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Rian

@rianfowler.com

šŸ‘‹šŸ¼šŸ‘ØšŸ»ā€šŸ’»šŸ• He/Him, Minnesota, cis, gay, dog dad, and staunch trans ally šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ Frontend factotum working on a developer platform. JS, TS, Go, Kubernetes, and Backstage.

created November 30, 2024

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Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

2/9/2025, 8:56:43 PM | 13156 3899 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

2/9/2025, 8:57:48 PM | 16803 4883 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Symptomatic rabies is a death sentence. It’s 100% fatal.

2/9/2025, 7:12:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent

The discussions on the right are getting so openly genocidal.

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2/9/2025, 3:27:57 PM | 668 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

His haircut tells me he doesn’t have a single gay friend.

2/9/2025, 2:25:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Hi, what the fuck is going on at Walter Reed?

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1/9/2025, 10:35:13 PM | 1022 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Yup and Lyme disease is on the rise dude to climate change. It’s annoying af

1/9/2025, 11:50:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

I just tell vet tech when she starts trying to explain why I should get this or that vaccine and ask ā€œhow much is it to get everything?ā€ Dogs can get Lyme disease vaccines. Embarrassing we don’t have one for people yet.

1/9/2025, 11:08:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

I can’t get this link to work.

31/8/2025, 10:53:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted

just tuned into fox news this morning

30/8/2025, 7:54:51 AM | 843 163 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Horse spymaster

30/8/2025, 10:58:39 AM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MN needs to get on this @governorwalz.mn.gov

29/8/2025, 11:19:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

ā€œDon’t worry he’s friendlyā€ ā€œYeah but my dog isn’t. So you’re creating a dangerous situation with a leash reactive dog that can’t get awayā€ It’s so damn annoying

29/8/2025, 4:05:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.

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29/8/2025, 3:21:25 AM | 3702 1347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ALOK (@alokvmenon.bsky.social) reposted

work through your pain!

29/8/2025, 8:42:01 AM | 78 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

28/8/2025, 5:05:26 PM | 5476 2933 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

damn dog this fucking sucks

28/8/2025, 5:09:17 PM | 657 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Lays truck parkour

Timeline screenshot. First post: inventing a new kind of parkour that looks cool. Second post is an image of a Lays chips truck in a river on a some rocks. ā€œThis is newsā€ says the poster. The image has a caption: Frito Lay truck lands upright after crashing down dangerous river canyon in Northern California
28/8/2025, 10:51:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture šŸ‘¹šŸ‘» boo-rit šŸ‘»šŸ‘¹ (@britculpsapp.bsky.social) reposted

this is the second time in less than 24 hours that the hospital i work at has been under a mass casualty alert for a mass shooting from what i understand, there’s a school in this church & kids were present as the school year started there this week

27/8/2025, 3:08:26 PM | 203 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Son of Eric (@spiritof44.bsky.social) reposted

Stay the fuck out of Chicago fatso . . . "you're neither wanted here or needed here!"

26/8/2025, 11:25:39 AM | 234 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture whet moser (@whetmoser.com) reposted

used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

27/8/2025, 1:03:40 PM | 5330 1042 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Didn’t read but I’m assuming it’s about store managers doing wage theft. southshorepress.com/stories/6637...

27/8/2025, 1:10:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

I wanted to like it but there’s a meta and I got a lot of nags about picking the wrong skills.

26/8/2025, 9:32:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the nice thing about the new Cracker Barrel sign is I spend less time figuring out what it is and more time not thinking about eating there

26/8/2025, 2:23:36 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

25/8/2025, 9:47:29 PM | 7463 2225 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

I can’t read the label but seems at least a year. I found this article about it that has some info on how to test if sunscreen is still good: www.mydadthechemist.com/reviews/bior....

26/8/2025, 12:54:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

25/8/2025, 11:53:49 PM | 24833 7063 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Gonna be a sad day when I run out.

Several unopened Japanese Biore UV sunscreen bottles
26/8/2025, 11:16:03 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bsky needs a yikes button

25/8/2025, 12:31:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Archon mind flavoring 1985: Come Back to It

24/8/2025, 9:55:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The C is for cool

24/8/2025, 9:19:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

21/8/2025, 10:18:55 PM | 1969 627 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Shipping to individuals sound inefficient. Maybe if they shipped it to a centralized location that people could go to when they need food. And maybe those people could trade some sort of ā€œcurrencyā€ for this food. Wow someone should do this.

22/8/2025, 1:15:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know I’m in for dealing with a mess when no one in the meeting is taking notes.

21/8/2025, 3:23:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cohesion is the vibe in this house.

21/8/2025, 1:27:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mikki Kendall (@karnythia.bsky.social) reposted

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

21/8/2025, 4:36:55 AM | 7343 2044 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

My friend told me he’s ā€œstepping downā€ to the board of directors. Rich people only fail up

21/8/2025, 9:12:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

*reading this at 4am after waking up thinking about coding*

21/8/2025, 9:09:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Aww I can hear the last bit of that music.

21/8/2025, 1:28:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

They absolutely do. I’ve heard nothing but the edgiest shit from normies lately and frankly it’s an about gd time.

20/8/2025, 9:45:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where will Nazis get their unseasoned white gravy now?

20/8/2025, 9:43:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

i'm not "voting blue no matter who" for this sack of shit, sorry!

20/8/2025, 5:16:47 PM | 2056 349 | View on Bluesky | view

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Puts the ass in assets

19/8/2025, 6:09:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Claude please increase my conversion rate

19/8/2025, 11:53:35 AM | 86 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

19/8/2025, 9:05:44 AM | 10487 3591 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Democrats are their sports team.

19/8/2025, 8:59:13 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ALOK (@alokvmenon.bsky.social) reposted

gender non-conformity belongs everywhere.

19/8/2025, 7:01:31 AM | 100 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dempsey my dog laying on his dog bed with his head resting on two toys.
19/8/2025, 8:36:35 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just made the same face I’d make if I just saw someone put way too much mayo on my sandwich.

17/8/2025, 11:12:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not sure the the point of making all that money is if you can’t carve out two hours to watch a masterpiece.

17/8/2025, 10:58:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really have to stop buying so many Crocs.

17/8/2025, 10:29:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tic Tac Toe themed room

17/8/2025, 10:02:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Reminds me of this coworking space near me that’s since rebranded away from ā€œmeeting rooms with black and white photos of dudes smoking cigarsā€ and $1700 ā€œinitiation fees.ā€

Four Images collage from a Coworking space from top left clockwise: image of a coffee bar, image of a meeting room that with a print of a guy smoking a cigar on a black wall, image of a guy sitting on a couch looking back at the camera as several people in the background socialize, and image of the Coworking space’s logo on glass called The Social est 2018 and You can see a typical office furniture in the room
17/8/2025, 5:49:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really feels like I’m paying twice as much for groceries lately.

17/8/2025, 3:31:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen.bsky.social) reposted

In many respects, «artificial intelligence» is less a model of the human mind than a technical implementation of neoliberal market theory: a simulation of supposedly superhuman rationality optimized for efficient problem solving, which leads to mostly irrational and ultimately destructive results 1/

17/8/2025, 12:51:34 PM | 373 78 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uncle Fester is stuntin

17/8/2025, 12:07:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

It got funnier every time he explained it which is why he kept re explaining it. Elon just loves to make people laugh.

16/8/2025, 5:03:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thinking about all the times I used that method to get out of a conversation because I was bored.

16/8/2025, 2:28:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wild how outrageously stupid he is.

16/8/2025, 12:57:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should I walk all of the episodes of Alien: Nation first? I don’t want to be confused.

Image from TV series Alien Nation. Human on left. Alien on the right. Looks like a buddy cop movie
16/8/2025, 12:27:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jealous people always trying to tear down hotties.

16/8/2025, 12:05:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone thought Parasite Eve was a documentary

16/8/2025, 1:48:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gosh I can’t believe this super savvy politician lost the Presidency to Donald Trump

15/8/2025, 10:27:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m smart so I avoid fascism by voting for fascism-lite.

15/8/2025, 12:34:01 PM | 119 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My senator is out here crying about the poor farmers she hosed with her confirmation vote. bsky.app/profile/amyk...

15/8/2025, 1:03:08 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

There’s a movie about this. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/advantageous

14/8/2025, 9:49:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Yes

Image of wild rice stew
14/8/2025, 11:59:06 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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

In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand. Rather than treat emergency powers as a dangerous tool to be wielded with care and caution, this president has used them with reckless abandon as a toy — a means through which he can live his fantasies of strength, domination and authoritarian control.
13/8/2025, 9:55:14 AM | 1438 225 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture drew (@adrew.dadguy.help) reposted

it puts the lotion on the skin or it gets a 404 again

13/8/2025, 2:13:01 PM | 48 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yesss

13/8/2025, 12:44:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy guacamole

12/8/2025, 8:39:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You voted to confirm the current secretary of agriculture. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

12/8/2025, 7:06:19 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ā€˜reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

12/8/2025, 5:23:20 PM | 3222 824 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loser Laments Machine

12/8/2025, 1:27:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I simply cannot believe a CIA asset would do this.

12/8/2025, 1:22:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There profitable in the same way DoorDash burning through millions of 0% interest loans was profitable.

12/8/2025, 10:56:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RAT MODE ACTIVATED!

12/8/2025, 10:31:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Liberals build the tools of fascism.

12/8/2025, 1:09:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) reposted

That’s how you do it.

Emma Fitzsimmons tweet: Zohran Mamdani says Cuomo doesn’t care about rent stabilized apartments and is just targeting him for political reasons: ā€œI live rent free in his head.ā€
11/8/2025, 2:02:07 PM | 6680 955 | View on Bluesky | view

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The way the McKinsey consultant jumped out

11/8/2025, 12:44:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@ianferguson.bsky.social) reposted

Fuckin’ sick

10/8/2025, 4:24:34 PM | 9297 2644 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

People who buy things create jobs. This is the exact opposite of what mentally ill wealth hoarders do.

11/8/2025, 12:37:39 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/8/2025, 11:32:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œDiscover feedā€ is what they say to you as your body is tossed into the trough

9/8/2025, 10:22:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey now. We have some awesome tacos in the Midwest.

9/8/2025, 9:49:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have an older version of it and they’re awesome. Remote work for three years and it’s still going strong. Never had an office chair last this long. www.upliftdesk.com/pursuit-ergo...

9/8/2025, 9:42:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fail democratic primary candidate and Trump collaborator Andrew Cuomo

8/8/2025, 11:32:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

8/8/2025, 6:17:42 PM | 1753 554 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social) reposted

Democrats running to daddy to get a lick of the lolly is the most bitch made shit imaginable.

8/8/2025, 1:01:16 AM | 276 50 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s especially easy for a gay vet like Pete who served during DADT.

8/8/2025, 9:51:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Koohi (@zanrai.bsky.social) reposted

This battleship is kinda fun to blow up. Still doing some tests, but I dig it. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #VISEGUNNE #indiegamedev

7/8/2025, 10:57:10 PM | 477 61 | View on Bluesky | view

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It makes all the same mistakes. Except now it talks like a millennial.

7/8/2025, 11:51:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour. www.them.us/story/pete-b...

7/8/2025, 12:03:37 PM | 3991 816 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted reply parent

Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:

NEW YORK, NY – Today, the New York Times reported that Andrew Cuomo is coordinating with President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming New York City mayoral election to help billionaires buy this race and steal it from the very New Yorkers on the frontlines against Trump's authoritarianism. Andrew Cuomo tried to hide this from the public because he knew how damaging it would be. In response, Zohran Mamdani released the following statement: ā€œAndrew Cuomo has spent his career governing for the powerful and prioritizing his own self-interests over those of the people he was sworn to serve. This is not just a shady backroom deal by a cynical politician, it is disqualifying. It is a betrayal. Donald Trump is sending masked agents to rip our neighbors off the street, gutting the social services so many New Yorkers rely on, and threatening to deport me for having the audacity to stand up to him and his billionaire friends. The job of New York City Mayor is not to be jester for a wannabe king, it is to protect the people of this city.ā€
6/8/2025, 9:20:28 PM | 2971 871 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rian (@rianfowler.com) reply parent

Easy block. Whatever this douche thinks other people should be posting is probably boring as shot.

7/8/2025, 10:21:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you talking about the Kobe Bryant tribute?

7/8/2025, 2:47:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All mouth no eyes

6/8/2025, 11:02:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RollerGirl WISHLIST ON STEAM (@rollergirlgame.bsky.social) reposted

RollerGirl is going to Seattle!✨ Come check us out as part of the PAX Rising showcase happening August 29th to September 1st - Booth 825!

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I’ll be getting back cramps from all the dabbing

6/8/2025, 11:10:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view