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beloved chungoose

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this pepper is so jacked it's about to rip off its shirt and fight you, bro
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
like i think there's a swiftie problem, for lack of a better term here: if one teen girl with nothing better to do calls the radio station and requests opalite 500 times a day, it's still only gonna get played a dozen times. but homegirl can stream it all day every day
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
three older and presumably retired gentlemen working out this morning having a discussion about their confusion over the need for a new rec center i dunno dawgs, maybe because most people can't work out during normal business hours like you are and it's super busy right before and right after then?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
started fortune's weave and what the immediate fuck
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the thing that has stuck with me the most from the years after 9/11 was how the most important thing in the world was Supporting The Troops it was used as a cudgel to silence any debate or questions about what we were doing in the middle east
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
it's like when the first attack gets lobbed at a dem candidate, their entire apparatus does some mix of curling up in a ball on the floor and frantically figuring out how to respond (to attacks that are always the same and therefore obvious). just no capacity left to say "hey, what if we..."
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i've never heard of torneko mystery dungeon before but given how everyone seems to be freaking out about it i should maybe look into it? was honestly looking away during that part of the sizzle reel lol
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
happy direct to all who celebrate!
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
not going to live-tweet the new ffxiv patch for obvious reasons but what i will say is WHAAAAAAT and HOLY COW DOES IT CUT TO THE CHASE and third-wheel time (alphinaud x estinien)
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ahead of the zelda direct, i'm wish-casting for the thing i always do: a tri force heroes port or sequel
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i'm sure welker will be mentioning this to her republican guests and playing the video for them to denounce aaaaaaaaany minute now
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
i am somehow still shocked that media would stoop this low -- a streamer said a thing -- that streamer appeared with a senate candidate on college campuses -- somebody in the party won't endorse the senate candidate due to that -- so this other house member has to answer for the whole thing?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
hey @robsandia.bsky.social, is this a good comms strategy? two emails a day, with literal repeat subject lines? i unsubscribed just now because you can't be bothered to stand up for trans rights, but this would have gotten me there anyway you are getting awful advice from someone, dude
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
if i was house leader, this would get your committee assignments pulled. this would get your financial support zeroed out. you would not be allowed to speak in caucus meetings without me firing an air horn. if you're gonna take shots at other members like this, i'm gonna assume you're the enemy
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
it is not just the bias within stories that matters, it is the bias about what gets written up at all three stories a week about the harvard president's "plagiarism scandal," even if those stories are written relatively objectively, is a massive thumb on the scale!
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
just went to use one of my signatures in outlook and discovered that it kindly added another option to the list: get outlook for mac yes, definitely going to be adding that to all my emails to my co-workers, 99% of whom are on windows machines, because i think your product is just the bee's knees
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
look, it's absolutely *not* that seth moulton is an anti-trans bigot, it's that the majority of american voters are anti-trans bigots*, and the only way to win elections is to loudly agree with every 50+1 position held by the electorate. that's why republicans currently control everything of course
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
somebody should probably check the hard drives of the folks who issued this ruling
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
presenting the fuck fascism carrot cake! contains: gluten, eggs, dairy, democracy, trans rights, blood of the tyrant, nuts to be auctioned off tomorrow at a fundraiser for local democrats fighting the good fight in uphill battles we all have our talents, we must use them as we can!
A rectangular layer cake slathered in cream cheese frosting, sides covered in chopped nuts, atop a cake turntable. The turntable and the table beneath it have chopped nuts scattered about from decorating the sides.
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
one of my favorite sisyphean things is pushing the add button on a missing but available-from-adobe font when opening an indesign file so i can watch the circle spin and then fail to add the font i know that boulder is coming back down the hill, but i push it right on up anyway
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the new york times out with a double dolly whammy of "she was apolitical" and "she could only act when she was playing herself" 1) why don't you shut up 2) it's really funny* that the alleged paper of record can only recognize politics when it presents as a lincoln-douglass debate *catastrophic
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
THIS IS THE WAY. you don't have to understand why somebody else needs certain rights, you simply have to understand that if the government can pick and choose who gets to have them, someday you might find yourself in the have-nots
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
wait a minute, are you telling me trump told the québécois that they have to stop with the french? IS HE TRYING TO START AN ACTUAL LAND WAR
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my sister told me last night that she saw a post that was all "if dems win this country will be ruined!!!" and every reply was basically "as opposed to what's happening now?" reality can still break through the fog of propaganda
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
there's a big "not all men" thing going on here, isn't there? someone says "wow ai sucks" because they're thinking about the most obvious, public aspects -- you know, the ones the ceos keep pushing, like "it will take your job" and "you'll use it and like it" -- and folks pop up to say "not all ai"
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
do i get to choose where i appear? i feel like old sharlayan would be the best option, but getting there and getting in would be tricky if i have to pick a starter city, my gut says limsa -- the culinary guild is there, after all -- but gridania is probably the safest choice of the three
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
b-b-but then we'll have to pay more in taxes (evil, communist) even though we'll pay far less in private health insurance premiums that ceos use to buy private jets (good, capitalist)
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you will never convince me that the man who founded his social media empire on a ripoff of hot or not didn't have these glasses made to remind him of women's names and also to estimate their bra size so he knows if their names are worth fake-remembering
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
allow me to suggest that it is healthy, actually, for her not to weigh in here? unless she knows hong personally (and likes her!), what reason would the good congresswoman have to pick a side in a primary in a state she isn't presumably familiar with for an office that won't really work with hers?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
when you are competing with somebody else in a zero-sum popularity contest, your whole job is to heighten the contradictions between you. every time a den candidate or strategist says "we should be more like our opponents," they are not only wrong, they have forgotten what they're doing entirely
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
i'm not a big enough account to kick this off in earnest, but what other warning signs have kept you from going (back) to a local business? there's a chiropractor that puts cones across its driveway on days it's not open so people can't park there for the coffee/ice-cream place next door. dicks
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
early beatles song: hey girl, i love your pretty smile if you look at another man i'll die throwing up red flags for miles but my haircut makes you sigh late beatles song: charlie charlie my best friend charlie, the talking willow tree he killed god and now he's coming for me
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
there are two kinds of columnists: descriptivists, who tell you how things are, often informed by history and past observations, and prescriptivists, who tell you how things ought to be the second set can never admit to being wrong, because that weakens their ability to dictate the terms of society
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
one of the best analytical skills you can develop is boiling things down to their essences while not going so far that the pans run dry and start to warp from the heat
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
the drama (2026)
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
is there a single person at cnn, i wonder, who correctly understands that he's a eugenicist who not only doesn't care if sick people die, but in fact thinks it's good because they're weak and they deserve it? could anyone there have equipped bash with that language to confront him with?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
i do hate villains who can't think ahead *at all* "aha! i will use this dropped cufflink to break up his marriage, and then i'll swoop in and snatch him up!" if he was happy in that relationship, what seems more likely: that he's going to thank you for ruining it or hate you forever?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
this trend continues this week -- the only thing conan has remotely outsourced thus far is letting kogoro remember where he got his pants wet kinda wonder when the last time we've heard "that's what shinichi said" or "i saw it on a tv program" is, and if we'll hear them again anytime soon
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
chat is that good
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
people treat this guy like a superhero because when supervillain megacorp does something awful, he says "hey, that sucks, you suck, and we won't let you do it" it very much helps that he apparently has the power/allies to actually stop them, but how many dems can even do the first part?
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i continue to think we would be better off if we focused on the outcomes we want, rather than ways we might get there, and hold our politicians to task until we arrive at those destinations like i'm an m4a fan, but if you want to straitjacket private insurance so hard we get the same outcomes...
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i think they finally fixed the bug in outlook where turning these suggestions off didn't actually disable them, but i have a folder full of screenshots of "suggestions" that are hot garbage in the instances where they aren't actively wrong, they're overly prescriptive and language-flattening
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
i started getting a little skeeved out when the pretty assistant ate too much, which meant she had to clutch her upper ribcage to push up her breasts as much as possible, but when one ferret went up her skirt and another dove down her cleavage i pulled the plug on that particular anime
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
real talk: have you ever enjoyed a jelly roll? they're a pain in the ass to make and they're pretty much always dry and uninspired. confident i have never in my life said "can i have another piece of that jelly roll"
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
*world's longest sigh* 1) "focused on nutrition" like a serial killer focuses on his next victim, maybe, let's not pretend anything happening on that front is remotely good or well-intended 2) "critics say": did he explicitly stop monitoring these kinds of outbreaks or didn't he (he did)
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
in this week's detective conan, takagi, who has been improving as a detective over the course of the series, runs an absolute shitshow of an investigation where he questions all the suspects together, who are obviously conferring about their alibis and being shifty as hell
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
i would like everyone to keep in mind when they say "but that's the way it works in the world of the story!!!" -- "it" being child marriage/rape, slavery, or whatever other disgusting premise -- is that THAT WORLD DOES NOT FUCKING EXIST. the creator is CHOOSING to make those things part of it!
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
this is one of those instances where, if i was a journalist, i would go to my editor and say "we need to run a straight-up explainer about this because everyone is talking out of their ass about it" presumably this has not been done, because i would assume that link would be flying around here
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beloved chungoose @cookingterm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
my absolute favorite thing in rhythm heaven is putting up a perfect performance on the initial sight-read for a given game and then being utterly unable to do it when you can actually get credit for it
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