Lucas

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He/Him | Aspiring writer and part-time socialist poster with too many opinions

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Fans of Evangelion:

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A bar-style soda gun setup so I can have a basically unlimited supply of fountain Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, and whatever other soft drinks I want

if you won a million dollars what would be the first ridiculous thing you'd buy? something silly and pretty and fun for yourself. it can be small. I'd buy a hot pink e-bike or vespa, and give it pink marabou streamers.

That moment when a goddamn celebrity gossip rag is fulfilling the role of journalists better than the actual news media

The people who have created and maintained basically everything worthwhile about the United States tend to be people who are - or at least historically were - oppressed and marginalized by its government and society, and I think about that a lot.

Reopening my Serwer hymnal

See, this is the kind of thing I barely tolerate when it's coming from a terminally online Twitter doomer, but in this case, it's coming from someone who's supposedly a senior member of one of this country's most powerful institutions. Wonderful.

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

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What the FUCK was that Moxxie?!

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One thing I appreciate about BlueSky is that while it's not immune to braindead discourse, the politics scene seems to be dominated by fairly level-headed and well-intentioned people. Compared to the Other Site, where Left, Right, and Center are all dominated by the worst people imaginable

The fact that not a single country has banned War Thunder yet - or at least blacklisted its fans from working in their militaries and defense industries - is one of those things about this world that just doesn't make sense

Welp it happened again. Russian T90 tank this time.

LOOKS LIKE MOONSHINE'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS 🔥🔥🔥

New: Trump-appointed Judge Mark Pittman in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon at home. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge ruleswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon for their personal consumption.

So like - three sets?

Oregon police recover over $200,000 worth of Lego sets in massive bustwww.nbcnews.com Police recovered 4,153 Lego sets after they served a search warrant at a storefront in Eugene.

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Materialist Gnostic

I'm gonna be honest, barring an absolutely seismic shift in US-Canada relations - or perhaps, god forbid, a "MAGA Communist" coup of the Republican Party - I don't think there's any chance of an invasion of Canada happening. I do agree the consequences of Trump would likely be international though

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Would love to see the Venn Diagram of "Thinks Russia bombing hospitals is bad" and "Thinks Israel bombing hospitals is bad." Exist in that overlap! Too few people seem to.

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Really wish people would realize that foreign influence operations are basically always about opportunistically bolstering preexisting unrest, not manufacturing movements wholecloth

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this is an extremely important thing to understand. transit needs density and walkability in order to work more than it needs money. if you have the density and walkability, transit is *profitable* to operate!

American public transit will never compete with cars on convenience until we stop forcing every home and business to provide copious amounts of free parking, which spreads out destinations to the point that transit isn’t scalable and makes walking profoundly unpleasant.

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Would estrogen have saved her?

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☀️ Starshine

FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD

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Marisa Kabas

I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

Windmills blow away Trump's denial of Project 2025 involvementwww.thehandbasket.co A brief line in the 900+ page authoritarian guide reveals the Republican candidate's fingerprints.

Right-Wingers: "MSM is controlled by leftists and globalists!!!" Actual Mainstream Media: "Yeah, the far-right lost the election, but have you considered that the people who won *might* not be able to govern correctly?"

Honestly, what kind of bananas frame this story like this? Is shit serious or not, fucken freaks?

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ellie lockhart (she/they)

I've literally seen people say they think Trump would be the same or better on the issues you mentioned than Biden, it almost feels like a ton of people have the memory capacity of goldfish

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Joe Katz

Democratic state governments when they get a trifecta vs. Republican state governments when they get a trifecta

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Here's to hoping this ages as poorly as the last iteration

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e-claire

There are a lot of people on both sides of the debate who are completely unwilling to engage the other side in good faith, and that really frustrates me. Like, I fall on the side of thinking one *should* vote, but I don't think being an asshole about either stance helps convince anyone either way.

This upcoming HOI4 mod looks like it's gonna suck

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

I appreciate the existence of this tweet because it makes basically the same point as that one famous Carl Schmitt quote about fascists and liberals, except without the baggage of being a quote from a literal fucking Nazi

The Inside Out characters in my head

the inside out characters in my head