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Melissa S.
@melissas.bsky.social
Union Library Worker

I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger, though I think I might lie here a little longer.
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"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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The man with the nuclear codes has a child's understanding of the military he commands
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it.

The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?"
"An obituary."
"Obituaries aren't on the front page."
"This one will be."
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.

He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Returning to twitter to minister to the hogs and do my part to improve the conversation. Fixing Andrew Tate's heart by talking about the NBA with him. Replying "Are you watching Plurbus" to a Rod Dreher post about demonic possession and kicking off a healing round of good-natured discourse.
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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He knows he is dying. He knows he is hated. He knows the clock is running out on doing anything about the latter before the former happens. And where, in most people, this would trigger a sense of humility and grace, all he can feel is an increasingly panicked delirium.
This feels qualitatively different than his usual rants. This is morbid behavior in the strictest medical sense of the term.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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i think we should all commit ourselves to, at minimum, a national 3 day party When It Happens. one bottle of champagne in the back of your closet is no longer adequate. be prepared
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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One possible flaw in Bari Weiss's plan to remake CBS News in her image is that she is a bad and boring journalist and nobody actually likes her.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.

Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand

variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Linux is fine except every once in a while I’d have to enter a bunch of instructions that looked like an elephant seal trying to read the Gettysburg address (“grep awk ac vurg bork bash”) just to get my screensaver changed and I just don’t have time for all that.
December 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I think my favorite Linux Guy reply was someone sincerely and disdainfully going "sure I guess some people don't want to think about their operating system" and I was like "I have never wanted to think about my operating system."
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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News is bad and depressing, have a forward facing pelican. #birds
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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hell yeah brother
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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These people are allergic to accountability.

Secretary Talk Show Host is now trying to throw others under the bus for the double-tap strike.

Pete Hegseth needs to be impeached.
White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.
www.huffpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM