viperbrick.bsky.social
Wildly enthusiastic about my wife, two kids, and Weimaraner. #handsomepodsquad
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Do not mess with Boyle Heights. Don't forget how they caught the Night Stalker and kicked his ass so bad that the cops had to save him.
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San Francisco does not play. They're the best organized, ready to mobilize for protests, most rebellious, most loving humans. They assemble a candlelight vigil or an efficient mob like nobody's business.
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I'm no contact with my mother, my father is an aging alcoholic, I don't drink. I read about your childhood with avid interest in its parallels to mine and felt solidarity and sympathy and less alone. Thank you for sharing so bravely - I know what that took, in families like ours, no one talks.
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Hello friend! I promised myself I wouldn't scroll right before bed, then my mornings set up my day poorly when I see all the reasonable people pointing out terrible things.
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I mean, we were all wishing for it, right? But also, I hope he's not scared right now, while he's settling into a new home.
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Aww no. I've been reading for years about things like the history of buttons on a suit or the denim jacket and always roasting transphobes.
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Oh good point. I made an assumption based on the neighborhood, totally unverified.
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To those who are saying they don't know who they're talking about, Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social is the best person on social media. If you're still at the Bad Place, I'd enviously recommend you clear your afternoon and read his stuff.
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They're not nationalists, but the LA Surplus on Santa Monica Blvd could work for this.
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This doesn’t discern between documented vs undocumented. Just ‘immigrants are bad for low wage earners.’ This is more pitting us against each other, Black v brown when we could be dismantling the system. Another distraction to keep us all down.
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The next steps can't be taken in haste, their trigger fingers are itching to be unleashed on us. We have to outsmart this regime, instead of fighting a cvl war in CA. They'd love to occupy our wealthy, gorgeous state and their followers will believe anything. We need intelligence and diplomacy.
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Reduce stress? This seems unnecessarily cruel.
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True, always had an immediate reaction, even to the ones labelled organic and I thought something was wrong with me. Switched to the cup, no reactions.
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100%
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OK, but we're working with a broken system too. Wages haven't kept pace with rising costs. Everything went up and nothing came down after COVID. I'm down to have less and pay more, but the little people can't hold the whole thing on our backs while the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening
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Let's sit this one out. Sometimes when he's "chickening out" it's him going right to the hairy edge of something terrible. Can we just acknowledge that there's a lot bluster/he might not go through with all his unhinged threats so I can sleep at night? I don't want him to feel pushed into action.
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Exactly! And they can't or won't understand that the bolder they are, the further outside their comfortable status quo they step, the more energized we get to support them. Wake up babes, new revolution just dropped.
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So the antidote to this is to always quote slightly inaccurately. Something that could almost have been said, something plausible, but wrong. And since they're eliminating news sources that aren't sycophantic, it's going to be up to all of us to citizen report.
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Captain Caveman + a bowl of Cookie Crisp was a perfect Saturday morning
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At least now we can reckon with the truth, rather than thinly veiled malice. Regimes like this don’t last, and when we’re left with the aftermath, we rebuild.
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Yay, thanks @sluggodoug.bsky.social for playing X. They're one of my all-time favorites and I'll always see them if they're touring within 100 miles of me, wherever I am.
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Damn, read the room, investors. People are quietly building guillotines, you’re not protected.
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Hear me out, a little fire vs fire: www.404media.co/researchers-...
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That is even cooler! I want that, thanks for the link.
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Very helpful, thank you!!
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You should get some kind of sainthood for that.
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My favorite librarian, @mychal3ts.bsky.social agrees with you:
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Yes! It's diabolical and you might not love it, but a folder called "Inbox 2" could clear out your main and give you the blank space that your brain likes.
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And the audacity to call it "Freedom™"
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Agreed! Anti-vaxx liberals have always been a fringe group, the DNC has never entertained an anti vaxx position. Because there's a type of Anti-vaxx/Moon Juice Mama doesn't make it mainstream.
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Shit, Onion, you got me. I thought this was real as I was scrolling. When the outrageous is plausible, your jokes hit like real news. Oof. Good one.
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This makes me so mad. I googled in search of an old quote so I could write it exactly as it was said, and it gave me a bunch of recent news and told me that I was wrong. AI is ruining searches.
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This was me with Les Miserables! By the end, I was so surprised that I hated the beginning.
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I loved "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." No, for me it was "Wuthering Heights" that was a terrible slog in high school.
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Pleasure reading doesn't have to always challenge you. Eating exotic foods helps you out of your comfort zone too, but sometimes you eat (and read) something that goes down easily for the mere human pleasure of it.
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Even if everyone loves it and it's a sequel to a book you really enjoyed. I've been trying and trying and I think it's just not going to catch my attention the way other books do. Thank you for this!
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I'm kind of rebellious about watching when something is quite popular, but this kind of endorsement works on me. I want to gasp in astonishment and entertainment!
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I agree with this so much! I love to look at people's libraries, I enjoy seeing what my friends value by looking at their books spines, but it's antithetical to a book's use - especially a beloved book! I won't keep a good book - I'll give it to someone and encourage them to pass it along!
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It's mind-boggling to me how so many pick at an entirely ok fringe when there's a glaring giant big burning hole in the middle of the damned tapestry that needs attention. "Was the fringe intentional, or should it have been hemmed?" Darlings, let's save this tapestry before the whole thing is lost.
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That and the bribery plane and the crypo and the FAA, it's too much today. A game of people's lives for others entertainment lets me know that they don't see immigrants as humans or equals. That's enough internet for me today, to spare my mental health.
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This is a great place to start.
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Sorry, confirmed real, there's a 35-page pitch that the producer/DHS released, this is the batshit timeline we're in.
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Rio City Cafe in Sacramento served this on a shaded patio right on the river, it was pretty great. Someone tried to reproduce it, but I'm not sure it's quite right: www.recipelink.com/recipes/rio-...
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It reminds me of his statement about not giving women gifts of jewelry, so if they ever break up, they don't end up with tangible assets. I never understood that, but from this perspective, I get it.