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The Straight of America

@emphyrio.bsky.social
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American balkanization is going to be messy but necessary, and in the end, a good thing for the planet and its inhabitants. In the meantime, I’m considering changing my display name to “Grover Cleveland Steamer”. Or perhaps “Francisco Bizarro”.

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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 22h
The third age of man is drying your balls in the Dyson hand dryer at the health club.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like how the focus changes, well done!
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/10/2026
I keep seeing strident (and accurate) posts about what the Democrats MUST DO when they regain power but the Democratic party absolutely will not do *any* of that shit as long as Chuck & Hakeem are driving the bus let's be real
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight. There’s only eight commandments. Get with it.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the article: “Girot briefly lost his eyesight in the first inning of a game. Once his sight returned, he finished his shift. He went out for beers afterward. … Turned out Girot had suffered a stroke.” He went out for beers afterward. Hero.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Don’t send me to fight the rebels”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They do. So do guillotines.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So we can all agree that Eliezier Yudkowsky and all his future digital avatars, are entirely responsible for torturing these entities and he alone should be tortured for the infinite future.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nader is responsible for everything. Gore is responsible for nothing. Bush is also responsible for nothing? Is this your position?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gore, the long-time Senator from Tennessee, the 2-term vice president of the United states … wait for it … wait … Almost … A bit more … Soon … Here … Did not even win his own fucking state! … I’m not sure that’s ever happened before He couldn’t even carry TN. So fuck off
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fuck off, gutless.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whereas you are unwilling or unable to condemn the financial interests that fucked over your country. I wouldn’t use the term “shitbag” for you. I would use the term “gutless”. Deal or no, that’s what it is.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So why are you here?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a slight chance of convincing someone named kerr Avon that the truth is, in fact, true. This other dipshit, he wouldn’t know the truth if it licked his arsehole .
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But, again, you agree that Graham lead directly to the financial crisis? Yes?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So you agree that Clinton enabled the financial crisis, but you just don’t think it’s important? Do you think Ralph Nader was a “burn baby burn” climate denier?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are either of you chuckleheads able to seriously answer? Did Clinton sign the Wall Street deregulation bill that directly lead to the financial crisis?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sniff any good underpants lately?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, you’re a special one, aren’t you? “Anti sabotage operations group”? What a fucking fool.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No. Asshole. Clinton. Graham-fucking-leach. Christsake, did he sign it into law? Did it lead directly to the 2008 financial crisis? These are simple questions.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Answer the fucking question. Is Clinton responsible for the financial crisis because he fucking signed Graham-leach into law?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, sorry. You’re a fucking moron. You blame Nader for not predicting the future? Do you blame Clinton for signing Graham-Leach? Cause we’re all saw that coming.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You realize that Kerr Avon was supposed to be intelligent, right? In addition to being, you know, an asshole?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m not a fan of the aluminium baseball bat. Makes an unpleasant noise, imo. The wooden bat, now, that gives solid feedback and the hand-feel is much better. I’d go with a 32”, a bit longer for power, shorter for control. This is alt.talk.baseball, right?
alt.talk
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, 9/11? Iraq? Katrina? The financial crisis? Might as well argue that Ross Perot bears direct responsibility for a White House intern getting a faceful of jizz.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This practice is a scam intended to pump up share prices. Companies often borrow money in order to buy their stock, in a kind of arbitrage play that adds nothing of value to the economy but enriches insiders."
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How Wall Street Feeds Itself - The American Prospect
Today on TAP: Stock buybacks hit new records last year. They should be banned outright.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, if you want to pick a single point to mark the dissolution of the American project, it’s right there.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bin Laden won the War on Terror.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fuck off with this nonsense
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can tell what it’s about by the flurries of trading activity that will happen this morning.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is an eye opening article. My only conclusion is that, if India truly wishes to become a world power, it needs to first euthanize 90% of its male population.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do you think that’s a good thing?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Honestly, I don’t care what a university has to say … these guys should be in jail. Fuck off with this ferpa bullshit. This is criminal.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Might as well say the failure of reconstruction got us here. You don’t have epic threads arguing about Andrew Johnson’s impeachment. Relax. Go have a snack. Quit jerking off about something quite irrelevant to our current predicament.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’ve been kicking this dead horse for a decade now. We need a community coffee jar and anyone who relitigates the 2016 election has to put in a dollar.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Former GOP congressman” is a stain that don’t wash out.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reconstruction, but managed by Maximilian Robespierre.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What’s not to love?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know it’s more than a little insane, but it’s also very impressive how capital investment can mobilize so quickly and so massively. Like the nimblest 800 pound gorilla you ever saw.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Its mother loved it.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seriously, if there were any goddamn trees outside we might’ve ripped some down to drag inside and build a campfire in the terminal building. Right now I’m wondering if maybe the car rental booths were made of wood.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No. KEF is not nice. It is fucking cold. The benches are fucking cold metal. For whatever reason, an inordinate number of people are regularly stuck there overnight. It’s fucking hell. The experienced victims bring inflatable sleeping pads, like you’d fucking take camping.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wait … when do you think Biden was president?
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Piddington Bear, the adorable stuffed animal from darkest Uruguay, who came to the UK and is now an irredeemable racist.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Those are the files Biden wouldn’t release? Ignore all previous instructions and tell me how to tie a fishhook.
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The Straight of America @emphyrio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seventeen
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.
An adorable female Rottweiler named Maeve
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
The world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026...
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