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It's spooky season, which means it's time for the annual rewatch of Mike Flanagan series. I'll be starting with Fall of the House of Usher, because it's awesome.

Some people find Flanagan's work too "theatrical" for their tastes, but goddamn do I love what his team creates.
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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It's funny how they want to be inspired and motivated, while saying things to demotivate and dispirit themselves and others, it's like they don't actually want to be motivated or inspired the way they fight against it.

Relevant png:
All roads lead to "Fuck the Democrats"
September 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Meanwhile, Trump seems pretty angry about Democrats denying unanimous consent for his civilian appointments...
Trump is big mad at Democrats.
September 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I already know how this conversation goes, I'm not interested in going through the script tonight.
Did I mention fuck the Democrats?
September 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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"What's more eye-catching is the growing percentage of people who strongly disapprove of the president, especially relative to the strong approval percentage. In January, there was just a two percentage point gap ... Today, that gap is 22 points — the largest ever for this point in a term."
As you can see, the proportion of all Trump approvers who only "somewhat" approve of the way he's handling his job as president (41%) is indeed higher than in January (30%), but it's not an earth-shattering difference. For further comparison, in his first week in office in 2017, 38% of people who approved of Trump's presidency were soft approvers. What's more eye-catching to me is the growing percentage of people who say they strongly disapprove of the president, especially relative to the strong approval percentage. In January of this year, there was just a two percentage point gap between Trump's strong opposers and supporters. Today, that gap is 22 points — and the largest ever for this point in a presidential term. https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-strongly-disapprove-numbers
September 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if we actually had vaccines for 92 different ailments? I don't think there even ARE 92 vaccines.
We all know we take the chicken pox vaccine & 60 years later we get shingles. It's totally legit & rational to be skeptical abt giving kids 92 vaccines. And there's no scientific basis to give a 6-month-old baby a COVID shot. #BigPharma #BigFood & #BigChem have controlled the fed govt. long enough.
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Relevant @volts.wtf tweet:
If you're on the right, shitting on Dems is how you demonstrate the shared hatreds that make you part of the tribe. If you're on the center-left, shitting on Dems is how you demonstrate the above-it-all independence that earns the admiration of your peers. If you're on the left, shitting on Dems is how you demonstrate the moral and ideological purity that are the price of membership. If you're in the media, shitting on Dems is how you fight off accusations of bias and establish your objectivity. All roads lead to "Fuck the Democrats."
September 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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In today's episode of "Weird Priorities."

I remain grateful to BlueSky for including mute and block features, so I only have to see this shit the one time per user.
“F.A.F.O.” going from an Aryan Brotherhood acronym to mainstream for “you didn’t personally vote hard enough for Black Girl Magic Hitler” is beautiful in a way. American politics is downstream from culture, but american culture is downstream from race war
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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BlueSky pro-tip: Enable Tree View in Thread Preferences to get a cleaner, more easy to follow reply setup than the default settings.

(It makes replies indented like you're in reddit.)
Settings -> Thread Preferences -> Tree view [Enabled]
September 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike in Syria in which officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?”
President Trump reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn’t kill a terrorist target’s family during a drone strike. The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike in Syria in which officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?”
September 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Chat, was I out of line to ask "What has your party done?"
Apparently "What has your party done?" is a gotcha.
September 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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When I say "People get angry at Democrats for shit they didn't do," this is what I mean.
Democrats didn't wash my dog.
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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What my feed looks like right now. =/
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I think(?) we've already got one in this thread:
I mean, [Biden] is bad for blatantly lying to the country and helping to usher in Trump again though such decisions. That doesn't make Trump's actions here right. Perhaps we can go back to Bush and Obama for precedent of this being okay? If Uncle Sam decrees you a terrorist you're fair game.
September 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on a community theater production of the episode of Stargate SG-1 where they're all puppets.
What do you want me to say? They're puppets.
September 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Just some relevant reading from Trump's first term.
President Donald Trump has revoked a policy set by his predecessor requiring US intelligence officials to publish the number of civilians killed in drone strikes outside of war zones. The 2016 executive order was brought in by then-President Barack Obama, who was under pressure to be more transparent. Since the 9/11 terror attack, drone strikes have been increasingly used against terror and military targets. The Trump administration said the rule was "superfluous" and distracting. The order applied to the CIA, which has carried out drone strikes in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia. President Trump reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn’t kill a terrorist target’s family during a drone strike. The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike in Syria in which officials waited until the target was outside of his family’s home, Trump asked, “Why did you wait?” Civilian deaths skyrocketed in Afghanistan under President Donald Trump, whose administration relaxed the rules of engagement for airstrikes in 2017, according to a new study from the Costs of War Project at Brown University. "The number of civilians killed by international airstrikes increased about 330 percent from 2016, the last full year of the Obama Administration, to 2019, the most recent year for which there is complete data from the United Nations," Neta C. Crawford, who led the study, wrote in a report on the findings. "The restraints on airstrikes are intended to save civilian lives, and the restraints generally do: the evidence shows that civilian casualties due to airstrikes decrease."
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is a cute skweet, I just think it's funny and wanted to share it: Implies that Democrats have never done anything good, implies that Democrats are sabotaging Democratic socialists, implies that Democrats are slaves to capital, he really hit all the notes!
did the democrats create real meaningful change by slavishly undercutting demsoc candidates and maintaining their alignment to capital?
September 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A skweet worth saving:
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"Newsomites" is definitely a new one.

Might be worth adding to your filter list, I don't know yet.
"newsomites can't even pretend to care about how their country affects the international community"
August 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Context:
Not to belabor the point but: I am not the weird one for being this mad at the Democratic Party and its leaders. Look at polls of your average rank and file Dem voters and how they feel about the party now. It is YOU who are out of touch if you’re asking why people are being mean to Dem politicians
August 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Here's the OG, for anyone who needs it.
And did I mention fuck the Democrats?
August 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Fun fact: Trump 1 approved pesticides linked to childhood brain damage. This is just him being ideologically consistent.
The US government has rejected a proposed ban on a toxic pesticide linked to brain damage in children, dismissing a growing body of research on the health hazards of a widely used agricultural chemical. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a ruling on Thursday that it supported farmers’ continued use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that growers have long sprayed on almonds, citrus, cotton, grapes, walnuts and other major crops in America. The decision, outlined in a response to a petition from environmental and public health groups, said “critical questions remained regarding the significance of the data” on neurological impacts on children. The Trump administration’s endorsement of the pesticide comes years after the EPA under Obama moved to restrict use of the chemical, as scientists raised alarms. Trump’s EPA denied the conclusions of the agency’s own experts, and earlier this year, California defied the White House and announced its own state-level ban on the chemical. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/epa-chlorpyrifos-ban-children-brain-damage-trump
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title:

Tom Clancy's Professor Wormbog in Search For the Zipperump-a-Zoo.
Tom Clancy's Professor Wombog in the Search for the Zipparup-a-Zoo starring Sam Fisher by Tom Clancy
August 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Pictured: You threw away the map.
August 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Screenshot with alt-text of @schumer.senate.gov's statement on the attempted firing of Lisa Cook from the Fed.
New York, N.Y. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released the following statement after Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook from her position as a Governor at the Federal Reserve: “Any attempt to fire Lisa Cook from her position of Governor at the Federal Reserve is just the latest in Donald Trump’s DC partisan games to rig the economy for his billionaire donors at the expense of hardworking Americans. This attempted firing shreds the independence of the Fed and puts every American’s savings and mortgage at risk. “Donald Trump is playing a dangerous game of Jenga with a key pillar of our economy. This brazen power grab must be stopped by the courts before Trump does permanent damage to national, state, and local economies. And if the economy comes crashing down, if families lose their savings and Main Street pays the price, Donald Trump will own every ounce of the wreckage and devastation families feel.”
August 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM