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owners don't like to be mocked
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
owners don't like to be mocked
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caltrans owns his ass
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
soldiers follow orders, even more than the rest of us. it's their whole thing. there is no evidence i've ever seen that they will refuse to follow an illegal order, and we should have no such expectation.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
when I have a nightmare I often will wake up and consciously finish the dream with a happy ending. so in this case, feel the eyeball-slime under your fingernails, and hear the jury doing a nullification.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah that's an objective cutie.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
there are flavors.
Terry Taplin (@taplinterry.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
When they eliminated dairy, they saw a 75% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. If you ever wondered how chocolate could be even better, this is how!
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
balance reads like status quo. is balance status quo?
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
omg the waldos when
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
follow courtney milan for a better breakdown
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I recommend you pave everything and let the cars roam free. Your medieval walking fetish is totally sus.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
dak is great.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
control your body. or risk the penalty. it's fine.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
ptooie
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
i'm seeing ten year olds act like total assholes. i dunno, man.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
too late too soon
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
spoiler alert: it's a woman* *niven joke, probably
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
thanks, i didn't know there were earlier louis wu stories!
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the inline 4 is strong with this one
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
first all, good point. he's clearly less qualified by orders of magnitude. a thing to work on: this kind of credentialism can come off as elitist and dismissive. and: you're doing great work out there. stay frosty.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
let right be done
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cities are just the bits of nonsense that get between the end points of a suburban commuter's drive we live in their parking spaces
Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social) reposted
Watching this strangely insightful documentary/commentary on Joe Rogan and his comedy cult, thinking: we seem to be living in a time of cultlike devotion to celebrities/influencers mediated by new and social media, a kind of parasocial cult culture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know the answer to this but I do know this: I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR is the best song anybody ever did without their lead singer singing
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need more dems like this
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
juicy nug orlando bloom catching strays
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your posts are great and they make my day better
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
sump pump is joy machine
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
that's a labraweevil. big one, if i'm any judge.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the scriptwriters realized we were tuning out the middle act so they threw in a curveball
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
michael parsons as a packer. whodathunkit?
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the call is coming from inside the computer
Hyperlexic (@hyperlexic.bsky.social) reposted
Business reporting is always pretty direct about what’s happening with rents and why. Headline: vacancy in SF declined from 6.3% to 5%, and rents increased by 8-16% depending on unit size. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
he's two seconds from retweeting the protocols
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't like what you have to say and will make it go away
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
that turned out to be the primary value of social media, so the wouldn't be a surprise.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
he's quite clumsy at hiding his huge thirst for tech oligarch service. there is no democrat i trust less.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the accent thing seems very english. there are so many and they are so highly localized. americans are almost all just very chewy. i love to guess at english accents. if i don't know it ill just say "east midlands" because that seems nice.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
my grandmother came to seattle by way of berlin and paris, and my mother was an unconscious accent chameleon. fitting in is a core human instinct.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
I went right back to Deep Rock Galactic
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
but also really that game was too nerve wracking. I don't have the stomach for decompression puzzles.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah I had no interest in risking my cushy cutter gig for the sake of space communism. just let me do debt-peonage in peace, stop putting encrypted messages in my comms.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like we live in the deadpool moral universe
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
is this the one in space? that was so nerve wracking. and management was awful.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
lol these are the presentient emotions of a true merseysider
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
imma frame this and hang it in the aft stateroom
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
but are you blue or red, is what matters i'm spursy, if it helps
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
that was good solidarity and I'd never take the piss on a manc i'm just sick of extraction and exploitation and the arms-length jurisdictional nonsense we do to keep the benefits without paying the costs
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
once upon a time there was a colony of english folks using slaves to grow cotton for the manchester mills. oh hey that's where I live, in the english slave colony.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
don't ask don't get
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
you've got it right though. it's not that the US is done, but this will be a long period of instability AT BEST, and if you're preparing for the best case then you're not doing your job.
Councilmember Nithya Raman (@cd4losangeles.bsky.social) reposted
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah i remember thinking the metro in amsterdam seemed irrelevant. and then it spat cold rain and i became a trog.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not sure I actually agree with anything you wrote here, but your confidence is admirable.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the robot didn't "do" anything and it's not a robot it's a loaded gun
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
sure, they were kids but not the good kind
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amsterdam? cairo?
Charles Gaba (@charlesgaba.com) reposted
I’ve seen the future of America: Blue urban areas: Non-white people being terrorized, arrested, put in concentration camps & disappeared Red rural areas: White people getting sick & dying at triple the rate they already are due to no hospitals/medical providers & their refusal to get vaccinated.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
if it keeps arch out of nawlins i'm all for it
Asa Dotzler (@asadotzler.com) reposted
Replacing laptop barrel jack charging connectors with USB-C is terrible. USB-C ports have 24 fragile pins often with little mechanical support, while barrel jacks have only 2 or 3 usually well anchored connections. And when a barrel jack fails, it's an easy fix while USB-C is often more involved.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
soon a democrat will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
will the dems finally learn how to get their knives out?
Darrell Owens (@idothethinking.bsky.social) reposted
NYT released a new tool showing how blue states thanks to the housing shortage will lose their congressional seats to red states and eliminate whats left of "the blue wall." Therefore, Im making this post free. The issue is too important not to understand, especially as SB 79 comes up to vote soon.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
they gonna fuck us again?
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
"I aff been at zees beezness longue enuff to know zat yew are ze keeler" "may I inquire as to how, monsieur?" "eet is always zat personne ou mistakes me for un homme de france." "ah, I see. pip pip, off to bedlam then."
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
haves vs have-nots is the original spectrum
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the word copaganda first came out of my mouth the first time I cracked open my boy's paw patrol tome at bedtime what is this execrable fecus I exclaimed. this is total copaganda I don't think fecus is a word he said shut your fecus hole I replied
Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
is that a hoopoe?
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
name a name
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social)
it's not stupidity if you change your mind very very slowly
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that's an unpleasant addition to my world
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
i'm cremasterbatin over here
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
this take sucks and blows
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
my god. the scanner commentariat is horrifying.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
you idiots. there are two parties, fascists and not-fascists. pick a fucking side.
🦫 Libby Lee-Egan 🦫 (@libbington.bsky.social) reposted
Unfortunately the draft bike plan for Berkeley is woefully inadequate for delivering bikeable streets for all ages and abilities. It needs serious help and we need to speak up. Read this op ed and email comments to bicycleplan@berkeleyca.gov www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/08/19/t...
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
why did you make me watch this?
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social)
ah, orin, smart boy and still a useless fuck
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
as kids we get immersed in our colonial history
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
always was
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that's my boutique!
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
two jews three opinions
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our continued survival is a daily miracle paradise awaits the flood everything ends in bunny poop
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i will be following this closely
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gnolls! bugbears! hobgoblins! hmm
Ted McCormick (@tedmccormick.bsky.social) reposted
asking the non-sentient sentence generator that uses sentient authors’ works without their consent if it consents to you using a pastiche of others’ work that you commanded it to produce is some of the highest decoupling I have seen Lo these many years
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
sandhill road has selected ro khanna as their next vessel, thereby fulfilling his lifelong dream of lying in the service of powerful men
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
first swing that hurt me to see
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
tall handsome gritsters can't be kept down
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the aba sees the shape of the coming marketplace and performs its primary function, which is to protect the wages and status of its members by reducing the number of new attorneys.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
the gift is given to the giver
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
against all the odds, daniel jones is finding a way. i've never seen a man overcome so much adversity.
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
teacher, why constitution?
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
that's a great way to describe it I feel like roger thought it was part of his job to figure out how to like the movie not robocop II, but... yeah
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
Rog and Gene were so taken with Yoakam in that movie
D.A. Rosenthal (@darosenthal.bsky.social) reply parent
FFs wanted to protect their slaves from parliamentary emancipation. And yes, some also had high ideals re liberty and whatnot. But they certainly gave rural white folks every bit of a chance.
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the magic box solves all