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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2h

I’m no Trump fan but it’s not fair/necessary for his physician to reveal that the President has what most closely resembles a custom-built mobile bathtub that’s “just for diarrhea” and that the secret service are responsible for making sure he’s “never more than 30 feet from it.”

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🦔 Evie 🏳️‍⚧️ @notkimboslice.bsky.social · 10h

Vance is very much the "little brother with the unplugged controller" of politicians

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spook-e. honda civic @bigpileofsnakes.bsky.social · 9h

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 6h

I prefer the term “Shit King”

Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 10h

Diarrhea President

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

The left is melting down at the now iconic “diarrhea President”

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12h

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 6h

I’m pretty sure this motherfucker doesn’t even know how to drive, let alone fly

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exfauna @poisonjr.bsky.social · 7h

THE BAD NEWS: IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU TO HAVE A PERFECTLY COMPREHENSIBLE LIFE.

THE GOOD NEWS: NOW YOU CAN BE BEAUTIFUL.

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scribbleghoul 🧟‍♀️ @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 7h

😂😂😂

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 18h

A play in three acts

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 15h

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 7h

Close your eyes and think of England

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

"Eyes......RIGHT!"
"Order.... ARMS!"
(Thousands of middle fingers fly in unison)

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

Anyway, I know we're facing fascism and war with everybody and trade wars and tariffs and blah, and one person doesn't mean a whole lot, even if that one person played violin and sang on a Johnny Sorrow album. But she was important to me. Godspeed, Hummingbird.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

So she was found unconscious in their apartment this week by a neighbor. They got her heart restarted and took her to Harborview, but it was too late. They kept her on machines until it was time for the Honor Walk. She just signed an organ donor card two weeks ago.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

This year, things unraveled. The husband had long COVID and issues thereof; drinking didn't help. She fell and hit her head and required surgery to stop the brain bleed. While she was recovering from that, the husband fell asleep and didn't wake up. That was in August.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

We all got tired of phone calls at 3 AM PST, especially when we were all keeping Death Watch on my parents and every late night phone call could be The News. We never made it a joke, which is unusual for our black-humored family unit. It wasn't funny.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

Nearly everyone in the family had her on NC by this point. They all had their own family security and well-being to watch out for. If you want to judge them for that, my advice is to keep it to yourself. Nobody asked me, and nobody is asking you.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

She met a really nice guy, who unfortunately had his own set of scars, and the two settled into a peaceful, if not perfect, life. They got a dog and found an apartment within walking distance of work. They drank. A lot.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

She took a job at a lab to pay the rent and so forth, but there were lingering issues from the heroin/street days, sexual assault and PTSD at the top of the list. She kept her job, but slowly drifted into alcoholism, and all the less-than-optimal choices that come with it.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

...Where she was introduced to heroin. This sidetracked her for a number of years and multiple visits to rehab. She finally quit and went to work, paying off her back loans and fees to the Ivy and attending UW, where she graduated with a double in O-Chem AND Near Eastern Languages.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

She was absolutely the smartest kid in the room and had endless amounts of energy. Her grandfather called her "Hummingbird," because she could NOT sit still. She graduated HS at the top of her class, was an excellent dancer, and was accepted to a hot-shot Ivy.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

Kind of a drop in the bucket, globally speaking, but my niece died this week. She most likely drank herself to death, as her husband did in August, but she also had complications from brain surgery due to a fall earlier this year. She was a complicated person. We all are.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 12h

I don't even know where my old uniform is, and that was forty years and (redacted number) pounds ago, and I'm on the other side of the planet, but this is a great idea.

altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 13h

You know what I’d really like to see? All the retired officers and honorably discharged vets who can still fit into their dress uniforms give him the military parade that he deserves.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13h

That’s right.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 1d

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 1d

Block. On. Contact.

Block Early. Block Nuclear.

Help Jesse Singal reach his goal of falling out of the top ten blocked accounts on Bluesky.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a general MAGA blocklist that I’ve been using for years.

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John Hartman @stochasticjack.bsky.social · 1d

Go here and do the thing.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

Click on the list, then “subscribe”, then you will have the option to block all of these accounts.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

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