ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
Spent the past 5 years raising two boys and writing a book about student debt, called BURDENED. You can learn more about the latter here: ryannliebenthal.com
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One of the best worst musical performances ever recorded.
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Hahaha, never seen a more fake account in my life. Try harder, dipshit.
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Was it any of these? harpers.org/tag/church-a...
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OK, so you’re just a troll.
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I didn’t tell you anything—I asked a question.
Anyway, it’s not comprehensive (yeah, I go to protests and call my electeds and sometimes volunteer, rah rah rah), but if you don’t think this is worthwhile, then you can go fuck yourself.
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And how much time did you just waste frothing at random people on Bluesky that you could have instead spent doing something really useful, like Sharpie-ing what I assume is going to be a game-changing protest poster pun, guy?
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fair. as far as i’m concerned, my own lj is a portal straight to hell (specifically the hell of being 20 years old).
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which words?
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I’m worried it’ll be more like how people talk about the GWB era: “Boy, we thought those times were bad, but they seem almost quaint now!”
(1. They were bad. 2. They weren’t quaint; they were prep.)
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Hier j’ai regardé une émission live du BBC où le point principal de la discussion entre le présenteur (britannique) et le journaliste (américain) portait sur quoi faire avec les manifestants trop féroces qui interféraient avec l’opération efficace de la police 🙃
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Oh, you mean you can’t rally 50% of your population to a general strike by half-assedly threatening to add an extra year to the retirement age? Bein, joke country, quoi
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But not written down, cause that was illegal.
Maybe an epic poem?
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Cats don’t obey in retrospect, either.
Kings and queens all.
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how big are your calves bro? like so fucking big?
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Was just thinking that the nice thing about those times was you usually encountered such cranks face-to-face, so you had ample contextual inputs to dismiss them outright.
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There was a period of time in New York (& probably elsewhere) where during the Q&A period of every Serious Talk, someone would grab the mic to inform the audience that “9/11 was an inside job!” (Plus some shit about the Bilderbergs and/or equiv.)
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I don’t understand why that can’t see that international students are effectively buying “slots” for poor domestic applicants.
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Precisely
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Ooh, I’ll have to check this one out.
Have you read Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber?
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My spouse and I have had this exact joke going since we bought those at Bed, Bath & Beyond ~10 yrs ago
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no
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Thank goodness they’d already addressed this kind of thing by eliminating the runaway scourge of children who identify as cats.
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Like cats & dogs…
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Quite honestly I think that one’s a cheat.
But I *would* accept
Les quatre cents culs
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Why so many five-foot-high open drop-offs?!?
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Snack praxis is critical
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[🎶]
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“Oh, come on, you know there’s no such thing as rainbow olives!”
“Yes there are. You said it, so they must exist.”
My son is 5. This is the level of critical thinking most ppl display on the internet.
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Yesterday my son insisted we go to the store to buy alternative olives for the mushroom-and-olive pizza we’d ordered.
“What olives should we get then?” I asked, trying to deflect via absurdity. “Orange olives? Hot-pink olives? RAINBOW olives?!”
“Rainbow olives!” he answered excitedly.
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But see, it’s not a genocide because we simply don’t see them as people, you morons.
Absolutely no unambiguous parallels to be drawn here, nope.
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It probably is!
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Nothing more cosplay elder statesman than Stephen Miller uttering the phrase “the boys at Normandy.”
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But a lot of us (Jews) have family who didn’t get out or barely got out. (And not just Nazi Germany: for mine it was 19th century pogroms.) The lesson/neurosis that was infused (and not wrongly) into our very genes was: DO NOT WAIT.
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(Inspired by @amutepiggy.bsky.social)
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This isn’t desperate or manipulative enough.
You need to lead with something like:
SHOCKING NEWS: I’M DYING
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What are the odds that all this “raw milk” stuff is really just sublimated breastfeeding fetish? (As a breastfeeding mom, whose milk supply is about as far from the fecal side as possible, I’d say high.)
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Or that for government, unlike for a startup, profit is actually antithetical to the motive.
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But then everyone would see that Alito appears to just nap through them.
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Apologies, as a French-speaking American from Idaho whose only Alberta experience was a school orchestra trip to Banff in 1999 (and, secondarily, having once had an Edmontonian coworker), I’m making a lot of assumptions here in service of a joke.
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Just have a conversation with them about it in French. That should sort it all out.
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This morning I was trying to check the name of a midcentury NYC psychologist & no combo of terms returned any viable results. Later in the piece I find reference to a “Westchester Community Mental Health Service.” That search turned up a single (real) result: the 1989 NYT obit for the psych. WTF!
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Yes, nothing says “pampered” like “I’m confiscating your tax refund to pay down a fraction of the interest on a college loan you took out 20 years ago.”
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That they didn’t stop at “You are taking on an old Jewish woman” shows just how clueless they are.