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Adroitly Absurd
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🗃️ Historian, interpreter, educator, reenactor, now #Skystorian, etc. born a century or so too late. Randomly purveys wit, wisdom, & waffling. Opinions = mine, R/T ≠ endorsement
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Since Bluesky apparently deleted my pinned post (hey, wtf?) hi, it’s me, that guy from Twitter w/ the history & weird humor

Yes, not all the tweets made it over cleanly; if you find a broken 🧵, it’s something we all (especially my OCD) have to live with

Anyway… howdy howdy howdy

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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day today all who celebrate
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Shit
Today's 🇪🇺Parliament vote has transformed the government of the EU.

🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy.

A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban

As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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a “Space Force”, if you will
we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Jesus Christ
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“All of them have the opportunity to hold these materials in their hands and say, ‘Oh, a human being did this.’”
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Your tax dollars at work (enriching specific GOP Jan 6th-adjacent senators to the tune of half a million each)
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Feels somehow fitting that the president who has done more to trample the legacy of Lincoln has just killed his coin even as he demands the Treasury mint quarters w/ his mug on both sides

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...
US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled
The U.S. Mint has ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and in recognition of the growing irrelevance of the 1-cent coin
abcnews.go.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just did the math comparing my bills & w/ rising healthcare premiums, my cost of living increase being locked at the bare minimum 1%, & my ladder promotion frozen

Next year I will come out at minimum ~ -$500

So, I will be PAYING to remain employed & serving the public



Swell
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
CPR recertified, so that’s something
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
God DAMN
Significant cave nomination form.

cc: @democrats.senate.gov
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fuckin’ hell, man
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it

What is elimination and why does it matter?

Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
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As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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genuinely have been thinking about this all day i cannot stop laughing about the second verses lyrics
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Oof
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Great, cannot wait to wake up to fundraising emails with subject lines like “we’re not giving up!” asking me for $3 after completely letting us down.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Happy Birthday USMC.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Boom. Get fucked, bigots.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I was wondering this week whether the airlines were lobbying behind the scenes.
SHUTDOWN TAKEAWAY: send home as many federal employees as you want, cut off people's food stamps, let health care system career towards a cliff, but don't mess with air travel, especially with holidays looming.
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM