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*Libra ♎ *Old school farmer progressive 🚜 *Home cook 🥘 *Lover 🤍🩷🤎 *Gardener 🌱 *Fairly handy *Seeker and curious *Big John Brown Energy *Midwesterner through and through *Don't have time for the bullshit
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submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Conservatism will always tend towards an extreme and anti-democratic hierarchy - monarchy, autocracy, etc. By it's very nature, the values underpinning what it means to be "conservative" are anathema to freedom, liberty, and and open society.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

A martial art that looks like a dance, moves to music, and hides combat in graceful spins – this is capoeira. Created by enslaved Africans in Brazil, it was a form of resistance, disguised as performance to avoid detection. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Royce da 5’9” has one of the most lethal pens in the rap game. That man is very intelligent. His pen is no joke.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I hope something good happens to you today.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

This sounds goofy but maintaining interest in popular music helps an aging person to sustain curiosity about, empathy for, & understanding of young ppl—not just as cultural prime movers but as political subjects &, uh, humans. Sneaky strategy for staving off spiritual fossilization: listen to rap.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Great. And also, being from a dumb fuck rural portion of America I have to say - these people's sense of aesthetic and design are ALL THE SAME. Cheap steel buildings. New clinic for town? Steel building. Library? You betcha. Heee-yuck.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What the dentist doesn't tell you is that the temporary crown they give you while the permanent gets artisanally hand crafted (by lasers) sucks major shit.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, the 'left' in the US. Key power broker and maker-breaker of all elections. This is why Dems lose - blame everything on this vague notion of "the left" instead of the vertically integrated fascism machine of the right. Don't even get me started on actual policy...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Me: *deep sigh of disappointment* Coworker: Is everything ok? Me: Yeah, no it's fine - just accidentally scrolling the 'Discover' tab on Bluesky and keep seeing anti-Trump AI generated memes from ppl who think the Dems are doing awesome work.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Or, maybe even the longest poem, as it lasts a lifetime. Perhaps longer. N8er -

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It's likely much more than nine people. #AbolishICE

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Housing, healthcare and food are fundamental human rights.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Went to Boston for the first time ever two years back and happened upon this randomly, shortly after this had happened. What a sheer delight.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

We need to tear it up and start from scratch. Literally no other country has the institutional and political structure we do. Because, as Kevin says, it's fatally flawed.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Spoken with the confidence of someone completely ignorant of how our electoral rules and institutions will never produce this outcome.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

No one trusts us anymore not because of Trump but because of our polity. How can you have normal relations with a country whose underlying society is fundamentally fucked?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Stop using ai to make shitty memes.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🍋 🫐 🧀 🎂 🤤 (🎥: inbloombakery_)

submitted 17 days ago • 137 comments

Take your friends along to the larder. I want two small cheddar cheeses flavoured with herbs, two large cheddar cheeses with almonds and hazelnuts, and one of the extra large red cheeses with celery and onion.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So happy that @chefreactions.bsky.social is on here now. Feels like the last thing missing from an overall great experience. And, apparently, he's a T-Wolves fan!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread - perfectly exemplifies why I say the US' bill has come due and we're paying the piper right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I know that we're all on the new Pope and he's cool and whatnot (for now) but I'm deeply moved by Pope Francis' final wish to have the Popemobile made into a health clinic for Palestinian children in Gaza. He was a good and decent man.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I will see this ma fucka in jail or send him to hell if it's the last thing I do.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments