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~Swinton

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Woke up in a car that was Tokyo Drifting everywhere.

Essays: MASK, the Toast. Fiction: Nocturne, Fusion Fragment, Aurealis. I am NO Press. Av: Odilon Redon by way of Edith Zimmerman. My views are extremely good.

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Old man cat prepped for old man medicine #oldman #oldcat #bob
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I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance.
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When the France election results are good
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There are ppl out there who quibble abt the ethics of pet ownership. If I could, I would drop the people’s elbow on each and every one of them
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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.
Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.
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There is no way to stop committed attention-seeking grifters/rhetorically talented hacks from prominence but all these people/their orgs/movement structures were called out by black folks, trans folks, anarchists and others over and over and you can avoid getting burned by taking critiques seriously
Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.
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switch games switch games cozy switch games cozy -"visual novel" switch games cozy -"visual novel" -grief -loss switch games cozy -"visual novel" -grief -loss -"meditation on"
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Here comes the brunch crowd (shy piglet is just outside the frame)
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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”
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Taking my best girl out for some deep custard
This is a picture of a newly discovered pool never seen before by human eyes 700 ft deep in Lechuguilla Cave a part of Carlsbad National Park here in New Mexico
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Still remember when they compared a family moving to California to maintain their trans kid's access to health care to a guy who left California because he was afraid of offending liberals at work
I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper
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Long past the time to think the NYT is getting “rolled” and not simply agreeing.
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.
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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.
tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.
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we are listening to the in-house mix tapes of garbled easy listening and advertisements from k-mart corporate in may 1988 archive.org/details/atte...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machinearchive.org
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I don’t know how I only just watched TWISTER for the first time, but someone literally had an idea for a movie where weather is the bad guy, and Warner Brothers coughed up the GDP of a small country to make it real, and it’s about being addicted to tornados. The 90s were a paradise.
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just once I’d like to see an A1 feature datelined “Coeur d’Alene” that features people pissed off at white supremacists appropriating their home as Lebensraum
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"The latest estimates suggest that roughly 2% of all Russian men aged between 20 and 50 may have been either killed or severely wounded in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war." Jesus
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for those unfamiliar with the Bless'd Words
"should we invite Bella Hadid" is gospel to me
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Any serious effort to build a functional US welfare state will require the federal government to set up bureaucracies to bypass reactionary state governments for this sort of thing. Seems like we should have learned this lesson after Medicaid expansion a decade ago, and yet, here we are again!
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.
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"The use of force to prevent soldiers from being taken into captivity" is a hell of a way to say "Shooting your own guys."
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In what is certain to be a shock to everybody who has vociferously denied that the IOF used the Hannibal Directive on October 7, Haaretz reports that the IOF used the Hannibal Directive on October 7