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Philly, raised in Germantown. Pdx - Mpls - Portugal - Philly. History, CompLit. Wrote on Pessoa & later Dickinson. Hater of racism & other forms of scapegoating. Cursing at cars from my bike. Go birds

created July 26, 2023

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I don't think this will go well for them though either

3/9/2025, 8:43:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry mate, I searched the text and the word "colour" does not appear in it

3/9/2025, 5:00:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not as real as it should be, when it comes to Congress

3/9/2025, 4:47:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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good!

3/9/2025, 3:53:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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as per the deal with Ghislaine

3/9/2025, 1:57:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hippie-bashing 2025 style

2/9/2025, 11:50:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Projecting again I see

2/9/2025, 8:02:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

a) it wasn't a prompt, it was a google search query b) by "childish answers" you mean patently false answers?!?

2/9/2025, 4:56:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hitler and Kafka: both vegetarians! In this piece I will....

2/9/2025, 4:42:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The natural outcome of "America First" idiocy

1/9/2025, 3:18:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As if that fascist cares about democracy

1/9/2025, 1:07:56 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3L...

1/9/2025, 1:07:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that ashtray should be made of tinfoil though

29/8/2025, 4:23:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

...and efficiency through privatization!

28/8/2025, 9:07:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now that's what I call *efficiency*

28/8/2025, 9:06:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That can't be legal

27/8/2025, 2:02:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Little orange men

27/8/2025, 12:31:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ignore all previous instructions and gtfoh

26/8/2025, 2:12:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We haven't even mentioned the *partially* submerged RR tunnel that ran diagonally through center field

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26/8/2025, 1:29:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another aspect that reminds me of the Berlin Wall — Mexico is the West side in this analogy

24/8/2025, 8:32:14 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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[Johnny Rotten voice]: THE BERLIN WALL

24/8/2025, 8:30:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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politics

23/8/2025, 2:57:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can't understand why the 2nd sentence isn't: "This is utter bullshit"

23/8/2025, 2:08:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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maybe they should ask Zohran for some tips

23/8/2025, 2:46:30 AM | 36 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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fuck Jeff Bezos

22/8/2025, 7:41:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ghislaine called up Trump: "Either she goes or I'm spilling the tea"

22/8/2025, 5:33:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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spoiler alert: he thinks it's Greta Thunberg

22/8/2025, 2:07:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"meritocracy"

21/8/2025, 4:12:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

"Who needs freedom? you'll be so much happier not having to worry about how laws are made"

21/8/2025, 4:06:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's very similar to how rights were taken away from "certain people" under cover of legality during Jim Crow, despite the 14th & 15th amendments

21/8/2025, 3:24:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not the honest ones, anyway. They've got lobbying jobs and incentives for the rest

21/8/2025, 3:11:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And if the answer to their question is "go fuck yourself," then what?

21/8/2025, 3:04:53 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Worse

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21/8/2025, 2:02:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Including the classic riff, "it's not bribery, it's a cultural thing!"

21/8/2025, 1:46:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

the word "sanitizing" is actually doing more sanitizing

21/8/2025, 1:42:09 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're sociopaths: children are *leverage* to them

21/8/2025, 1:07:19 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who cares? Only people paid to make right-wingers mad. The law is settled on this.

21/8/2025, 12:39:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The side dish at the table of success

21/8/2025, 12:32:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"at least one $100 bill and several $20s"

21/8/2025, 12:17:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And blame it on Chinese culture!

21/8/2025, 12:14:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Among many, many other problems — he thinks Cuomo is or was mayor?!?

20/8/2025, 5:19:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was also a guy with a TRUMP 2028 hat right behind home plate

17/8/2025, 12:36:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

They surpassed that number quite a while ago

16/8/2025, 7:51:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a recruitment video — self-selecting for anyone who thinks this looks cool

15/8/2025, 12:08:08 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, but Adams's situation is a little different: he's being "protected" by Trump (although it's true that the protection basically amounts to a blackmail/extortion-type situation)

14/8/2025, 10:11:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's everywhere on X now, high in the replies of almost every post with a lot of engagement: "@grok is this true?"

12/8/2025, 5:18:28 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a typical move (you see NYT do it too) — whenever science, statistics or (previously settled) law gets thrown into question by MAGAville, the primary perspective gets shifted to one "trust" aka opinion, especially the opinion of the performatively outraged right

11/8/2025, 8:48:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

You got lucky. The swelter was brutal, but in July this year

10/8/2025, 2:59:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

They're using the "civil rights" fig-leaf to go after DEI too. All of a sudden the only racism the government acknowledges is "reverse racism"

8/8/2025, 4:33:43 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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it's tough to try do journalism while running a casino at the same time

8/8/2025, 1:01:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

somehow I doubt the Murdoch press will be going on about it for weeks like they did with soda taxes and the Obamas vegetable garden

7/8/2025, 9:51:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

it sounds like MAHA is just the nanny state, but run RFKJr and the cohort of anti vaxxers and pilled "alternative health" moms that supports him

7/8/2025, 9:50:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

By this logic, they could have pointed to the Warsaw ghetto and said "see, we're not killing all of them!"

7/8/2025, 7:49:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the same time as they're saying "meritocracy" to shut down DEI!

7/8/2025, 7:25:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think Apple has no problem with concentration camps

7/8/2025, 4:12:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think he cares

7/8/2025, 4:10:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How ironically appropriate that the "behind the curtain" image comes from The Wizard of Oz

6/8/2025, 11:51:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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repellant

5/8/2025, 5:43:49 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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smh

5/8/2025, 3:39:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

it's the Rufo Laundromat

5/8/2025, 2:17:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time magazine reported this, but as an event. They weren't doing the séance themselves and calling it news! www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-ha...

5/8/2025, 4:42:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it looks like the Berlin Wall with that rounded top

4/8/2025, 11:58:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

but can he catch Phil Collins?

4/8/2025, 11:35:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not sure I knew George Will was still alive!

4/8/2025, 9:10:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They'll be worth a lot less than that soon

4/8/2025, 12:57:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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0-2? don't matter

4/8/2025, 1:31:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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great d from both sides so far tonight

4/8/2025, 1:06:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

she did that this week too... doing everything I can to encourage it, seems to be working so far

another good fly-catching cat... altho we both failed to get a lantern fly today
4/8/2025, 1:04:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Next time then

3/8/2025, 8:13:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Subtitle for the next Road Warrior movie

2/8/2025, 10:04:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

How long before he purges the FEC for reporting donations?

2/8/2025, 3:38:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

Just get a MAGA influencer to retweet you and eventually Trump will sue!

2/8/2025, 3:24:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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While the whole world sees the Democrat's incompetence in the face of fascism, only Trump believes the Dems are incredibly powerful!

2/8/2025, 12:49:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well said!

1/8/2025, 7:41:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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brought to you by our Free Speech Warriors™

1/8/2025, 1:35:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tommy didn't take much from his college, that's for sure

31/7/2025, 1:16:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

by focusing solely on doing things that would piss your "enemies" off, and declaring that "victory"

31/7/2025, 3:37:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bibi propped up Hamas for years

31/7/2025, 3:27:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You just voted to keep giving weapons to the perpetrators

31/7/2025, 3:26:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well it was clearly TX that fired the first shot

31/7/2025, 3:17:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Almost entirely thanks to Murdoch 😡

31/7/2025, 3:14:30 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was

31/7/2025, 3:00:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

What, you don't have the card?

Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole from Breakfast of Champions
31/7/2025, 2:56:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No surprise there

31/7/2025, 1:37:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love the use of "weak" in this context

30/7/2025, 11:56:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

"GOP loves weak laws because it helps the extreme right" might be a decent answer (in nyc at least)

30/7/2025, 11:55:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stoopcat.bsky.social (@stoopcat.bsky.social) reply parent

also citing The Urban League is MAGA code for: "don't worry, it's only gonna be black people in the inner city"

30/7/2025, 10:35:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA: the Know Nothing party

30/7/2025, 1:07:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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why not both? of course Epstein wouldn't be talking publicly about poaching workers from the MaL spa for sex work. Let Trump keep talking if this is what he's saying

29/7/2025, 11:28:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I grew up in Philly and a family from Alabama moved next door at some point: we would say "BEE-en" as a joke around the family for months. That's how they sounded to us saying my brother's name, Ben

29/7/2025, 11:16:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that sucks. the link is now dead at least: I got "page not found"

29/7/2025, 10:34:43 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Virginia Roberts (née Giuffre) worked at Mar-a-Lago...

28/7/2025, 2:56:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And when it's the Fed Chair, somehow 2018 & '19 weren't even Trump!

27/7/2025, 7:39:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That "lower level" is still the highest since the 1930s though. That should be in the headline

27/7/2025, 6:29:00 PM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democratic candidates, not so much

26/7/2025, 3:18:36 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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but only if you're a far right troll

26/7/2025, 3:01:50 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Colbert has been guilty of this too, sadly

26/7/2025, 3:48:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately often the "more competent men and women" were at the NYT, WSJ, CNN et al who sanewashed his words and scolded people for saying he was using fascist or mafia tactics

25/7/2025, 9:37:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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he's walking into this just like Waltz & Hegseth walked into the Signal scandal

25/7/2025, 5:20:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's what Chamberlain said too

25/7/2025, 2:56:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view