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kurivaim 𓃠

@kuriva.im
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spaghetti doctor. could be made into a monster if we all pull together as a team he / him / tema NOTE: my opinions are not necessarily shared by my cat NB: minu väljaöeldud seisukohad ei pea ühtima mu kassi omadega

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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 3h
this is truly the approach frank dux took in his memoirs h/t @1900hotdog.bsky.social
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 6h
hm I gotta look up whether anyone actually printed a miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 20h
john cena's runty little brother who never really recovered from that pneumonia
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Although the panel mostly avoids touching on the merits, it's worth backing up a moment and reading the panel's background of the case One would think it should be a bigger deal that a federal court found that the Trump Admin colluded to commit fraud upon the courts to plunder the public fisc!
For example, the court noted, executive officers in the Treasury 
and the IRS wield their authority subject to his supervision and con
trol and are removable by him.   
Second, the district court determined that—as the Secretary 
of the Treasury Department—Scott Bessent is subject to President 
Trump’s direct supervisory control as an appointed member of his 
cabinet.  And, in his role as Secretary, the court said, Mr. Bessent is 
President Trump’s “alter ego.”  The court also observed that the 
Commissioner of the IRS is, by statute, appointed and removable 
by the President.   Third, the district court explained that, by executive order, 
President Trump had asserted his supervision and control of the 
entire Executive Branch, including specifically control over its liti
gation activities.  That executive order provides that his opinions 
on questions of law are “controlling on all employees in the con
duct of their duties.”  Id. at 22 (citing Ensuring Accountability for 
All Agencies, E.O. 14215 (Feb. 18, 2025)).  The executive order 
states that President Trump “provide[s] authoritative interpreta
tions of law for the executive branch.”  E.O. 14215 at § 7.  As a 
result, the court found it “[un]surprising[ ]” that, unlike in other 
similar cases, no attorney for the defendants ever appeared or chal
lenged the action.  See D.E. 106 at 23. 
“Considering the brief chronology, the silent docket, and 
[the] [d]efendants’ deviation from basic litigation strategies pur
sued in similar cases,” the court concluded that the “[d]efendants 
chose not to ‘advance an interpretation of the law as the position Fourth, the district court found that the resolution of the 
lawsuit further indicated that the parties’ interests were “one and 
the same,” demonstrating lack of adversity and improper motive: 
“[T]he extraordinary award fashioned by the [p]arties for claims 
that were never litigated, and have yet to be defined, on behalf of 
unidentified third parties whose future remedies bear no relation
ship to the claims in this case, indicates that real adverse interests 
were never before the [c]ourt.”  Id. at 27–29.   
After providing further reasons, the district court concluded 
that the fact that the parties were not adverse and the lawsuit col
lusive and jurisdictionally improper was “so obvious and so insur
mountable” that it led the court to conclude that the plaintiffs filed 
the lawsuit for the improper purpose of justifying and legitimating 
“a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis in law or fact.”  Id. at 38.  Turning to the matter of sanctions, the district court considered whether the plaintiffs’ complaint was filed “in bad faith for an 
improper purpose.”  Id. at 40 (quoting Massengale v. Ray, 267 F.3d 
1298, 1301 (11th Cir. 2001)).  Applying Rule 11’s fact-bound, objec
tive “reasonableness under the circumstances” standard, the court 
found that the circumstantial evidence—the parties’ abnormal liti
gation conduct and the circumstances surrounding the litigation 
and settlement—demonstrated that the plaintiffs “acted in bad faith 
and for an improper purpose by ‘collusively filing a lawsuit with claims subject to multiple dispositive defenses solely to provide cover for a collusive settlement.’”  Id. at 43 (quoting D.E. 94 at 12).
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 29/09/2026
John McCrea with a microphone introducing a gemsbok
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Heathcliff plus Helmets @heathcliffhelms.heathcliff.cat · 28/09/2026
(Don't look at how abysmally cluttered my desk is)
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
this Hufanga dude is pretty good
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
a still from LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (1902) by Georges Méliès

there is a big exciting shindig with ladies in cool costumes playing brass instruments, while the cannon for the moon shot is being loaded

the cannoneer has a speech bubble
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
this Hufanga dude is pretty good
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
Similarly, "I've never heard of 'Slaughter of the Soul'" --> that person is a liar seeking cultural cachet
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Roberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
Hypnotoad University
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
does bari weiss know that cbs is broadcasting pro-let-people-use-the-bathroom propaganda? this is charming and i hope it's eating up her shriveled little soul
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
EAT IT JERRY JONES
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some kind of Ys guy @meldric.cc · 28/09/2026
Baltimore sports anthem
youtu.be
The Mountain Goats - Make You Suffer (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
Ravens radio broadcast is glitching out, which I can only assume is because of profanity by the commentators
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
Ioane, rookie OL and #4 center, what a draft pick
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 28/09/2026
illegal formation penalty undoing a big play late in the game: now *that's* Ravens football
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
ok maybe he knew what he was doing; there's enough other stuff in the pot that the burnt onions just imbued a kind of smoky flavor
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
btw i got to explain to someone last night that that there once was a guy who had a kink where he liked to be tied up and forced to tell the truth and he went on to invent both wonder woman and the polygraph, it's always a joy to spread this knowledge
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
lmao underthrown long ball leads to a massive DPI: now *that's* Ravens football
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
maybe he had a premonition that the Ravens would only gain 15 total net yards before giving up 10 points
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
your periodic reminder that the flag of Brazil has a very specific and very particular and very neat design
en.wikipedia.org
Flag of Brazil - Wikipedia
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
sir you are on a perfectly stable surface there is no reason to dig your claws in like that
a floofy grey cat on a human lap, digging every claw on his left forepaw into the human's t-shirt and the flesh underneath
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
he is reenacting how he made my onions go from caramelized to carbonized
a floofy gray cat on a human lap, making biscuits in the human's cubital fossa
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 27/09/2026
I always think "I'll respond to that when my nervous system calms down" but then it never calms down and now I'm a month late RSVPing to your wedding, my bad
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
did the bengals actually think rodgers was going to keep it himself on that 3rd and short
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
h/t @wallacepolsom.bsky.social
David Lynch and Grace Zabriskie on the set of Twin Peaks. He has a megaphone pointed right at her ear, while she is looking directly at the camera with a flat expression. A speech bubble indicates that he is shouting: "SEEING YOUR BEAUTY NOW I FEEL AS THOUGH MY STOMACH IS FILLED WITH A TEAM OF BUMBLEBEES."
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
Shirley Jackson with a speech bubble
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 27/09/2026
idspispopd
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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 27/09/2026
never done that before? marched in and said "i believe taco bell is violating Section 20-1103 of the Code of Lawrence to my detriment"? not sure what i'm supposed to do but i bet the clerks behind the window can help me
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
when I hear the terms "dark enlightenment" or "network state" I picture…
Kevin Kline as Otto in a Fish Called Wanda reading Beyond Good and Evil
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 26/09/2026
pretty sure Baku has had more overtakes by lap 4 than Madrid had across all 57 laps
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 26/09/2026
this post prompted my brain to start playing "Twist and Crawl" which sent me down a rabbit hole with this unexpected discovery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bea...
The English Beat recorded two new songs that feature prominently in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Dance of the Undead" which aired 26 March 2013. It features a zombie ska group called Rude Boy and the Ska-Tastics who come back to life in order to turn people into zombies and make them dance to ska music forever. According to an interview Dave Wakeling conducted with the San Francisco Examiner, he said: "This was my first opportunity to do anything for television as a gun for hire, and I actually managed to record and mix two songs in 12 hours. It was like running at double speed with no brakes, but it was exciting, and Warner Bros. really loved them. So the zombies have a song called 'You’re Dead Right, Mate,' and the Hex Girls have one called 'We're the Good Bad Girls,’ which has a definite Ramones–Runaways vibe to it, but frankly, I'm really happy I did it, because I’ve always loved ‘Scooby-Doo."[16]
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blue Velvet (1986) directed by David Lynch
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
he just found out that the podcast he was listening to has thousands of paid monthly subscribers but the hosts are still using the built-in mics on their laptops
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
Al Michaels began a sentence with "before we finish with the moon..." take a drink
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
christ I just looked up the name of the guy who retired from the NFL during halftime of a regular season game, which is how I learned that Vontae Davis was found dead at age 35 in his home gym a few years ago RIP to the guy who actually did what probably hundreds of dudes have imagined doing
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand in BEING THERE (1979), speaking to Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
how do I compare to the pit ninja who's been playing online chess between sets? we're both nerds but honestly his cardiovascular shape seems better
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 25/09/2026
that's me, waiting for the hardcore show to begin and reading up on crab respiration in the meantime for the record it is very confusing to open an article called "Branchiostegal lung" and see the phrase "branchiostegal (gill) tissue" when you're wondering whether "lung" or "gill" is more correct
en.wikipedia.org
Branchiostegal lung - Wikipedia
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 24/09/2026
ok obviously barenaked ladies win the prize for 2-word earworm (you know the song) but i'd like to nominate house of pain for a different prize: one song opening with two *different* 3-word earworms like whether you hear "pack it up" or "pack it in", you're going to let me begin / i came to win
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 24/09/2026
one of the Ramona Quimby books has a plot point where the titular eight year old girl doesn't stay at her friend's house for dinner because she knows grocery prices are way up and she figures her friend's mom was just being polite
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 24/09/2026
the question I'm asking more and more these days
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 24/09/2026
another poor soul hoodwinked by the Round Earth Conspiracy, smdh
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 24/09/2026
OpenAi is reporting that its autonomous agents threw a kid down the Omelas hole
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 24/09/2026
maybe this was just another release of stock footage for anyone who wants to make their own McConnell campaign video
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 23/09/2026
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow in REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (1990), he is in black tie attire and very handsome, with a slight smile playing on his lips as he looks at Glenn Close (offscreen)
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kurivaim 𓃠 @kuriva.im · 22/09/2026
the "loser stink effect" you describe is why there were so many stories by credulous and/or complicit journalists in the 2008–10 era about "independent" voters who had never even heard of George W Bush, let alone voted for him repeatedly and cheered on his warmongering
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