liprap
@liprap.bsky.social
Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
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It's hair-splitting, and it's also true.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It's hair-splitting, and it's also true.
Throughout all of this, it occurs to me that the Upper Class Twit sketch from Monty Python is reading as more of a documentary next to these emails. youtu.be/kdFnfcxhNnA?...
And Now For Something Completely Different... Monty Python Olympics | Upper Class Twit of The Year
YouTube video by Our Nostalgic Memories
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November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Throughout all of this, it occurs to me that the Upper Class Twit sketch from Monty Python is reading as more of a documentary next to these emails. youtu.be/kdFnfcxhNnA?...
"You laugh, but the musicians kept playing while the Titanic sank, right?" - @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social + @allyfromnola.bsky.social on point about Target.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Forcing its employees to smile won't fix Target's problem
The Minneapolis-based retailer isn’t suffering lower sales because its employees are rude but because it disrespected a significant portion of its customer base.
www.msnbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"You laugh, but the musicians kept playing while the Titanic sank, right?" - @jarvisdeberry.bsky.social + @allyfromnola.bsky.social on point about Target.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Exactly. These emails are from the Epstein estate, not the DOJ.
This is also what the email senders and recipients felt comfortable enough discussing to put in writing.
This is also what the email senders and recipients felt comfortable enough discussing to put in writing.
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Exactly. These emails are from the Epstein estate, not the DOJ.
This is also what the email senders and recipients felt comfortable enough discussing to put in writing.
This is also what the email senders and recipients felt comfortable enough discussing to put in writing.
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This:
i constantly hate the lament that maga people dont care. i dont care that they dont care. theyre fucking garbage people who support corruption and ethnic cleansing. but normal, good people outnumber them and id really like those people to be given constant prodding to get out and vote.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This:
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If your Difference Engine can't do this, is it really a Difference Engine at all?
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If your Difference Engine can't do this, is it really a Difference Engine at all?
One of my fave clothing stores sent me an ad last week for its slackets, which made me wanna lie down from how hard they were trying to push that combo. I haven't seen it featured since, which means they probably had a rethink on it, too.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
One of my fave clothing stores sent me an ad last week for its slackets, which made me wanna lie down from how hard they were trying to push that combo. I haven't seen it featured since, which means they probably had a rethink on it, too.
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I want people to target non-voters and TALK TO THEM.
The Democratic Party polls worse than Trump because they have not only alienated the base but have also (as a party and the rest of you pieces of shit) have isolated and disrespected non-voters for asking questions YOU too pussy to ask
The Democratic Party polls worse than Trump because they have not only alienated the base but have also (as a party and the rest of you pieces of shit) have isolated and disrespected non-voters for asking questions YOU too pussy to ask
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I want people to target non-voters and TALK TO THEM.
The Democratic Party polls worse than Trump because they have not only alienated the base but have also (as a party and the rest of you pieces of shit) have isolated and disrespected non-voters for asking questions YOU too pussy to ask
The Democratic Party polls worse than Trump because they have not only alienated the base but have also (as a party and the rest of you pieces of shit) have isolated and disrespected non-voters for asking questions YOU too pussy to ask
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Federal govt keep denying bond hearings to immigrants even though the feds keep losing habeas petitions. Their goal is to make people desperate enough that they’ll sign up for voluntary deportation, inflict pain so people leave, even if they have deep ties and good records in USA
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government’s mandatory detention of Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, the day care teacher arrested at a Chicago preschool, is illegal and she must be given a bond hearing.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Federal govt keep denying bond hearings to immigrants even though the feds keep losing habeas petitions. Their goal is to make people desperate enough that they’ll sign up for voluntary deportation, inflict pain so people leave, even if they have deep ties and good records in USA
Don't buy from Starbucks today.
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Don't buy from Starbucks today.
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RIP Jeff Hannusch, who spent the 1980s talking to musicians in New Orleans who'd changed the world in the 1940s-60s, and left us books that are still essential to understanding their stories.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
RIP Jeff Hannusch, who spent the 1980s talking to musicians in New Orleans who'd changed the world in the 1940s-60s, and left us books that are still essential to understanding their stories.
Wonderful ode to Halt and Catch Fire here from @kissphoria.bsky.social
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
One of TV's most underrated shows gave Texas' tech past its due
Texas rarely gets the prestige treatment. One AMC drama pulled it off.
www.chron.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Wonderful ode to Halt and Catch Fire here from @kissphoria.bsky.social
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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Nine NFL players under 48 have died this year. NINE. And twenty under the age of 65. I'm looking into it for a longer article. But I'm taking to bluesky to say that I cannot believe - or maybe its just too easy to believe - that in our NFL obsessed sports media culture, this is not a bigger story.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nine NFL players under 48 have died this year. NINE. And twenty under the age of 65. I'm looking into it for a longer article. But I'm taking to bluesky to say that I cannot believe - or maybe its just too easy to believe - that in our NFL obsessed sports media culture, this is not a bigger story.
Gosh, I wonder why.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Gosh, I wonder why.
Maybe it all goes back to all these assholes wanting to be with their parents, I dunno.
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Sex with Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part II (Live)
YouTube video by Lou Reed - Topic
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November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Maybe it all goes back to all these assholes wanting to be with their parents, I dunno.
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Obviously in a musical mood tonight. youtu.be/b6BHh_0pX_4?...
X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours! with lyrics
YouTube video by euterpis91
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November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Obviously in a musical mood tonight. youtu.be/b6BHh_0pX_4?...
🎶They can do all sixteen dances🎶
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
🎶They can do all sixteen dances🎶
I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD
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November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD
youtu.be/7kxK_-O1bQM?...
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I was part of a Baylor alumni group that worked really hard to get Ken Starr & other Baylor leaders removed from positions of power in 2015-16. We succeeded, even as many of our classmates & families said we were overreacting.
Never felt so vindicated.
Never felt so vindicated.
Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I was part of a Baylor alumni group that worked really hard to get Ken Starr & other Baylor leaders removed from positions of power in 2015-16. We succeeded, even as many of our classmates & families said we were overreacting.
Never felt so vindicated.
Never felt so vindicated.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.
US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled
The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.
www.scrippsnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.
Thread.
I think people are waiting to see if there will be actual, immediate consequences here. And I'm not so sure there will be, myself. Whether or not people who voted for all of this will change is also in question. (I personally don't think any of this will change their minds much, sadly)
I think people are waiting to see if there will be actual, immediate consequences here. And I'm not so sure there will be, myself. Whether or not people who voted for all of this will change is also in question. (I personally don't think any of this will change their minds much, sadly)
This Trump/Epstein stuff is so typical of a modern political "scandal," in that ... we know he did it. He knows he did it. Everyone knows he did it & everyone knows that everyone knows he did it. There is zero "did he do it?" involved here. The whole thing is about ... what, exactly?
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thread.
I think people are waiting to see if there will be actual, immediate consequences here. And I'm not so sure there will be, myself. Whether or not people who voted for all of this will change is also in question. (I personally don't think any of this will change their minds much, sadly)
I think people are waiting to see if there will be actual, immediate consequences here. And I'm not so sure there will be, myself. Whether or not people who voted for all of this will change is also in question. (I personally don't think any of this will change their minds much, sadly)
I'm with Larry.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm with Larry.
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Lol literally everyone here's experience over the last couple days.
"oh that's where my gloves are!"
"oh that's where my gloves are!"
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Lol literally everyone here's experience over the last couple days.
"oh that's where my gloves are!"
"oh that's where my gloves are!"
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Democrat Adelita Grijalva, the key 218th vote for a petition to force a House vote on the Epstein files, has finally been sworn in to Congress
Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva Sworn In To Congress 7 Weeks After Being Elected
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) refused to swear in Grijalva during the government shutdown, despite doing so previously for two House Republicans.
www.huffpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Democrat Adelita Grijalva, the key 218th vote for a petition to force a House vote on the Epstein files, has finally been sworn in to Congress