memories of my misspent youth.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Decades ago, I had a one night stand with a woman who was going to bring to America a blind Italian singer no one ever heard of. I nodded politely. All these years later, hearing Bocelli brings back fond memories of my misspent youth.
Do you have a problem with closing interior doors after the cat (or dog) slips in or out of the room, and just hate the idea of installing a pet door (indoors)? I’ve made a prototype of a solution, and wondering if I should think about marketing it. Reply if you’d buy.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Do you have a problem with closing interior doors after the cat (or dog) slips in or out of the room, and just hate the idea of installing a pet door (indoors)? I’ve made a prototype of a solution, and wondering if I should think about marketing it. Reply if you’d buy.
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A bombshell lawsuit accuses Trump, Musk, and Gates of running an Epstein-style trafficking ring, stealing tech, and causing immense harm. It's a staggering claim of elite criminal conspiracy seeking over $300 million.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM