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"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
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view profile on Bluesky Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
"If it's not about you, don't make it about you." Exactly this!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you ok?
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh hi!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
They are walkable
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I do not understand why they aren't getting it. We're screaming at them that He's the kind of candidate we want across the DNC and they're ignoring all of it!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I had to look this up as I had no idea what you were talking about... The entire fick is he thinking with that crap? You can't make up a married couple in your head and use them to keep yourself grounded! That's just a whole crap load of unconscious bias and assumptions!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
....I was not expecting that sentence...
Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted
my mom to my kid: have you ever actually dialed a phone? my kid: yeah! I did it in a museum 💀
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Added to my audiobook queue
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
These people don't deserve to wander the streets practically running on instinct at this point, picked up from time to time and taken to a shelter or a hospital only to end up back out on the streets a few hours later. Rinse and repeat until eventually they are found dead from exposure.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
All of this! I also would like to see some kind of state funded conservatorship(with robust oversight of course) for the more extreme cases of individuals that can no longer take care of themselves or have fried their brain/body on drugs that they aren't really aware anymore.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
WTF...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course you can, but being overly skeptical of every single bit of data you come across is a little ridiculous. Especially data that has been held up as accurate from multiple sources for literal decades, like the fact that school/mass shootings in the US and way way higher than any other country.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Regular anal stimulation is good for the prostate and the soul!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Well that's refreshing, good on you for admitting your mistake. So many people don't even attempt to do that I assumed you had just run off.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you have any idea how many women have had to deal with violent reactions from men for saying no/telling them they are wrong, etc? A lot! And it only takes one bad experience like that to make someone feel like they need to be nonconfrontational with all men because you can tell till it's too late
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Many of those guys think they are just being helpful, and get upset when their help is refused or gets a bad reaction, while completely unaware that he's actually the 10th guy that week that's "tried to help" and shes exhausted and just wants to be left alone.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
You need to be aware that most women are "given" unsolicited advice regularly, often daily. Can you imagine how exhausting that would be, how annoying and frustrating? A lot of it is based in the (usually subconscious)misogynistic belief that women are incapable/need help.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
You can be helpful but you have to do it in the proper context and environment and when someone has indicated they are looking for advice. Randomly, and directed towards someone who hasn't indicated they are looking for advice and whom you have no idea how experienced they are, is not cool.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but that little detail doesn't suit his narrative.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh of course. Pretty much anywhere there's affluent, or even just solidly middle class people on a power trip, there's gonna be a NIMBY sentiment. It is still heavily skewed towards the Boomer and older GenX crowd though. Those that grew up, went to school, and bought a house with relative ease.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, and it sometimes has a sexual/attraction component to it.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a cutesy way of saying "oomf" which stands for "one of my friends" or "one of my followers" depending on context. "Oomfies" being the plural, so referring to all followers etc. Gods I feel old 🤦
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh Lord, what did he do now?
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Its gonna vary on the town, city, county, state, region. But, GENERALLY, red states have far less restrictions on building new housing than blue states.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
It was one of the first reddit reviews I happened across, it seemed uninterested in taking sides with either fans or critics because they felt both were completely missing the point. 🤷 Frankly I don't know why I dug into this, I'm not gonna read it 😅
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, he's like a 16 year old teenager, so he's also just a dumb horny dude with too much power fucks up his life and the world. Sounds interesting actually, but I won't be reading it because apparently the author hasn't worked on the series since 2011 and there's only two out of three books?!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, I had to look it up because it was driving me a little crazy(I was bored at work), and it seems that while everything you say is quite accurate, the entire story is better viewed as a Greek tragedy, superhuman dude undone by his own flaws and dogged by the consequences of his actions.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean... I was hooked by this scene, I cackled so loudly I scared the cat!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
It really is!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh... Wait, that's just bad writing, how did these books get such a high rating?
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
How so? I haven't read it yet, but it's been recommended several times.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably this exactly
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
And it's not a positive one. I doubt the people of destroyed HitchBOT did so out of a healthy fear of robots or AI, but rather an irrational fear of anything different, a general lack of intelligence, and because it was fun. I'm sure those same people are now very much into crypto, AI, and Musk.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Personally, I don't think HitchBOT had any nefarious motivations. That doesn't mean other inspired projects by less reputable individuals or corporations are as innocent. I think HitchBOT's success in places like Canada and Europe does say a lot about the US though.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
That's a distinction without a difference. "Declaring war" has a lot of baggage around it, so Congress has found multiple ways of not calling various conflicts wars, at least not officially. It is known as The Korean War, and we were involved, regardless of what Congress called it.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
They keep saying I have an account even though Ive closed it multiple times now!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
😂
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I love that you specify dirty dicks! It's very inclusive of us who like dicks, but clean ones.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
As someone else mentioned, if this was a decision by some CO, it makes the Guard look good while making Trump look stupid and wasteful. Genius move in a bad situation. If it was a decision by Trump or someone in his administration, it still makes him look stupid and wasteful.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
It's called "picking your battles". Regardless of who made this decision it makes Trump look stupid for deploying them and wasting millions in tax payer money while making the national guard look good overall.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
For Target that excuse meant they were actually losing money due to their own ineptitude and lies. They closed several stores "due to theft" even though those stores has some of the lowest theft rates. Probably the same with Kroger, they're bleeding money and trying to cut costs.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Personally, I don't mind blaming celebrities for things. But in this case this has corporate corruption stink and greed all over it.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social)
Omg, leave the poor man alone! He's been through enough! Absolutely disgusting!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
The husband repurposed a foaming Hibiclens soap dispenser so now we have Dr. Bronners in regular and foaming!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
This and anything that makes it to SCOTUS goes in Trump's way for the most part.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think Sanderson would want to anyway.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah, the food companies are gouging the crap out of us. And no one is stopping them because anyone who would has been fired.
Derek B , retired grumpy old git (@technologht.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
How much for nectarines ? Here in Scotland we get them for approx $1 for ten and we don't even grow the damn things , Americans you are getting ripped off bigly
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
There's similar issues with Right labels too. Republicans who don't agree with MAGA or government overreach, or treason. Libertarians who believe in same sex marriage and abortion because they actually care about personal freedom, etc.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
In a similar vein, like @jackbwuzhere.bsky.social says many of these political labels are specific to who's using them. Liberal, Progressive, Leftist, Blue MAGA, etc. They've all been used as broad strokes or to mean different groups of people. It's not really consistent across the spectrum.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Y'all really need to tack down the definition of "Blue MAGA", last I saw it was the label for the far Left that wouldn't fall in line with establishment Dems, not the establishment Dems that won't support rising leaders like Mamdani.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Dipshit is definitely a sexuality one should avoid at all costs!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I was referring to primaries, not general election...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
And this includes many Millennials too.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
And a lot of the dislike towards Biden came from him and the DNC trying to hold onto power when they should have been finding and platforming a replacement. These establishment Dems are wearing thin on the voters. Newsom is an establishment Dem. He's not going to get votes from the younger Dems
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool, thanks for clarifying
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
By trolling blind and vision impaired people who specifically need and use AltText in order to participate with and enjoy social media like everyone else.... Awesome...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Same, about to have 11 months of rugby ahead of me!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
This, he doesn't get my vote for simply doing what should be the bare ficking minimum right now.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
They have bookshelves?
Lindsey Boylan (@lindseyboylan.bsky.social) reposted
Apparently helping crypto bros avoid accountability in a court of law for cash is a cause “near and dear” to Andrew Cuomo’s heart. It actually makes all the sense in the world. www.amny.com/news/cuomo-p...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I.... No... WAR!!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, that reported seemed to have a little bit of trouble keeping a straight face with that question.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
And the unseriousness of our country deepens...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
This, he should have said "we need to educate parents on the science behind transgender healthcare."
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I completely agree, but getting Trump, Republicans, and a good number of Dems to do any of that is incredibly unlikely at this particular moment.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, much like how us here in the US need to stop our leaders, the Israeli people should also be working to stop theirs. Netanyahu is not popular, he's holding power because he and his cronies have gamed the system, not because they are representative of the majority.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd love to see the UN do more, but it lacks a lot of actionable power. They can call Netanyahu a war criminal all day, doesn't mean they can actually stop him, especially with Trump as an ally. Most countries aren't willing to make an enemy of the current administration by talking direct action.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn't say people don't care as much as there's not a lot many of us can do. Palestine is not the only crisis going on right now, and with the US government the way it currently is, us in the US certainly have a lot of our own crap we need to fix before there's political leverage to stop Israel.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
They really have become the monsters their ancestors endured.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I am both horrified and intrigued...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Mainly for the crime of wearing Lululemon, basic, boring, way way overpriced crap fashion.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
In this case, gender, but you're correct about sexual orientation too, no one should be wasting their limited time on this Earth being so concerned about how others express themselves.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
And here's me, completely unaware that was a new Sex and the City...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
You know what this is?!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
This...
Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social) reposted
what a sack of losers
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, the 4th book isn't even out yet, or has a drop date even though goodreads has a ton of "reviews" for it going back to 2019. And the in-between novellas are very very short.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Looked these up, looks incredibly interesting! Unfortunately Audible only has the first three main books even though they all have several thousand reviews. A bit odd more haven't been converted to Audiobook...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social)
@microsoft.com Making some awesome life decisions here... Also, if Grok shows up on my personal or work computers, I'll step up finding a way to replace Windows with a different operating system.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently the organizers have some gender critical sentiments, so I doubt they care.
Patrick Ness (@patricknessbooks.bsky.social) reposted
The Polari Prize issued a statement saying it believes its longlistees can hold “different positions on substantive issues.” This is like long listing a racist with authors of color then telling everyone it’s a mere “different position on a substantive issue”. Trans people are a fact. Not an “issue”
Dr Alfredo Carpineti (@drcarpineti.bsky.social) reposted
Just saw the polari prize statement on their long list. How in 2025 an LGBTQ+ organisation can be defending John Boyne, a transphobe who picked a fight with the Auschwitz Memorial, is beyond me. The bar to be better is near the center of the Earth
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Well there's a mental image I wasn't expecting...
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Personally it's dark mode for me, light mode is just too bright 😎
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Oopsidoodle! 😬
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't get a summer vacation, why should they? They aren't children, they don't get summer vacations, period!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Why the absolute fuck was the school president given a $10 million dollar home to begin with?!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
No one is requiring you to listen to her. You can literally block her and never see a post from her again ever. Unless, you want to see posts by her specifically so you can make your opinion known each and every time? Seems like a waste to let someone live rent free in your head like that.
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
What is even going on today?!
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
🙋🐶
Bryan Al'Meara (@bryanalmeara.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, does that mean cereal is soup?