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The Velvet Hammer
@rhymeswithleora.bsky.social
✅Likes: Cold weather, socialism, animals, and reading.
🚫Dislikes: Hot weather, overhead lights, bootlickers, and fascists.
I have memorized seasons 1-4 of the West Wing.
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be advised: these men ARE NOT plumbing or flood control specialists.

if seen in your neighborhood, please do not approach the vehicle. contact us immediately.
December 24, 2024 at 2:12 PM
To the last little line of dust left behind when I sweep and won’t get onto the dustbin no matter how hard I try what is your problem
December 23, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Looking at you, pal
December 16, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Me: This water is so good! You don’t understand, I’m from a city where the tap water tastes like it was poured out of a boot, but this? Really great, high quality stuff!
The hotel employee trying to maneuver around me to mop up a spill: Ma’am please let me go..
December 14, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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BITCH I SAID REPRESENTATIVE
December 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM
ME *traps wasp under a cup*

MAGICIAN GHOST WHO HAUNTS ME: *appears & sets down 2 more cups*

ME: no

MAGICIAN GHOST: *starts to shuffle them*
December 13, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 2:45 AM
I support my local tamale vendor
December 7, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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the way I see it, there's basically no reason not to move christmas to the end of january. thanksgiving stays where it is, december gets new year's eve, and we get all of january (currently very boring) to look forward to christmas. also I wouldn't have to drive 1000 miles in the span of four weeks
December 6, 2024 at 3:36 PM
December 6, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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These videos are so good. Feels like the old web baby
Existential Therapy - Sopranos: The Next Generation (Star Trek Sopranos crossover edit)
YouTube video by emlowz
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Discovered @mst3kofficial.bsky.social has a forever-a-thon on YouTube thanks to @libbycudmore.bsky.social and now i know what is going to be on in the background for the foreseeable future 🤖
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I’m afraid of what I might do if I have to hear Andy Reid say “bundleroosky” one more time
December 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Looking through SCOTUS like
December 1, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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🔊 VOLUME UP 🔊

Enjoy This Beautiful Video Of Elephants Reuniting With Their Caretaker After 14 Months

Darrick Thompson, who is the Save Elephant Foundation Co-founder, can be seen standing in a shallow water body as the Elephants rush to greet and embrace him with their trunks.

🎦 Credit: ENP 🐘
December 1, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first
Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first
Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workers Belgian sex workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world. Lawmakers voted in…
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Do we do pet pictures here? If so here’s my cat laying on some of her favorite things: heating pad, election flyer, satchel, bag.
November 30, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Teaching the capitalism worms in my head to quiet down by remaining fully horizontal for 90% of my day and spending zero dollars on anything, how are you guys doing today?
November 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
November 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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adding songs about loving your husband to her playlist before she gets out and seeing if she belts them out with the same conviction
November 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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"The police chased me out of the beach parking lot. Now Walmart. I’m running out of places to sleep, and to be."

"Isn’t that negation of our existence? We are here and we are you and we are yours."

A searing and essential piece of writing.
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:54 AM
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
November 21, 2024 at 4:15 AM