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flim-flam.bsky.social
Long time ago, I cut my teeth on what happens when men get left behind and fed a story instead of a future. Wonky DC stuff: digital media, comms, data, and policy.
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None of this is normal.

Back in my day, terror alerts came with colors. You could tell all sorts of things by the color. Hell, newspapers used to have a cute lil 'terror meter' graphic right by the weather. How am I supposed to know if I should stockpile more guns or if this is tape the windows level shit without colors?

Its nice the kids get to experience their own 2003 style build-up to an unjust war like we did.

Can’t wait for the mixed reality 4D holographic VR commercials we’ll see in 2050: DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAVE MESOTHELIOMA?

i think it’s not talked about enough that so many christian rightwingers support israel because they want to trigger the end times rapture and they believe supporting israel will ensure this

Eschatological fantasies quite literally influenced the decision to move the US embassy.

It's all so fucking stupid.

If you attend a No Kings protest tomorrow in Texas, Washington, or New York, and you are arrested, please call or text 432.279.0411 with your name, location, and the phrase 1A911.

He's even got the golden codpiece.

More true now than when I first wrote these words…

Be very clear that this is old school white supremacist "that <slur> is uppity and we can't be having that" bullshit

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

Who wants to tell him?

Rips open shirt, fist thumping on his Jerusalem cross–a la Ed Norton in American History X–crowd goes absolutely batshit and devolves into a chant of "NOT FUCKIN' WELCOME!"

Shit-ass example of retroactively trying to CYA and ending up more fucked than before.

Jesus fuck