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Leslie

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I'm here because I'm not all there.

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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Almost like people said before the Brexit vote that alternative the EU and relying so heavily on the US for trade was incredibly foolish, eh?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Throw out the existing sham of a tax code and rewrite it from scratch, requiring everyone - human and corporate - to pay their fair share. Incentivise long term community building over maximizing short term shareholder and executive benefit.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Demilitarize the police. Have every cop submit DNA samples to be compared against rape kits and outstanding paternty cases. Want to enforce the law? Don't have violated it. Build and fund actual harm reduction measures like good education and food and healthy communities.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Without first removing those who have caused and sanctioned harm, there can be no real justice, much less the creation of an actually just system or society that prevents or catches this stuff early and prevents it from festering.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is no moving forward with half measures, and there can be NO compromise with fascists if there is to be any kind of future (looking at you, D's/Warren for supporting a Nazi as well add every Republican for doing the same).
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Those corrupt members of SCOTUS and the overwhelming majority of Congress have been utterly derelict in their duties and need to be removed from their positions and banned from office.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Actual journalistic standards need to be required and enforced. Eliminate the blatant propaganda that is infotainment and still somehow the only source of "information" for the brainwashed. The biggest concerted deprogramming effort in history needs to happen.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The oligarchy and kakistocracy _MUST_ be broken and steps must be taken to ensure they don't return to this level of power here or any country that wants to be a world leader. Prosecute the Epstein Files. All of them. To the fullest. And blacklist everyone found guilty.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Did you miss the part where I said it was a first gesture? I don't see the nation surviving what it allowed (or in millions of cases gleefully encouraged) to happen. I frankly don't think it deserves to survive what it has done to itself and the world as a whole. Accountability is a bare minimum.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I think the only way to back out is to impeach him, sign up to the ICC, and send him and everyone behind this to The Hague as a first gesture of humility and goodwill.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Good things monopolies are illegal. *screams into pillow*
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Anyone else find it deeply ironic that MAGAts are about to essentially be responsible for the biggest shift to sustainable and renewable energy in history? Of course, they kicked it off accidentally and traumatically, but still.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Either way, it demonstrates that the source does not publish trustworthy content (whether deliberate or not), and should be treated accordingly.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It was not born as a political stunt to keep Mike Johnson in. It comes directly from Project 2025, to suppress Blue voting by disenfranchising those who statistically vote Blue more often than white, cishet male voters.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Jake Tapper can go sit on a cactus.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Uncle Fester would never.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Thoughts and prayers for the bacteria.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Buzz Lightyear, in 2026" "Enshittification. Enshittification everywhere." /Cancelled my subscription when they deliberately razed their journalistic bench //Bezos can get f*cked
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/redg... ?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Or hearing how much financial infrastructure is currently under cyber attack - an l or about successes, maybe. Could be any number of shitty things. I hate this timeline.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Our enemies already know this. I'd be shocked if we had a single actually secure piece of government information of our own, no thanks to Musk's DOGE stealing _everything_ without securing anything, and Trump/Musk's relationships with Russia and Israel.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
But don't forget, women are suffering and dying because of the "pro-life" party who has enjoyed spewing "all lives matter" for years.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It sends a horrible - yet incredibly accurate - message.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That assumes there were any actual calculations, rather than assumptions based on delusion and guesses.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Weird how the liar was lying. So, so weird.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Most of them bring the caucacity to the table.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
At least you know where you stand, with chimps. They won't tell you they have no interest in flinging fences, and then fling fences at your face.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And on a day where many people lost an hour to the time change. Feels especially symbolic this year.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There is no preventing this from getting worse before it gets better, but impressive him and imprisoning him would be a start.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Weird, I have no problem answering that question while abroad, but maybe that's because I didn't vote for the pedophile.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
VERY Late to the WWII party to begin with. And Central and South America as well as SE Asia (as will as most Black and queer Americans) would disagree with your assessment. The US squandered decades of the goodwill it had in just a handful of years, and will never recover it again.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You do realize a third of the nation tried to do him from getting into power again, which he did only with the help of tech and media oligarchs and decades of disinformation combined with voter disenfranchisement, right? If I had his attitude, I wouldn't have been tear gassed at protests.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Glad you didn't break your foot in exchange.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
But hey, stop dooming, amirite? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Just asking" guys are the same ones that say something horrible and then say that they were "just joking."
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Pretty sure Iranians understand that we are at war (same way Vietnamese understood we were at war, regardless of how pedants want to phrase it. 😒
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The rigorous curricular standards that had children in Texas reading about the enslaved as "workers" and "immigrants" and never referred to their enslavement? Or the ones in Connecticut which taught children that slaves were treated "like family members"?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Those continue to be the only public figures I've ever cried for, on learning of their passing. I suppose if I'd been older for Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers, I would have cried at their passing, too. The world needs more people like those 4.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
One day, 3 beautiful moods #Fiji
White sandy beach with blue plastic kayak in the foreground and a couple people in the background, with a tiny bit of blue sky over it, and heavy rain in the distance across the waterBlack sand beach with grey water to the left, palm trees to the right and ahead where a dark volcanic rock wall starts, and a bright rainbow rising into the sky from the palm trees directly aheadPost-sunset pink and grey undulating and mammatus clouds in the top half of the image, a little glimpse of blue sky over thunderheads in the distance, the dark silhouette of palm friends on the right side is the image, fairly calm South Pacific waters reflecting the colors from above
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Apparently they are dicks.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
He was never in control of that.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
With the post office already no longer post marking mail the day it is deposited unless specifically asked at the counter (hm which state and countries' votes will be stamped after election regardless of dropoff), and warning now about having to cut staff and services just in time for the election?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
With Musk and Thiel and Russia having their hooks in every computer system the government? And Musk already having been given credit for Trump winning Pennsylvania?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
With the SAVE Act creating an insurmountably late poll tax on every person who has who changed their name unless they can produce original documents or a passport (ie many transpeople, some escaping abuse, and most married women)?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
In a non-public space.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
And to profiteer. Let's not forget who are making a ton of money off this shameful, lethal, disgusting, wholly reprehensible distraction.
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Indeed. This is several years old, but continues to be disturbingly on point.
Cartoon of a blindfolded Lady Justice being held down by make arms wearing a black suit and which shirt cuffs with the GOP elephant on them. Her eyebrows are shown raised in concern over the blindfold, her scales are on the ground next to her head as one of the man's hands hold her wrist next to the scales, and the other is over her mouth, holding her down and preventing her from crying out for help
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#BarefootKuata resort in #Fiji offers a bull #shark dive experience which even those not certified can do. Passionate marine biologists and expert divemasters curate the absolutely incredible experience, which I can't recommend highly enough. 🦈 #Dive the pandora #reef while you're there, too!
Underwater photo of me in SCUBA gear taken from behind, as I watch a dozen bull sharks peacefully swimming through clear waters just meters away
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You know who else has featured prominently in the Epstein documents released by the Justice Department?
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Leslie @peripatetic1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We are both powerful and powerless depending on what is most convenient to any given man at any given time.
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