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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈

@tigerpournelle.bsky.social

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Former Army 98G/Russian cryptologist, former reporter, former English teacher, sorta artist/writer

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 2d

Hey there. Good morning.

The news is going to be awful, every day, for a very long time.

You're only human. Your emotional primate brain can only process so much empathy, or danger.

I'm not one of those "touch grass" assholes, but you DO need to find your center where you're safe.

Okay?

Cool.

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 54m

Kegsbreath is making the entire military watch his embarrassing speech. www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

Hegseth orders troops to watch his speech decrying a 'woke' military

During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

www.npr.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 55m

Exiting NATO so we can go to war with Venezuela is a hell of a move.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 59m

Christ, he still thinks that seeking asylum means you were in an asylum.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 59m

Thanks, remember Doug Ford?

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 1h

"It's perplexing to us" is why you all sound like fucking assholes.

Where. Is. The. Fire.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 1h

It's INSANELY telling that they are tryng to pre-frame it as a gathering of anti American lunatics, instead of people who literally do not want a god damned king. Which is literally the most American thing you can fucking do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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SkyGuy @guycole.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact: Argentina has defaulted 9 times on its debt.
Dato curioso: Argentina ha incumplido 9 veces el pago de su deuda.

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 1h

Hi, before the Media tries to give Charlie Sheen a redemption story as an out gay man, remember three things:

1. He absolutely raped Corey Haim
2. He’s a sexual predator
3. He gave a ton of people HIV

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

I hear that.

kermit the frog is wearing a suit and tie and holding a glass of wine and saying `` hmm . cheers . ''

ALT: kermit the frog is wearing a suit and tie and holding a glass of wine and saying `` hmm . cheers . ''

media.tenor.com

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

🎶my name is Luka
I'm completely fine 🎶

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

snooooooooooort

This so pathetic we're going to need to invent new words.

"Nobody cool is going to be at that party, that party has ROACHES, you should come to MY cool party."

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

I once sent an issue of a major computer magazine to bed with "Photshop" misspelled in every reference. Shrug, it happens.

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

The entire orchard has a leafrot that could only be cured with fire.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

..........creepy.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 3h

Oh mine are sexbots.

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

The reason the GOP hates transgender people so much is because they think they can't get you pregnant.

*yes i know trans males with uteruses exist, and rape exists, I believe you got my point

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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

Oh and Cheryl you can take that pointing finger and cram it.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

Damn, Sunny not having it at ALL.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

Well he's been faithful, so that's more important that beating up a woman. I mean, why are women even talking?

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you. I am exhausted hearing about A Bernie Deferred.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

I lived in Madison for two years, I would believe literally ANYthign about Wisconsin.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 4h

Slut shaming? Grow the fuck up. Questioning a full grown adult's motives in telling such a tale, or the timing of it, or what she hoped to gain from it are all perfectly valid questions. But you decided to cape for her like an asshole. Wow, good for fucking you.

Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 5h

Gosh, the widow Kirk must be ever so shocked at how quickly the entire GOP dropped her husband as a wedge issue.

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