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Oceania has always been at peace with Eurasia.

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If you asked me 3 weeks ago to list ways I might likely die, "In a plane crash b/c a dementia-addled narcissist w/the world's most obvious comb-over allowed a drug-addled narcissist w/the world's most obvious hair plugs to fire the FAA" wouldn't have made the list, much less the top 5.

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I'm a beer snob, & I scour local bottle shops for a holy grail: the sour IPA. It's a difficult trick to balance bitter & sour (& sour beers rare on their own for other reasons). So I was excited when I came across Fogsicle sour DIPA from Abomination. I opened the can tonight, & out poured...

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America's first gender neutral bathroom was Rush Limbaugh's gravesite.

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This thing seems to me to be most relevant: right now there are embarrassingly large chunks of the center and center-right telling themselves paper-thin feel-good stories about how this will all work out, because the alternative is the soul-crushing realization that they've enabled a tyrant.

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Honestly I'm surprised it took this long. At this rate, by the end of March, I fully expect Google Maps to just label everything "Trump," and the House GOP to demand that every church, school, and government office prominently display golden idols of 47.

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In its increasing desperation to provoke me to engage, my FB feed is now filling up w/"suggested" content from maga trolls, almost all related to a) the "Gulf of America" or b) the $bns of "waste" Leon has allegedly found, in partic USAID. (I block EVERY suggestion, & don't react/comment anymore.)

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H/t @mosker.bsky.social

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"Kleptocracy" and "oligarchy" just take up too many letters together, so I'm officially coining a neologism and releasing it free into the world: Meet: Kleptoligarchy You're welcome. 😊

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I hate to break it to you frogs, but there is no appeasing King Stork. If he gets hungry, and you're handy, he will eat you. You may get lucky and be able to push another frog in front of you--unless someone pushes you first...

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I really wish that instead of 50 emails a day asking for 💵, the Ds would send me just 1 giving me a 🕰️ and 📍 to show up & protest (or in my case, show my support for my elected reps, who are, in fact, fighting a fairly good fight: @wyden.senate.gov, @jeff-merkley.bsky.social, @repbynum.bsky.social).

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Your 30-sec. act of resistance: 1. Go to google.com/maps. 2. Move the map so only the Gulf of Mexico is visible, then bottom right, click "Send Product Feedback." 3. Click "Report an issue." 4. Choose "Other," and in the text box, enter "The Gulf of Mexico is incorrectly labelled 'Gulf of America.'"

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Great point.

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"Incel Clown Posse." Heh.

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Surely, I'm not the first to think to call Leon's adolescent minions/fanboys/gaming posse/unindicted co-conspirators "MuskRats?" And no, I won't stop calling you Shirley. (And yes, I did google it, and the Times of India beat me to it by 3 days. But I still liked the joke, so 😛)

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"Move fast and break things" may work for tech toys, but it's no more applicable to government and economics than it is to brain surgery, where the "things" in question are human lives.

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Why do I get the feeling that the lesson most GOPers took from history class was, "Well, people like ME were fine under Hitler"...

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It's kinda weird that the legacy of Game of Thrones is going to be introducing "bend the knee" into our lexicon.

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Might the magats finally wake up when Waffle House goes woke?

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submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

Dear friends in Canada and Mexico: kick us in the balls. Hard. And keep kicking.

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Today's baffling FB algorithm flailing: stuff from Iowa. Never been there, not "friends" with anyone from there, never mentioned it.

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I cut open an avocado just now and was disappointed to see it had turned mostly brown, until I realized that about 2 weeks from now it's going to be a cherished memory.

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In today's episode of "weird things the FB algorithm is throwing at me now that I'm blocking everything:" state police departments, military units, and local news meteorologists.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I love how the same magats who are constantly "gawd" this and "geezus" that also declare that a species like the delta smelt is "worthless," as though the deity who made every unviable zygote more valuable than the life of its mother would also make creatures we can destroy if they're inconvenient.

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Does Mommy still buy your Underoos, too?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I don't pay attention to sportsball, but maybe this is an apt metaphor: DEIA isn't the refs letting the worse team win. It's someone on your team got called on for holding (again and again and again for decades if not centuries...), and the refs gave your team a yardage penalty.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

About the only consolation to the Senate confirming unqualified boobs like Hesgeth is that 47 will fire them as soon as they make him look bad. Which should happen in about 5... 4... 3...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like the GOP has replaced the "three Gs" of guns, god, and gays with grievance, graft, and grift.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you @jeff-merkley.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov for voting against John Ratcliffe to head the CIA.

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Like vulture capitalists, the broligarchy sees the difference between the standards of living of the American middle and even working classes, and what people in places like Russia endure without rising in revolution and dragging them to the guillotine, as "surplus" to be extracted.

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