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Former artist, musician and writer. Now sidelined by debilitating ADHD. Reluctant NPC. Bronouns.
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Their entire strategy – stealing immigrants away, dismantling our education system, destabilizing our food supply, defanging the EPA and CFPB, even defunding FEMA – is about stoking social unrest, so there will be riots, so there will be a backlash, so the country will be softer toward dictatorship.

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If you're wondering why I had no reaction to the ceasefire announcement while Gazans were dancing in the streets, this is why.

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Would be horrible but not completely unreasonable if this spurred some secession talks in California.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone find themselves pining for that extremely short era in your life where like, only *some* of your friends had their own places? Man I hated being 18-22 but it was the best of times and worst of times. I just want to go back for a day.

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BlueSky is just like Twitter in that 90% of my followers are bots and I never get any engagement.

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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

submitted 154 days ago • 478 comments

I don’t think it’s quite sunk in for most people that the rule of law in the United States effectively ended today.

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The Laken Riley Act is a sweeping assault on legal immigration. It would subject immigrants *authorized to live and work here* to indefinite detention without a criminal conviction. And it would let a federal judge ban ALL visas from entire countries at a state's request. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 155 days ago • 89 comments

Been saying this for literally 15-20 years.

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And they make all our Lego.

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What is society FOR, exactly? What do you expect from it? What are you getting out of it? What are you contributing?

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Is this too funny? This is not a funny situation actually. I feel like maybe deflecting with humor is no longer appropriate.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Muddy waters make it easy to catch fish. ~ Chinese proverb

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Is it time to get a different sun? We’ve had this one for what, 4 billion years? And tbh, not super satisfied with how things have turned out.

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I think we have our suspect

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Christians be like "Thank you Lord for your goodness! Another day, another miracle! Praise Jesus!!" and it's just their bitcoin going up

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"So what if I'm an arms dealer?? Everybody's doing it!"

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