Willow
@rockshrimp.bsky.social
Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator.
Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.
Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.
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I thought that said Strawberry Filling and honestly I’d prefer that.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I thought that said Strawberry Filling and honestly I’d prefer that.
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BOOKMARKED!!
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
BOOKMARKED!!
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How many people have already sent this to @zoewithasword.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
How many people have already sent this to @zoewithasword.bsky.social.
This is going to be the least attended World Cup of all time.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is going to be the least attended World Cup of all time.
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With all due respect to Inigo Montoya, I'm pretty sure Vizzini knows what the word "inconceivable" means. He never uses it improperly. He's expressing disbelief.
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
With all due respect to Inigo Montoya, I'm pretty sure Vizzini knows what the word "inconceivable" means. He never uses it improperly. He's expressing disbelief.
Start with this from a week ago and work your way back.
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Start with this from a week ago and work your way back.
good reminder to myself that we're all susceptible in an instant and short-form content ecosystem to engage without context.
I’m gonna be so transparent: I saw the pull quote from what Raskin said and rolled my eyes and kept moving. But I actually listened to the whole clip and it’s so obvious what he’s trying to do; we should be BEGGING for other Ds to make that same rhetorical move.
as someone who has been on the record calling people who say things superficially like this dumb motherfuckers, i want everyone to recognise the apophasis inherent in "if she wants to come over" and, thereby, recognise what Raskin is actually saying here
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
good reminder to myself that we're all susceptible in an instant and short-form content ecosystem to engage without context.
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Katie Wilson not owning a car is somehow used as "exhibit A" against her in this Washington Post hit piece op-ed. Note also that the op-ed sneers at her modest lifestyle while dinging her for receiving help from her parents. It's not as if the parents are paying the mortgage for a Queen Anne mansion
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Katie Wilson not owning a car is somehow used as "exhibit A" against her in this Washington Post hit piece op-ed. Note also that the op-ed sneers at her modest lifestyle while dinging her for receiving help from her parents. It's not as if the parents are paying the mortgage for a Queen Anne mansion
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NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
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“So, they’re targeting breadwinners from these families,” said Montgomery County Council Member Kristin Mink, “and then we have companies that are then trying to extort hundreds of dollars from those same impacted families who have just had a loved one and a breadwinner stolen from them.”
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“So, they’re targeting breadwinners from these families,” said Montgomery County Council Member Kristin Mink, “and then we have companies that are then trying to extort hundreds of dollars from those same impacted families who have just had a loved one and a breadwinner stolen from them.”
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I’m gonna be so transparent: I saw the pull quote from what Raskin said and rolled my eyes and kept moving. But I actually listened to the whole clip and it’s so obvious what he’s trying to do; we should be BEGGING for other Ds to make that same rhetorical move.
as someone who has been on the record calling people who say things superficially like this dumb motherfuckers, i want everyone to recognise the apophasis inherent in "if she wants to come over" and, thereby, recognise what Raskin is actually saying here
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’m gonna be so transparent: I saw the pull quote from what Raskin said and rolled my eyes and kept moving. But I actually listened to the whole clip and it’s so obvious what he’s trying to do; we should be BEGGING for other Ds to make that same rhetorical move.
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Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.
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You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
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When they write the annals of Trump II it will be clear that the one thing that allowed the regime to maintain it's meager popularity longer than it should have was that the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was a dud.
FEMA head resigns.
David Richardson had been difficult to reach during Texas floods
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
David Richardson had been difficult to reach during Texas floods
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
FEMA head resigns. Richardson had been hard to reach during Texas floods.
David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
When they write the annals of Trump II it will be clear that the one thing that allowed the regime to maintain it's meager popularity longer than it should have was that the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season was a dud.
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A looottttaaaa people in replies complaining and being down right nasty about a free service that someone has dedicated a ton of their time to simply to help you have more transparency about your account, which they absolutely did not have to do! Y’all have an astonishing sense of entitlement!
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November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A looottttaaaa people in replies complaining and being down right nasty about a free service that someone has dedicated a ton of their time to simply to help you have more transparency about your account, which they absolutely did not have to do! Y’all have an astonishing sense of entitlement!
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this is how the unpopular lame duck era starts: first the ambitious sociopaths announce they want to be next, then everyone else starts to pivot toward protecting their own careers
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
this is how the unpopular lame duck era starts: first the ambitious sociopaths announce they want to be next, then everyone else starts to pivot toward protecting their own careers
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Fundamentally what the churches try to sell is the ideal of a Christian faith that primarily requires faith as a form of consumption, which is why you have them basically have CCM + kitsch + anti-egalitarian + socially conservative ideal as the ideal form of Christian religious practice
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fundamentally what the churches try to sell is the ideal of a Christian faith that primarily requires faith as a form of consumption, which is why you have them basically have CCM + kitsch + anti-egalitarian + socially conservative ideal as the ideal form of Christian religious practice
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Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.
There's something just so vulgar about modern evangelical megachurches.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Not to go full Adorno here, but I feel it's part of the issue with contemporary evangelical/non-denominational/Pentecostal Christianity essentially turning a commodity: the amount of Christian AI slop and kitsch on YouTube is the other side of this, and it comes from the same impulse.
I was offline all morning and it seems like I missed some Discourse that is mostly people who agree with each other arguing things that all seem valid in the context they are being presented by the people presenting them who are all talking past each other (aka: social media)
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I was offline all morning and it seems like I missed some Discourse that is mostly people who agree with each other arguing things that all seem valid in the context they are being presented by the people presenting them who are all talking past each other (aka: social media)
Abject bad faith will continue until abject bad faith has personal and professional consequences.
👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Abject bad faith will continue until abject bad faith has personal and professional consequences.
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I’m not a lawyer, and even I know this on its face appears to be so egregiously out of line that it’s not just a space where you might lose your law license but where you might have criminal exposure.
👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m not a lawyer, and even I know this on its face appears to be so egregiously out of line that it’s not just a space where you might lose your law license but where you might have criminal exposure.
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'Yes, you can/should just do stuff' is absolutely one of my most enduring and long-standing beliefs [because I also happen to be right, lolololol].
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
'Yes, you can/should just do stuff' is absolutely one of my most enduring and long-standing beliefs [because I also happen to be right, lolololol].
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When people say "Well Trump might just be fearing financial crimes kompromat by a foreign country which could end his term prematurally", just remember that you're saying that in the same world this guy exists in lol.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
When people say "Well Trump might just be fearing financial crimes kompromat by a foreign country which could end his term prematurally", just remember that you're saying that in the same world this guy exists in lol.
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this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness