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robstantinople.bsky.social
Actor. Organized labor.
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

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"What some people call the most controversial piece of hold music out there..."

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Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...

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Wait being informed sucks ass.

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Are we even a month in yet? This is awful.

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My parents, combined, had over 50 years of service in the federal government. Mom retired as a Senior Program Manager, running the Navy Stock Fund. Dad was a contract negotiator for GSA. They were two of the most ethical people I’ve ever known.

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Coup: An unlawful seizure of power from a government.

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BREAKING NEWS: In a massive lawsuit, the AFL-CIO has SUED the Treasury Department: “for their unlawful…disclosure of personal and financial information…to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).”

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Found poem on my walk just now (on the sidewalk). #poetry

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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/t...

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Morgan Jenness cared so deeply.

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These are wonderful poems, my favorite being "Tinkle Tinkle, You Asshole."

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A friend and I sometimes say,“Captain Kirk, I shall consider it,” usually about a book recommendation that will go unheeded. It’s from the climax of “Mirror, Mirror.” I found this clip of it, and each time I watch it, I’m embarrassed by how moved I am. youtu.be/deq6_p47g54?...

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“Nervous? I will spend the night with thee. 25 cents.” lithub.com/there-once-w...

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Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

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Arin Arbus’s excellent Godot at Theatre for a New Audience thrives in the palpable friendship of Paul Sparks and Michael Shannon’s eccentric Didi and miserable Gogo, the details of their vie quotidienne, Ajay Naidu’s needy Pozzo, and Jeff Biehl’s distressing, virtuosic Lucky. It’s so alive!

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All in one picture

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I was listening to a cover of “Song for You” on this year’s Leon Russell tribute album, and I remembered a time ahen I was in the same room with Leon Russell, and I thought of a moment in the future when I would remember when we were together, and he was singing that song to me (and a few others).

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The first live show I saw was “Les Poupées de Paris” in the Coca-Cola pavilion at Hemisfair ‘68, which featured a cowboy-boot-wearing dragon named Luther who sang Tex Ritter songs, redeployed the next year by his creators as “H.R. Pufnstuf”. R.I.P. Marty Krofft.

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