cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s clearly dying (he doesn’t look well) but he’s not imminently dying. We’re talking death within the next 1-2 years versus death by the end of Labor Day weekend.
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He’s clearly dying (he doesn’t look well) but he’s not imminently dying. We’re talking death within the next 1-2 years versus death by the end of Labor Day weekend.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
No dick, just lots and lots of boats/naval warfare
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s lots you can do with a data plan that you can’t do with a laptop/Chromebook connected to school wifi
Daniel Carlson (@danielwcarlson.bsky.social) reposted
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Dante Atkins (@danteatkins.bsky.social) reposted
Conservative men alternate between "YEAH BRO SECOND CIVIL WAR MOLON LABE BITCH COME GET SOME" and "when I drive through the city I don't wear my seat belt just in case I have to bail out if a Black person gets too close" and these things are usually within 10 minutes of each other
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Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) reposted
so much respect for cupe and air canada flight attendants. air canada can have planes back in the skies tomorrow, all they have to do is pay their workers fairly.
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
People loudly jeering these unidentified federal agents. "You're not helping anyone!" "How much overtime are you getting paid to do nothing!" "Boooo!"
Community Bikeways - TCBC (@bikewaysto.bsky.social) reposted
July 25 marks one year since the tragic death of a young woman on Bloor St near Avenue Rd. But little has changed to address illegal blocking of bikelanes by cars. Community Bikeways & Bloor Annex BIA proposed a pilot project for action. Still waiting for a response drive.google.com/file/d/1o9vy...
Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) reposted
During the election campaign, Mark Carney pledged to increase the CBC’s budget by $150 million dollars a year. Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social)
Transgender and bisexual identities have outlived every regime that tried to eliminate them. Tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ people did not, through both state action and state inaction. We don’t all make it to the other side.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
This is my burden 😭
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
See this is why it’s important to know where your faults lie. My lack of romantic success is 70% my personal failings and 30% “have you seen what’s out there.”
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Day trading *is* online gambling but with stocks
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Every yoga studio needs to add this guy to their Do Not Admit list
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
There are children involved who literally have no say as to where they were born and how their neighbours voted.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
What if I don’t have a zip code because I live in a country with postal codes?
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
He was never a liberal or a leftist. He was apathetic towards politics until he looked at his demographics and realize where the wind was blowing. Joe Rogan’s greatest talent has always been being a gullible moron. His mind was so open it fell out of his skull.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the correct older sibling energy
Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted
one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory" it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Is the plan to turn everything over to Elon, with his terrific record of explosions?
Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) reposted
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
There was one chat leaked. Assume there are more with the same actors sans journalists. Also assume that Iran and its proxies already have access to those chats and aren’t revealing their use. It takes one cabinet secretary or staffer to fall for a spoofed text or email.
Adam Weinstein (@adamweinstein.bsky.social) reposted
Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social) reposted
if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Spit is probably one of the more pleasant bodily fluids that could contaminate their food and lodgings
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Not Liz Bruenig because she’s. *good* woman who got married to her high school boyfriend. Bad things only happen to *those* women who have sex with more than one person and have babies after 25.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
St Augustine has some of the worst fans
Reza H. Akbari (@rezahakbari.bsky.social) reposted
For those who think evacuating Tehran is possible based on #Israel’s warnings, which are nothing but a performative act. It would take weeks if not months to evacuate Tehran. What’s represented here doesn’t even come close to capturing the full size of #Iran’s capital city.
Evan Greer (@evangreer.bsky.social) reposted
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
Like 11 million people perfectly capable of marching and yelling a bunch without anything violent happening until the most consistently terrified people on the planet (cops) decide to start shit
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social)
Once again begging for a decade where weeks happen instead of a week where decades happen
joemag (@joemag.games) reposted
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted
folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff -Water for tear gas -sudecon wipes for mace -if no sudecon, wash mace with water
muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted
Every 7.5 minutes, an American man thinks about the Roman Empire. Albeit now with an increasingly dreadful sense of recognition.
Cowboy Carter Vegas Night 2 🤭 (@neau.blacksky.app) reposted
My maternal grandmother’s grandfather was 14 when slavery ended… the past is very very close indeed.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
1776
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
As a scientist did he ever ask for empirical evidence like a valid driver’s licence? Or did he simply take these “19 to 23” year old women at their word?
Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) reposted
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Jack Halberstam said as much in Female Masculinity. He was targeted by airport security for using women’s restrooms when he still identified as a butch woman. Anyone who doesn’t neatly fit into the gender binary is policed and attacked. More androgynous cis women get targeted than trans women.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
molly conger (@socialistdogmom.bsky.social) reposted
the womanhood imagined by transphobes is a prison
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I was hoping she didn’t actually fuck him but alas 🤢
Varun (@mangoman.bsky.social) reposted
This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken
Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) reposted
The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m beginning to understand why my nonna looked down on Southern Italians
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Both Italy and France have a north versus south butter/olive oil divide. My mom was born in the Dolomites, her cooking always leans heavily towards using butter as a fat rather than olive oil. I’ll even see her substitute some of the olive oil in a recipe for butter for the added flavour.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s more like a marinade really. You rub them up real good and let them dry age.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Same here, kitty
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Canadian performer visas are expensive and you would need more than 1-2 shows in each city to break even on visa fees, air travel and lodging—even with additional livestream revenue.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Your friends and family members are participants in and guests of your wedding. You pay a professional to take consistent photos that are well lit, capture the key points and include everything (and everyone) that needs to be photographed. If you pay for anything it should be photos.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I taste the difference between homemade lasagne sheets and storebought pasta but I honestly do not taste the difference between oven ready, fresh and the “need to boil” variety. All are great options for a weeknight meal!
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely not especially if you’re a dissident. You cannot guarantee chain of custody, you have no idea what happens between shipping and arrival.
evy kwong (@evystadium.bsky.social) reposted
new @wired.com guide, especially as crossing into the US gets more dangerous for your digital privacy. steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s wild that fans of the “keep fighting to protect oppressed people in the face of evil even when the adults around you tell you you’re wrong” books keep fighting to protect oppressed people in the face of evil
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Soccer mom SUVs are plenty deadly as they are. Pedestrian fatalities reached a nadir in 2009 and then steadily rose again as the share of large vehicle sales rapidly increased.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Elon and his Tesla designers absolutely see Oakland (which surrounds the affluent enclave of Piedmont) as a war zone.
Matthew Facciani (@matthewfacciani.bsky.social) reposted
Not enough people realize how devastating it is for scientists to suddenly lose their funding. NIH and federal grants are highly competitive and are a huge boost to a scientific career. When funding is revoked, not only does the research halt, but salaries disappear, and livelihoods are upended.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
He owns several country clubs and has an upscale French restaurant as a tenant. How has he not realized this would hurt *his* bottom line?
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m nominally a Christian (raised in the Catholic Church, split away as an adult) and I become the world’s biggest bitch if someone tries to proselytize me. I don’t want that shit and I especially don’t want to join a faith that aims to convert in lieu of humbly doing good works.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
We should bully him into being the first pilot on a manned SpaceX launch
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I speak French as a second language and figured he was using costume as a Ukrainian would use it (for suit) and not as English speakers would use it (as an outfit for make believe)
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait are you telling me this guy isn’t actually an expert woodworker with blue collar credentials?!
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Those patients have already been through war, they don’t need to see this!
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s tons of women who crave male approval and hate other women. Same thing with Black people who will excise their community for proximity to whiteness.
Clarence Okoh (@clarenceokoh.bsky.social) reposted
An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Kim’s lawyers should have a bot that keeps a record of every social media post he makes before he can dirty delete them
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
When you see a conservative influencer calling the Kendrick performance a DEI thing it’s worth keeping in mind just how many conservative influencers are failed screenwriters/stand ups/filmmakers who only understand any form of art through a lens of spite
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
They liked the one where Janet’s breasts were exposed without her consent…and the follow up when they had Paul McCartney on stage forty years past his prime
Chris Jackson (@chriscjackson.bsky.social) reposted
Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
We just needed Riri there
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Serena’s the most famous woman to hail from Compton (Kendrick’s hometown) AND she used to date Drake so it’s extra hating
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
The Drizz has rizz
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
To cut Musk’s personal tax burden. He only cares about his own needs.
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
This is what convinced me they’re going to intentionally crash the economy. They said it out loud several times.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
My mom was a RN and taught me how to do hospital corners while we were on vacation
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
The NYT does good reporting despite itself. It also does some absolutely horrendous reporting (basically anything they’ve ever done on transgender children) and employs dodos on its opinions page and editorial board.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn’t post about my decision not to circumcise but I’m on board with that one. Putting your child through a wholly cosmetic surgery because you don’t want to teach them to wash themselves when you’re older is a strange American obsession.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s tetanus time!!
Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) reposted
Oh, and if you've never watched Anita Bryant taking a pie, tonight's the night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tHG...
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came *after* the attack. It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king (@raxkingisdead.bsky.social) reposted
have you guys ever noticed that most things are super annoying except when i do them, and then they’re winsome and adorable? like what are the odds
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
They performed in Tel Aviv in 2017 in defiance of calls to join the BDS movement and Thom Yorke got into it with a pro-Palestine heckler in October. The band never shied away from politics and activism in the past but they are resolutely silent on Palestine. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Were they fed raw milk or kefir made with raw milk? I would never feed my dog or myself any unpasteurized milk product but I thought kefir is better tolerated (at least by dogs) and the probiotics are beneficial. I personally stick to Fortiflora but my girl gets some kefir on occasion.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not on Bret’s author page but it’s on the NYT opinions page
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to figure out which one of them has a bigger body count
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought it was real and then fake but it’s real 😭 Still not reading it unless someone posts screenshots because I don’t click on Bret Stephens rage bait
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social)
@ifbookspod.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social We have a last minute contender for Worst Take of 2024
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
At the very least she should sue her assailant for the harm he caused to her body…right? Surely she’ll be willing to confirm this under oath with expert witness testimony.
unraveled (@unraveledpress.com) reposted
There are way too many people sharing fake screenshots and a (likely) fake manifesto right now. This is why we stick to horny jokes, people
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
They probably dealt with UnitedHealthcare themselves
onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted
i had no idea that a guy informed by joe rogan and peter theil and lindyman would have completely incoherent politics and willing to kill over them
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
He probably had to fight for the surgery and any other treatment that would alleviate his chronic pain. UHC denies one in three claims and many of them are profit-motivated automatic denials. That’s a lot of bureaucratic fighting for anyone with a chronic condition.
Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted
All the ableds saying “oh well the shooter is rich so he could obviously afford insurance” is an “oh my sweet summer child” moment from chronic pain sufferers.
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social)
His GoodReads shelf took me back to being 20 and going on a first date with a CS major
cedarsmoke.bsky.social (@cedarsmoke.bsky.social) reply parent
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