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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 5h

You mean like a lie?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5h

"It’s out of my hands. Billy Joel and the American Dental Association reached a binding agreement sometime in the mid-2000s. Dentists across America are required by law to pump out 'River of Dreams' so that every patient hears it when they’re in the office."

I Am Legally Obligated to Play Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at Least Once During Your Dental Appointment

You probably don’t hear “River of Dreams” much anymore. It’s never on the radio, and no one is streaming that song of their own free will. But here...

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 5h

Completely nonsensical bullshit. Are we supposed to fill in the blanks? Does the no kings protest movement somehow control the operation of the government cause. If it does, I think we should change some things.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 9h

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 9h

Stop, pretending they can be shamed. They like this shit. They want this shit, and nothing about Shaming them in the public Will stop them. They arrest babies in broad daylight. They don’t give a shit.

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 11h

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 10h

Dude, shut the fuck up.

Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 18h

I just can’t imagine anyone having any fucks left in this world to devote to this nobody

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 21h

this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight.

it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 21h

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 21h

Also, I don’t give a shit of somebody has clout. What the fuck that’s about. And why do people always call you maga when you disagree with their meritless bullshit.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 21h

rationalize inaction all you want, but sweating in an inflatable on a street corner to memeify a moment the cars driving past you likely don’t know the reference for is exactly that. and it’s compelling because you get to keep your hands clean. but that way is not how movement work works.

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 22h

My life is pretty blessed In general but this island can suck my fucking ass sometimes

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 22h

One of the biggest problems I had when I talked to self protection, and self-defense was don’t understand that blocking is not defending yourself. At some point, you have to stop taking hits and Start throwing hands. I’m thinking about that a lot lately.

Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 23h

No matter what bring a light jacket

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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 23h

To all those who celebrate.

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 23h

This is your master race ladies and gentleman

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like that law about headlines holds

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Pasquines @pasquines.us · 1d

American Samoa is addressing significant food safety challenges to protect public health and improve local regulations.

American Samoa confronts food safety gaps - Pasquines

On June 16, Governor Pulaali’i Nokolao Pula (R) called an emergency meeting in Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa, to address concerns regarding food and agricultural practices. This discussion...

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Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of seeing chat logs and going. Oh boy. I hope someone does something it would be neat If those guys just got the ever living shit kicked out of them.

Seth A Quimby-🇮🇪🇵🇷🇵🇸 @teamquimby.bsky.social · 1d

He’s fucking 13. There shouldn’t be a criminal history because he’s a fucking child.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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