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R. Mel

@cadystat.bsky.social

Just a prole asking a prole to prole them.

created January 22, 2025

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Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I know it as the bang bang bang song. Probably not the name.

2/9/2025, 3:24:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I will be watching Thunderheart.

1/9/2025, 11:29:40 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Digital munchausen is not something I ever considered.

1/9/2025, 10:43:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes yes they are the same. I get it Atlantic.

1/9/2025, 10:10:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Who the fuck is Nate Silver?

1/9/2025, 10:08:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Crystal Fincher (@finchfrii.bsky.social) reposted

This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush

1/9/2025, 6:54:19 PM | 263 151 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yes, finally got a Tom quote post. Knew it would happen one day. Don’t worry Tom it was a dig at the other person too. Fighting about fights is what we all do best now. And I’m not blocking or deleting this post. I might actually frame it.

1/9/2025, 6:19:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

There are two types of Americans. Those that care about democracy and those that fight about fights.

1/9/2025, 6:01:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does the hat color keep changing every time I see this pic?

1/9/2025, 4:54:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

And independents prove to be as principled as farts in the wind.

1/9/2025, 4:49:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Today, on Labor Day, I think about the VCs that bough my company, that fucked up by over borrowing, and instead of eating the profit loss, fired a bunch of workers that showed up everyday for shit pay and made them more rich. I think about them and I think about what trash you must be to be a VC.

1/9/2025, 4:17:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/luca...

1/9/2025, 4:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I bought a container of store made potato salad from its deli and it cost 16 dollars. Yeah. That happened.

1/9/2025, 4:03:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s time.

1/9/2025, 4:01:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Love of my life right here.

1/9/2025, 3:52:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I think were about to see a lot of centrist own up to actually being conservatives and switching parties.

1/9/2025, 3:10:52 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

bsky.app/profile/luca...

1/9/2025, 2:57:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bsky.app/profile/luca...

1/9/2025, 2:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Best day of my life right here. 🤣

1/9/2025, 2:50:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, the irony of being the worst colonizers in modern history and complaining about all the foreigners you brought over yourselves.

1/9/2025, 2:45:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Gonna share this on social media with no shame.

1/9/2025, 2:15:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jimmy Reid Foundation (@reidfoundation.bsky.social) reposted

How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail. Built alongside the city’s recycling centre, it includes a dedicated drop-off point called The Return, where residents donate unwanted items. theconversation.com/how-swedens-...

1/9/2025, 5:54:35 AM | 843 223 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Totally invisible. 😂

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1/9/2025, 5:48:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Who is that?

1/9/2025, 5:44:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Prison tattoo artists.

1/9/2025, 5:43:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NurseGenius (@nursegenius1019.bsky.social) reposted

So great. Please make Congress watch this

31/8/2025, 11:14:35 PM | 29 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Does look good snd it’s inspiring me to make a portobello mushroom version for us veggies.

1/9/2025, 4:00:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

How every dem isn’t screaming for this baffles me unless they are in in it too.

1/9/2025, 3:40:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social) reposted

Billionaire AI founders when they invent AGI and ask it the solution to humanity’s problems, and it responds tax them at higher rates.

31/8/2025, 7:28:35 PM | 150 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I totally have been buying dvds. Fuck streaming.

1/9/2025, 2:12:13 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀 (@extremebeautylv.bsky.social) reposted

IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!

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1/9/2025, 12:34:29 AM | 28705 5474 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like this white lady needs to buy some Jordans.

31/8/2025, 11:14:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK Jr

31/8/2025, 11:12:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted

Mainstream Media isn’t reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump

30/8/2025, 11:31:12 PM | 1072 678 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Transgender people pay taxes and are afforded the same level of rights under the law as anybody whether you like them or not. This is not complicated.

31/8/2025, 9:59:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

The death of centrists has begun. The reality is the right pulled everything so far right centrist liberals have basically become republican lite and unpalatable to the liberals. If they really want the DNC to survive, they’d handover the reigns to progressives and focus on ending citizens united.

31/8/2025, 4:41:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.

31/8/2025, 3:43:29 PM | 668 147 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

I would just once love to see someone ask these guys, “do trans people pay taxes?”

31/8/2025, 2:52:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 💉Josh Rubin, MD 🩺 (@drsandman11.medsky.social) reposted

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme
27/8/2025, 3:14:51 PM | 12034 3180 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s quite the belly 😹

31/8/2025, 2:26:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

An apartment complex. A headline reads:
30/8/2025, 10:05:35 PM | 6324 1582 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll take all of them. Thanks

31/8/2025, 1:03:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.

Miners at the end of their shift Gilded Age
30/8/2025, 4:22:51 PM | 339 212 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Lots of blocks today lol

30/8/2025, 8:32:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Blah blah blah Lisa!

30/8/2025, 7:28:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Not in Denver but bought a bottle of champagne.

30/8/2025, 7:05:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.

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30/8/2025, 10:24:22 AM | 6202 2316 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

If you ever wonder how voters have no idea what’s going on, go camping for a week with no service. It’s way easier than you think. They won’t have any idea until the fire is outside their tent.

30/8/2025, 5:47:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Marc

30/8/2025, 5:43:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

True story, my mom said she hopes she out lives him and I said I want that for both my parents🤞

30/8/2025, 5:42:04 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m mostly looking forward to the Europeans steamrolling Vance so bad he goes back to Appalachia and starts selling subprime mortgages to his cousins.

30/8/2025, 5:39:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I like this take.

30/8/2025, 4:47:43 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking Caitlin Collins 🙄 Really? Really! Caitlin!

30/8/2025, 4:47:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

Reminder that the US Trump regime conspired to over throw Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a direct attack on democracy in Ukraine and worldwide.

29/8/2025, 12:19:29 PM | 1563 526 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Seems like Repubs are holding town halls to test the waters. Pretty sure lot of them will “retire”.

30/8/2025, 2:51:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

I was a beach naturalist. I loved it so much and found it so fascinating, I went back to school for a second degree in science. I quit my job with benefits, moved, started over and chased a dream because I am a free person in America. Trump’s destruction of freedom is coming in many forms. #resists

30/8/2025, 12:58:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

The goal is to kill us all for biofuel

30/8/2025, 12:06:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Again Mark, we are walking into the end of democracy as we know it. Only rich people are oblivious to it or complicit with it. Everyone else is losing their minds from anxiety. Look at the state of the world, not your comments.

30/8/2025, 12:03:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Tech companies do not care about your kids and are run by infantile idiots that want money and fame.

29/8/2025, 11:26:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

If there is an easier way to identify a dying culture than this, please let me know

29/8/2025, 11:24:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Ott, Author (@bubba687.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 12:13:54 AM | 2380 1143 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Something is off.

25/8/2025, 3:39:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 3:36:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 2:54:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem is the Dems no longer represent liberalism which is never center.

25/8/2025, 2:36:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) reposted

Carlos Roberto Montoya, a 52-year-old father and grandfather from Guatemala, died while attempting to escape an immigration raid in California last week. “We want people to remember my dad in the same way we will remember him: as a loving, respectful, brave man.”

25/8/2025, 2:01:01 AM | 539 232 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

All the cockroaches are scrambling for a cool dark place.

25/8/2025, 1:52:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Journalist used to get fired for lying. Then they started calling lies opinions and it lit the newspaper used to burn down democracy.

25/8/2025, 1:51:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Just like middle class white women were scared to listen to hip hop.

25/8/2025, 1:33:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance

23/8/2025, 8:56:19 PM | 11099 2952 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

He kind of looks like the guy from Georgia..maybe Republicans will get confused and vote for him. wnegradio.com/wp-content/u...

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25/8/2025, 1:14:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

I fear the men in this country are about to lose their minds and a lot of innocent children will be hurt in the mix of their failures.

25/8/2025, 1:11:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Even so, media should be going as hard at him for these age related issue as Biden’s spin arthritis.

25/8/2025, 1:06:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

I honestly thought 0 people would do this. Something is happening.

24/8/2025, 11:25:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, really wish people had used Refund the Police instead of Defund the Police back in the day. Would of been way more effective.

24/8/2025, 11:24:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahaha! Everyone tried playing nice with Hitler in the beginning and look how that worked. Learning from history is a good thing. Fascists thrive in the space you give them. You give them no space. Mark, you rich people need to change course and quick because honestly, poor people are about to rage.

24/8/2025, 11:18:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

23/8/2025, 11:31:03 PM | 25120 7246 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s so sad 😔

24/8/2025, 2:04:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

We like you George ❤️

24/8/2025, 3:41:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I think I’ve had a run in with that person before too…

24/8/2025, 3:38:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus you want some human empathy attached to this so we remain aware of its existence and can speak to our human experience fighting it. Otherwise I fear we return to a time of not thinking it’s that big of a deal.

23/8/2025, 6:21:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I actually work in a similar space to content moderation. You want human eyes on this stuff because, there is context that can be missed by robots. Fully replacing would be a mistake. Using it as a tool to focus the content search and identify quicker should be the goal.

23/8/2025, 6:21:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Have fun shopping.

23/8/2025, 5:39:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Let’s be clear about what’s really going on over at Target. They’re playing us. The current CEO, will “step down,” but he’s moving up to exec chair of the Board of Directors. That’s rewarding his failure. The new CEO, is the current COO & has been w/Target for 20 years. Nothing’s really changing.

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Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Watched Resistance: They Fought Back on @pbs.org last night. The message I took away is to remember #resistance looks like many things and recording our experience is imperative. #resist #freespeech #neveragain

23/8/2025, 5:33:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok

23/8/2025, 5:28:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s buying rugs every year.

23/8/2025, 5:22:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

My statement stands it absolutely sounds like you are buying new rugs every year and if you don’t want random people commenting in a social media site it might be a good idea to change your settings.

23/8/2025, 5:22:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

And quit honestly it means they aren’t expensive enough. www.euronews.com/green/2024/0...

23/8/2025, 4:09:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh my god fast home decor is out of control. You should not be buying a new rug every year. You are bad with your money if you do.

23/8/2025, 4:08:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

Watched Resistance: They Fought Back on @pbs.org last night. The message I took away is to remember #resistance looks like many things and recording our experience is imperative. #resist #freespeech #neveragain

23/8/2025, 4:03:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Not her. The ICE agents.

23/8/2025, 2:04:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social)

The world is contracting. Our allies will isolate to protect themselves and they should. Our country is no longer united. We will need a new name when this is done. #godsavetheUSA

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Freethinkers United (@freethinkersunited.bsky.social) reposted

youtu.be/Qv_CLGAcaPw

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Profile picture Robert Cruickshank (@robertcruickshank.com) reposted

This video should be Exhibit A in the crimes against humanity trial for every government agent standing there in that video - and the people in positions of authority, from Trump on down, who ordered them to do it.

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Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve got faces do we have names yet?

23/8/2025, 1:18:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I kind of wish I could come back in 80 years just to see how the history books describe this time.

23/8/2025, 1:03:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m hoping it turns in to another embarrassment for him.

22/8/2025, 10:02:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture R. Mel (@cadystat.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump wants to think he can so all his cronies will do what they can to make the hallucination come to life. I have no faith they won’t try. Doesn’t matter if he can’t.

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