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Weftage

@weftage.bsky.social

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Resident of USA, Oregon, Portland (which has not, in fact, burned to the ground, despite what you may have been told.)

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 6h

My state lege just lost a Rep. who was 41 years old. Diagnosed in February of this year.

None of us knows the day or the hour.

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 9h

No matter how many goddamn followers they have. Enough.

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 10h

There's a cat back there somewhere

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 10h

But, but, I AM THE WALR-- uh, THE UNIVERSE!!
<sigh>

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 11h

C1Z, though if I'm being honest, D: All of the Above

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 13h

<inspects>
<report> That is a pillbug

A greatly enlarged photo of a common pill-bug, Armadillidium vulgare

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 13h

The authorities are going to need to do a follow-up seismic assessment

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 14h

(Naivety.) <gives Brosephus' autocorrect the stink-eye>

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 14h

The media lose interest as soon as there is a high-probability result. Legislatures normally extend courtesy to the presumptive elected. So a lot of people don't realize it's not really over until the cert. This is not an excuse for the Repubs to be dragging their fragrant little rumps like this.

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 14h

Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word NO."

...or in this case, NO but in thirty foot high flashing neon letters

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Jamie S. Bowen - Harris Democrat they/he/she @jamiesbowen.bsky.social · 1d

I Need y'all to understand that we are going to have to strategically decide where to put the most support from the LGBTQ+ community as a Block. Meaning we Need to Vote together.
We are in perilous times & will need to ignore some shit & vote for Harm Reduction.
(3/)

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 14h

Ha! The whole rest of the world eats OVERSEASONED food!!
<Runs away being pelted by saucepans and spice jars>

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 15h

There's a well-known, extremely popular novelist here whose non-fiction essays I enjoy and value. I don't like their novels at all. There's nothing wrong with them, I just don't care for the characters, settings, or plots. (Other than that, they're great, eh.) De gustibus.

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 15h

😬

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 16h

<Opposing Counsel> Allow me to introduce my next witness

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 17h

There's a weird extension of the idea of "power corrupts" into "because power corrupts, we should never wield power," by the very people who *might* have a chance of wielding power well and justly, in a fight against future tyrants who would absolutely wield power unjustly.

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 17h

Huh. So it's almost like there was this one workshop that had somehow discovered how to do this, and when the last master died, no one else could reproduce it.

Do we have any idea what was in that glaze?

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 17h

Also, fuck cancer.

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 18h

I find.... interesting how many of these accounts have smutty screen names

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 19h

I can't find it now, but apparently he's already been sputtering about it. Does he not have a mirror?

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 20h

I don't understand most of the details, but I'm so interested to watch Doll's thought processes and methods of attacking problems!

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 20h

This scale weighs heavily on me

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 20h

The Loud Right and Loud Left alike bellow 24/7 that All Politicians are Bad (except *our* specific ones, of course). Gerrymandering isn't the only way to suppress the vote.

--signed, Worthless Shitlib™️ who votes in every goddamn election, for every office or measure

Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 1d

Currently suspended; we'll see if they crawl back in.

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Weftage @weftage.bsky.social · 1d

Good boxes make good neighbors, as Robert Frost would have said, if he'd thought of it