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Cross-stitch keeps me from crying; the tea keeps me from committing crimes. Hoping America touches the stove.
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somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much

just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.

All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”

And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Folks, it can make a difference
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Legal citizenship should be virtually effortless to obtain and near instantaneous to process, and should be paired with sweeping grants of asylum.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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this is the best clapback i have EVER heard
The Amazon is burning and you're using up even MORE wood for your cross?
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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people are so incredibly dumb, I'm mad that I felt pressured to be smart my entire life
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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back in the BBS days some kids wouldn't be able to talk their parents into getting a second phone line but would want to run a board so it'd be online from like 10pm to 6am or something and if you called at the wrong time the kid's mom would answer. Guess we're bringing it back.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts unemployment website used to stop working at 10PM (not sure if it still does), which is bad for a public website, but gave me the idea, yet unfulfilled, of a webstore that was closed at night.
they should make websites that turn off at night
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Don’t we all sometimes need to be tucked into the Cope Bag
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
Omg wait @clairewillett.bsky.social are all of the Pope’s jerseys relics now????
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
[-]

Rise again, rise again—though your heart it be broken
Or life about to end.
No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend,
Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again." Stan Rogers
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for.

Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I am legitimately not happy that MTG is getting death threats, and I also have to triage my concern and empathy these days so unfortunately there are a lot of people ahead of her in line and she helped put a lot of them there.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Re: MTG
Huge

She’s not waking up. Her text messages to him (that she shared) still shows that she doesn’t think he’s in the files and that she believes the files will expose the democratic deep state. She’s insane.
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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few fucked around more and i’m not going to muster any sympathy for finding out part
No one should have to face such threats.

It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Palestinian families call for help as Israel's two-year military assault has left hundreds of thousands vulnerable.
Palestinians reel under winter rains as Israel blocks Gaza shelter supplies
Palestinian families call for help as Israel's two-year military assault has left hundreds of thousands vulnerable.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I think in a very real way their fixation with Bill is because it’s still 2016 in their heads and they’re cackling over the damage Bill scandals do to Hillary. they are so obsessed with her they think we are too. when in fact most of us are like “no put ‘em both out to pasture, it’s long overdue”
Do republicans yelling at us about Bill Clinton realize most of us were children during his administration and legally prohibited from voting? lol

This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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they sincerely believed that a woman who was married to a sexual predator would take a bigger electoral hit for it than an ACTUAL sexual predator and while that was certainly true for a lot of voters, THAT WAS NINE YEARS AGO AND WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO MOVE ON
November 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Replacing their amoral cynic enablers with true-believer psychos is lowkey one of the biggest mistakes these people ever made
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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People say the city is getting 'too busy' and 'there's too many people' -- but there are FEWER people in most of the neighbourhoods where people are complaining.

My guess is that there are more cars per capita though.
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The unis he's thinking of *are* vocational colleges in practice. The reason they were granted formal university status in the 1990s was to improve the prestige and recognition of the qualifications they offered.

For all his claims of being a working-class whisperer, Glasman at core is just a snob.
it's fascinating to think what Blue Labour's ideal Britain looks like
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM