Halbeerz (@halz.bsky.social) reposted
Just saying
Mama. Cat lady. Writer. Multi-nerd. Love thy neighbor, call tyranny out whenever you see it, accept no kings in America. FDT. I WILL YIELD FOR A QUESTION WHILE RETAINING THE FLOOR. [Bluesky Bonafides: Flavor Flav has liked a skeet or two by this user]
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view profile on Bluesky Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
The password is “showgirl” and Taylor Swift is secretly funding the speakeasy through her new album which was, of course, secretly funded by George Soros, who is, of course, secretly a real, live showgirl but nobody can know his truth, so he lives vicariously through Lola and Taylor
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s half the point though. They’re not protecting those people even a little bit simply by refusing to address the biggest news story of the day. They’re all already on the list. Whoopie? Joy? How many years? Yeah… keeping quiet now just looks weak and very contrived. Even ABC should see that.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Great example… there’s no way *nothing* is up there tonight. This area covers several AF bases, numerous airports they use and monitor, and there’s always at least multiple blackhawks up. It also shows half the Southern Border. Nada. When toggled for military aircraft, you’d think what military? 🤷♀️
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes I’m aware. The Eagles, Hawks and Cardinals all fall under Go Birds though (I’m possibly even forgetting one), which is good for the cause and covers us using the speech from coast to coast so shhh🤫 Lol
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
No problem at all! Thrilled if I could help clarify the importance in some small way: Terribly icky censorship move by Disney.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Jimmy Carter was a good and decent man. Wherever he and his beloved Rosalynn are, I hope they actually can’t see any of this. Also: Israel now has Gaza blacked out and killed four U.S. citizens striking Lebanon today. Three children and father. Mother and eldest daughter have survived, but wounded.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
As a big Cardinals fan (and HUGE non-fan of all gleefully genocidal and/or autocratic maniacs, at home and abroad), I’d truly love to see it
LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted
We are supposed to give a shit if another countries bombs Americans, right?
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Avoid this area of #Philadelphia as police work an active SWAT situation Also, can’t help but notice so many houses of worship of various faiths are within this bird’s circles. so this is a prayer heavy area, and at the end of another day in America, it still all comes down to guys and their guns.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
A funeral is definitely the right place to air all your violent grievances if you’re the President of the United States and it’s not evidence of a broken cruel lunatic
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
The very same “The View” that got name-checked by Carr the same day they didn’t mention the Kimmel incident at all! Lol. Irony, thy name is also sometimes cowardice.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to be an entertainment reporter, ah memories. Red carpets were great for off the cuff stuff. So yeah, more outright censorship of the talent Disney themselves invited. 🤷♀️ Just insane amounts of cognitive dissonance at play to think this was the move. Really glad the talent pulled their card.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
This post of all posts is doing some numbers. As a former entertainment reporter, I forget a lot of people just think #redcarpet and think fashion. This is a sweeping censorship move by #Disney. Once again, digging in deeper when they could have allowed the talent THEY invited to speak freely.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
No problem! easy to think red carpet and just think fashion, but celebs can get away with a lot of quick, unfiltered comments as they make their rounds to discuss their projects/outfits. Does rely a bit on the interviewers asking the right stuff, too. Either way… good on them for canceling.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Red carpet = unrehearsed, spontaneous interviews where they would’ve been able to speak their mind to reporters as they saw fit Guess Disney didn’t want that for some reason though, and seems the ladies clued in quick 🙅♀️
Matt Belloni (@mattbelloni.bsky.social) reposted
New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.
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TheDesk.net (@thedesk.net) reposted
A petition to reinstate Jimmy Kimmel on ABC has received nearly 150,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon. The website MoveOn has also started driving a truck around Burbank, where ABC is based, promoting their petition. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Also fun on Sundays!
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
My beautiful garbage can My Garden State of malls My rolling green hills and fall color My Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese My People of The Bridge New Jersey, I Love You So Much
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Be nice now, they’re preparing us food stocks and gonna leave their houses unlocked and shit so we can still thrive and hey man, free beans are free beans
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
They’ve been using hex IDs a lot more & often only transmitting their presence intermittently lately. I can watch them fly at low altitude over my suburban neighborhood with my eyeballs and nothing on adsb whatsoever. Air Force town so lots of training sure, but be radar visible to local traffic wtf
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve had his name muted here and it has been so easy to forget anything happened for entire days at a time, until folks go screenshotting stuff but still It’s balanced things. it’s been just another news item, not every third post, first two days were wild (somewhat understandably but…like. enough)
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
True story
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
So lovely! Do they weep, or is it rain or water droplets with blue sky coloring them? Just a magical photo, well done!
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
the way you said Jennifer
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like clouds and rain, I’ve never seen anything like it. so pretty. I wonder what kind they are.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Cardinals kickoff at 1:25pm, yay sportsball. Can’t think of anything else going on today, maybe I’ll clean out the pantry or the linen closet... eat some snacks. Sunday stuff. Also, huge shout out to *checks notes* muted terms! The real MVP
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Embarrassment doesn’t begin to cover it. He’ll be in my state later today 🤢 no doubt stoking his cult and speaking hate at a memorial service of all places
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Hmm. Even assuming half my followers are bots or blocked accounts, I’m still in the top 1%. That is a bit sad tbh, we need more people 😭
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Five gallons is really minimum best 🙏 It’s not much bigger for you to care for or place somewhere, but doubles his world 🙏
A Republic If You Can Keep It (@arepublicif.bsky.social) reposted
The thing I fundamentally misunderstood about the insufficient reaction of Germans in WWII is their lives were going on every day: sick children, bills, birthdays, aging parents, work, perimenopause. It marches on normally. We can’t let what LOOKS normal keep us from understanding where we are.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m so sorry. May you and your family know every comfort. I experienced a loved one born sleeping many years ago. Sweet, much-anticipated boy right at his due date. We all held him and got to say goodbye and hopefully provide some measure of comfort to his mama. Every blessing to you and yours.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
I still want to help him if something would improve his lil fins bc he’s so pretty and fiesty for an older boi. Might be the hard water? It’s within tolerable range but is the one element that could be better. His water temp is always within safe range 78-80 without a heater. Anyway he’s so cute 🫐🐟
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
I am so happy. Idk why I wasn’t testing my water but I just… did water changes and cleanings the best I know how plus prayer and my betta is 2.5 years old… But his fins have never been super pretty. Got worried he’s actually in horrible water so I bought a test kit. All my parameters are perfect 🥹
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Opening X to type “how to cancel Disney plus” into the search bar and then immediately closing the app just bc sometimes playing in traffic IS fun
makena kelly (@makenakelly.bsky.social) reposted
just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Update that only further proves my point, but at least is also good news! The chaos and fear-stoking is the only point. New restrictions do not apply to current visa holders, the admin now says. They KNOW the U.S. needs foreign workers. They’ve got to be hearing earfuls from the executive class.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
When I think of the fear, the confusion caused. The innumerable amount of texts, panicked phone calls that have taken place between family members and coworkers and even executives, the running around and scrambling to arrange travel or even just not being able to sleep last night from anxiety 🤬🤬🤬
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Ahhh have a blast! Best feeling to see a band you’ve been waiting on forever
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
This is so… bitter. (Not the letter, the letter is heart-wrenching) This new restriction/extortion on valid visa holders is beyond all rational thought, and the word “demonic” just keeps flashing in bright red letters. The fear and cruelty is the *entire* point and if that isn’t demonic idk what is
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
My heart breaks for everyone in our country working for a solid personal future and to contribute to our nation’s success in business, healthcare, every segment of the private sector. You can tell whoever wrote this very professional, very horrifying email was writing it with tears in their eyes.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
🥹👏👏👏 Okay I’ve had just about enough, this is gorgeous! The tent updates, the tiki project, now this… Stop motivating me!! I’m too tired 😭 My office is currently in my bedroom bc it literally fits better and I get more work done than in the office bc uhhhh tents and storage and assorted chaos 😭
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reposted
lol this was a different time. basically you should only follow me at this point if you want to see multiple posts daily about how tyranny is bad actually and the very occasional cat pic. That's it. That's all I got.
The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Welp it’s been one song and I’m already sick of the sound of my own voice. but is that gonna stop me from trying out every single banger in my library, no sir!
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
That is actually very sweet and kind of them to think of others. Like meal prepping for hubby and the kids right before you go on vacation. Very demure, very mindful. Nobody would ever hate on a Christian if they stuck to stuff like “literally just feeding folks and considering other people exist”
Dɪᴢᴡɪʀᴇ🍥 (@dizwire.bsky.social) reposted
I was today years old when I discovered that iOS Apple Music app not only has lyrics you can read but you can also turn down the audio’s vocals to make it a karaoke backing track 🤯. Touch the lyrics and adjust in the microphone slider.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Bro that’s my whole day cooked, thanks a fuckin lot (no really. Thank you. 🥹This will be so much more fun and healthy than doomscrolling.)
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
WAIT WHAT
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel you🫂 Mine comes from the UK… have a few weeks worth left. The last two orders were HEAVILY tariffed to the point I questioned ordering, but it’s still like $1.75 a cup which is worth it to me. But it WAS like 80¢ a cup. Now I’m just wondering if I’ll even be able to place an order at all 🤷♀️
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
A fun thing to do on a Saturday is use several different browsers to search all possible SEO variations of “cancel Disney plus” and “how to cancel Hulu” even if you aren’t cancelling you can still participate in search traffic & crashing the cancel page bc yes they absolutely pay attention to that
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Sumitra Badrinathan (@sumitra.bsky.social) reposted
i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Back in the day, I’d say the journalist that has the floor should spar back themselves. When it’s your turn w/the microphone, no one else in the room matters. The rest of the time, you’re observing everything. If a story emerges, you’re taking notes, not interfering. HOWEVER. Wayyy past norms here.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Truly truly truly need ONE brave reporter to ask him, sincerely, what the actual FUCK he is talking about and to please define, on the record, what he thinks the word “asylum” means in regards to immigration. ONE single person with a microphone and a WH press pass. Be a journalist challenge, go! 🏃♀️
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
AP has so, so many photos to choose from to attach to such an important story at such an important moment. Sigh. It’s deliberate but what can we do except call it out. Anyway. California love forever and I’m glad for this legislation for as long as it stands 🫶 Every state should follow.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
You are a buffoon (complimentary)
sirosenbaum.bsky.social (@sirosenbaum.bsky.social) reposted
Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Grew up NYC metro, we all knew about Trump. We warned the wider nation. Alas. Now he’s president, and the worst Kennedy is our head of Health. 🙃 It feels like we’re all being punk’d but that can’t be, bc Ashton Kutcher has also been revealed to be a menace and wouldn’t be on TV these days oh wait
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
This is disgraceful. Thank you for being here and for teaching. 🙏 Seeing your post directly after seeing a “haha we’re closing the Dept of Ed” post. They’re so proud of themselves. It’s madness. I went with the qualified lady with the big laugh and the real-human-boy VP who believes in empathy 💔😓
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
And then the dread creature approached the podium, beady eyes flickering as hot lights reflected off his chromium skull, short-circuiting several of the cameras. As he hissed his words, a foul stench filled not only the room, but the entire land. He began, “As we close the Department of Education…”
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
You cannot eat money, oh no When the last tree has fallen And the rivers are poisoned You cannot eat money, oh no
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Megan Fox (@glassbottommeg.bsky.social) reposted
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I had a ticket, great seat, and didn’t go. Sad but I just couldn’t do it. Similar reasons as you, plus 3-4 hours in the car round trip and just… I’m old 😂🥲 I hurt and I’m so tired. glad I’ve seen them twice before but yeah it was a difficult judgment call and was the correct one even tho sucks
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I’m sorry honey. You still did a great thing for that pup 🫂 hope he finds his forever family soon, no doubt they are waiting for him and don’t even know it yet🙏
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Daily Affirmations ass vibes, except Stuart Smalley was likeable and also not responsible for major governmental oversight of the entire civilian population of the United States despite being wildly unqualified
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
He’s such a pig, and we all know ***worldwide*** who I’m referencing, I don’t have to add a single other word (yes yes real pigs are cute and smart do not fucking @ me about it I’ll actually scream, the man is a PIG)
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Some women might, too. Early days.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
If this isn’t as stark as seeing the Institute for Peace letters ripped from the walls. Or the firing of all the JAGs. Or the major strikes on fucking IRAN, a country we are not at war with, and where Congress had authorized no action, let alone these speedboat snuff films in the Caribbean now.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Alt-text fail: in three separate photos, a barrel cactus blooms in vibrant orange; a globe mallow blooms in sunset hues; and a spikyboi plant is covered in small buds, yellow and turning darker. (I’ll go back in a day or two and see if they opened up more.)
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Went for a walk. In all the space I walked, this was all that was in bloom. Three plants. It’s been a long, hot desert summer with not enough rain. But just LOOK at the colors. The shapes. The way they each simply REFUSE to not be. Lessons from the flora: stay stubborn and bloom anyway 💜 #resist
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel so bad inflicting this creature’s voice and image on my followers, considering I refuse to press play on this myself, but if you saw fit to share it, I’m def boosting. Hope Kat is okay and maybe even gets checked out, x-ray on her lower back etc. Lunatic behavior indeed & NOT from her.
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) reposted
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks like you landed so hard and right on your tailbone area, I hope you’re okay. Appalling and completely unnecessary. Street thugs have better manners.
Sara Ghaleb (@saraghaleb.bsky.social) reposted
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m so pissed they clawed back this little win we had. It was an important one, both for morale currently and our city forever. Can we have one nice thing this year???!? I hope this can still be fought
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Citizen journalists, seasoned pros with backbone, and brave whistleblowers: the hour is truly upon us and there’s no going back. We the People must control the media, NOT the other way around. And certainly not the government. Now more than ever, this simple truth is of such incredible importance.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) (@iwriteok.bsky.social) reposted
welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
And two others seriously wounded. Ambush attack during an active DV investigation and following warrant service at shooter’s home. They were helping protect at least two women, if not a bigger family. The bastard shot the family dog, too. These men died serving honorably, and my heart breaks.
Action Together New Jersey (@atnj.org) reposted
These Pennsylvania officers were shot and killed this week by 24-year old Matthew James Ruth. There is no national order to fly flags at half-staff, no acknowledgement from the GOP, no national news coverage.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
I have the best picture of child me by his big satellite thingie van, we’d go park at the top of a big hill so he could put the antenna up and work and I could roll down the hill over and over again bc it was grassy and soft and life was still simple and the world felt innocent and safe bc I was 5
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
So disappointed, on behalf of my late broadcast engineer dad, in what broadcasting has become. That the FCC has capitulated and itself become infested. That so many can be bought off. Dad’s NAB award is displayed proudly in my home, near his folded flag. This can’t taint that, but it still stings.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy shit. This list is honestly more troubling and worrying to me than the Main One everyone wants released. That one is important of course, for many reasons, but this one is… incredibly revealing. Just absolute bonkers town. Jfc.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
Oh my god it’s like a ln actual list of standard cult (or another type of uh, group) mantras to help keep those pesky, bad, normal-person thoughts out of your head so you can have room for all the terrible propaganda oh my god
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. (@sarahmackattack.bsky.social) reposted
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
SARAH THIS IS SO GOOD
Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I feel somehow guilty that Europeans are so up on our politics that they know who the chair of the FCC is.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
I truly hope they’ll walk it back. It would do so much good for the country. Spine. Just every display of basic human spine we can get right now would be fantastic.
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social)
I’m drinking heavily-tarriffed tea in my PBS mug sent to me for giving to my local public broadcast service, wearing my late, antifa Grandma’s robe. She didn’t know she was antifa but she worked in an ammunition factory, helping our boys send lots of metal pieces into nazis. It is Friday in America.
Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin.bsky.social) reposted
That’s right I said it, every ticket you purchase is a middle finger to censorship! Tickets to Kathy Griffin: New Face, New Tour are officially on sale today at 10am local! Get yours at KathyGriffin.com
Merp (@imagin8ion.bsky.social) reply parent
no words suffice
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker