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stdesjardins.bsky.social
DC native, science fiction fan, COVID-cautious, living in Penn Quarter. I am vegetarian, have ankylosing spondylitis, and am a fan of the Criterion Channel. I spent four months of Budapest in 1986, and am I still trying to learn the language.
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Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

I am flabbergasted that there is a single Democratic politician who hasn't realized this. "The most corrupt administration in American history" is such an obvious attack line that reinforces every criticism of their illegal acts.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I would add @support.bsky.team that you should consider nonresponsive alt text, which disrupts the UI for disabled users, something we can report because "read the image" is just plain ableist trash

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The response was entirely positive, so let the Nazi Punch of the Day begin. It seems appropriate to start with a classic. This is from Captain America Comics #1. The cover date was March 1941, but from what I've read, it was on the shelves several months earlier. #NPD #NaziPunching

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

i just cannot stress enough how much better @aoc.bsky.social is than her colleagues at nailing the tone of *doing something* even here where it's just informational, it feels active

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings!

submitted 9 days ago • 83 comments

One little known fact about my family is that my grandad predicted the Titanic would sink. He even went around warning everyone it was unsafe and was ignored and yelled at. Then when it actually happened just like he said it would nobody acknowledged him because he'd been evicted from the theatre

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

Thread.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 26 days ago • 81 comments

Interesting personal essay by a theater critic who had to attend shows standing for two months because of a back injury: wapo.st/4hqLrAH

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is right. There are real pastoral dynamics at play. But it cannot be that once a party chooses to take a position on a given question, the church can therefore no longer articulate the gospel’s position on that same question. Parties cannot determine how much of the gospel is right to preach.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

When bureaucratic language becomes a thing of sublime beauty.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I bought a couple of small rutabagas on a whim the last time I had groceries delivered. Then I figured out what to do with them.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

My mother always said that our family motto was "Always bring a book." The long form of the family motto included "... and a jacket."

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral. www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep... She was and is a real hero.

submitted 29 days ago • 59 comments

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

submitted 33 days ago • 54 comments

Trump's inauguration is going to be like a community theater rendition of "Anything Goes." Very low production values. Like Patti LuPone tap-dancing in a mall food court, only without the talent.

submitted 34 days ago • 150 comments

ANCIENT ROMAN: *looking at shirts labeled M L and XL* excuse me these sizes are backwards

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want

submitted 38 days ago • 75 comments