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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oswego has shown that ACAB includes firefighters.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three years wed to @thecunningwif.bsky.social today. Time could stand to slow down, some.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To this day, my father still hasn't visited my life I've been trying to build down here.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In another time, Ed Sheerin would do the honorable thing and fall on a sword.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My employment was threatened today because of my attitudes towards AI ("I do not respect anyone who uses ChatGPT"). Said (by someone who isn't in that position but thinks he is) that companies are "firing people because it's cheaper to use AI"

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lang hate rally-turned-march is attempting to get as close as possible to the 9/11 memorial event, with NYPD orange netting leading the march.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disappointed by the patch I received from an indie press. Not even a semi-decently embroidered one, but one seemingly printed on material. Glad to support independent writers and an independent, anti-AI press that is promoting them, but man.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Boston + Backwoods Boston + New York is apparently Connecticut?

My dialect map where they claim I talk like someone from Connecticut.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Requested my mail-in ballot for November's election last night. Thinking I may hold off on sending it in and just dropping it off in person to guarantee it gets there. I don't think electoralism really matters much, but I definitely hate Ben Cline enough to try.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't know, if you have to telegraph your lack of concern over things, preemptively, it seems like you might be kind of concerned.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Motorcycle helmet calling to me like the goddamn Green Goblin mask.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 02/09/2026

The worst thing white people ever did was infect the world with the idea that solidarity is transactional and that you should only support another's struggle for rights and equality if it's reciprocal or you get something in return. That turns human rights into a barter system.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've turned about 18lbs of tomatoes into 15 quarts of salsa so far.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

All I grew this year were San Marzanos. A great sauce tomato, not a great salsa tomato. I'm making salsa with it, anyway.

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And just because I'm feeling petty, I want to say it is real grand that during ICE's most horrifically successful summer, No Kings has done absolutely nothing this entire time. No marches. No events. Nothing. All they have now is a landing page vaguely encouraging voting and a email sign up.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ah, that's the knife twist I was expecting. Thank you sir, can I have another?

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The irony of Spotify requiring a test to check that its users are human while filling up with AI slop and hopping on the AI train is beyond amusing.

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#ArtefactSunday - The Minerva Bowl, a silver cup from the Hildesheim Treasure, the largest collection of Roman silver found outside the Roman provinces, 1st century BC - 1st century AD (Augustan period). Altes Museum, Berlin.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Talking about an egregiously tall (6'8") 22 year old coworker to my wife. Her response was "He's going to need a MASSIVE casket when he dies." Just funeral director spouse things, I suppose.

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Who is scoundrel enough to really lament the death of such a beast?” After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, Johann Most wrote this article, which earned him a year and a half in an English prison. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joha...

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Long live tyrannicide!

Johann Most Long live tyrannicide! 1881 Leading article in the “Freiheit” Vol.III (1881), No. 12 (March 19), p. 1, edited by Most, under the title:...

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have a chicken named Abrahamikan who I can control because he's a dinosaur.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"You can call us the Detention Squad. We're like the Breakfast Club of superheroes."

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My cats aren't pets, they're the bridge crew of this ship that had an unfortunate transporter accident.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Stepson: Bro, white Monster is so good. Me, after a pause: I know what kind of man you are.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Severe "shelter in place" weather last night. Downed limbs and unfortunately one destroyed tomato plant (my best looking one, naturally) and probably others. Some of my shade cloth has been torn, as well. I've got two bags of green tomatoes salvaged from the plants sitting on the kitchen floor.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/08/2026

This is unironically - and astonishingly almost verbatim - Gul Dukat's genocidal rant against the Bajorans in the Deep Space Nine episode "Waltz."

There is a persistent idea in certain circles that if Israel improved living conditions for Palestinians – more jobs, better infrastructure, freer movement, greater economic opportunity – the violence would fade.

Treat them kindly, the argument goes, and they will eventually come around to peace. A heavy hand, by contrast, only breeds resentment and fuels more attacks. This sounds compassionate on the surface, but it is also deeply flawed, and the evidence against it has piled up for generations.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My wife determined that Titus Pullo, our 13 year old sable Burmese, "deserved the princess treatment" and fed him his food in our bed. And then I went to pet him because he is a good cat, only to have him smell the tinned salmon from my supper on my fingers.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

GRRM dealing with depression at his life? I guess he's finally a 'real writer' now.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/08/2026

It keeps getting hotter. Forest fires are spreading, people are dying in heat waves, but the millionaires and billionaires who control most of the wealth in our society keep digging us deeper into this disaster. They are murdering the future. It's time to fight back. crimethinc.com/posters/merc...

A poster reading:

Mercenaries forcing the end of the world on us.

They are murdering the future. Don’t let them get away with it.

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The Don Hertzfeldt Collection @donhertzfeldtfilms.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🥄Out now on @dropout.tv - The Don Hertzfeldt Collection!

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I do miss that sliver of time where Pagan-on-Pagan drama resulted in intellectual debates and tracts trying to one-up each other. Now it's all character assassinations by flunkies, then it was lengthy tirades vaguely insinuating the other was some kind of toxic individualist.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My wife and I both love(d) hiking, but COVID changed that (famously, both post-Biden's election, so spare me your Fauci glazing). She's now chronically ill with an auto-inflammatory disease, and I have scarring on my lungs.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So wait, do liberals dislike Rand Paul again because he's (still) going after Fauci or what?

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Rain moved out of my area a couple days ago, though it was cool and overcast, so I didn't water. With temperatures pushing into the upper 80s and low 90s again for the foreseeable future I went out to tend my wee garden this evening. Mosquitos everywhere.

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yup. Google pushed out an update earlier this year that makes it so the phone doesn't "ring" when it's on vibrate-only notification mode, it treats it like "silent". But it will very helpfully buzz after the fact to let you know that you (it) missed a call.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Neo-fascism, neo-imperialism – these terms are not radical enough to name the situation that already defines us. Only planetary vision will be adequate for perceiving the world we now inhabit together."

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Planetary Politics Now

The meteoric speed with which planetary realities expose themselves today is education-by-shock. These realities demand attention, recasting the meaning of materialist determinism. On the surface, in…

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thelettuceman (he/him) @usurpedlettuce.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

True story: My grandmother, when serving as a 2nd Lt. in North Africa, received a requisition request for nurses in bathing suits with wine in order to "make five lonesome Non-Coms happy". She denied it because of a certain Lt. Col. who kept reporting nurses for going out on dates with enlisted men

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