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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 15h

To the tune of "Top Hat": "I'm Putin's little lapdog; Putin's little butt-boy; Putin's little bitch."

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 17h

Real ones, or the TV show with that name (one of my all-time favorites)?

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

F**k The Police On Broadway F**k the Police Under the Boardwalk F**k the Police All the Way To Memphis F**k the Police In My Room F**k the Police Downtown F**k the Police Uptown F**k the Police After Midnight F**k the Police Down in the Boondocks F**k the Police Before the Last Teardrop Falls

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Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yep. Becoming an intelligent and moral person is hard (and sometimes unpleasant) work so most people are only as smart and moral as they need to (or are trained to) be. When wealth and power isolates people from any consequences for their actions they end up stupid, careless, and cruel.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've read and heard plenty of remarks from prominent Democrats. File this post among all those that claim "Nobody ever talks about ____ (a person/place/thing that many people talk about frequently). Specific example: Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA, in case you haven't heard of him) during debate this week.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did anyone else see how one of the armed guards men moved towards the young woman (who was simply walking purposefully)? I suspect that's routine conduct, designed to assert dominance.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My Medicare (and supplemental coverage) cards identify me as a defiant Evelyn, and I warn any young Ed G. Lord that I will NOT smile at him and approve expropriation of the extra chair at my Starbucks table should he continue belittling me. We clear? We good?

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

True, but Board books are easier for them to teethe on, and don't tear as easily.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am not a Cornell alumna, but I have been appalled by my own alma mater's pusillanimity, and wish I shared your faith. The arithmetic is quite simple: a single million-dollar donation equals ten thousand hundred-dollar gifts. Universities can risk losing most small donors to appease billionaires.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Nobody ever talks about . . ." Things that many people talk about all the time.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Summa at Yale; fellowship at Cambridge; Stanford Law. She's also an utterly vile and reprehensible individual.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She has impeccable academic credentials, but expends most of her brain cells defending campus rapists and violent cops.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This could be catastrophic for young men. In the distant past, when I grew up, parents would welcome mumps for pre-pubescent boys, who would not risk the grave consequences that older boys and grown men could. It's well known to cause sterility in men, but complications include encephalitis.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's very violent, but also pretty good. If only we could all have as much fun as Dame Helen Mirren is obviously having in her role as matriarch of an Irish crime family.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I presume they've changed dramatically in 50 years, but I spent a summer in what was the Soviet Union in 1977. It was a CIEE program, and then considered the best of its kind.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish Republican politicians had the capacity to be embarrassed by their dishonesty. The fact that they don't makes them more dangerous.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not necessarily; Sen. Schmitt-4-Brains appeared onthe Ghost Charlie Kirk show almost immediately thereafter. They lauded his performance, proclaiming that he "Owned" Jack Smith. He gloated.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when you point out a republican is wrong it's censorship

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps she should request the same amount that Cornell believed it saved by capitulating to Trump's demands.

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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what I keep saying! Defining gender by chromosomes is *the* most radical redefining of gender *ever*. Literally no society in all of human history has ever done that! None! Ever!

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Much of what Goebbels’s UFI produced was ordinary popular entertainment. D.W. Griffith co-founded UA after making Birth of a Nation. SABC supplied news and entertainment while propping up apartheid. Ideology gets woven into the stories people watch for pleasure and starts to feel like common sense.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

does kalshi have a betting line on now many gambling related suicides they'll cause this year

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I remember the trauma of being informed that I couldn't just charge everything to parents anymore.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He evidently never learned the theory of "Outsider" perspectives dominating Arts & Letters.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your Meditation example is interesting, because my doctrinaire Iyengar Yoga teacher said that traditional yogis have to develop their physical ("Hatha") practices for years before they're deemed "Ready" for Meditation. This might explain it. Your greater point is no less valid.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How much are they keeping for challenging results?

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing is, this anti trans bullshit isn’t going to cost Dems elections, nor will it win them any. That’s because voters aren’t casting votes based on trans rights! There’s literally no electoral reason not to just support the trans community

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will not soften this take. I will not walk it back. I will not say “well it’s nuanced…” because it’s not. The president banning journalists from the White House on the basis that he doesn’t like what they say about him is FASCISM 101. FULL STOP.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Re: Rationalists. I think someone who says that they are able to perceive a God of everlasting cruelty and that you should also perceive this God lest you be punished should be met with extreme suspicion.

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ShoeCityRefugee @shoecityrefugee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Probably "American Midnight," by Adam Hochschild, if audiobooks count (my current book consumption pattern is fiction via ebook and nonfiction via audiobook).

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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