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Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe. Peccavi. All you fascists bound to lose.

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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean, at least they jettisoned the right one.
Johnny Rotten wearing a red t-shirt that says Make America Great Again
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Protest sign reading “Don’t steal from Medicare to support socialized medicine”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Social Security card? Silly peasant: go search for buried treasure on the beach if you’d like a comfortable retirement
America.gov website with example question text “How do I replace my Social Security card” alongside a photo of an elderly man with a metal detector on a beach
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Haven’t started yet, but eager to dive in this weekend! Thank you both. 😃
Naomi and Astra’s book End Times Fascism on a wood desktop
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is some King shit right here
Screenshot of a fundraising text message from Hakeem Jeffries with his photo and the first paragraph: “It's Hakeem Jeffries. Please don't delete this message.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you get one of these, answer it. For me, yeah Jon Ossoff is kind of meh at best (and I say that as someone who canvassed for him, years ago). But he is inarguably better than Mike Collins, and this close to an election, that matters.
Mercury Opinion: In the 2026 GASEN election how do you plan to vote? 1=Jon Ossoff (D); 2=Mike Collins (R); 3=Unsure; 4=Not Voting; Text STOP to Quit
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You DON’T say 🙄 Trump put thousands of soldiers on Washington’s streets. They seldom stop crime - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Bullet point from linked article: “Soldiers mostly responded to incidents in wealthier, whiter areas and were absent from neighborhoods where 82% of murders take place”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh no he doesn’t. Shaved bears look downright terrifying. Dude looks more like the Creampuff the Oompa Loompa.
A shaved bear
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I thought we put the attempted “dudebro” shade to bed back around 2016 along with Shoq and that one guy who used the photo of a New Zealand sailor as his Avi until someone actually found the photo on a NZ sailing site. Oh, and this guy.
Still frame from a Simpsons episode with the caption “Yes, Mr Giordano, everyone’s a dudebro”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Almost that time, y’all
Photo of a stage with red curtains and the wor clipping on a screen
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Primary night and I’m feeling hopeful! In other news, these jokes write themselves, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Elon “did not learn from experience” Musk for vowing to dump $100M into the Maine race. That went super-well for you last time, compañero.
Graph of SpaceX stock dropping sharply after earnings report released above an unrelated “related” link titled “Piece of SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon Wednesday.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yeah, no shit.
Washington Post headline: “A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Life in 2026: Brazil's Bolsonaro is barred from this year's election. Can his AI avatar campaign instead? - www.reuters.com/business/med...
Reuters headline: “Brazil’s Bolsonaro is barred from this year’s election. Can his AI avatar campaign instead?”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Probably cliche, but…
Sepia-tone photo of a younger David Bowie
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When the “unstoppable force” of Donald Trump’s unwillingness to ever admit defeat or take an L on anything meets the immovable object of the fact that he’s unwilling to nuke or invade Iran, we’re treated to this mealy-mouthed horseshit.
Wall Street Journal headline: “Trump Leans Toward Expanding U.S. Military Operations in Iran”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It is rare that the old Wayne’s world quote about monkeys flying out of my butt is appropriate to a situation, but this is definitely one of them. Good luck with that, dude - www.reuters.com/world/iran-w...
Bullet point from Reuters article: President Donald Trump says US should control the Strait of Hormuz and get paid for it.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This finally arrived today, gonna listen to it after the Norway/England game. Paging @ihavethatonvinyl.com
Front cover of Devo’s Nitrous Nightmare album on vinyl.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I was at a roadside tin shack for an amateur MMA tournament in Villa Rica, Georgia this past weekend with more people in attendance.
People standing inside a small makeshift MMA gym waiting for the tournament to begin.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
You DON’T say… 🙄 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Washington Post headline: 

Vance slams Israeli reaction to Iran deal as U.S. military lifts blockade

The vice president warned Israel against criticizing its chief ally, underscoring a widening rift as the U.S. officially lifts the blockade of Iran’s ports.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It has been quite something to witness (complimentary). And certain outlets seem to *hate* it.
Times of Israel headline: The Sad Evolution of Peter BeinartJewish Exponent editorial headline: Calling Peter Beinart’s BluffReason.com headline: Peter Beinart has gone Full Anti-Semite
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Grandpa trying to manipulate the market again.
Headline: Iran war live: Trump says Iran 'will pay the price' for taking too long to negotiate a deal
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What in the 0.99¢ highlighter fuck is that goddamn tie?
Donald Trump, sitting at his desk, wearing a dayglow-chartreuse-colored tie, surrounded by GOP flunkies wearing red ties.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mood
A black cat sprawls adorably on a desktop in front of a keyboard.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
…says the guy who’s been huffing his own farts since the ‘80s. As it was in his first term, so shall it be now: only their own incompetence and buffoonery will save us, since the current Democrats absolutely will not.
apnews.com - Trump says Iran ‘negotiating on fumes’, insists that midterm elections won’t impact his war strategy.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When Mitch McConnell calls you stupid and/or immoral, you’ve got an image problem. apnews.com/article/todd...
"So the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong - Take your pick,"
McConnell said.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So, y’all remember when Mussolini was captured and what came to be called (yes, really) the Dongo treasure on him? This is where we are now. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Wikipedia article on the Dongo Treasure: “In 1949, Life magazine estimated the Dongo Treasure at US$66,259,590 (equivalent to $896,589,557 in 2025).”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
File under: No Shit 🙄🤬
Donald Trump's words and deeds during the Iran war are reviving allies' fears that the US might be unreliable in a future
crisis
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Crap, sorry folks - forgot the alt text. Here it is. Or as much of it as will fit.
I'll be 60 in just a few months. I went to Cal when I was 17 in the fall of 1984. By that time, Zoe Lofgren had already been in elected office for three years, and had been in politics since she worked on the Judiciary Committee's articles of impeachment against Nixon, in 1973...when I was a seven-year-old in San Diego. Lofgren has broken barriers and is an accomplished individual by any measure. She is also 78 years old, and that remains an issue in a congress where 19 of the last 20 congresspeople to die in office are Democrats. The ongoing Democratic gerontocracy is neither helpful nor sustainable, literally. New progressive voices who grew up in different eras are desperately needed, instead of the era of Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein and Zoe Lofgren. Put as simply as possible, Democrats "of a certain age" should be emulating Nydia Velázquez, not Eleanor Holmes Norton. 

But it was the email "from" Liz Cheney, urging me to rush money to the campaign of a woman with whom she admits she has very few shared "views on politics or public policy," that convinced me you folks in particular seem to have lost the plot. A major factor in Kamala Harris' defeat in 2024 was her having chosen to swan around with Liz Cheney instead of distancing herself from the Biden agenda in any meaningful way, in an attempt to shore up votes among...I don't even know whom, specifically: perhaps those ever-elusive Republican swing voters who loom large in Democratic consultant-driven establishment thinking but never seem to show up in significant quantities to vote for the sensible Democrat? 

I am guessing I may have received this message specifically because you folks may have some demographic information about me that led you to believe I might enjoy an appeal from the daughter of a war criminal who herself supported waterboarding, refused to denounce birtherism and - as recently as 2013 - opposed marriage equality. I am guessing you know all of those things, but figured you might get a fe…
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I hit the "unsubscribe" button almost reflexively, and was greeted not with a simple acknowledgement that I'd unsubscribed, but instead a webpage with PLEASE DON'T GO across the top and a "why are you leaving" text box. So I told them. Jesus, Democrats have to do better than this.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Looks more and more like Butthead with every passing day
An image of cartoon character Butthead, in profile.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A fake advertisement of a water bottle with the word Rubio in large red letters on it.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Bye Viktor. Don’t let the door hit ya, etc. Also, somebody with edit privileges on Wikipedia needs to get on this, stat. 😁
Wikipedia page for Viktor Orban, showing he’s Prime Minister of Hungary since 2010.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Long-haired man in a suit crouching over a gravesite smiling and giving a sign of approval. The headstone and the man are both labeled “Jesus.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
An orange cat sprawled in a semicircle-backed chairA black cat with her entire leg splayed out across a computer keyboard
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Oh, the Srancility.
The Hindenburg dirigible exploding
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Never not gonna remind me of this
Screenshot of “Bernie or Hillary meme: Question: hitting a baby with a rock. Bernie: “No. Just no. Why am I even being asked this?” Hillary: *consults Goldman-Sachs* *meets with PR team* * asks Saudis* *searches Bernie’s Twitter* “I believe I am against this.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Could we relocate them to, say, Saturn? Asking for a friend. OK, a couple billion friends.
“The drones over Fort McNair prompted officials to weigh relocating Rubio and Hegseth, two of the people briefed said. ”

Excerpt From
“Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns” - The Washington Post
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Saw that one already. So no real anti-Biss ads you're aware of sponsored by AIPAC/related orgs specifically? Biss certainly seems to think such ads exist, though! I was hoping AIPAC might be making the same mistake they made in NJ-11 when a genuine progressive got elected; guess we'll have to see.
Post on Twitter (er, I mean "X" 🙄 ) from Daniel Biss: "AIPAC has spent more to attack me than anyone in IL, and their deceptive dark money super PACs have now spent for and against FOUR IL09 candidates — all to deceptively boost Laura Fine. 

They’re desperate, because they know they’re losing."
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Checking in from ATL. It hailed here today.
Hourly weather graph for Atlanta, showing a low of 28 and high of 47
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Could it be…Ivanka?
“Asked about Iran’s new Supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who Trump has openly criticized, he said, ‘I have no message for him. None, whatsoever.’ Trump said he has someone in mind to replace Khamenei, but he did not elaborate.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Ah, yes. The pro-peace ticket.
Screenshot of GOP Twitter account tweet in November 4 2024: a photo of Trump and Vance with an overlay reading “The Pro-Peace Ticket.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is the way to absolutely guarantee I won’t watch this incoherent ritual abuse spectacle. Lying, self-aggrandizing, senile, doddering, insulting, racist nonsense, at great length, you say? Surely there are reruns of Gilligan’s Island on somewhere. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
“"It's going to be a long speech, because we have so much to talk about," Trump said a day before the address.”
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It had sailed a while before that. media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload...
South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouting “you LIE” at President Obama during a speech before a joint session of congress in 2009.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Why do people post these and then delete them? It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but there isn’t anything wrong with being horny on main.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“fueling questions about the credibility of federal officials and doubts about their willingness to fully investigate these and other incidents”?? No, fueling doubts about their willingness to tell the fucking truth.
Trump officials quickly painted the two recently shot dead - Renee Good and Alex Pretti - as aggressors and said the shootings were justified. But video and other evidence soon emerged that contrasted sharply with these accounts, fueling questions about the credibility of federal officials and doubts about their willingness to fully investigate these and other incidents.
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Same as it ever was. Gil Scott-Heron, “B Movie,” 1981
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
May or may not be playing this because a) old. vinyl. 45. b) my President is an unstable toddler on the world stage, so why the hell not? “She’s got a birthmark that looks just like a staple.” 😜
photo of 7” vinyl of Maurice & the Cliches “Soft Core” cover
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
WATB. Jesus.
Reuters headline: Trump tells Norway he no longer feels obligation to thing only of peace
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Phenobarbarella @phenobarbarella.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I…um…have that on vinyl. 😜
Photo of Love and Rockets album “Express”
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