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@massivruss.bsky.social

Of the Commonwealth. Full time cat Dad. UMass-Lowell & Clark U Dad to two amazing humans. “…a principal function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute…” - Justice William Brennan I F*CKING HATE BULLIES.

created February 12, 2024

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Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Really?

1/9/2025, 11:43:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

“Makes any movie better” is my favorite category of actor.🥺😢

1/9/2025, 11:41:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The fuck?

1/9/2025, 11:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Noooo. 🥺😩😭 Truly madly deeply, Rest In Power.

1/9/2025, 11:38:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social)

Any hotels in Massachusetts seeing ICE bookings in coming weeks? Chicago this week? Any clever hackers diving into public (!) data to see this activity? Let’s go.

1/9/2025, 11:34:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Will questions about this summit come up in WH pressroom?

1/9/2025, 11:30:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Presidents Xi, Putin and PM Modi would never be palling around today if it wasn’t for the extraordinary foolishness shown by the president of the United States.

1/9/2025, 11:18:17 PM | 516 104 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 11:17:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Love ya MFP.

1/9/2025, 11:15:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Floods? In Texas?

1/9/2025, 11:14:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Check the originating email address on that?

1/9/2025, 11:12:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

We elected Obama. So Trump is president.

1/9/2025, 11:09:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean… concern trolling is at least supposed to *seem* helpful.

1/9/2025, 10:48:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s like Matt Yglesias with a metal plate in his head.

1/9/2025, 10:47:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Diamond Life (@diamondlifeca.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Rudy Giuliani tried to overturn a free and fair election with smears, racism, disinformation and outright, provable lies that he had to retract while under oath. Rudy Guiliani should be serving time from several felonies. This is an absolute travesty of justice. Fuck Trump and fuck Rudy Guiliani.

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1/9/2025, 9:43:07 PM | 2 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking good - PERFECT - point. 💯

1/9/2025, 10:43:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

He had a “fractured vertebra” yesterday and today is out of the hospital?

1/9/2025, 10:42:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Because of the “pulled over southbound to help, turned back north & got rammed” story that is filled with holes? Literally because Rudy, after… years? of irrelevance and civil justice exile, *today* went viral and gave Don a boner?

1/9/2025, 10:40:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Who’d’a thunk?

1/9/2025, 10:33:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

And his tie is too long.

1/9/2025, 10:28:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s all about the myths & realities of Black folks’ complex relationship with swimming.

1/9/2025, 10:25:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Even Bob’s jacket is cut just so, like Clark Kent in the midst of stripping down to the magnificent pecs and Superman tights.

1/9/2025, 10:09:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK also seems to wear bespoke shirts with skinny collars to match the ties. Both elements seeming designed to accent his steroidal chest and neck. All very ugly. His acolyte here stops at the tie.

1/9/2025, 10:07:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Those stupid fucking skinny ties and bespoke shirts to tie them to??.

1/9/2025, 9:54:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

You want to be more than a concern troll, don’t you?

1/9/2025, 8:43:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

“resist” in rainbow colors
1/9/2025, 8:28:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Gaming. Perfect.

1/9/2025, 8:17:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Been there! Beautiful, remote place.

1/9/2025, 7:45:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The “schools were closed too soon, too late, too long” school of ranters want you to believe there should have been expertise in place to prescribe the exact correct response. Same folks want to demolish current expertise in public health.

1/9/2025, 7:26:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

How could I forget Michelle is a eugenicist?

1/9/2025, 7:11:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social)

#Wordle 1,535 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

1/9/2025, 6:54:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

“Foreseeable”… Exactly. The truly defining aspect of COVID response *in real time* was the “groping in the fog.”

1/9/2025, 6:03:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Eugenicist. All the way through.

1/9/2025, 5:10:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, ne was always a giant fake.

1/9/2025, 12:44:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Slaughtering people begging for food aid.., CROSSED THAT FUCK LINE!

1/9/2025, 2:39:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh, what?

1/9/2025, 2:33:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.

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1/9/2025, 12:15:41 AM | 14948 2833 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

🤌

31/8/2025, 11:32:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Secretary Rapunzel says what?

31/8/2025, 11:31:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Equating Phish to The Dead is a gross disservice to both.

31/8/2025, 11:27:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

That is just a bullshit take. Your fears are understandable but they’re impeding your thinking.

31/8/2025, 10:29:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social)

@talkingpointsmemo.com Thoughts on the Golden Duke’s passing?

31/8/2025, 10:26:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely. Far too early.

31/8/2025, 10:08:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

OTOOH, RFK should burn under an eternal curse. Go Team Dracula.

31/8/2025, 10:04:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Two things can be true: Newsom is indefensible in his feckless waffling on trans in sports. Newsom can be an effective warrior vs MAGA on many other fronts. Applauding the latter is not excusing the former. The human condition is filled with these tensions.

31/8/2025, 10:02:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll settle for werewolves. The last werewolf in the line dies and the curse lifts. Marco Rubio can go on to heaven.

31/8/2025, 9:01:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ditch Paramount*, renew Netflix. *After the last Star Trek SNW drops.

31/8/2025, 9:00:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS, Raddatz, it’s a lockdown. Carjackings AND restaurant dining are both down in DC.

31/8/2025, 8:56:18 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Release the Epstein files.

31/8/2025, 8:51:35 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck off.

31/8/2025, 8:48:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Have fun with you insurer on that one.

31/8/2025, 8:45:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh?

31/8/2025, 8:41:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The driver of the car in front is never at fault, brakes or not.

31/8/2025, 8:23:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Where was his “security”?

31/8/2025, 8:21:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

AAAAAAHHHHHH!

31/8/2025, 8:19:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Raddatz used to be good.

31/8/2025, 3:32:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Bluesky has no pill.

31/8/2025, 6:57:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Steroids. And all of the mental effects.

30/8/2025, 12:46:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

All that in a Fetterman-lite package.

30/8/2025, 2:48:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Mm. Nah. GFY.

30/8/2025, 2:47:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Not like those other *tracks*.

30/8/2025, 2:42:29 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social)

What service most recently had streaming rights to “The Death Of Stalin”? Might wanna put that back in circulation.

29/8/2025, 11:22:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social)

So, Jason Kielce is the new Mante Teo?

29/8/2025, 11:18:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

If it happens it will be real “Death Of Stalin” shit.

29/8/2025, 11:13:14 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

And Vance is flooding the zone. Coincidence?

29/8/2025, 11:10:01 PM | 50 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Further, the scientific method demands a fuck-ton of “trust, BUT VERIFY.” Bob wants to bumfuzzle the rubes by blurring, and even inverting, trust and *blind* trust.

29/8/2025, 11:03:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Just STFU and pray - PRAAAY - for them.

29/8/2025, 10:54:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s deconstruct this persistent misconception. There are indeed “experts” unworthy of trust. So what makes the difference? I’ll suggest it’s the process. The scientific method. Trusting expertise supported by sound scientific method is worthy. Then there’s Bob.

29/8/2025, 10:53:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The Molly Ivins Set Formula holds. “Not all Trump supporter are psychopaths and narcissists, but most psychopathic narcissists are Trumpers.”

29/8/2025, 10:43:35 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Appeals courts *define the strike zone*. Rrrrrrrr

29/8/2025, 10:23:09 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Leave it to the Times to refer simply to a “Confederate General”. Why inject obscurity into the story? Are they somehow serving “both sides” by masking the identity of THE MOST FAMOUS traitor?

29/8/2025, 10:21:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The Celtics.

29/8/2025, 10:16:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

I really hate that analogy. Not you. Just the analogy.

29/8/2025, 10:13:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 10:10:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The stupid always shines through.

29/8/2025, 9:56:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Does @wired.com have a seat in the WH press room? That wd be cool.

29/8/2025, 10:58:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah. “There are calls”.

29/8/2025, 10:55:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture wisegirl2.bsky.social (@wisegirl2.bsky.social) reposted

35 years ago yesterday we lost Stevie Ray Vaughan in a helicopter crash. He was also 35 years old at the time of his death. SRV is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. ❤️🎵🎸 youtu.be/t54xyIcgbks?...

28/8/2025, 7:46:10 PM | 2562 409 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Worse. RFKjr is a eugenicist.

29/8/2025, 6:46:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Millions share your outrage.

29/8/2025, 2:14:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

What would Monet have done without London Smog?

29/8/2025, 12:26:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop it. Just stop. Trump is EXACTLY what conservatives have always aspired to. Keep the weak and vulnerable weak and vulnerable to *conserve* their place atop the hierarchy.

29/8/2025, 12:21:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

So… Why would Vance imagine presidenting to be one long series of disastrous tragedies?

29/8/2025, 12:01:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Something in the Illinois soil. Lincoln Obama Pritzker

28/8/2025, 10:17:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Citation?

28/8/2025, 6:37:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Like a gun. So it’s a Second Amendment issue.

28/8/2025, 11:40:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Why not tulips? Or Beanie Babies?

28/8/2025, 11:36:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Expanded to 12 LY that fast?

28/8/2025, 11:11:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Put that quote in the HoF.

28/8/2025, 11:08:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The Grapes Of Wrath

28/8/2025, 11:07:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

The “Tesla treatment”? Like Tesla has all the EV magic in 2025? The photo shows a Rivian. A well-designed and built EV truck.

28/8/2025, 11:01:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ya think 🙄

28/8/2025, 10:56:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Fired over a 2023 board vote?

28/8/2025, 10:53:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

“Garbage disposal full of pennies” was a good one I read. Maybe that was @emptywheel.bsky.social?

28/8/2025, 10:50:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmmm. What was it about him? 🤔

28/8/2025, 10:48:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Better living through steroids”.

28/8/2025, 7:12:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 9:05:50 PM | 161 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom Clancy’s “Hillbilly Elegy” Oh, right, already awful.

28/8/2025, 2:24:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

May I recommend DuckDuckGo, y’all?

28/8/2025, 2:20:09 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Russ Dances With Cats (@massivruss.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, well, what matters is respecting norms.

28/8/2025, 2:18:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view