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Hieronymus Botch
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The opposite of woke is willful ignorance. Gen X, mostly TTRPGs and politics. Abolish the 2nd. BLM. Sex work is work. TERFs are trash. Fetuses aren’t people. Fascism is bad, actually. Leguminati. He/him.
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“If a pregnancy is an unborn child, then a human is an undead skeleton.”
—Erin Ryan
Christian: Heather Dale, “I Saw Three Songs/ Song of the Ship”

Secular: Tchaikovsky, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?

I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.

And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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EVERY house we looked at in altadena had a high fire risk, so we looked and bought in Pasadena even though there was less inventory. EVERY house i looked at in Altadena burned in Eaton, four weeks after we closed. Eaton missed our house by five blocks.

the risk rating worked. shame it’s gone.
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Y'know, it IS kind of weird that the most common ads I hear on my podcasts (other than other podcasts) are Better Help or "social casino" apps.

I don't even hear the pre-prepared food ads. Like we've gone beyond "you don't have time to cook," and we're into "you don't have money or mental health."
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I have no reason to think this will change his mind, either.

A reasonable person would see this and say, “get rid of the domestic terrorists!”

Trump might just say, “get rid of the Afghans!”
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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This
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I’m in touch with a medical team in Gaza who described the situation, and I quote, like so: “this ceasefire is less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire”
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🎵I want to be the girl with the most cake
He only loves those things because he loves to see them break
I fake it so real, I am beyond fake
And someday you will ache like I ache…🎵
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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If the plan was to deliberately destroy both education and healthcare in this country, I can't imagine what they'd be doing differently.
Nursing has been excluded as a “professional degree” by the Trump administration as the Department of Education prepares to make massive cuts to providing students loans. Also excluded are NP’s, PA’s, PT’s. This comes when there as an extreme nursing shortage and $20K sign on bonuses for nurses. 😡
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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this makes me wish I owned a car.

Also normally people don't file insurance claims for broken windows, but I would actually urge people to do so here for the paper trail.

Fuck ICE
Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.

There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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PSA: The President of the United States is a dangerous stochastic terrorist.

🧵1/6
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I have to think these are our only choices.

Either way, we all knew the fix was in when Trump suddenly flipped on releasing them.
So what's the consensus? Does Bondi refuse to release the files because of her new "investigation", or does she release the files highly redacted?
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Israel broke the ceasefire because Hamas didn’t return all of the hostages they demanded, and Hamas didn’t return them because they’re buried under the rubble of buildings Israel flattened.

This atrocity is, to Trump, “getting very close to being perfected.”

That man is a fucking demon.
Trump: "Gaza -- while it looks a little bit messy, it has for many many years, decades, but it's getting very close to being perfected."
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Would we say “gave away”…?
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Have you heard the good news? The preschool teacher⬇️ abducted & illegally detained by #ICE has been released.

A judge ordered that 614 people illegally detained be released unless they're high risk—only 42 were.

Judge McNally entered Broadview on Thursday with experts to document #ICELawlessness
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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C'est moi
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This song randomly came up in my Facebook reels, and it just makes me think of Old Gods of Appalachia @oldgodspod.bsky.social

youtu.be/Ow2FMLoSngQ?...
Lanie Gardner - Rattler And The Devil's Whip (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Lanie Gardner
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’m calling it now: when El Cheeto Bandito dies, Republicans are going to scramble to suppress his autopsy, because it’s going to reveal some serious Habsburg-type stuff. Stuff his own people know all about right now, even as they tell us he’s the healthiest, strongest president ever.
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I feel like Angela is to Smosh as Izzy is to Dropout.
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
“Blue no matter who” doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to criticize Democrats. It means that in the general election—NOT the primaries, the general—you vote for the Democrat, because they’re running against a fascist.

Want to vote against the Dem for whatever reason? The primary is the time for that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I urge you not to think of these folks as traitors to their party and constituents, but rather as the first line of Democrats who go mask-off as a conservative party.

If the DSAs were to make a clean break, I think they’d get quite a bit of support.
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.

I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM