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fiveforsilver.bsky.social
pithy and pissy. cat lady (currently) without cats; art lady (currently) without space to do art. "socialism" is not a four-letter word. we all do better when we all do better. failing that: look for the Luigis.
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The resemblance is uncanny.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Preface: I did typesetting for a few years and proofreading for over a decade. I've had my own business for several years where good font usage is vital. Yes, I'm a stickler, but I know what looks good and what doesn't. This font INFURIATES me.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Spending tonight looking at cat pictures and watching cute animal videos. I might be a touch high as well. Migraine hit me pretty hard today, so I was in need of the downtime.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Hey everybody, did you know that I'm the problem? Yep, blame it all on me and hopefully you'll feel better. (tongue fully in cheek, but it would be great if liberals didn't consume our own okay thanks)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I can see that I'm going to get a LOT of mileage out of "Christ, what an asshole" for the foreseeable future.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 18 days ago • 821 comments

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 19 days ago • 340 comments

I'm such a huge fan of Warnock. I appreciate his no-bullshit approach.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A worthwhile cause. Help support and defend our extremely vital civil servants.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Um, people need to stop and read this. Musk’s team is looking at the coding of the Treasury payment system. prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 182 comments

We're watching a bunch of guys who were born on third base strip the copper wiring out of the ballpark.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

"The entire point of doing this at Guantanamo is to apply the machinery of the post-9/11 state to this latest version of the Enemy. It is to entrench in the public mind a conflation of migration and terrorism," writes @attackerman.bsky.social. www.forever-wars.com/the-wages-of...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

The reason other presidents didn’t “govern” like this is because it’s all illegal.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

thread with @aoc.bsky.social’s advice for this moment, and it involves calling your reps. not sure how? use 5calls.org (they have an app too).

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

Me opening the news every fucking morning

submitted 21 days ago • 46 comments

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

On a topic and a poor strategy so inexplicably obvious that you can't believe they actually did this:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

omg omg omg @notmattmurdock.bsky.social omg omg omg observe the self-awarewolf in its natural habitat

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Action Park 2: Action Harder

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments