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Phil Smoke

@philsmoke.bsky.social
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I live in Buenos Aires and write about philosophy, psychology, politics, and religion. I wrote a book philsmoke.substack.com/about

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2024
these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2024
The state of Vermont agreed to pay $175,000 in damages to a man who was pulled over for giving an officer the middle finger and arrested for disorderly conduct. What do you think? www.theonion.com/vermont-sett...
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Thinking today about my lawyer friend Jermaine, who —when I asked him legal research Qs while writing a dystopia—told me “Well, with a sympathetic judiciary, anything is possible.”
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🇵🇸Lisa-Is-Not-Here-To-F🕷ck-Spiders-BLM🇵🇸 @angelcomrade.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Does biden know he's the president?
Joe Biden 
I'm asking you to help save the America we know
Today's decision by the Supreme Court removes virtually all limits on what the present can do. T...
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
strange women lying in ponds distributing swords actually sounds like a pretty decent alternative right now
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
"is" to "was" when Allah strikes him down?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/07/2024
a thing i really sincerely believe is that both the center left and the left left have got to snap out of peacetime dilettantism and recognize that we are at war.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Doing to others what should be done unto him
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Welcome newcomers I've been called the n word in print
I would love to see Making Sense of Brief Lives on the syllabus for all first year seminary students. Smoke does readers a service by  repeatedly focusing attention on matters of utmost existential  relevance and providing clear and simple tools to address  them. In doing so, Smoke is uncompromising in his honesty and merciless in assailing wishful thinking on all fronts. In an age when so many in our culture cannot muster the internal resources to reflect critically on their commitments, this is a call that needs to be made again and again. A supernaturalist account of religion is regularly examined in these pages. Like  many students entering seminary, he has rightly discerned that the gods of religion are, without exception, human creations. There are a few classic ways that people respond to this  realization. Smoke shows us the path of the nihilist. He feels compelled to drive the shock of existential abandonment from God’s death straight through the heart of all reality
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Kandy @kandyelmo.northsky.social · 02/07/2024
bringing this here because i've had it
screenshot from twitter user erika chapell that reads "essentially an enormous part of the reason that online leftist spaces such so much is that they are filled with people whole believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right"
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
GET THE FUCKING MUSKETS
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 02/07/2024
This is fucking terrifying especially considering that they just made being unhoused illegal
Quote tweet by @equalityalec One of the most alarming local stories I’ve seen in a long time happening now in Los Angeles. If you’re in LA, get involved to stop it:

@stoplapdspying tweet: LA City Councilmembers Katy Yaraslovsky @CD5LosAngeles and @BobBlumenfield are moving to give city funding to Magen Am, an armed Zionist paramilitary force comprised in large part of Israeli soldiers.

Read their new motion: ens.lacity.org/clk/councilmot…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
I’ve texted so many friends: “Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place on June 27th. Enjoy your day!” Heheheheheehehe. 🪨
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Trapped O'Brien, Please Free Me From This Prison @radobrien.myatproto.social · 27/06/2024
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Anytime someone talks about a business closing locations these days I just google the name and “private equity” and you’re not gonna believe it but…
Erick Erickson tweet: The Hooters in Gainesville, FL closed permanently today. If that one can't survive Biden's economy, none can.Private equity firm acquires
Hooters
07.02.2019

TAMPA BAY, Fla. - Private equity firm Nord Bay capital and its adviser, TriArtisan Capital Advisors LLC acquired Hooters of America LLC (HOA) from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Chanticleer Holdings. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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CryptΩ-Z∞l໐gᴉcal Disaster 𓆑🏴 @eatyrselffitter.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
usually 1-3 vinyl covered spring snakes
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Yep
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Biden is going all-in with the lies. Voters today will be shocked to hear that once, you were supposed to win voters. Now, it’s about hating some. Biden has spurred Florida & is giving the finger to everyone who hates genocide. And Netanyahu will STILL stab him in the back.
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
the "you and some buddies can steer a town in the right direction" theory of change
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 23/06/2024
Now that this post is doing numbers there's gonna be a lot of people saying why this will never work where they live, etc Don't become one of those people so convinced of your own powerlessness that you feel there's no options, these methods are proven to work
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
So fuck it try and fail and learn and grow and as long as you live through it then you'll be more useful in other stuff later. Fail forward! (4/4)
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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
Yes! Annoying the shit out of your local representatives in numbers is more effective than people think. I've given up hope for governmental change but city/state is an entirely different animal.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
People have forgotten how the cultivate the lost art of saying "none of my fucking business." And, as a deliberate design choice of the modern web, which loses money if people do this en masse. Engagement metrics don't go brrr if people go about their own serious business.
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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 22/06/2024
I will NEVER deactivate my account. I will be posting from HELL
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Look at my bitch she's the best in the game
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/06/2024
Happy Juneteenth, may we see the total dismantling of the global system of white supremacy & lend ourselves to it as we see best fit!
Me in a red lip and gold earrings on a stoop
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
LFG. Somewhere Shawn Fain is breaking out this shirt.
Shawn Fain wearing Eat the Rich shirt
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Free Palestine and stop the genocide and if at all possible shake into awareness your neighbors and friends and family
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Look at these sexy motherfuckers
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Kendrick converted me. Never seen writing quite like that. In any damn medium! Fucking fractal architecture of meanings and references. In which he credibly threatens to shoot the dude, aims moral spiritual counsel at every family member, explains settler colonialism in a club banger?? 🤯😱
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
As the weird bible thumping atheist that I am I was poking around and found a nice new life verse / band name / essay title
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Thank you so much Ken it's weird but well crafted I think philsmoke.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-jungle
philsmoke.substack.com
Welcome to the Jungle
Three talks on translating, converting, psychiatry, superstructure, normalcy, neurodiversity, steering your machine, and suffering like Christ
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Bottoms up to belly up pipeline cheers
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Sounds like peak performance for both production and consumption of bourbon
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Listen up ops your best work is a light pack and Prince outlived Mike Jack 😤💀
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
🫡🦅
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Give me Tiedrichtory or give me death 😤
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Unrig the court. In fact abolish the court. And abolish fortunes big enough to rig the former court. Quit tinkering and fuck shit up. We're really running short on time
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Phil Smoke @philsmoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Dear readers and skeeters I bet this boludo does
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
There should be a hobby like birding but for cats, people traveling great distances to meet a rare cat they've been trying to cross off their list for 30 years. Whole forums tracking individual cats, weirdos sephiroth posting at rival catwatchers etc
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