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@marc4marc.bsky.social
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Gym done
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’m going to watch it tn and will report back. The snippets he told me about did unfortunately remind me of things I have done.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Friend: Have you seen The Residence? Me: No, is it good? F: It’s so good and the main character reminds me of you. M: Oh? F: Yeah, she’s autistic. …and SO smart.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: Everyone at the Department of Health and Human Services who sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for programs like Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and more, has been fired. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org
Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People - KFF Health News
Recent cuts eliminated a small, specialized workforce that sets the poverty standards determining who is eligible for Medicaid as well as assistance with food, home heating, child care, and more.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hotel lighting and sleepy
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wait so the plan is literally to take government workers researching kidney disease and keeping the water clean and have them make iPhone cases instead
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Jer @jch24.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hooooooly shit.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The money is going to what now
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Dumbeffotry @dumbeffotry.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The current systems housing all your tax info- your income, employers, your SSN, your DOB, your addresses, your banking info, your children's names, SSNs and DOB - is on a system so old that its unhackable. It has never been breached by an external actor, ever. So ofc they want to change it.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Let’s go punch our problems
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Oh wow. Same.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/04/2025
i may be unserious, hysterical and woke, but my strategy of “taking trump seriously no matter how insane he sounds” has paid more analytical dividends than the alternatives
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
3 months sober. Well technically 3 months and five days but it’s never too late to celebrate a cool thing, right?
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Nothing fits
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Inside and outside
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Regular Judy @judithism.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Inside me there are two wolves. So it seems like I put on some weight. But it’s just the wolves.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Monday. Again.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My mother to me the other day: “It’s so funny when you simply refuse to interact with someone who can’t keep up with what you’re thinking.” Me: “…time is finite and I don’t need to spend mine explaining simple things.”
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Happy eclipse day 🌕. Cast some spells.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Shaved
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The brutal, beautiful irony of this happening after Schumer spent 18 months supporting genocide and disavowing the humanity of Palestinians, truly Homeric
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Anyway I saw a cyber truck last night and briefly considered going to jail
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
dog in active submission
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This student polemic is better than anything the NYT op-ed page has published about universities.
uscannenbergmedia.com
OPINION: USC’s compliance in the face of political threats betrays students
As executive orders threaten students’ rights and freedoms, my university falls far short of its educational mission.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NO, SETH MOULTON IS NOT OWED AN APOLOGY, YOU GHOUL.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
SCREAMING. Also didn’t it come out he wrote it to himself??
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
To be clear I did not message him first! I was minding my business!
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A man just messaged me on the apps to tell me that I was hot but I had too much body hair and like…ok??? So don’t message me?????? Maybe some of us need fewer rights. Maybe that’s correct.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Or family sized bag of M&Ms
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New way to measure depression is just your therapist asking you how long it took you to eat a party sized package of Oreos by yourself
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kwprime @kwprime.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
spinning poi in a guy’s hoodie from 21 years ago
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Ryan Rhodes @ryanrhodes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is NOT it for me... This was wrong in 2008 too. We are NOT abandoning our trans siblings and watching their rights be erased without a fight. Gavin Newsom may have stood with gay folks in the past, but we're not excusing or giving him pass for validating bigotry against trans people.
Keith Edwards Bluesky post that reads: "Obama was against gay marriage in 2008 and I still voted for him! Should we have not elected Obama be of his conservative views
on marriage? He ended being great for the LGBTQ community even before coming around on marriage.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good"
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Screaming
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
One thing about dating me is you will never see that hoodie again
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
And everyone’s suggestions about what to do and how to take care of yourself seem built for a fully different situation. I don’t need soup. Or more long walks. I need my whole life, and the lives of everyone around me, to exist in a completely different context. And I am very tired.
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Anyway not to Depression Post on main too much but the combination of my actual unrelenting mood disorder with the dystopian reality that we are fully locked inside of has me on the edge of a complete breakdown 90% of the time and I feeeeel like I’m running out of steam yknow?
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I am confident that one day I will experience a fully regulated nervous system but unfortunately that day is not today
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/03/2025
Aloy's story is about fighting back against the apocalyptic effects of hubristic tech CEOs whose greed and short sightedness destroyed civilization
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Off to pray for death on the stairmaster AMA
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☀️ @vamospeat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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dancefloor intimacy coordinator @formerbluecheck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The last few times I have opened Twitter to find something, at the top of the algorithmic feed I have seen: - A rape fantasy about a woman with Down syndrome - A quote-tweet of an interracial couple pointing out the evils of miscegenation - Multiple obscenely antisemitic tweets
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dancefloor intimacy coordinator @formerbluecheck.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
not to be a huge bitch but it bears repeating that if you’re still posting on Twitter (without some legit professional need) you should be embarrassed
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Marc @marc4marc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very funny to me that this got flagged as adult content
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