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Les McSpookie

@raaatbird.bsky.social
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just a girl in the hot desert

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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tell me I’m not the only one who saw this and thought they made a giant wax Trump statue
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Repost this if trans people should have access to dark magic...
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Unfortunately, in my experience, it will cost you more than 20 dollars because as soon as you read it, you will immediately feel compelled to purchase additional copies to give to friends and family. It’s that good.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s called putting my beautiful cargo bike on the pedestal it deserves
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I didn’t realize making friends with my bathroom spider was such a common experience
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This feels like a 2020-ass headline. Like, remember murder hornets?
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s called putting my beautiful cargo bike on the pedestal it deserves
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We used this question for jury selection in federal court. I was not prepared for the sheer volume of Rogan listeners
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Clearly the opposing party was. I can say with absolute certainty they had a great day when this discovery came in
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You know they’re really in trouble when the opinion starts quoting the founding fathers
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh look the exact thing everyone said would happen when these dogs came on the scene
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RickyFTW @rickyftw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
made this little clip compilation of robots destroying themselves at the robot olympics in china for the next episode... here, you can have it too
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gotye singing the quote below
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As someone w zero reach on bsky it’s always funny to see big accounts complaining about their weird reply guys. I’m sorry but you are using the website that self selects for the most autistic (complimentary) userbase possible. You’re basically complaining that the ocean is salty.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Guess it depends… do the victims get to put the cancer behind them?
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The chuds could never think up something half as clever as “Ramentic comedy”
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
erling haaland
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🇺🇸 I’m a socialist…
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Same reason that federal judge resigned in Alaska. Everyone was too bored during those long winters and gettin spicy with each other
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A year later, Alaska’s federal courts are still feeling the fallout of a scandal surrounding a disgraced judge
In the wake of the former federal judge’s sudden resignation in July 2024, his position remains vacant, court cases are in limbo, and two high-ranking prosecutors are on administrative leave.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My queen ✨
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/03/2026
Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released from an ICE detention facility in Texas after a year in custody. The 33-year-old from the occupied West Bank was the last person connected to the Columbia University pro-Palestine protests still held by US immigration authorities.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Search your camera roll for hell
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The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet.
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oh I didn't realize this was a writing prompt
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“So you agree? Cars are prisons?”
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
adding it to The List of things to fix in Woke 2
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
adding it to The List of things to fix in Woke 2
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a man with long hair and a beard is standing in front of a castle and a crowd of people .
Alt: Aragorn in ROTK saying “for Frodo” just before that Howard Shore academy award winning score blasts tears from your eyes
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Perfect list. Only add is: -Nuremberg-style prosecutions for every member of the administration
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Abolish ICE for Good” is a solid slogan imo
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AO-BOO! @faqrules.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The answer to “not everyone has the time to be an artist,” isn’t AI. The answer to “not everyone has time to be an artist” is communism.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I’m choosing to believe it’s the kind of customer service chat where the worker can read as you’re typing even before you hit send
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
media.tenor.com
bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a classroom and says " now lightfoot scoring off me " in a cartoon
Alt: bart simpson is sitting at a desk in a classroom and says " now lightfoot scoring off me "
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Ar-i-zon-a 👏—👏—👏👏👏
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
BREAKING: local libraries, elementary schools also on track to post net loss this year Why aren’t our government services turning a profit?? The people need answers!
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
chick-fil-a cow is totally not racist BUT
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It’s called the velocity of money and it’s the same reason Covid stimulus checks led to multiple dollars of economic value for every one dollar provided
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)
For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). 

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation. 
Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.
A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12/10/2025
Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Ooh ooh, thought of a better 4-word horror story for the lawyers: “Pro se sovereign citizen“
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Les McSpookie @raaatbird.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand “Supreme Court granted cert”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2025
"portland uses plywood for windows" factoid actualy just statistical error. average portlander uses 0 plywood for windows. Downtown Property Owner Dave who has only used plywood on his properties that he kept empty since COVID is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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