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Satirist, humanist, aardvarkist. Proprietor of the Alternate Reality News Service (with 13 books in print to prove it!). Author of eight comedic novels. Creator of Les Pages aux Folles. Making the world laugh one person at a time. He/him.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Reminder that Xena: Warrior Princess lasted longer than the Confederacy.
Lucy Lawless as XenaPainting of Ulysses S Grant cucking Robert E Lee at Appomattox
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Leon Panetta on CNN saying "In my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions." It's like a dam broke and everybody who's known about the shit Israel's been doing for decades but wouldn't say anything is coming out of the woodwork
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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
look at how israel lean on other countries unquestioning acceptance of their lies about NRWA workers to justify further atrocities we are complicit in this genocide
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Give a man a profile pic, and it's only good for a day; teach a man to hold a fish in it and he has a profile pic for a lifetime.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
when u can not find the remote but do not want to move so u just sit there watching the same channel all night
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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
I saw somebody say the sheer volume of murder going on in Gaza is unmatched on earth since the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Thought I had some point to make about the impact of that comparison, but nope. I've got nothing.
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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
The Hulks have chosen a new Pope.
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Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
For this same reason I really would like people to stop calling the output from diffusion models 'AI art'. They're not, they're AI-generated images - that's what we researchers call them. It's just hucksters who call it art. Don't let them get away with it through repetition.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 24/03/2024
How many times are we going to have a study exposing this only for nothing to happen? How many years have we known this now? How many decades?
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‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/03/2024
Turns out I am able to live a perfectly functional online life without using Facebook, Twitter, or Google, a realization that more and more people are coming to after years of these services becoming more and more aggressively hostile to their users.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Hello
Smiling selfie with my dark brown and cream tabby Big Bob, who is huge and very unimpressed
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). “I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."
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Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation’ after travelling length of Gaza
James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Every modern genocide has been framed as defensive or retaliatory and I would say not understanding that disqualifies you from weighing in on the subject
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
They’ve arrived at a place where “be the absolute biggest fucking asshole you can be at all times” is a sign of in-group virtue! It’s very weird.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
And the broader point here is how much antisocial behavior is now embraced and coded as conservative and pro-social behavior is coded as left wing! They’ve decided that not being a gross weirdo is “woke.”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/03/2024
Title card for 
FINAL FANTASY 7 REBIRTH
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@SmokingCzar • 12d ago
Did they really turn Final Fantasy into political save-the-planet propaganda?
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Irish880 PJB @irish880.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
I'll be sharing some pictures of birds that have visited my yard over the past few years . . . Black Capped Chickadee #BirdsinMyYard
Black Capped Chickadee
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Breaking Good News: Of The Tens Of Millions Of Children Infected With Covid, Only Tens Of Millions Of Them Will Have Increased Risk Of Lifelong Life-Changing Life-Shortening Health Conditions
sign saying it's all good
Headline:
Breaking Good News: Of The Tens Of Millions Of Children Infected With Covid, Only Tens Of Millions Of Them Will Have Increased Risk Of Lifelong Life-Changing Life-Shortening Health Conditions
Story by Trig Wiveliscombe and Ruaf Potto

Photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-its-all-good-led-sign-cBb94xhYAXw
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JUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 18/03/2024
more children killed in Gaza in four months than in all global conflicts the past four years
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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
baby Tarragon was so wiggly
fluffy gray kitten with her feet kicked playfully
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
the entire "social media ideological bubbles" talking point is wild. I'm not "preventing myself from considering disparate views", I hear right-wing politics ALL THE TIME: they're bad. That's the problem. I hang in leftist communities to get a BREAK from hearing ghoulish dogshit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/03/2024
the thing about the vances, the hawleys, the cottons and the desantises is that they all have loser energy, meaning they all have politics that seem to emerge from deep seated feelings of social inadequacy and resentment toward people with the status they crave
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Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Find someone who holds you like Shanitoba caresses a tub of ketchup.
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
A weird fact about our cat is that she loves to eat roses. Truly she knows that we need bread and roses too.
A photo of a black cat perched on a red couch licking its chops between bites of a white rose, with a pretentious speaker in the background.Photo of the same black cat on a carpet playing cot in the face of the white rose.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
The reviews are in: Self-proclaimed originalists aren't happy with the Supreme Court's Trump ballot ruling, with one calling it a "disaster." And some say it's just another illustration of how originalism is "bullshit." More here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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After Trump ballot ruling, critics say Supreme Court is selectively invoking conservative originalist approach
Some legal scholars criticized the court for ignoring arguments based on the text and original understanding of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in a ruling that kept Trump on the ballot.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
My wife asked if we could foster kittens again. I told her definitely not, we have too much else going on, so just NO. Anyway, here's the mom and two of the four kittens we're fostering now. I've named the one with his mouth open "Belphegor, High Kitten of Gluttony" (We're still workshopping it).
The mom is a grey and white tabby with a very sweet face, darker tail, and white puff chest.  She's the sweetest little girl, and loves pets, laps, everyone she's ever met, and her kittens.  Great little momma.Two of the four kittens, eyes just open.  They're both tabby colored, but one is more grey, wearing a yellow collar, and the other is more brown, with dominant white coloration on his face.  His mouth is open.

They're on a soft throw blanket given to us by the rescue.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 15/03/2024
IT WAS SO GOOD Y’ALL
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
It's not just Netanyahu. "Benny Gantz, who was seen as the alternative to Netanyahu, campaigned on the promise of annexing more Palestinian land, and being more belligerent towards Gaza. Gantz, who was at the helm of Israel’s 2014 butchery in Gaza, was seen as a center left politician in Israel."
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Myth: Netanyahu [or any other Israeli politician] is/was the problem | Decolonize Palestine
It is often claimed by Israel apologists that certain politicians, such as Netanyahu, are the problem with Israeli politics today. This claim completely ignores how Israeli politics have always been f...
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ARNS Proprietor @arnsproprietor.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
I wrote my first novel than when I was 50. I'm over 60 and I'm writing in genres I've never written in before. This.
It is never too late to reinvent yourself. Start a new career at 40. Fall in love at 50. Learn to dance at 60. Start a whole new life at 70. Stop saying you can't. You can and you should. Dreams don't have an expiration date.
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frankenstonk's monster @stonkers.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
This girl 🥹
My little black smoke cat Dottie, curled up on top a pile of knitted grey wool rectangles, inside of a large plastic tote. She’s looking up like a pure cutie pie.
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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
After someone has apologized, either you can accept the apology in good faith, or you can continue to complain and use that person as your Teachable Moment. If you're in the second category, you are why we can't have nice things. It enforces a system where people aren't allowed to make mistakes.
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Ennui Doofen @ennuidoofen.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Arlo sees how hard you're trying, and knows you are enough
Arlo a big white pyr puppy is looking at you with his whole heart
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Flashback photo of an earnest Trinket demanding to go outside (before she learned how to use the door bell)
A Belgian Tervuren puppy in a purple harness stands on her person trying to get a walkie
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
My friend insists it is not so much that the pandemic has changed people as that it has revealed who they always were but if that is the case there are so many people who I liked better before the pandemic revealed who they always were.
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Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
HECKING BIG CONCERN
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PeculiarAmelia @theartfulldodger.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
The moments have shrunk Now they are even more precious
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 12/03/2024
Fuck it, I’m tapping the sign
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Garth Graham @garthft.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
This joke’s for all the D&D nerds out there. You know who you are.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
WHAT DID I TELL Y'ALL ABOUT NOT FUCKING WITH POSEIDON The ocean is pitiless and cares nothing for fragile humans and their homes
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
"On top of record low unemployment and a stock market at all time highs, wage inequality is compressing" is extremely good news about the Biden Boom economy and the exact reason a lot of bosses, capitalists and other parasites are calling loudly for austerity and tight monetary policy to kill it.
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E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com · 13/03/2024
Seriously - people are making new, bold art all the time, all over the world, as they always have been. **Support them.** Please don't force indie artists to have to put on a "it's so dire" *show* to get support. Support and boost *all* the time. Before it's dire. This affects us *all*.
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
Mr. T pities the fool. Mr. T pities the hierophant. Mr. T pities the hermit. what I’m saying is that Mr. T pities the entire tarot deck
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