RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
It simply boggles the mind.
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It simply boggles the mind.
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What a Joy it is to watch Alex Jones melt the FUCK down! 🤣🤣🤣 youtu.be/7byWbQM2_aE?...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
BRING it, ladies!!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
I hope Chicago prepares a PROPER welcome for these monstrous thugs!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
No, YOU'RE crying!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Y'all don't know me from the 837th tree along the Turnpike. But some of you have followed me here, so SOME of what I've said has been interesting to you. This is a "Golden-Age" Hard #SciFi story I'm Proud to have written. It's FREE if you've KU, cheap if you don't www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS29W144
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Bravo, @netflix.com!
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
The first two episodes of Alien: Earth are really good. Like, REALLY good!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a Bad Person, who deserves Bad Things.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Various sources tell me that he uses frozen penguins to fuck drugged elderly nuns. /Lawyer up, bitch!
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Rod Serling's shade approves of this plotline.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Any of y'all who live in DC, every time you see a member of the military, say this: "You are obeying illegal orders in violation of the UCMJ."
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
By thunder, it appears I just came up with a (weirdly) original idea for a sign for an upcoming Thing: "GRAB HIM BY THE POSSE COMITATUS" Feel free to use in any of your Things!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
This cannot be said enough: the descent of this nation into authoritarianism is not a "danger," but an on-going REALITY, a crime IN PROGRESS. Do NOT let the culty dunces and their cynical Machiavellian masters succeed in normalizing this shit! youtu.be/H2Lxmli6xgU?...
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Uhhh-huh...
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Sooth! And eloquently put!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Bloody hell!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Can someone PLEASE just find this creepy bastard's stash of boy porn already?
Republican Crimes Tracker (@gopcrimes.bsky.social) reposted
#100/2025 County elections board chair James Yokeley Jr. [R-NC] was charged with felony child abuse after being caught on video putting cocaine and MDMA in his granddaughters’ ice cream at a Dairy Queen. What kind of monster does that? Can we get 100 reposts for our 100th crime tracked in 2025?
Rose 🌹 (@rose.bsky.team) reposted
she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Relatable.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Funny, I have not tried Lagavulin until it was mentioned in The Expanse. Now, having tried it, there is no going back!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Followed for "Nice peaty Scotch!" And other stuff.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Pritzker and Newsom: whichever of these wins the Democratic Primary should have the other as his running mate. Because, regardless of their flaws (NO politician is Perfect!), they bring the fight. With what we're up against, we NEED that! youtu.be/Od9vLmkxfrI?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
🤮
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
@chris-buchanan.bsky.social
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
3) And the Big Damn Movie got made. And this is one of the MOST effective, brilliant opening sequences I've ever seen, a virtual Oner that set the scene, tone, and stakes. This was a Moment in history. youtu.be/_hJQHuqQNmY?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
2) Word of its cancellation launched me RIGHT back into Fandom after being long GAFIAted. Alas, cancellation ensued. But we were undaunted ("May've been on the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.").
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
1) I was a Browncoat from the moment I saw the first episode of Firefly that aired, a hastily cobbled-together 'Pilot," after the real (and FAR superior) original pilot was rejected by [GORRAM] Fox TV.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently, it was only a specific Florida school district that banned the book, which is horrifying enough as it is. However, this does not appear to be a Statewide ban.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Dr. @scottmanley.bsky.social's analysis of IFT 10 yesterday. Until we get official word from SpaceX, I would consider his word to be the best analysis available. Plus, his accent is BOSS! youtu.be/kZw2vyZNz5I?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Man, I hope this guy makes a play for the White House!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
FUCK! Scrub for today due to Red range re: weather.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
And Tim's feed is live for the second attempt at Starship's 10th test flight, targeting 7:30 PM (ET). Lots of groovy informative commentary from the Everyday Astronaut! www.youtube.com/live/04-mfJa...
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
Who would’ve thought Americans wouldn’t want to live in a military state? Oh that’s right, all Americans. Another negative impact of the military crackdown in DC small businesses are struggling to make sales. Restaurant reservations have dropped by nearly 30% compared with last year, and some owners
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Can't I PLEASE quantum-tunnel over to that timeline? PRETTY please??
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Wisdom!
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
Zohran Mamdani didn’t just create a joyous event — he torched Fox News’ favorite lie: “NYC is too dangerous to go outside or take the subway!!!” Turns out, the only thing to fear is their fearmongering. 🗽🔥
Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 OUTRAGE in Boulder, CO! Peaceful march honoring sIain PALESTlNlAN children disrupted by ZlONlST claiming they DESERVED TO DlE! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
bluewitch15.bsky.social (@bluewitch15.bsky.social) reposted
And let’s not forget he’s not only Loathsome but a Pedo. That’s why he is hiding the Epstein files👇🏻
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
"What you do to the least of us, you do to ME, motherfucker!"
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
"Shooty McPoop" (Tim Dodd): Officially a scrub for today. 😢
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Wee bit of a Hold...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Propellant load in progress. T- 36 minutes... www.youtube.com/live/Xv97hec...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
That would be best.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
HEADS-UP, Space Nerds!! Starship launch in just about an hour! Tune in to Tim Dodd, @erdayastronaut.bsky.social for informative commentary and infectious enthusiasm! www.youtube.com/live/Xv97hec...
Dr. Mike 🌊💙🌊 (@doctormike.bsky.social) reposted
😡 Marco Rubio's Maternal Grandfather was an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who should've been DEPORTED‼️ Pedro García, entered the U.S. without legal authorization in 1962 & lived here without formal legal status! However, he was not deported despite a Court order! www.snopes.com/news/2025/06...
shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted
i’m a believer in something @therickwilson.bsky.social said recently, which was basically “if they take 5 seats of ours, we take 10 of theirs.” there needs to be pain when they pull this shit.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
This is an occasion to open the EXPENSIVE wine!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
They have NO IDEA how ridiculous they are! That will ALWAYS be their Achilles heel!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
"Friends" makes me reflect on how old I am, while conjuring--in detail--what it was like to be young. Trash it all you like, but it will always be Precious to me (prompted by unprompted clips on YouTube).
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
If it's not one thing it's another...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
SOLID!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
#DementiaDon youtu.be/b1Y64OYV3bg?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
On the contrary, he is deeply committed to ending this war.. only his vision of its end involves Ukraine being annexed by force, thus legitimizing further such annexations. It is absolutely imperative that he gain positively DICK for this misadventure. Indeed, it is *necessary* that it COST him.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
I do Love this phrase.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
So, Edge of Tomorrow (Live, Die, Repeat) is a Perfect Movie. Fight me!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
I am in grave danger of being sucked back into gaming by Elite Dangerous (aptly named). It looks bloody SPECTACULAR! youtu.be/YESNObZJTgQ?...
Biggie (@biggienotsmalls.bsky.social) reposted
This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!....
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
I am in grave danger of being sucked back into gaming by Elite Dangerous (aptly named). It looks bloody SPECTACULAR! youtu.be/YESNObZJTgQ?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Absolutely brilliant strategy, one that cuts right to the heart of what drives him. That weak-minded infantile oaf has no defense against such withering public mockery. It will break him.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Eventually when the full depth and breadth of this wanker's corruption comes to light, I expect it's going to blow a whole lot of minds!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
That's awesome! 😂
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
YES!! ✊🏽
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Gods, I hope we eventually find out what Putin has on fuckface!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
"They believe in nothing." youtu.be/GhuXUkyRq6g?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I've been doing that a whole lot more sparingly since I realized that it was just driving traffic to them via the algorithm. Blocking without comment is the move.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
That was my first thought as well. Not that I could afford it, but I reckon the ACLU or somesuch would be delighted to take it on.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
And there's Melanoma like, "I vant the MMF vith heem and Trudeau, while leetle mushroom vatches from the tied chair, veeth the ballgag!"
woetome.bsky.social (@woetome.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Here you go! bsky.app/profile/jijo...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
🤣
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
Watch this space (if you've the stomach for it)...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
5) ...ideally in the presence of smart, moral people with whom you can hash out its refreshingly deep bench of ethical and emotional themes.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
4) All I'm saying is that, if you've been put off from watching it because of the (again, VERY well-grounded) horror at the central situation of the thing, I humbly submit that it merits a watch...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
3) Yet it never shies away from how very Dreadful a thing sets up its story. Also, it's *weirdly* faithful to physics, as a Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure almost has no right to be!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
2) But it has layers. There is no simplistic sentimental exculpatory bit: there is penance, there is sacrifice, there is morally accidental Instrumentalist validation, and...other things I won't spoil.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
1) Been thinking about the movie, "Passengers," with Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, and [surprise cameo]. It's gotten a lot of grief for the central moral Crime at its heart, and justly so: it's a BIG one!
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
It’s amazing that Washington DC can achieve its lowest crime rate in 30 years when 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is experiencing its highest crime rate in history.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
No matter how many times I hear this, it moves me right to my core! It saddens me that these words are still so timely, but it heartens me that there are still people out there who would speak them!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
This whole thing stinks like an open-air Louisiana abattoir in August!
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't dismiss that scenario. Wish I could, but I can't.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
"Idolize?" Hardly! More a matter of the utility they present themselves as offering, given the inherent fallibility of humans, and *especially* of the sorts of humans who go in for politics. Best one can expect is to find the best of the worst, really.
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social)
What an odd and marvelous occurrence this show was! youtu.be/sLYiyK7uqUE?...
RaconteurGuide☯️🌈🇺🇦🖖 (@raconteurguide.bsky.social) reply parent
No.