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Etaoin Shrdlu

@squarestate.bsky.social

genealogist, former consultant systems and process re-engineering, information technologist, confirmed progressive, Univ of Dayton Flyers fan, Buckeye to the core, Colorado resident

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Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America A new low for the Democratic Senate

@TheRickWilson : "The Republicans cannot believe their luck. They get to end the shutdown, blame it on Democrats, and go back to the MAGA base and say, β€œWe killed Obamacare at last!”" https://open.substack.com/pub/therickwilson/p/schumer-and-the-hateful-eight-betray?r=2lckc&utm_medium=ios

10.11.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1446    πŸ” 522    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 36
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Yall know the rules. 1st to pass out gets the sharpie

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Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have β€œthe worst health care” of any major country.

Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.

The solution: Medicare for All.

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Salman Rushdie talks free speech ahead of Dayton Literary Peace Prize honor Salman Rushdie is the 2025 recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation’s Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. He will receive the honor at the Dayton Literary P...

Salman Rushdie talks free speech ahead of Dayton Literary Peace Prize honor
daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/s...

09.11.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is no grave for Hitler. Germany didn't want Nazis to worship him at his grave.

When our national nightmare is finally over, Trump shouldn't have a grave either.

And there shouldn't be a picture of him in the White House either. Images of Hitler are banned in Germany.

07.11.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 409    πŸ” 143    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 9

They really stuck the landing on this one.

07.11.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4255    πŸ” 866    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 8

I guess every American will lose 40 pounds, then put it back on and repeat the cycle 10 times. Like Mark Twain who said he could stop smoking any time he wanted--he'd done it a thousand times.

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Hilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | Linguapax InternationalHilo de Ju’gthë’sx Pthuuse’jnxi’s project wins the 2025 International Linguapax Award | L...

The winner of the 2025 Linguapax Award has been announced, and it's an amazing group in Colombia doing important work on language maintenance and revitalization under very difficult circumstance. Read more below
www.linguapax.org/en/hilo-de-j...

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Trump standing looking indifferent while a man possibly dies next to him. A few bald men hold his legs up in the air as if he’s going to take a giant shit or give birth. Sure, maybe it’s to help the blood flow to his head faster. Either way, graphic reads β€œTrump care, concepts of a plan since 2015.”

Trump standing looking indifferent while a man possibly dies next to him. A few bald men hold his legs up in the air as if he’s going to take a giant shit or give birth. Sure, maybe it’s to help the blood flow to his head faster. Either way, graphic reads β€œTrump care, concepts of a plan since 2015.”

New ad dropped:

06.11.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3470    πŸ” 576    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 31

From Steve Bannon's mouth to God's ears.

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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

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People used to try to convince me that GW Bush was secretly smart and now they try to convince me that Trump is secretly smart.

Nope. They're dumb. Our system elevated dumb men all the way to the top, that's what we have to reckon with.

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Meme. Medieval peasants from Monty Python's Holy Grail, digging in the dirt. They are wearing grimy, patched clothes and they look *exactly* like you think medieval peasants should look. One of them is looking down at his work, but the other, the one on the right, is looking up at you. His face seems contemplative and relatively calm. However, If you've seen the movie, you know what's coming: you're about to learn that they don't have a lord, and that they're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

But what they're not telling you is that their entire internal economy is built on eels. Because...well...why wouldn't it be?

Neither man is named in the movie, and that's a shame. We should call them Lycromae and Aelfrovark. You can decide who is who, though the fellow on the right feels like an Alefrovark to me. 

Meme text reads:
"We've only got time
for Facebook"

Meme. Medieval peasants from Monty Python's Holy Grail, digging in the dirt. They are wearing grimy, patched clothes and they look *exactly* like you think medieval peasants should look. One of them is looking down at his work, but the other, the one on the right, is looking up at you. His face seems contemplative and relatively calm. However, If you've seen the movie, you know what's coming: you're about to learn that they don't have a lord, and that they're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. But what they're not telling you is that their entire internal economy is built on eels. Because...well...why wouldn't it be? Neither man is named in the movie, and that's a shame. We should call them Lycromae and Aelfrovark. You can decide who is who, though the fellow on the right feels like an Alefrovark to me. Meme text reads: "We've only got time for Facebook"

Did medieval peasants have more free time than you? No way! Think of all the eels they had to catch & prepare!

In 1290, villagers in Ramsey were responsible for taxes on 365,000 eels per year. 365k!

That takes a lot of time. Time *you* use in messing about on Twitter! 1/3
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05.11.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

More than one something.

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Petrified life is a contradiction in terms.

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By rights, the headline should be Good Riddance, but not in The NYT

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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

β€œThree men in black vests entered a NY restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM”

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Alvin Bragg Is Re-elected as Manhattan’s District Attorney

Alvin Bragg re-elected as Manhattan’s District Attorney. One of his accomplishments - convicting Donald Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

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Let me know which channel, I don't want to miss it.

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Dick Cheney, Powerful Former Vice President Who Served Four Republican Presidents, Dies at 84 The national-security hawk was an architect of the post-9/11 U.S. war on terror.

When you look for who embodied American hatred, who exploited our coarsest and basest instincts, and who invented a presidency that could be refashioned as a dictatorship, here's your guy. Among the worst of us.
www.wsj.com/politics/dic...

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Dayton dominates first half of season opener vs. Canisius The Dayton Flyers played their best first half of a season opener in recent memory, building a 51-27 halftime lead against Canisius on Monday at UD Arena.

Dayton wins 21st straight season opener in dominant fashion daytondailynews.com/sports/dayto...

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