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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Happy Mount St Helens day to all that observe On this day May 18, 1980 - 46 years

Image of the caldera from the north, post-eruption

Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Also worth noting: there is one party that has gerrymandered more than the other and it isn't close. Since 2010 the GOP has been over-represented in congress by virtue of state-level gerrymanders; it's rich to hear them cry about how unfair it is when dems play the same game

Image shows analysis of states based on how districting in them wastes votes of one party or the other in unequal ways- as of 2012, Rs have 13 states meeting this standard vs. Ds with 2

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

fwiw, the GOP has been substantially over-represented in congress since 2012 at the least, thanks in no small part to their 2010 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP initiative

graphic based on 2012 election results show 12 states' election maps over-represent GOP in congress, while 2 states did the same for democrats

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Don't forget that for all their crying that Dems do nothing but gerrymander, don't forget that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP was the GOP's 2010 response to Obama's election and the results since are telling- GOP over-representation and it's not close

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I don't think the *idea* of socialism is unpopular, but the *branding* certainly is. I think that's on cold-war propaganda The fun part: the downsides we're warned about "if socialism" are here under capitalism and always have been- and some folks think it's because the status quo is socialist

Meme of US coups and actions against Guatemala, Vietnam, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela with text: "Why would socialism do this?"

The point: these were blamed on socialism but are past and current US policy to prevent socialism from interfering with US corporate activity in these countries

Protest sign from 2010 with text: REVOLUTION!! STOP SOCIALISM STOP SPENDING STOP LYING
image source: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/07/what-is-socialism-socialist

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is your regular reminder that Wage Theft dwarfs all other kinds of theft and it's not close. The state of Texas (and the current federal admin) is on the criminals' side here

Graph comparing wage theft to all other kinds of theft nationally, circa 2018- employers steal more from their employees than other criminals do, by a margin of 4 to 1

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What they call their 'heritage' and are desperate to defend is the propaganda that painted their movements as valorous or justified What scares them to shitting themselves is any revelation of truth that shows it wasn't

pane 1
Then: Man in confederate t-shirt saying 'we must preserve our heritage', pointing to confederate statues, flags etc.
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Now: Same man saying 'we must bury our heritage!', pointing to classes being taught history or critical race history

It is not their heritage at stake, but rather how we are allowed to understand what that means. When they demand their myths be respected but require that truth about it not be taught, they are not interested in fact, they are threatened by facts

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Again, the evidence shows most poll respondents think climate change is an important issue and their responses, particularly among democrats, say they favor policy actions that aren't on offer in "the middle" - per this poll: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Pew poll results say 67% of respondents saying the US should prioritize developing alternative energy like wind and solar, 69% favor the US taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050

2/3rds of US adults say the federal government should encourage production of wind and solar power

Two-thirds say large businesses and corporations are doing too little to reduce climate change effects

54% of Americans view climate change as a major threat, but the partisan divide has grown.

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I mean, it's tough to square this kind of poll result with the notion that there's a majority out there somewhere to chase in the middle, at least as of this poll: genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/american-att...

Bar graph showing a result of over 80% of poll respondents agreeing that Transgender people deserve the same rights and protections as other Americans

Over 60% of respondents disagree with the notion that Businesses should have the right to refuse services to transgender people based on religious beliefs

80+% of respondents agree that laws should protect transgender children from bullying in schools

over 70% agree Trans people should be allowed to serve openly in the military

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Let this be your periodic reminder that white collar crime, particularly wage theft, greatly outweighs the kinds of crime we're told to think of as common and dangerous

Graph of wage theft vs. other kinds of theft
shows that wage theft drastically outweighs other kinds of theft:
wage theft: minimum wage/$23B, OT/$8.8B, Rest Break violations/$4B, off-the-clock/$3.2B
Other: larceny/$5.3B, Burglary/$4.1B, Auto Theft/$3.8B, Robbery/$0.34B

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This is how mine tells me I'm done working

Image of an orange kitty lying on my arm as I try to type

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

LOL Fox news is mad about Gunn's new Superman over its insistence that Supe have some human decency and be a model immigrant Wait 'til they see the source material

Superman, surrounded by kids, saying "...and remember, boys and girls, your school - like our country- is made up of Americans of many different races, religions and national orgins. So... If you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin- don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN."

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Yeah it's kind of a hard sell when all the things they told us to fear about socialism - being made to toil endlessly in a system that renders us politically voiceless and subject to authoritarian rule, with secret police and all- are coming true under the capitalism they told us would prevent that

'sudden clarity clarence' meme- image of a guy in a concert crowd with a facial expression that looks like he's just realized something surprising or profound- with text: "Everything we feared about communism has come true under capitalism"

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So I guess there's some folks trying to tell us that Superman is a Republican For your consideration:

Image depicting Superman with kids, copyright 1950
Supe: "...and remember boys and girls, your school - like our country- is made up of Americans of many different races, religions and national origins. So..."
(the bottom of the poster continues:)
"... if YOU hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin- don't wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN."

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

You're not wrong, but my face as I read that

bean. MISTER bean.
With a facial expression of combined disgust and annoyance

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Also, there "suddenly" were more left-handed people when we stopped stigmatizing it and accepted it as just how people are (src: slowrevealgraphs.com/2021/11/08/r...) and some people thought it was an epidemic even though it wasn't

a graph of reported left-handedness among Americans, by year of birth- rising to a steady-state rate of just under 12%.
The previous low rates are thought to be related to the stigma associated with left-handedness, which caused many left-handed people to struggle with their wrong-hand to avoid being stigmatized

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nah. This looks more like a president using his office to manipulate the markets and turn the world economy into an insider pump-and-dump scheme. Insider trading *is* still a crime tho

Tweet from Stephen Miller saying "you have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American president in history"

(this could be a signal that the admin is concerned about the criticism his econ policy has been getting, and is signaling to their base that it's all intentional and super-smart despite it being nothing of the sort)

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Huh, having problems embedding images with librewolf 🙁

Keep Greenland safe?
Safe from who, motherfucker

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fun fact: When Churchill visited the white house to seek US support in WWII against the Nazis, he wore a siren suit out of respect for the troops. This q to Zelenskyy was not the gotcha intended- all it did was show us who doesn't know history

Image of Winston Churchill, no stranger to a suit and tie, at the white house, wearing his then-trademark siren suit to signify the allied troops for which he came to seek US support

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As we watch government functions be contracted out to private interests, consider:

There once was a time in history when the limitation of governmental power meant increasing liberty for the people. In the present day the limitation of governmental power, of governmental action, means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations.
-Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Get in, losers. We're gonna go be considerate of others' lived experience

Image of happy dog with text (i am off to commit the sin of empathy)

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hopefully also helpful: the Balfour Declaration, expressing British intention to partition Palestine to make a Jewish homeland there, is dated 11/2/1917.

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Maybe this will help Prior to the UN partition in 1948, it was Palestine Prior to that it was an Ottoman territory -> became British in 1922 here's a decent resource on modern history of Palestine www.un.org/unispal/hist...

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This was the year I figured out pastry-crusted meat pies

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I just wish we could start measuring inflation less in terms of dollars but in terms of purchasing power per hour of labor. Maybe then the boomers who still think $12.50/hr is a lot of money would shut up about how kids today are just lazy

Grocery store chains: we set record profits this year
Retail chains: we've never made so much money
Energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record
News article: who is to blame for inflation? You peasants wanting wages, probably

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Figured I'd try my hand at making stuffed bell peppers, made too much filling and overshot into bacon chicken risotto pie

Stuffed bell peppers, covered in melted cheese

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Interesting that it looks so much like this one

4 panel comic
panel 1: child (labled lgbt youth) says "I'm gay"
panel 2: person (labeled unsupportive parent) shoves child away
panel 3: people (signified by lgbt/trans flags) pick up child, who thanks them
panel 4: parent (who shoved child) yelling: "stop grooming my child"

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I suspect most Americans understand we pay more for health care and get worse results than do people in other countries. I wonder if the seemingly-high rate of approval for vigilantism against insurer figureheads is related to the sense that changing it is impossible

Bar chart of OECD nations' spending on health care, which shows that the USA outspends its peer nations, in both public insurance and by far the most on private insurance

Graph of life expectancy vs. health expenditure over time, grouped by country. The USA, as outlier, outspends the cluster of wealthy democracies with universal health care while underperforming all of them by a gap that's been widening since the 1970s

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This year's blueberries were a bumper crop, and my bushes kept their leaves much longer in the season than they have in past years- I'm taking a W on this

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I don't think the people orchestrating the culture-war circus really care in good faith about the particulars of its issues, I think instead it's a way to tie people up in fights that aren't the ones that really matter to them, or that people might actually unite against them about

advisor to the king, looking out at a crowd with torches and pitchforks, saying "Oh, you don't need to fight them- you just need to convince the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks"

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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️ @howdidwegethere.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

dang it, forgot to attach the picture (this is why I'm not an influencer, lol)

after-thanksgiving soup; dried pinto, white beans (+garbanzo if you like), hominy, dice potatoes into bite-size pieces, throw leftover turkey + green chiles in with water/broth
cumin, salt to taste
simmer until beans and potatoes starch up the broth

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