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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks. Interesting

Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 19h

Hive mind query: I've gotten into cooking more Asian dishes. Oyster sauce seems ubiquitous - but I'm violently allergic to shellfish. Is there any sort of substitute?

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the quote mostly because I once ran over an armadillo on 95 in the middle of the night in nowhere, Florida. Ripped out the radiator.

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 1d

As an aside, the "middle of the road" quote is from Jim Hightower - "there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 2d

Wu-Tang is the only reason Staten Island has ANY fucking excuse

Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 3d

NYC - Mayoral Poll:

Bronx:
🔵 Mamdani: 39%
🟢 Cuomo: 36%
🔴 Sliwa: 19%

Queens:
🔵 Mamdani: 40%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 20%

Brooklyn:
🔵 Mamdani: 54%
🟢 Cuomo: 33%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

Manhattan:
🔵 Mamdani: 51%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

S. Island:
🟢 Cuomo: 40%
🔴 Sliwa: 34%
🔵 Mamdani: 21%

Quinnipiac / Oct 7, 2025

Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think that in the future gravestones will include clickable hyperlinks? That would be a dark evil.

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 2d

Your senator is Tommy Stinson? That's wild my man

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 2d

It is bitterly ironic that so many of the most fervent "supporters of Israel" in whatever it does are always also the most loathsome antisemites

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2d

I hope that for the rest of Shapiro's life his rabbi, his bubbe, his mother & everyone else in his life point & say, "You did this. You."

And yes, the gates of tshuvah/repentance + repair are always open, but he's got a looot of work to do to grasp to the extent of the harm he's caused. A lot.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 6d

It was a chaotic evacuation. Like Dunkirk

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 6d

Loads of problems here, but these dummies did not "take down the cartels." They're doing fine. Killing fishermen with bombs didn't do squat to "the cartels"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 8d

Hochul will be signing on right soon, just after she is medically cleared for having a spine that weighs more than a seagull feather

Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 8d

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 8d

Krugman did and look see where he is now

Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 8d

If only Anne Frank had more affordable healthcare options

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 9d

There is no sense in which the Enabling Act of 1933 would have become an acceptable piece of legislation if it had included a carve-out requiring Hitler to stabilize out-of-pocket health care costs. Same goes for the Enabling Act of 2025. www.offmessage.net/p/the-end-of...

The End Of Non-Sequitur Politics

Let's have more politics about the thing itself.

www.offmessage.net

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 8d

What a shitty human being

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 8d

Sort of encapsulates both her whole appeal to a certain set and why I hate her guts

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 10d

For some reason I guessed after the first paragraph of that CNN story that his alleged assailants were women. The entire episode reeks of inane cosplay machismo

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 11d

Sadistic clowns

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 13d

Pretty sure China thinks they have all the cards here

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13d

Bessent predicts a “pretty big breakthrough” in the next round of trade talks with China, even as the Trump administration takes steps to marshal support for American farmers hurt by a decline in Chinese purchases.

Bessent Sees China Progress as Soy Fight Echoes Rare-Earth Spat

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted a “pretty big breakthrough” in the next round of trade talks with China, even as the Trump administration takes steps to support American farmers hurt by a decline in Chinese purchases.

bloom.bg

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Thers @therswhiskey.bsky.social · 13d

Don't negotiate with terrorists

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 13d

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... UT Austin is one of the 9 schools offered a deal: accede to White House demands and get funding priority

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools is being asked to sign a wide-ranging accord.

www.wsj.com

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