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Portland, OR Parent, runner. beer, food, law, tech, games

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ceej @ceej.online · 08/06/2024
I’m burning the candle at both ends. I’m whipping it around like Darth Maul and making a huge mess
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A Mouse On A Table [2.23 Haagse Ellen] @lifetrainfromugly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Commander was probably right to bite those guys
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 20/09/2026
I think Will Stancil basically has oppositional defiance poster’s disorder and that it’s a condemnation of this website that this has led to him in the last several years into assuming a ton of plainly just rational and correct positions
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Me, clocking in every morning at the suffering factory.
Text meme that says: Do not confuse my niche esoteric terminally online scholarship in the schizo mines with your recreational прс meme tiktok
slop scrolling
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 26/08/2026
RULE OF THREE RULE OF THREE RULE OF THREE
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
instagram redesigned their logo? big whoop
two bluesky logos: the top features a simple butterfly logomark and "Bluesky" in a sans serif font. the bottom features the same butterfly logomark with heavy inner and outer glow treatments, and the "Bluesky" name is in Papyrus with heavy lens flares all about.
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ceej @ceej.online · 18/07/2026
took the kids to an art museum today and it was so life-affirming. my five year old thought a bunch of the portraits were “about goblins”
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 25/06/2026
A Calvin’s Dad sicko
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/06/2026
I do find it pretty funny at times to feel like a minority on bluesky as a cishet dude but also it rules that there are so many trans and queer folks who feel comfortable on here! I am not being silenced!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"
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smbranches.bsky.social @smbranches.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
hi @agdanrayfield.bsky.social would you and your office also be willing to look into something like this bsky.app/profile/mass...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Last time Congress messed with the number of SCOTUS seats wasn’t over mundane policy disputes in normal cases. It was to defend Reconstruction, the settlement of a literal civil war, from any Johnson appointments. It’s not flippant hyperbole when we describe the post-Trump agenda as Reconstruction.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 05/06/2026
"I would move out of the way. I'm built different." You are built like sentient strawberry preservatives and move at the speed of a software update. The fireball would consume you in seconds. Never pour fuel over an open flame.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Don't assume that I don't know how to read merely because I've massively misinterpreted what you wrote. I actually understood it perfectly, I'm just also annoying
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DSA Angletonian Caucus 🇬🇱 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Counterpoint: we should fuck over rural Virginia because it is hitlerite and deserves it
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/04/2026
welcome to deals with donald trump you stupid motherfuckers
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
US media: Escalating tension Real world: bombing US media: A dire ultimatum! Real world: bombing US media: Frenzied diplomacy! Real world: bombing US media: The brink of war!! Real world: bombing US media: CEASEFIRE!!!! Real world: bombing US media: A fragile peace Real world: bombing
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/04/2026
in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When Tuberville says "the enemy is inside the gates" he could be referring to himself in Congress: per the text of the constitution he's a disqualified and ineligible insurrectionist
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Sorry, boss. Can’t come in tomorrow. FBI’s hearin chatter says eye-ran’s gonna shoot a drone right up my ass.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/03/2026
I cannot state it more clearly: I fully intend all the implied contempt for his voters. My contempt for them is boundless.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/01/2026
“everyone I personally hate is in the epstein files” going strong I see
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
PSA: You do not, under any circumstances, fund the Gestapo
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
POV: You're Greg Bovino
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 19/01/2026
everyone posting about Chuck Schumer today is someone who's wishcasted themselves into a world where Congressional minority leadership matters. it doesn't. you are making up a sense of agency so you can blame someone closer to your side than the people actually responsible
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19/01/2026
The way to end all this is for the EU to immediately get hyper-aggressive with sanctioning and tariffing every American they can find. The man has worse approvals than at any point in his prior term plus it’s an election year. It’s all a bluff. Call it!
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 18/01/2026
The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday. The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
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Justice Department says it has no plans to investigate ICE agent who killed Renee Good and confirms Walz, Frey probe
Frey and the governor’s office both said Sunday that the DOJ has not contacted them about the investigation.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
lol scott adams died
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
Jd Vance with headline “Vance: ice agent who killed Renee good protected by absolute immunity”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It really is incredible how many people treat being too stupid to hold the thought “two things can both be bad” in their head as some great badge of moral courage.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen
zooming in on the screen in the background showing OSINTdefender
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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Kimmy W @ghostynewt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣
Screenshot of an email:

Subject: [PIPEXP-1192] Login Access Request
To: me

Good morning Kimberly! =^uwu^=;;

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble logging into Jellyfin! It looks like your SSO account was indeed deactivated on 2025 Dec 15.

According to our records,

1. On or about 2025 Nov 15, you were broken up with by ___, who noted this as a “final break” on vis event report sheet. I’m also seeing that Ve ticked the “Unilateral” box, meaning it isn’t contestable.
2. Our Salesforce shows you aren’t close to any other polycule members

Unfortunately, our solo-poly access policy doesn’t allow us to extend resources to unpartnered members after the 30 day grace period following your break. This includes entertainment resources (Jellyfin / *darr / nzbget / Pornhub for Enterprise™ seat), as well as O365™, Adobe CC™, and shell access on the Nix clusters. We’re so sorry for your loss, cutie!! 😭💜

If you have any questions, you can reply to this email to generate another ticket, or you can contact zzzoeee@ from our Partner Infra team (note: three Zs and three Es in their LDAP, we have a lot of Zoes here!)

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Regards,
   ___ (🏳️‍⚧️she/her, UTC -5)
   Partner Infra Platform Experiences team

As a courtesy, a copy of this email has been sent to your manager listed in Workday™

New name or pronouns? Dating someone new? Just visit go/update-me to update your account!

Include this line in your email to comment on the ticket: 250e084a-b937-47a6-948d-b519112ad35a
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
anyone know how to bust someone out of jail for one last job before retirement
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
at least tomorrow is friday
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 05/11/2025
THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 05/11/2025
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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