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aramtopwitch

@fireflyathon.bsky.social
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Not getting any younger, Pratchett fan, Supernatural forever. UU, cat lady

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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤢🤮
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sigh.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I also loved these books! Time for a re-read!
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay.
For a which medieval creature are you? A brown bat upright facing you with wings spread and a blue border. Caption says bat. You're not afraid of the dark.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So far, so good!
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good for her!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lots of good suggestions here.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
4.35 today for me.
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aaron @imaaronrobert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How does that bit of illegality set "high expectations" for the second night? Is Vance going to something even more criminal?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Everything.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm really enjoying it.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am on my first read of Pride and Prejudice.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Amazing. When she goes into the refrain, it's breathtaking.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OMG
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The sad face and the little waggy tail! 😍
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I have recalled the groceries that are in your pantry and which you were probably planning to eat forgive me they’re full of salmonella and maybe broken glass
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Lol, lycanthropy.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
What do you do with the loose threads on the bottom?
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Both of them represent me and while I respect much (not all) of what they've done I absolutely do not want to have to vote for them again.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That's amazing.
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 05/08/2026
What I would give for a capybara to show up to anything I'm doing.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was way too young when I saw this movie for the first time. This scene scared the bejeezus out of me, but it's so brilliantly done.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Oh, man, do I want a tomato sandwich right now. What a delightful thread!
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Are you nearby?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Stepping off of Marcy's "Machine for Fascism" concept, I tried to lay out "The GOP’s Large Hadron Collider for Fascism," all of the right's advantages that don't go away when the current Republican president turns out to be the worst president in history, again. www.thefarce.org/why-trump-be...
The GOP’s Large Hadron Collider for Fascism
Fox News, 24 hours of hate. Not a network with a conservative lean — the GOP’s assignment desk that decides what counts as news for the entire right side of the country, every hour of every day, with nothing on the left built at that scale to compete.
X, rigged for Elon’s pleasure and influence. Marcy Wheeler calls it, “The Machine for Fascism.” A randomized 2026 Nature study put nearly 5,000 real users on the algorithmic feed for seven weeks. They moved right, grew more sympathetic to Trump and to Russia’s position on Ukraine — and switching them back to a plain chronological feed didn’t undo it. The shift stuck.
Meta, running the same play without Elon’s erratic tells. Mark Zuckerberg didn’t just deprioritize political content on Instagram and Threads; he neutered fact-checking and algorithmically choked news distribution, handing the advantage directly to right-wing outrage machines that thrive on engagement over accuracy. Now it’s just basically an AI hell of casual racism and boobs bouncing in your face—forever.
CBS, now Diet Fox. One more legacy outlet that used to be a check drifting into stenography while killing the stories 60 Minutes would likely be telling about the horrific corruption of Trump’s Gilded Age.
Fox’s imitators and AM radio. The infrastructure that reaches the voters who never opened a newsletter or a podcast app in their lives.
The Bro-Cast Pipeline. While Democrats buy billions in ads, conservatives dominate low-information environments—the endless web of comedy, sports, and lifestyle podcasts where millions of politically disengaged voters get passive, low-key right-wing messaging without ever tuning on Hannity.
Local TV and Sinclair Broadcasting. For voters who still tune into local news for traffic and weather, conservative syndicates deliver forced, scripted right-wing editorials directly into living rooms across battleground states—disguised as trusted hometown journalism.

Elon’s money, spent like he’s running a scam, not a campaign. Musk has abandoned the traditional ideas of targeting high-propensity voters. He wants to hook anyone, and he knows that the less informed a mark is, the more Trump-friendly they are likely to be. It seems comical but if you doubt Elon Musk can be successful shamelessly selling people crap based on fraud, think harder.
The money. Flush with Trump’s tax cuts for the rich and an AI bubble inflated beyond all human ken, Republican-leaning donors have outspent Democratic-leaning donors $880 million to $290 million in just the first half of 2026, per a Washington Post analysis. Musk alone has put in roughly $90 million since June. In 2024, his PAC ran an 18-day “$1 million a day” sweepstakes for registered voters — his own lawyers later admitted in court the “winners” were preselected. That’s not the gentle old approach of two candidates shaking hands with somebody’s baby. That’s a mark getting worked.
The Voting Rights Act, finished off this spring. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, 2026 left Section 2 what Justice Kagan called “all but a dead letter.” States are already redrawing maps because of it.
A neutered FEC. No quorum since April 2025. It cannot investigate, cannot enforce, cannot do anything but watch super PACs and dark money run past whatever’s still nominally on the books.
The lag from Biden’s real shocks. Inflation exploding, Roe dying, and Democrats failing to stop a second Trump term all happened on the last watch. That damage to trust didn’t clear when the administration changed. It’s still being spent down.
Corporate centrists and “Never Trump” Republicans who barely exist as voters but dominate the microphone. The persuadable, Republican-aligned Trump-disapprovers — the actual data says — are 89% already going to vote Republican anyway.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Reposting this thread today as ICE begins their horrific raids on Haitians who have lost TPS.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For anyone taking note of what’s getting posted to the president’s little homepage, I just wish you’d remember that lots of people post to that account, not just the presidential pissbaby, and their stated strategy is to flood the zone with shit, so reposting the shit is actually helping them.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"It's a big club and you ain't in it." George Carlin
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Ok. Thanks for the info.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Kid behind the counter at Five Guys told me the lettuce was local so I took a chance on having it as a burger topping. So far so good...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Market St. in Corning NY also. Many tasty olive oils and vinaigrettes.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@amberdreams.bsky.social
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The sign or the hotel?
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very much, and they would suck at mine.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Verify your age" I watched Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans in black and white on a big boxy television.
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Eileen Oz @eileenoz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum September Song, composer Kurt Weill
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Being a amoral valueless warmongering lickspittle ages you.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Please enjoy this prime baby killdeer footage!
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Leo Mckern!
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I watched it approximately ten thousand times on HBO back in the day.
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Happy birthday!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 07/07/2026
BIIIIIIG stretch! 🪶 🐣
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Henry George @madkinggeorge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump is on the phone to Infantino right now, demanding he find him 3 goals.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I was thinking about the rise of serialized television and cinematic universes in the era of Everything is a Subscription Instead of focusing on appealing characters and making every episode good (though both certainly happened), they could lock people into a subscription via cliffhangers! Splunge!
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aramtopwitch @fireflyathon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My feeling on the matter exactly. Give me cold any day!
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