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Adam in Atlanta

@adam-atlanta.bsky.social

Lurker and dog person and husband and supporter of Ukraine and liker of conjunctions
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MOMENTUM: In the last 24 hours since I won the Democratic nomination to face Marjorie Taylor Greene, we raised more than any other 24-hour period since launching our campaign. People all over the nation want to end the MTG drama. Can you please share this post and chip in via the link in my bio?
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I mean Tuberville is extremely stupid but he supports Russia because he is a white Christian nationalist and Russia is the great white Christian hope they have been praying for
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reading and learning
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huh, I wonder what the problem is-- oh
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i showed james bond my art and he said he found it distressing but it didn't really compel him. i said "so you were shaken, but not stirred". that's when he began choking me, which i found rather unrefined for a man of his reputation
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Furiosa is great. It’s an incredible year for people who love movies about sand
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yea
Having taught at Duke for six years and very likely many of the students at this commencement ceremony, all I can say is that I am unbelievably proud of them and moved by this act of solidarity.
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i will say that it’s absolutely shocking/incredibly embarrassing how much my anxiety improved after I stopped drinking Monsters
A cool thing about going cold turkey off caffeine is that when you do drink a single Diet Coke, it’s rocket fuel
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Wikipedia is the last vestige of “good internet” a place where millions do thankless work for free because they believe in the vision of open knowledge for all. No wonder tech bros hate it, it’s anathema to their entire existence
Regular reminder that Musk is really dumb.
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This would be like me announcing a signature petition against social media sarcasm
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this killed me
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This is a thread of my all-time favourite literal translations, starting with this one…   In Hungarian, the word for a shark, hiszékeny, translates literally to “sea bastard”
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Finally, some sanity: The five year prison sentence that a black Texas woman received for trying to vote on parole - after officials told her she could - has been reversed. (On the same day a white Republican got a fine for intentionally voting nine (9) times.)
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Excellent example of an armadillo getting a jump scare.