Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Punishable by a fine means legal if you're rich 035
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Children are a marginalized population, and too many otherwise "woke" people tolerate anti-child bigotry in the form of childfree discourse 072
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 14/11/2025I think Matt Gaetz sucks and yet I also think that making him the central villain in a story of a homeless teenage sex worker is missing the point. This is a girl — now a woman — who was so colossally failed at every point that Matt Gaetz himself is almost incidental to the story. Which is not… 1337
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology and democracy right now. I think I wrote something appropriately dark and foreboding. www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...techpolicy.pressThe Dance with Big Tech is Different under Trump 2.0 | TechPolicy.PressIf we are going to repair democratic institutions, we are going to have to do it ourselves, writes Dave Karpf. 514152
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Maugustine, the new disaster bi he/they lieutenant stepped on the the promenade of Deep Space Nine.... 030
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025If you see this, post a bird 041
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I've been waiting my whole life for this 050
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Everyone once in a while, I'll be having a pretty good day, then I'll remember that the movie Duce Bigalow Male Gigollo exists 021
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Cooking With Titus Andronicus 000
Reposted by Augustine Merganser Flournoyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2025you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric 515161183967
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025We should have never ceded November to "The Holidays." The dominoes will continue to fall and your children will sing "all i want for Christmas" in June. 010
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025See also Xander Harris never facing consequences for his gross behavior (because he was a Whedon self-insert) 110
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Every ad now 8271743085
Reposted by Augustine Merganser Flournoyjustfara @justfara.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emails www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...rawstory.comEpstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in office: emailsPresident Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the pres... 3123
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I want to say Hamilton as rage bait, but the real answer is Hadestown, and it's not even remotely a close contest. 120
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender 020
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Socially Engineering the AI 000
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025So what is the line, Megyn? 9? 14? 000
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/202545 and yeah. I would feel weird and gross dating someone who can't remember hugging goodbye at the airport gate then watching the plane fly away. 020
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Three Novembers in a row I've gone to see a country rock band: Drive By Truckers in 2023, Old 97s in 24, and Murder By Death this year. I wonder who will be in town next year. 000
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025CW suicide I hate to be this guy, but I just saw a meme of Jar Jar Binks holding a gun to his own head. I hate the character as well, but Ahmed Best was actually suicidal over the criticism of his performance, so i think there are better ways to express dislike of the character. 010
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025"Did MeToo go too far," asked the chauvinist to the nonce 130
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyTodd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point! 161059199
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025MeToo did not go far enough. 010
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Wolff should be in jail. 000
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyCoastersPaul @coasterspaul.bsky.social · 12/11/2025why's Mnuchin catching a stray here? say what you will about him, Larry Summers could never have produced the Lego movie. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT 0911
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I've officially reached the age where I have to literally put my shit in a box and mail it. 010
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Wolff is a piece of shit who should be shunned forever, as should every journalist who sits on critical info. 010
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyEric Replatformed @21stcenturyeric.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I am the King of Blame, I got throne under the bus. 14717
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art 251533201
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Is there a genre term for all the crappy adult contemporary music from the '00s and '10s that all sounded like beige wallpaper? Stuff that would inevitably end up on Gray's Anatomy? 020
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyEmma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 11/11/2025its always funny to me when people say college brainwashed their kids, considering it's the only place that actively taught me what critical thinking is and that you shouldnt just blindly trust stuff 96911
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyShannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @shannondrake.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Dehumanizing propaganda surgically removed their empathy and humanity over time. That’s why basic human rights are now “silly” to them. They don’t even realize that they are also human, and not immune from the fallout. Whoops, there go your rights to privacy and bodily autonomy! 164
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says. 187105901850
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling 10332901375
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 10/11/2025On the plus side, they did manage to make nicotine consumption look incredibly uncool 040
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyDaniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences. 351375396
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-... 117102835626
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoySenator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick. 1891093120
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyGovernor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 09/11/2025Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️ 158100872242
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis! 72949651
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Finally got the website to work 020
Reposted by Augustine Merganser FlournoyPatrick Johanneson 🚀👻 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 08/11/2025also 06410
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 08/11/2025"Employees shall wear yellow stockings, cross-gartered" 010
Augustine Merganser Flournoy @augustinemerganser.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Fire everyone at Disney and hire @jamellebouie.net to head up Star Wars 021