nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
When will people learn that Labour politicians are just Tories that sometimes say smart sounding things... Sometimes...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
When will people learn that Labour politicians are just Tories that sometimes say smart sounding things... Sometimes...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing can be done. Mental health. Music and video games. Thoughts and prayers.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
To save mankind...Don't forget the insane logic behind it all!
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
But Republicans should go full tilt on X-ism... Be racist, misogynist, attention seeking whores proselytizing their echo chamber because delusional violent rhetoric & disdain for facts really polls well with "normal" Americans.
Introvert Problems (@introvertproblems.bsky.social) reposted
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I drove Denver to KC in an Ioniq 5. Added about 1.5 hours to the trip but despite a little distance between them, no problem finding the chargers.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Technically that is also a risk in an ICE vehicle as well.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I deeply appreciate the sensitivity of this post. It's cruel to bring up that his overpriced acme car's rocket pack malfunctioned and could have ploughed him right into the side of a mountain, killing him dead forever.
Iantos (@iantos.bsky.social) reposted
It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
A lot of questions about kids genitals on there. Just saying.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
That would be 24 years to the day, and numerologically speaking, that's a number!
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Sigh. It's not the industry revolution that leads to the reform. It's the backlash to that industry in an effort to protect the workers. share.google/vSUTijIIWkGz...
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"Solid wood? In this economy?" The punchline we deserve. And also an absolute fact.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I will be your friend I've decided.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought "experts" were "the elite" and cannot be trusted. Thought they were the reason we were "draining the swamp". Just trying to clarify here. Maybe white house press secretary can castigate me for my disloyalty before clearing this up.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I bought 30 copies...all with memecoin though.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
If you oppose smart gun control measures and refuse to read this, you are my enemy and I wish you horrific suffering in your life. NO kid should EVER face this. share.google/7dpJ7nE9mf41...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Their only value is loyalty to the Furher and his cause.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
But they're... You know...*not white*.....
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Just a reminder. This is TRUMP'S idea. TRUMP'S plan. TRUMP'S America. Remember how idiotic this looks. Like the world's dumbest comic book villain. Remember how ridiculous this is.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Finally, a sprinkle of something good in the world. New Casiopea album! #fusion #progrock #funk #jazz #japanesemusic music.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuB...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
WHICH, out of an abundance of caution you have since replaced? 😁
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you borrowed that one.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a sudden urge to buy electronic components.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like to think you're right but I don't think they have any incentive to leave anymore. They don't plan on more elections so they won't need the money or support. I think they'll torment pharma first & unless pharma has teeth somewhere else they'll have to roll over.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"If they say why... Why... Tell them that it's human nature..." Such a great, smooth, jazzy song.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn't matter. Would have been far more difficult to kill kids if he didn't have the gun.
Alexia Norton Jones (@alexianortonjones.bsky.social) reposted
I’m so sorry Sophia and Endre that Americans have agreed your lives were not worth protecting.💔 If you lived in Norway or Finland, laws would have changed in a day. However America loves their guns more than your lives mattered or the 17 classmates of your injured. #WeThePeople 🇺🇸 To HELL😭
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I think you're wrong, George. It's the thoughts & prayers. Everytime they think and pray, another school shooting happens. Clearly correlation is causation. No, just kidding. #itstheguns
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p... 'In his Fox interview, [Vance] pitched Democrats as asking people to choose between prayer and action. “Why does it have to be one or the other?”' Because you asshats ONLY do one and NEVER the other. Wake up, asshat. Kids died...again. Your prayers didn't stop it.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Well since we're throwing insane possibilities, I wonder what is the correlation between thoughts and prayers and mass shootings. Seems like everyone we thoughts and prayers we're just days away from another mass shooting.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
+1
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I am struggling with this as I try to design my home (Google/Microsoft Killer) server setup. Would love to know more.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but sir, have we tried thoughts and prayers yet?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
They're working on it. Gotta turn up the heat slowly so the lobsters don't notice.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I simply do not know what I can say about this.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Shades of Leto becoming God Emperor.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Well played
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Woah woah woah Cars in the U.S. have been getting heavier YEARS before electric cars. Shunting the blame on EVs is disingenuous. We could certainly make fewer heavy pickups and more compact EVs which would be far more appropriate to his most drive. ALSO better city planning / transit.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's be clear about our trajectory though. We're on course for "actually EOs are law now due to (some obscure interpretation of the law)... Sincerely, the U.S. judicial system." Nothing else has really stopped him yet.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
What do you get for raping girls at Epstein ranch?
seachange12.bsky.social (@seachange12.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Reposting the organizations planning the strike, would help others to become aware. 💙
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Look. I'm guilty as any shouting into the echo chamber. But we got a world full of allies here, so who here is organized and what are our options?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I am very concerned that we will not be regaining it.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I approve. How do we rally enough people to make it happen though. This is slow cooking lobsters right now so that most Americans fear losing their livelihoods more than their freedoms. Legit asking and opening discussion. #generalstrikenow
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement - The New York Times share.google/vYoobxldUjEV...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
U.S. courts and law enforcement have abdicated to him. The normal means of shutting this down are all but gone. This is the precipice. We need to organized weekly protests, and I hate to say now might be the time to contemplate that worst case. I dread it, but this is no longer hypothetical.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement - The New York Times share.google/vYoobxldUjEV... They're doing it. They're federalizing it all and making freedom illegal. 1a, 2a, any "a". This is not a drill. I detest violence but civil politics isn't saving us.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Trump Orders Major Expansion of National Guard’s Role in Law Enforcement - The New York Times share.google/vYoobxldUjEV...
Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted
This
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
It's his alien skin. He's one of those creatures from V. Saw him eat a raw mouse once. Keeps a copy of "To Serve Man" on the Oval Office desk. Pretty sure the man eats literal babies, but he hides the evidence. Someone in conspiracy circles should definitely look into this.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Let me guess. "Mein Kampf" can be found in every 1st grade library but "Maus" is wrong ideology and also banned?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Ugh. I shouldn't even have to say it. But if you're genuinely conservative (and on this site), well...we could use you coming in now, too. share.google/MVmMT7jRZOxA...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I swear these people are aliens working on taking over the planet. I can't think of a rational explanation for how everything they do is purely and consciously destructive.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Jedi don't want to have legitimate conversations, just poke at people to get a response and feed their own egos.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Compared to certain currently active representatives, I fail to see an issue here.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait. Nancy Mace doesn't know what a gun looks like.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait. Somebody WROTE those?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
No wonder they've been disavowing that part of 2a all those years.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
It's kind of a super power. A really creepy superpower. Like, A24 films creepy.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Guilty pleasure film, but soundtrack is just pure pleasure.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
The difference between Trump and I is that my ego cannot be bruised.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe the newspeak term is "acquired". You would do well to use the approved language, brother. It's more patriotic.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Dear Andy boy. Affordable housing IS a woke issue.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Remember... When we discover that Iran still has nuclear enrichment capability, it'll be Biden's fault. Or the media smeering the President. Or Hillary's emails. Or Epstein, even. But it definitely won't be the Trump administration owning their countless failures. share.google/X8GUQK4ZIIDF...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a 6A and had not heard about this... Looking into it now.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social)
Um...no. share.google/w9Spp0Ti1yXy...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"Russia's not trying to*influence* our elections! They're just trying to INFLUENCE our elections, and they're nothing wrong with that... Other countries do it all the time, so it must be ok!" I mean, these people lack any capacity for logical or cogent thought.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
They killed DEI. So I stopped shopping with them. Do good and I'll frequent your business. Be dicks, and suck it...I owe you nothing.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"Oh God. Oh God. I'm so sorry. Um...is it the zucchini, Fucking zucchini...oh God...I am so, so sorry..."
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Well it's become a shithole country, full of crime and violence, disrespected on the world stage and a populace fearful for their future, run by a swamp of corrupt, unqualified sycophants. Since this crisis started under Trump's watch it MUST, therefore, somehow be Obama's fault. THANKS OBAMA.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds a lot like a cartel to me.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Oof. Now that's a hot take that does not agree well...at all...racists be racisming.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't hear Putin say thank you. Not even once.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
You can’t assert the former without the latter also being true.
Phil Plait (@philplait.bsky.social) reposted
I love this movie and think it's one of the (if not the) best adaptations of the book. The Martian warships are incredibly cool and menacing.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Well how can we trust a man of "low IQ" to tell us the truth? What do you mean "that's racist". I'm orange and rich. I don't get it.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you confront them? Offer them an ass whippin if they didn't shut up and try to enjoy the festival? Threaten their future screen time? Just asking as an enthusiast of...uh..."local law enforcement".
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
What the hell ever happened to "uniforms". They look like armed thugs. Maybe someone should look into their activities as possibly that of a "gang."
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus. If you don't take both how will anyone know your serious? Take both. And here... Use my Anamaniacs pencil and pencil sharpener set. Nothing says "I'm ready" like Yakko, Wakko and Dot on a pencil sharpener.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
He's planning to do something elsewhere in the country and is looking to bulwark his personal defenses while provoking his opponents.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"But if we can't help EVERYBODY then it must be a FAILURE!" I have heard so many times, as if helping 80% could for nothing.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Somehow expected "three bullions walk into a bar..."
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not laughing. YOU'RE laughing.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Not so sure this is satire.....
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean why they would allow ANYONE not part of his security detail near him at that point is suspect. What if there was a second assassin?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
"Well they're not willing to give anything so Putin's just gonna have to take it." - Trump, presumably
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
It's always transactional with Trump, and always using resources that aren't his.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey Ray, I'll take this one. Is the correct answer, "a shithole President?". Because yeah. What you said. I think you called it.
NASASpaceflight.com (@nasaspaceflight.com) reposted
The legendary commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, has passed away at the age of 97. Ryan Caton has a thoughtful and heartfelt tribute to his life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuSg...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
The jokes write themselves but somehow I suspect this has more to do with a man in an apron...
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, man, spoilers, am I right?
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I GET IT NOW. Your JOB depends on social media growing like cancer so you can increase your exposure. Pretty self serving post you got there.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
For clicks and likes... With no comfort if irony.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't see the problem. We have communities. They are active. We don't need more people. B Happy to take them if they're interested, but we didn't need them.
nicholasmonks.bsky.social (@nicholasmonks.bsky.social) reply parent
The struggle against working moms and tamale vendors is an endless cause. ICE suffers daily every time they fail to murder a mom and tamale vendors. Lost bounties.