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Edward James Almost

@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social

SGFMO. Application development, math, music, podcasting, Star Trek, Linux, general curmudgeon. Friend of DeSoto. #GoBills #LetsGoBuffalo

created August 8, 2023

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Profile picture OlderGeeks.com (@oldergeeks.bsky.social) reposted

Don't be shy now. If ya see something special, go ahead and git it. 🤠 Today's list of free software from OlderGeeks.com Missouri Ozarks, USA No ads - no crapware - no b.s. since 2008! #FreeSoftware #computers #software

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2/9/2025, 12:45:57 PM | 2 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Exhuming McCarthy goes hard

2/9/2025, 12:12:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

There isn’t enough social opprobrium for vocal Trump supporters in particular and GOO generally. I don’t care if it isn’t effective or causes some to dig in further, they are marching under a banner of cruelty and violence and ignorance and it can’t be left unaddressed

1/9/2025, 7:39:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Without question Burlison is an order of magnitude worse.

1/9/2025, 7:18:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture OlderGeeks.com (@oldergeeks.bsky.social) reposted

CopyWin v4.59 A free, portable tool that mirrors your Windows drive with all files and programs to a second drive, a USB stick or MicroSD card. www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/fi... #computing

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1/9/2025, 6:12:20 PM | 0 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Star Trek Minus Context (@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social) reposted

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
1/9/2025, 3:00:58 PM | 5199 2183 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JAVL (@javl.bsky.social) reposted

Sean Aloysius O'Brien, "He was more than a hero, he was a union man." Happy Labor Day!

1/9/2025, 2:46:44 PM | 3 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seven of Sixty Nine (@internetperson69.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡

Screenshot from Star Trek DS9. Leeta, Rom, and the rest of the workers at Quark's Bar are all huddled together. Caption:
1/9/2025, 10:47:23 AM | 3045 1074 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Good lord that would be great

31/8/2025, 10:06:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gary Hornseth (@garyhornseth.bsky.social) reposted

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.
30/8/2025, 11:34:22 PM | 1865 588 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Checking in on our first game in CUSA

A box score with the results of Missouri State versus USC. Missouri state lost 13 to 73.
31/8/2025, 3:16:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Year Progress Bot (@yearprogress.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

This might be my greatest Post™️, but am willing for it to not take off in lieu of other developments

30/8/2025, 2:34:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Werner Herzog doing an add for Royal Match: “I vant to tell you about my new diversion. A king fights for his life. On von side, the maw of oblivion. The other? The relentless veight of life crushing him under an avalanche of stone. He must create order, but alas, there is never enough time.”

29/8/2025, 11:55:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture We Hate Movies (@whmpodcast.bsky.social) reposted

On the latest episode of our Star Trek podcast The Nexus, we're chatting about the pretty solid TOSTAS episode "The Time Trap" and the Lwaxana Troi-guesting TNG episode "Half a Life" — Try to guess which one drove us less crazy! Out now, only on Patreon! www.patreon.com/wehatemovies

This is the promo card for our Star Trek Nexus show for August 2025. It features the show's logo and a frame from each episode discussed.
29/8/2025, 12:02:05 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Back on my bullshit youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s?...

29/8/2025, 2:47:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

A what-if-Jeff-Buckley-had-lived late career biopic starring Walton Goggins

29/8/2025, 2:04:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Earth-shaped universe, etc

29/8/2025, 1:27:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Year Progress Bot (@yearprogress.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

🫡🫡🫡

28/8/2025, 11:00:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Welch (@markwelch.bsky.social) reposted

Some quick pics of our new Little Free Library, in the northeast corner of Springfield, Missouri. @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Some quick pics of our new Little Free Library, in the northeast corner of Springfield, Missouri. Some quick pics of our new Little Free Library, in the northeast corner of Springfield, Missouri. Some quick pics of our new Little Free Library, in the northeast corner of Springfield, Missouri. Some quick pics of our new Little Free Library, in the northeast corner of Springfield, Missouri.
23/8/2025, 6:40:19 PM | 34 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Eagerly awaiting your takedown of 5.11

28/8/2025, 3:20:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

28/8/2025, 2:53:27 AM | 10759 3616 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Every accusation a confession, etc etc

26/8/2025, 1:33:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

25/8/2025, 10:09:42 PM | 1342 541 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Out here doing the work! Great stuff

25/8/2025, 3:11:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Norman Rockwell guy standing up
24/8/2025, 8:45:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

That VA line is crazy. And boy I can tell you we felt that upswing here in MO

24/8/2025, 8:18:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Well you’re really rolling out the welcome mat.

24/8/2025, 2:14:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

What about this guy? Podunk inbred magat? bsky.app/profile/wash...

24/8/2025, 2:09:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Famously well handled and not generationally traumatic.

24/8/2025, 1:56:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, over a million people voted against this in Missouri last tear. Are we all “podunk, inbred, mouth breathing MAGATS”? Are we to be cast out as well? What’s your plan for additional housing for refugees? Or do we not count because there are fewer of us here? And do your MAGA get to stay?

24/8/2025, 1:51:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah what about those of us who aren’t in the cult but are stuck with those who are? I agree that harsh measures need to be taken to break the back of MAGA but part of that fight has to be about restoring constitutional protections to all Americans.

24/8/2025, 1:35:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 6:00:08 AM | 30 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Alright, real talk time - what’s your top 5 Pedro the Lion tunes. 5. June 18th, 1974 4. Bands With Managers 3. When they really get to know you 2. Penetration 1. Bad Diary Days Big Trucks is right on the bubble along with Indian Summer, Eye on the Finish Line, and Secret of the Easy Yoke

24/8/2025, 1:42:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Pervasive and relentless

23/8/2025, 4:23:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah this whips

23/8/2025, 3:38:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture It's The Weekend 😌 (@craigweekend.bsky.social) reposted

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

22/8/2025, 11:00:12 PM | 708 274 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh man this is a great idea

22/8/2025, 12:36:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jane Coaston (@janecoaston.bsky.social) reposted

Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of a brave man dying for what was right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

22/8/2025, 1:33:21 AM | 226 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

21/8/2025, 12:09:30 PM | 5307 1126 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted

this is the endpoint of white flight. the social progression was integration -> whites leaving urban centers for suburbs -> defunding of public goods and schools in urban centers -> imposition of “law” and “order” on now largely minority urban centers by largely white suburban voting blocs

21/8/2025, 12:25:45 PM | 435 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

They are bad people who want bad things, and the people still supporting them are also bad. It is intolerable.

21/8/2025, 3:00:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

🫡🫡🫡

21/8/2025, 2:56:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social) reposted

(at the car dealership) i'm going to write a number on this piece of paper, fold it, and place it into this bag of sun chips,

21/8/2025, 2:48:07 AM | 840 68 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

The balloon sticker in the mix on the first one is rad.

20/8/2025, 2:33:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted reply parent

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131
19/8/2025, 11:39:03 PM | 6814 1767 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Sublime.

20/8/2025, 2:17:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Had to bounce immediately at the first mention of the Rockafellers

19/8/2025, 11:00:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Space Force Cadet (@spaceforcecadet.bsky.social) reposted

Usually a satire page, Branson Area Breaking News issues an actual alert.

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19/8/2025, 9:03:53 PM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

youtu.be/ytK71-PoVG8?...

19/8/2025, 3:56:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Taking solace in thinking about when It will Happen.

19/8/2025, 3:54:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

like they cannot think of politics as anything but polls and news cycles and median voters and donors and the next election. trump doesn’t care about any of those things! he cares about money and power.

19/8/2025, 2:31:06 AM | 814 78 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moby Dick (@mobydickatsea.bsky.social) reposted

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

17/8/2025, 12:47:15 PM | 443 123 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social) reposted

There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

17/8/2025, 3:14:05 AM | 2263 589 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

The movement has to be about stamping out white nationalism and restore the constitution everywhere, including (indeed especially) in the red states.

17/8/2025, 4:57:32 AM | 13 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

In a world of Elons be a Chris Brenner

17/8/2025, 4:55:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Washington, DC August 16, 2025 Dupont Circle

16/8/2025, 10:06:47 PM | 9274 3005 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Like day one we gotta take these guys’ guns.

17/8/2025, 1:00:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Solid choice

17/8/2025, 12:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

what donald trump wants more than anything is video of american soldiers gunning down american citizens

16/8/2025, 7:15:34 PM | 6331 1771 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

The man had been a punchline for THIRTY YEARS before he was elected the first time, showed his entire ass for 4 years, lost, tried to do a coup, and somehow I still have to know and think about it. An offense to dignity itself. A loathsome man with loathesome followers. Baffling shit.

16/8/2025, 10:12:43 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Lmao WHAT Is this Imzadi? Never read that one but I love lots of other Peter David (rip) trek novels

16/8/2025, 10:03:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

The point of journalism is to tell people the truth! If the population and political leaders are panicking about something that isn't happening, your job as a reporter is to loudly debunk it — not plead with the other party to join the panic.

16/8/2025, 9:48:05 PM | 1928 420 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Part of what makes all of this so goddamn humiliating is thst these people are just so goddamn stupid. Fundamental shit, man.

16/8/2025, 9:34:19 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

California Uber Alles etc

16/8/2025, 3:25:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the way. We’re all in this together. That base is everywhere, just in different proportions.

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Profile picture Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Good work here

15/8/2025, 2:42:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Counterpoint: fuck that guy. No peace for fascists and certainly no beer.

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Profile picture John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) reposted

I miss the future.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-future...

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Profile picture Bryce (@girl.creditcard) reposted

babe not in front of the shareholders

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s us versus the collaborators.

13/8/2025, 4:27:27 AM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Ours have telescopes

13/8/2025, 4:17:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture utopia deferred (@utopia-defer.red) reposted

MO GOP have consolidated their power for a generation by overturning the popular will for their own 3/5th compromise, they have taken control of our police departments away from blue city governments, they have overturned our sick pay and new minimum wages, and now:

12/8/2025, 6:43:20 PM | 32 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Derf Backderf (@derfbackderf.bsky.social) reposted

AHAHAHA! Tribute to the DC Sub Thrower. By Christian Rincon.

Sub thrower tribute.
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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s an awesome piece.

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

They don’t gotta burn the books they just remove ‘em, etc etc

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no!

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

Spotted in DC

The egg cannon from hook
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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Rapid-fire egg rolls here in SGFMO

12/8/2025, 1:50:07 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

A technical

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Profile picture William Butler Yeets (@yeets.biz) reposted

today is quintidi 25 Thermidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXIII, celebrating otters

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Guy threw like $12 worth of sandwich at that cop

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social)

🫡🫡🫡

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Profile picture Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted

heroes, capes, etc

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not the first one to make this point, but part of what gives a constitution value is that it (is supposed to) provided checks against illiberal election outcomes.

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

The extra jaggedness of junior’s speech text is a really nice detail.

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Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Tell that to the lawmakers shot in Minnesota. Or the people gunned down at a grocery store a few years ago in Buffalo by a white nationalist. or are those places also “not civilized”?

11/8/2025, 1:11:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

1.2 million people voted against this asshole last cycle, by the way.

11/8/2025, 1:04:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the entire point. These fascists are everywhere. Just because there are more of them here than there are where you are doesn’t mean that they aren’t there, or that you are morally superior to me because you live there and I live here.

11/8/2025, 1:00:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Would you have had the whole of the French resistance decamp to England or elsewhere? No, because that is ridiculous and infeasible.

11/8/2025, 12:55:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

Who the said anything about being neutral? And don’t put that “muh state” bs on me, this is my home. I hate the local Republicans. I hate the republicans that are near you. Let’s fight them together.

11/8/2025, 12:51:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

You either believe in the constitutional order or you don’t. And perhaps you don’t, but don’t expect to win any popularity contests telling me I have to become an internal refugee or be abandoned.

11/8/2025, 12:44:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

I would be delighted for this government to be dissolved to give way to the national guard of Illinois or whatever other scenario, but you can’t just abandon those of us who can’t escape and are doing the work of supporting our communities because we aren’t a majority.

11/8/2025, 12:40:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward James Almost (@edwardjamesalmost.bsky.social) reply parent

If you think living wherever you do that you’re free and safe from these jackals just because they happen to be in the minority there, then I don’t know what to tell you. This is my home. And I’m not going anywhere. And it would be nice if you would recognize that we’re in this together.

11/8/2025, 12:38:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view