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A Goddam Virginian
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swamp-adjacent man. mentally ill but ill like how rappers used to say it
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A Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · Nov 18
love when people like my dumb ideas. that is why i am here. gimme dat validation pllllleeeeaaassseeee
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
not saying im rooting for it but jmu losing to wazzu at home would be very funny
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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rincewind.run
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths

2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
killing some birds with a rock. being efficient
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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kothscreens.bsky.social
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 4, Episode 5
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
happy anniversary to the best teams message i've ever seen
correction I was not familiar with the acronym ASD. I am familiar wit supporting children with autism. I just have not used that acronym. Still great story thanks for sharing
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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alexkirshner.com
The grass in Blacksburg today is the athletic turf version of those pics of Bolsonaro in the hospital
very patchy grass
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
actual hitler particle
urbanlandrent.bsky.social Urban Land Rent🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 1d
Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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briesmith.xyz
If you're cheering for Yale over Harvard today, this is the monster you're supporting:
RORY GILMORE
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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kothscreens.bsky.social
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 5, Episode 12
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love.”"
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
really infuriating read. important journalism. also very funny the Guardian called them Virginia Polytechnic Institute
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 8h
I am once again calling for the adoption of a "tough on crime" agenda against the grifters, scammers, and quacks deranging American society. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world FBS was founded by ex-doula Emilee Saldaya, and most women find it through its podcast, which has been downloaded 5m times, its Instagram account, which has 132,000 followers, its YouTube, with nearly 25m views, or its bestselling The Complete Guide to Freebirth, a video course co-created by Saldaya with fellow ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark, available for download from FBS’s slick website. Analysis of FBS’s financial records by Stacey Ferris, a forensic accountant and academic at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, suggests it has generated revenues exceeding $13m since 2018. When Lopez discovered the podcast she was hooked, listening to an episode almost every day. For $299, she joined FBS’s paid-for, private online community, the Lighthouse, where she met the three friends in the room when Esau was born. To prepare for her freebirth, she purchased The Complete Guide to Freebirth in May 2022 for $399 – a vast sum to the then 23-year-old nanny. After consuming hundreds of hours of FBS materials, Lopez grew convinced freebirthing was the safest way to deliver her unborn child, away from unnecessary medical interventions. Earlier in her three-day labor, Lopez had visited her local hospital for an ultrasound as the baby wasn’t moving as much as usual. Staff urged her to stay, warning she was at high risk of shoulder dystocia, as the baby was “huge”. But Lopez wasn’t concerned. Fresh in her memory was a newsletter she’d received from Norris-Clark, stating fears of shoulder dystocia were “greatly exaggerated”. From The Complete Guide to Freebirth, Lopez had learned that women’s “bodies do not grow babies that we cannot birth”. Gabrielle Lopez blows bubbles for her son, Esau, at their home in Levittown, PA, US, August 2025 View image in fullscreen ‘The small gains are huge for us’: Gabrielle Lopez with son Esau. Photograph: Hannah Yoon/The Guardian After a few minutes, with Esau still not breathing, the spell in Lopez’s bedroom broke. It is hard to quantify exactly how many babies have died in FBS circles, because many “loss moms”, as they’re known, disappear in the wake of their tragedies. Most do not respond to journalistic inquiries. Within the Lighthouse alone, around eight women appear to have experienced stillbirths or neonatal deaths in the last year, in a community of around 600 women, many of whom were not pregnant. As part of this Guardian investigation, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 mothers who suffered late-term stillbirths, neonatal deaths or other incidents of serious harm after they or their birth attendants were heavily influenced by FBS. Their accounts were corroborated through interviews with friends, family and partners, and supported by journal entries, medical notes, video footage, message threads or legal documents. In all 18 cases, the evidence suggests FBS played a significant role in the mother or birth attendant’s decision-making, leading to potentially avoidable tragedies. They include Adair Arbor, who never would have considered an unassisted birth before encountering FBS, and whose daughter, Ilex, was stillborn in January 2021 following a 115-hour labor, and Amalia Hernandez, who nearly bled to death in March 2024 after refusing to call an ambulance, believing her post-partum bleeding would resolve itself at home. The same year, Haley Bordeaux went blind and suffered several strokes following a four-day labor in which she was in contact with Saldaya, in phone calls and text messages via a friend. When Saldaya was later informed that doctors had concluded Bordeaux’s temporary vision loss was due to severe pre-eclampsia, she replied: “She doesn’t have severe pre e[clampsia], that’s so entirely retarded.” When 42-year-old mother of one Keelee Sullivan, from California, signed up for the RBK school in 2023, she borrowed $6,000 from a family member, telling him, as she believed, it was “for midwifery school”. After the first birth she attended ended in hospital, Sullivan realised she’d been “practicing delusional optimism” and “was not educated or prepared” to be a midwife: “And no, I am not willing to go to jail.” She has not attended any births since. Saldaya and Norris-Clark always insisted that being a Radical Birth Keeper isn’t illegal. “You are not practicing medicine,” Saldaya told her students. But privately, Norris-Clark mocked medical disclaimers. “Always consult your licensed certified medical professional,” she laughed in one call with her students. “This is for entertainment, informational, artistic purposes only. Yeah, it’s all just performance art, right?” Molly Flam, 34, a doula from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, who attended MMI, FBS’s flagship midwifery school, described it as “a scam”. She paid $9,000, only to find the pre-recorded videos were rambling and unprofessional, and contained medical advice that was inaccurate and confusing. “They’re showing up to classes dishevelled, talking about their personal lives,” Flam says. “There was no structure.” From 2020-2025, FBS ran nine RBK schools and at least one MMI school, generating more than $4m in sales. At one stage in 2024, FBS was making up to $160,000 a month, according to one former employee. As the money poured in, Saldaya established what she called her “queendom”. She bought three pieces of land in Hayesville, including a four-bed house in eight acres of land, an adjacent 53-acre plot and a school, set in 17 acres, that she spent tens of thousands renovating, only for it to fail a year later. She spent more than $10,000 on lawn ornaments, including giant toadstools, for the school and festival. She bought a Range Rover.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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brentwaggoner.bsky.social
If you don't let your theater kid do theater they turn into fascists. That's what I've learned this decade.
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
its so whimsical that some scottish baron took it upon himself to invent golden retrievers
Marjoribanks had large kennels at Guisachan and was directly responsible for developing a new breed of dog, the Golden Retriever. 181191 In 1868, Majoribanks bred Nous, a Wavy-coated Retriever, with Belle, a Tweed Water Spaniel. This created the foundation litter of Golden Retriever, 8l three yellow wavy-coated puppies named Crocus, Cowslip and Primrose.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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perchorin.bsky.social
This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
She pretends to disavow qanon all the time! She just wants a job at MSNBC while the getting is good! Grow up!
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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jtp.bsky.social
me watching the uk try to figure out how to ban trans people from bathrooms without inconveniencing any cis people
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
imagining how much better the world would be if in october 2016 bill clinton had just said "that man sucked my dick"
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
the big thing everyone is reacting to is that lizza said he learned what felching is from nuzzi's texts with RFKjr, felching being the act of eating semen from your partner's butthole
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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readuction.bsky.social
Having a big ole bowl of yogurt for breakfast and Pissing everyone Off
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
fuuuuuuuuuuuck off
activateva.bsky.social Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 18h
Democratic senator wants to get rid of right-to-work, Governor-elect Spanberger says not so fast
www.wric.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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ok-but-still.bsky.social
FDR moment
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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pattymo.com
Wow. A powerful video statement from Majorie Taylor Greene on why she’s leaving Congress
youtu.be/YmtLHcx2kxs
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
oh she got calls of the credible variety
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
goddamvirginian.bsky.social
my car's behavior on the drive home from work today can best be described as "chunking it"
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM