Zaphod Beeblebrox
@missus-grace.bsky.social
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Ron, I get that you're angry. I get that you want accountability. You probably want a little revenge. Probably a lot of revenge. But your comment is completely absurd. It's clownish. It's inhumane. You're better than this. And you should be better informed.
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July 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ron, I get that you're angry. I get that you want accountability. You probably want a little revenge. Probably a lot of revenge. But your comment is completely absurd. It's clownish. It's inhumane. You're better than this. And you should be better informed.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Great story here in @nature.com from @helenpearson.bsky.social on the state of health in the US and what happens when RFK's Make America Healthy Again rhetoric meets the evidence on what actually needs to change.
Ft. this shocking graph on US health exceptionalism:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ft. this shocking graph on US health exceptionalism:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Great story here in @nature.com from @helenpearson.bsky.social on the state of health in the US and what happens when RFK's Make America Healthy Again rhetoric meets the evidence on what actually needs to change.
Ft. this shocking graph on US health exceptionalism:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ft. this shocking graph on US health exceptionalism:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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Juneteenth is a celebration of Black Americans’ freedom. As cities pull funding for the holiday preparations, we’re reminded that our liberation is still controversial.
June 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Juneteenth is a celebration of Black Americans’ freedom. As cities pull funding for the holiday preparations, we’re reminded that our liberation is still controversial.
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So abortion is murder but not vaccinating your kids is patriotic. Got it.
March 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So abortion is murder but not vaccinating your kids is patriotic. Got it.
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Makes me wonder “what kind of idiots votes for people like him?”
March 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Makes me wonder “what kind of idiots votes for people like him?”
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Trump and his highest tier of appointees are not governing as if they have any concern about winning elections. Which makes me think they have a plan to not have free and fair elections again in the future.
Dictators don't worry about election consequences - they always "win" in landslides.
Dictators don't worry about election consequences - they always "win" in landslides.
March 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trump and his highest tier of appointees are not governing as if they have any concern about winning elections. Which makes me think they have a plan to not have free and fair elections again in the future.
Dictators don't worry about election consequences - they always "win" in landslides.
Dictators don't worry about election consequences - they always "win" in landslides.
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Just saying.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just saying.
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You know, if a small percentage of the US Electorate were just fine with a woman President, I'd be sitting here on a Saturday morning, enjoying my coffee, and not Doom Scrolling wondering what on earth is going on
February 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
You know, if a small percentage of the US Electorate were just fine with a woman President, I'd be sitting here on a Saturday morning, enjoying my coffee, and not Doom Scrolling wondering what on earth is going on
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It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.
January 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.
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If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
January 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
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As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.
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“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed, making widows their prey and robbing the orphan.” -Isaiah 10:1-2
January 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed, making widows their prey and robbing the orphan.” -Isaiah 10:1-2
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Fuck Target, for real.
January 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fuck Target, for real.
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Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.
January 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Decades of confirmation hearings where women testify to abuse and sexual violence, only for the men in question to rise to higher positions of power, is a perfect encapsulation of why more victims don’t come forward.
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Updated list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
January 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Updated list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans
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And, in tandem, to eradicate all creativity, intellectual curiosity and joy. Our job is to cower in fear, obey in advance, and turn on our neighbor.
***1984 was not supposed to be a manual***
***1984 was not supposed to be a manual***
The GOP is literally telling you that their main policy goal is to ethnically cleanse the country.
January 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
And, in tandem, to eradicate all creativity, intellectual curiosity and joy. Our job is to cower in fear, obey in advance, and turn on our neighbor.
***1984 was not supposed to be a manual***
***1984 was not supposed to be a manual***
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas was published 201 years ago and was a key text in the invention of Christmas as an American tradition. Puritans had outlawed the holiday, and in early 19th century NYC it was associated with working class drunken disorder and (sometimes) anti-elite violence.
December 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
'Twas the Night Before Christmas was published 201 years ago and was a key text in the invention of Christmas as an American tradition. Puritans had outlawed the holiday, and in early 19th century NYC it was associated with working class drunken disorder and (sometimes) anti-elite violence.
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No thanks, Elf on a Shelf. I prefer Ellis on a Trellis.
December 17, 2024 at 11:52 AM
No thanks, Elf on a Shelf. I prefer Ellis on a Trellis.
Great thread
Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."
December 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Great thread