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Matt Terry
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Determined not to be the inheritors that abandon this wonderful, diverse, imperfect, American experiment. Clawing and fighting our way out of this dystopia.
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If you think he’s just going to *let* us elect a Democratic Congress next year, I’ve got a Reichstag to sell you…
The German Reichstag building engulfed in flames in February, 1933. An event that Hitler used as a pretext to consolidate power and assume dictatorial powers by March of 1933. Photo in black and white
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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@katmabu.bsky.social Running for congress in an authoritarian dystopia!!

How it started How it’s going
Screenshot of Kat’s pinned post - her Congressional campaign announcement from 7 months ago Screenshot of Kat’s video post from today announcing that she’s been indicted on federal charges just for exercising her First Amendment rights
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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This exact same joke by three different posters over the last ten months…
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Let’s get building!! #deathstar #lego
The newly issued and delivered Lego Death Star, with one side of the box showing the build (which is a cross-section of the battle-station full of scenes from the movies, operational rooms, a hanger with an imperial transport, etc.). A second side of the box is an artist’s rendering of the fully-operational Death Star floating over a planet with a sun in the background providing shadowing. The box weighs 40 pounds and contains over 9,000 pieces. Game on!!
October 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Reading it right now!!
A kindle page from John Scalzi’s latest book, a Shattering Peace (from the Old Man’s War series). The start of Chapter Sixteen in a truly excellent read!!
September 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Got #wordle 1556 in 3 without using skill *or* luck!!

#wordle_nyt
My score breakdown showing a skill score of 73 out of an 85 average and a luck score of 39 against a 48 average. Average number of steps for 1556 was 4 out of this sample of 107,263 wordlers
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I’m not an economist, but this seems bad…
From LinkedIn, a post that “senior associate” job postings have dropped 49% nationally in the last week
September 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Your email is very important to me…
My dumping ground, Yahoo email inbox app icon that I’ve had since 2000, proudly showing exactly 50,000 unread emails in the (not so) little red bubble
September 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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When the *remaster* is 18 years old…👎
Album cover of the Pretenders single Back on the Chain Gang from Learning to Crawl, 2007(!) remaster
August 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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For sale: nightmare fuel
An advertisement for a Sphynx cat puppet that’s “true to breed” (e.g., appears to be hairless, has long limbs, extra large (bat-like) ears and piercing blue eyes). With a moveable mouth, you can make it plead for a merciful death!! 😂
July 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I’m sure they’re already workshopping awful, dehumanizing names for this place…
A headline announcing plans for a $1.2 Billion detention center to be built in god-forsaken Texas
July 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Sometimes, I wake up and think it might all have a been a terrible, dystopian dream. And then I zoom in…
An Apple map of the Gulf of Mexico, labeled as the “Gulf of America”…
July 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Skeet juxtaposition level: impossible
The first skeet is from one poster talking about how much he doesn’t like Star Wars (and how surprised people are) and the skeet immediately below from a second user features a propaganda-style poster where Boba Fett is ordering us to have a great Wednesday!!
July 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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All games played and x/6 14 times (0.836%). This is what you’re proud of in middle age…

#wordle #wqers
My lifetime Wordle stats - 1/6 once (someone spoiled), 2/6 83, 3/6 492, 4/6 678, 5/6 310, 6/6 94 and you heard about my misses (each one haunts me)
July 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Not today, Time!
July 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Not even CEOs, more like Lumberghs…
Bill Lumbergh from the movie Office Space, classic middle manager stereotype dressed in a contrast collar blue dress shirt, yellow and red dotted tie, red suspenders, glasses and an infuriatingly stupid expression on his face - likely poised to say something passive-aggressive that will ruin the listener’s weekend
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Hell or high water, I’ve read every day since December 27, 2019. It’s been my oasis, motivation, adventure and joy. Five and a half years of countless characters, worlds and words. I strongly recommend it! 3,000 days, here I come (in about 2 and 3/4 years 😂). See you then.
June 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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We can’t just eat normal, unpatriotic cookies anymore…
A box of “Patriotic” cookies (not left over from Memorial Day) white white frosting and red and blue sprinkles. ‘Merica for dessert!!
June 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Don’t we all fucking wish, LinkedIn…
A prompt to follow “Barack Obama, President of the United States at the White House”…
May 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Orwell would be like…”nah, too on the nose…”
A wired headline reading that the US is storing migrant children’s DNA in a criminal database. For the love of god.
May 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Yeah, no shit, monitor. Thanks for rubbing it in Eeyore
My computer screen is helpfully reminding me that there are “rainy days ahead”, as if we all don’t already know that every day is a dreary dystopia…
May 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I love it when Wordle tells me that guessing the correct answer would have been a better choice…oh, you think so??
A picture of my Wordle guess this morning, “spurn”, which was “pretty good” but not as good as the correct answer, “sport”…
May 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Liz Truss: An energy vampire??
Queen Elizabeth meeting with Liz Truss shortly before her passing
May 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I’ll never forget the friends I’ve made on here…
A screen shot of my DMs with 4 Deleted Accounts from bots that tried relentlessly to engage me in “conversation”
May 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM