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@trappings.bsky.social

Still Here Again. No I am not an American.

created February 6, 2025

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It's a type of racism that's only possible in dense mixed use urban areas.

2/9/2025, 2:13:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good reminder that the economy is mostly vibes. Even so reality will catch up eventually.

30/8/2025, 1:32:54 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Biden had implemented the exact same policies the US would be in a deep depression right now and face hyper inflation. The only reason things are holding somewhat steady is that investors and business owners have a religious belief that Trump must be good for the economy.

30/8/2025, 1:31:26 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One nice thing about living in Austria is that our current government is way way less hitlerite than than the general population. What's less nice is that the general population is extremely hitlerite.

29/8/2025, 12:03:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The power of the sun at your fingertips"

28/8/2025, 10:37:42 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If any car can burn so hot it turns into plasma it's the Cybertruck.

28/8/2025, 10:07:59 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This was the first railway workers strike in probably decades and it lasted for only 1 or 2 days (I don't remember exactly). But the cherry on top is that other train operators are in fact allowed to use the infrastructure. It's just that they're not competitive on most lines.

28/8/2025, 1:20:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hate euro liberals so much dude

28/8/2025, 1:11:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But have you considered: www.allrail.eu/mediaposts/a...

28/8/2025, 1:11:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's not particularly unpopular. though. His net approval rating is -5% to -10% depending on the poll. I seriously doubt that Harris would be more popular right now. The difference then being that his base are true believers. Having 30% of the population follow your lead no matter what is valuable.

27/8/2025, 5:10:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's cool is that these numbers will remain unchanged no matter how bad things get. One in three Americans will support him no matter what.

26/8/2025, 1:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not a single democrat has run on an open borders policy.

25/8/2025, 5:43:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder why

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25/8/2025, 5:35:14 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd put that up to age being a major issue leading up to the election and Bernie being older than Biden so he got cuaght in the blast. He's also been supportive of Biden for way longer than he should have been.

25/8/2025, 5:17:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reading that single paragraph have me intense whiplash

20/8/2025, 8:14:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Schonmal mit FPÖ Wählern geredet? Die leben nicht in der gleichen Realität. Hätten wir bis zur nächsten Wahl perfekte Preisstabilität und Reallohngewinne wäre das fúr die nur der Beweis, dass die Statistiken von der Neuen Weltordnung gefälscht wurden.

20/8/2025, 10:38:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stand Juli liegt die durchschnittliche Inflationsrate in Ö zwischen 2,5 und 3,5%. Es könnten genau so gut 0 sein und die Chancen der FPÖ wären unverändert. Die Österreicher lechzen nunmal nach einem starken Mann und Massenabschiebungen und "billigem" Gas aus Russland.

20/8/2025, 10:32:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beat me to it! Solid advice. Citizen would be my first pick in this price range since you tend to get more for your money than with Seiko.

16/8/2025, 5:25:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Considering what's happening in Palestine this is genocidal rhetoric.

13/8/2025, 6:40:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing to see here folks. Just the vice president of the United States posting the villain's manifesto from that shitty Kingsman movie.

10/8/2025, 6:07:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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About once a week I look up what's going on in the UK to remind me how grateful I should be not to live in that shithole.

10/8/2025, 11:01:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Messaging is important actually

9/8/2025, 1:53:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's depressing is that that's not even an exaggeration.

5/8/2025, 10:20:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So real

30/7/2025, 3:32:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loved living in the city. Too bad rent's so high.

29/7/2025, 7:33:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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China's final warning vs. America's tariff ultimatum

21/7/2025, 1:22:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's it say in English?

15/7/2025, 7:53:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not just for the UK. The entire EU had a great opportunity to invest in infrastructure and renewables and... just didn't take it. 2008 until 2024 was a period of financial hardship and opportunity that's been completely wasted.

13/7/2025, 6:20:43 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean that's the perfect employee right there.

10/7/2025, 6:55:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sarah McBride ass political analysis. She's understandably afraid but this is really narrow-minded.

10/7/2025, 6:48:27 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reliable sources tell me that he once clapped at a movie theater. Why is no one covering this?

8/7/2025, 9:03:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess I agree with this. Almost all companions hate me for siding with Creaser's Legion? Yeah, makes sense.

5/7/2025, 8:47:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The worst thing about all of this is that Internet Maoists ended up being right with the whole "Empires only last 250 years" bit

4/7/2025, 1:00:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's the only genuine belief American conservatives hold.

4/7/2025, 10:04:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Young people are used to being insincerely pandered to but when Zohran tells you what he's going to do for you, you get the feeling he actually means what he says

1/7/2025, 8:30:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't think it has much to do with his platform apart from it being different from the status quo. He's insanely charismatic and comes across as genuine in a way almost no other politician manages to.

1/7/2025, 8:30:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You said yourself that actual material conditions don't matter but narratives do. I'm not sure what you're mad at here.

1/7/2025, 5:12:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's just a f 15y/o trying to be edgy

1/7/2025, 4:58:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So I'm guessing the point is to clog up the courts so the admin essentially has a free hand?

27/6/2025, 8:37:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken I hate Blinken

24/6/2025, 1:39:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Literally zero. If I am what your focus is on you don't take the survival of your republic seriously

23/6/2025, 6:36:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who are you even talking to?

23/6/2025, 5:16:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why can't Israel and Iran just agree to disagree? Being able to disagree and leave it at that is fundamental to any healthy relationship yet we see it so rarely in international relations. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one

23/6/2025, 12:51:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Democracy dies in Darkness" Also you're expecting too much of smol bean democrats

23/6/2025, 5:24:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're right there is no Democratic party only people who call themselves Dems. Wtf are you talking about?

23/6/2025, 5:22:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you have the entire Democratic party apparatus at your back you should easily be able to saturate the media landscape.

23/6/2025, 5:17:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It absolutely is their fault. If you have an explosive story and it's not getting coverage they failed in their mission.

23/6/2025, 5:13:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes and Dems stopped talking about it two weeks later.

23/6/2025, 5:12:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Trappings (@trappings.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay so one Senator actually did something, one was attacked and a state rep got assassinated. Two of these people were victims, one murdered and Dems at large fail to cook up a media storm. Yeah there's a couple here and there who try to do something but at its' core the party is useless.

23/6/2025, 5:09:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gamers to the front

22/6/2025, 11:50:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Biden admin drew two dozen red lines for Israel, each soon to be crossed with no real consequences to follow. There's no indication that a Harris admin would have broken with Israel over this.

22/6/2025, 11:36:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dems largely support this shit. If Harris was in power right now Israel would have behaved exactly the same with zero consequence. The only difference is that the US would have given the bunker busters and bombers to Israel instead.

22/6/2025, 11:29:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is true. The US has never been at war since 1945. Of course there were several special military operations in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Libya, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, etc. Fun fact: the last president to start a war was FDR.

22/6/2025, 9:13:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's funnier is that he pleaded for peace the moment the bombs dropped.

22/6/2025, 8:58:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ist egal. Merz wird sich sicher bald brav bei Donald bedanken.

22/6/2025, 8:48:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man fuck Israel

16/6/2025, 8:56:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's so cool how Israel is going to war with Iran for no reason and everyone is just fine with it. Not even words of condemnation from any major western leader.

13/6/2025, 6:14:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is like when Oppenheimer didn't realize that bombs kill people.

13/6/2025, 1:19:10 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Every competent political reporter" Really? All five of them?

12/6/2025, 9:04:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a shame "literally 1984" has been memed to death because this is literally 1984

12/6/2025, 12:47:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is likely true. Also Trump has more support than the protestors.

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10/6/2025, 1:57:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CNN wants the National Guard to start shooting so bad

10/6/2025, 6:01:07 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The MAGA movement really is a perfect storm. It's the point where stupidity and maliciousness intersect and are amplified by each other. Are they incompetent, stupid or just evil? The answer is yes and it's what makes them truly civilizationally destructive.

29/5/2025, 11:27:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Das ist ein bisschen so als zu meinen Wohnblöcke sind Luxus weil sie mehr kosten als Einfamilienhäuser.

29/5/2025, 9:45:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Irgendwie gibt's da eine Sicherung die bei Leuten durch brennt wenn eine Familie mehr als drei Kinder hat. Dabei ist die Familienbeihilfe ja wirklich für die Kinder da. Drei Familien mit jeweils drei Kindern kosten den Staat übrigens mehr als eine mit neun.

29/5/2025, 9:41:48 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In order for that to happen ICE will likely be given wide sweeping authorities, beyond anything we've seen thus far.

28/5/2025, 2:00:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember that they want to get rid of over 10 Mio people. They'll have to ramp it up to 15.000 per day if they're gonna do it in a reasonable time frame.

28/5/2025, 1:58:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That appears to be the goal, yes.

28/5/2025, 1:50:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that New-scum or News-cum

27/5/2025, 2:21:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know what's right for you but it's not selfish to want to be your authentic self.

27/5/2025, 5:44:02 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A gamer - the most oppressed minority

27/5/2025, 4:16:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thoughts and prayers 🙏

26/5/2025, 6:19:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gloomstalker assassin all the way

21/5/2025, 9:39:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What? No

21/5/2025, 9:38:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Men care significantly less about civil rights issues and especially younger men tend to be less educated.

21/5/2025, 8:09:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know it's lost all meaning but this is so straight up Orwellian.

20/5/2025, 5:59:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please Lord, DataKrash now

20/5/2025, 12:54:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They aren't even proceduralists anymore. Do these people believe in anything at all?

14/5/2025, 3:05:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or chemicals that turn you into a whore. Call them whoremongers.

9/5/2025, 9:05:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mr President a second Wope has hit the Vatican

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8/5/2025, 9:47:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If that's all you can see then I feel well and truly sorry for you.

8/5/2025, 9:46:49 AM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So the guy who doesn't believe history can be learnt from also believes movies don't have themes. Things are starting to click together.

8/5/2025, 9:13:31 AM | 45 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From what I understand Gisele has been trying to veer him off his worst positions but he won't budge.

8/5/2025, 7:46:28 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personally I believe that the first nuke was good and the second nuke was bad.

7/5/2025, 3:19:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Technically all men are monkey men.

6/5/2025, 9:13:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gavin Newsom finding new and innovative ways to be a disappointment

6/5/2025, 5:02:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Genuinely, it's the steroids.

6/5/2025, 4:57:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Owning the libs is the only sincere belief they hold.

3/5/2025, 1:19:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That just means the little guys need more training. Quality over quantity folks

23/4/2025, 5:58:06 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labour is no longer satisfied with being the lesser evil

22/4/2025, 1:42:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is very anti the concept of history

20/4/2025, 6:50:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I find the notion that my country couldn't be genocidally racist without the US deeply offensive

20/4/2025, 4:28:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd prefer one of these

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19/4/2025, 7:47:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Finally some man-made horror within my comprehension.

19/4/2025, 7:35:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The "empires only last 250 years on average" people were right in the end, huh?

18/4/2025, 2:55:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jake Sullivan is as despicable as anyone in the Trump admin. People like him make me hope hell exists.

17/4/2025, 8:11:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My guess it's one of those issues where it'll poll poorly but not affect people's voting behavior (like gun control).

17/4/2025, 3:49:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Few people know this but prison guards are legally required to let you leave if you ask nicely

17/4/2025, 2:47:24 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He feels most at home at morgues

17/4/2025, 4:43:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Women tend to do better in casual armies tho!

16/4/2025, 1:34:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view