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Maria - Fan of the Rat 🐀
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Engineer. Matriarch. Too analytical for her own good.
X-Files, Fruits Basket, Splatoon, Random Retweets and the occasional thought or two.
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This #Thanksgiving, you could have a calm & peaceful holiday & avoid politics altogether.

I'm sure that's what the majority of folks did in Nazi, Germany.

Or you can educate your family as to what's going on so they can't claim ignorance.

Talk about #ICELawlessness.
It doesn't have to be hostile.
November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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For those of you not on tiktok, here are links from Instagram of the shorter videos to download & share:

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaNMha...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaM4MW...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRaMocK...

If you see #ICELawlessness in your area, you have the right to record. Be save, though!
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
How would you react when facing an emergency? Do you help? Do you bail? Option C?
This American take on the Swedish film Force Majeure is quite something 😅.
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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🚨November 25th - December 2nd we cut the billionaires off from our $.
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
On a side note, I thought this picture of Dolly had her playing a guitar with its headstock on fire.
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"...

-Ensure our food is safe to eat
-Keep our air and water clean
-Alert us to natural disasters
-Protect us from financial fraud and scammers

Remember what Trump is actually attacking.
October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It took me too long to realize, but now that they need a governor's permission to send the national guard into their state, they're making statements that make them sound like vampires.
share.google/l9mY80MCiyIF...
VP Vance says Whitmer can just "ask" to send National Guard to Detroit in Howell speech
Vice President JD Vance returned to Michigan Wednesday afternoon with a visit to a precision metal stamping facility in Howell.
share.google
September 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so.

Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here is your moment of "Whoah..." youtube.com/shorts/TGuxw...
'Wow...Spectacular' - Oxford University professors spin a disc
YouTube video by University of Oxford
youtube.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Wait, is this -- is this real? They actually published a list of books that may or may not exist? (The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir is, for example, not an actual book!) Please, jfc, tell me this isn't real. I'm not finding it online anywhere, which makes me hope it's fake? Gotta be fake, please?
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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i'm annoyed that i have to live through these dumb times.

i have shit to work on personal growth wise, but all my energy is being sucked up by trying to just open my eyes every day and not have a menty b.

so annoying
April 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
April 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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1) A cartel boss becomes a woman to hide from his past. A man hits rock bottom with a drug-fueled fantasy of becoming “an Asian girl.”

This is what Hollywood thinks transition is.

Let’s talk about what White Lotus and Emilia Pérez get wrong. 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Reminder that the current white house was rebuilt by slaves after Canada burned it down.
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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FEBRUARY 28TH 10AM PST!!!!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7b...
Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl (PILOT)
YouTube video by Kiana Khansmith
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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If everyone gave just $5 we can make a huge difference!

There are 3 seats that are special elections. If we win these seats, it would take away the Republican's majority in the House.

The only way we'll win is if we fight--hard.

blakegendebienforcongress.com
Blake Gendebien for Congress
Join us to send a dairy farmer to Congress
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March 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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This says it all.
March 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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In logging gigs I've been to on setlist.fm, found this ace Tiny Desk Concert by @mike-eagle.bsky.social which I'd forgotten about.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3D...
Open Mike Eagle: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Less of an orange and more of a mango.
#thinskin
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM