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@discofruit.bsky.social

Former foreign service, current squeaky wheel

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Oh you donโ€™t organize large scale canvassing efforts, knocking on doors and pushing abortions on people? Sounds suspiciously like you are not in fact in favor of abortion as a hobby. Suss ๐Ÿค”

01.12.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿคฌ

01.12.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"

Mark Kelly: "It seems to."

Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"

Mark Kelly: "Noโ€ฆGoing after survivors in the water is unlawful."

30.11.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13211    ๐Ÿ” 3693    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 301    ๐Ÿ“Œ 127
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"If the President orders soldiers to do it, it's not illegal."
From the Nixon Chapter of the TrumpLaw Code of Military Justice.

24.11.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 666    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

23.11.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6023    ๐Ÿ” 1750    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 110

๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ

23.11.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a Berkeley grad, this warms my heart.

23.11.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kashoggiโ€™s widow and Democrats demand release of a call transcript with Trump and Saudi crown prince It is unlikely that the Trump administration would voluntarily release the 2019 call transcript.

The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi called Friday for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President Trump had with Mohammed bin Salman, joining lawmakers raising questions about whether Trump personally benefitted from his embrace of the Saudi crown prince.

22.11.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 52    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Officer acquitted in death of Taโ€™Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting An Ohio officer who fatally shot a pregnant Black mother in a supermarket parking lot after she was accused of shoplifting has been acquitted of murder.

Officer acquitted in death of Taโ€™Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting

22.11.2025 08:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I agree. Sheโ€™s not standing on principle, she has just updated her beliefs about who holds the power.

22.11.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How embarrassing for Chuck Schumer, Kirstin Gillibrand, Cory Booker, & NY Reps Grace Meng, Dan Goldman, Ritchie Torres, Greg Meeks, Tom Suozzi, & Laura Gillen, that even Donald Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before they did.๐Ÿ˜

Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

22.11.2025 03:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1382    ๐Ÿ” 288    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.

Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global award.

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

19.11.2025 03:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 869    ๐Ÿ” 240    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canadaโ€ฆ So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

19.11.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23148    ๐Ÿ” 5577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 784    ๐Ÿ“Œ 532
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

19.11.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22432    ๐Ÿ” 7866    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 882    ๐Ÿ“Œ 481

Iโ€™d like to be able to say that today is the first time I accidentally got my hair dyed to match the dog. But I cannot. Any therapists care to comment? I didnโ€™t even realize it until I took a picture of us together.

19.11.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Connecticut Towing Companies Frequently Value Cars Low, Allowing Them to Sell Vehicles Quickly โ€” ProPublica A database created by The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica of more than 6,000 forms submitted by the stateโ€™s towing companies shows a pattern of low values, including for some luxury cars.

Always nice to see predatory businesses just openly stealing and getting away with it. Thatโ€™s just good capitalism ๐Ÿคจ
apple.news/AKAjyNlPDS_y...

18.11.2025 19:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

18.11.2025 16:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22036    ๐Ÿ” 9068    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1645    ๐Ÿ“Œ 847
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OMG has anyone accidentally left their dog unplugged for like two hours??

17.11.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What a photograph.

โ€œNearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicagoโ€ฆโ€

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign youโ€™re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

15.11.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22947    ๐Ÿ” 9972    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 878    ๐Ÿ“Œ 684

larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women

16.11.2025 05:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1773    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Sounds like a trap to me

16.11.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes Iโ€™m bathing in the schadenfreude of Trump followers finding out that what heโ€™s been hiding all along is dicks. But that doesnโ€™t make me feel better about the ongoing brutality and oppression of innocent civilians by the US Govt, at least partly in service of distracting us from the dick hiding.

16.11.2025 08:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The grammar telling on him ๐Ÿ˜Š

16.11.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And this is why...

16.11.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A reminder of the proper way to respond to ICE fascists.

16.11.2025 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 728    ๐Ÿ” 290    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.

16.11.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14717    ๐Ÿ” 4230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 922    ๐Ÿ“Œ 290

Iโ€™m an economist and I strongly agree with you. I think a lot of the economic activity of today would have been recognized as scams, grifts, and pyramid schemes a few decades ago.

15.11.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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