Talking Alligator
@alligatortakes.bsky.social
Good things are good, bad things are bad you dorks. 🏳️⚧️
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I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I find this sort of messaging so much better than insisting that the USA is somehow poor in aggregate.
The range in quality of the Avatar screenshot cards is astounding. Lifelong Friendship is super cute in person, very well grabbed. And then there's Join the Dance, which is a blurry mess.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The range in quality of the Avatar screenshot cards is astounding. Lifelong Friendship is super cute in person, very well grabbed. And then there's Join the Dance, which is a blurry mess.
This was, to be clear, the point of the Biden senility conspiracy theory pushed by the press over the last few years.
TRUMP: BIDEN WAS NOT INVOLVED IN AUTOPEN PROCESS AND, IF HE SAYS HE WAS, HE WILL BE BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES OF PERJURY
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This was, to be clear, the point of the Biden senility conspiracy theory pushed by the press over the last few years.
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Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Can you imagine if the Times and Post and CNN reacted to every time DHS explicitly endorsed neo-Nazism with the same kind of screaming headlines that they did every time Biden stumbled over a world leader’s name?
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I will never forgive the American people for saying “eh maybe it won’t be that bad this time around” and then like 3 seconds later saying “oops nope I hate this”
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I will never forgive the American people for saying “eh maybe it won’t be that bad this time around” and then like 3 seconds later saying “oops nope I hate this”
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Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
This would not be happening under Harris
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This would not be happening under Harris
Miller knows that what he says now was said about his ancestors. He also knows that he got his.
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Miller knows that what he says now was said about his ancestors. He also knows that he got his.
He took a multiple month long recess to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
He took a multiple month long recess to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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I like how yesterday we had a big discourse about how political journalism as an industry is Good, Actually.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I like how yesterday we had a big discourse about how political journalism as an industry is Good, Actually.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
the reason they stand silently as their colleague is insulted is because the political press is rotten to the core.
This would not be happening under a Harris Administration
Breaking: President Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start "very soon"
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/p...
Trump says US land action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela will start ‘very soon’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This would not be happening under a Harris Administration
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I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
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Also, financing a depreciating status symbol is just...it's so on the nose. "I can't afford this symbol of wealth I am buying to show how wealthy I am except that I'm not because that's why I need a car loan."
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Also, financing a depreciating status symbol is just...it's so on the nose. "I can't afford this symbol of wealth I am buying to show how wealthy I am except that I'm not because that's why I need a car loan."
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
Revue Starlight is the best anime because it understands that every theater kid is motivated by either homosexuality or violence
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Revue Starlight is the best anime because it understands that every theater kid is motivated by either homosexuality or violence
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
love to get a notification that I've been rejected from a job on the night before Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
love to get a notification that I've been rejected from a job on the night before Thanksgiving
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If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If your argument involves referring to Americans as “USians” it doesn’t matter how cogent the rest of your point may be tbh
Is Lizza going to say that Trump faked the injury
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Is Lizza going to say that Trump faked the injury
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oh look, Google is once again returning factually inaccurate data because it’s very important to them to use Daddy’s preferred terms
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
oh look, Google is once again returning factually inaccurate data because it’s very important to them to use Daddy’s preferred terms
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It's wild how many people seem to not understand opportunity costs. Childcare wasn't "free," it cost whatever the average salary of a woman was in 1955, because that's what you missed out on by having her be the child care
Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's wild how many people seem to not understand opportunity costs. Childcare wasn't "free," it cost whatever the average salary of a woman was in 1955, because that's what you missed out on by having her be the child care
Going to leave that link Blue
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Going to leave that link Blue
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my understanding is he was like this during his entire trial and also literally shit his pants at least once and it only merited a passing mention by our media betters
the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
my understanding is he was like this during his entire trial and also literally shit his pants at least once and it only merited a passing mention by our media betters
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It's wild to me that pension fraud helps you live longer. Do what you love I guess!
Blue Zones: areas of surprising longevity driven by a combination of inaccurate birth records and extensive pension fraud.
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to mean delicious but unhealthy dishes. You can have flavor plus boost longevity with these five tips from blue zone researcher Dan Buettner. https://cnn.it/4rAnU6m
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It's wild to me that pension fraud helps you live longer. Do what you love I guess!