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Clearly they don’t know ball. Zelda ball

I don’t even know what my first strike is on this account

Lmao got this BlueSky warning because I posted this photo with the caption they mention

It’s been a while but I was one the people who were highest on the first arc, e3 Harvest is my second or third favorite episode and the depiction of Tay Kolma as part of a planetary but not imperial bourgeois and how that contradicts his supposedly left views is one of my faves

Reupping this because you have 1 more day to vote! forms.gle/fU55gMJFx9xv...

For today's tease, here are the two polls—taken out of context from who's competing—with the closest margins between them. The first one (red up) has 3 votes over the blue. The second one (blue up) has 9 more votes

Had them balling at Maarvas eulogy last we left off so I expect good things!!

Been a while but back to showing my friend Andor, starting S2 tonight. Also ordered a bunch of Indian food for Holi too

You know I don’t! Don’t tell anyone else in history chat but I think youre the smartest one there

You know it’s an Indian holiday when your WhatsApp is filled with the worst AI slop of Shiva and every “Indian” has the whitest skin imaginable

Always just the right number for the worst possible outcome

A lot of Americans learning things I've known since I was ten

Regardless of all that the US Senate is inherently anti-democratic in its representation and a single house based only on representation is a preferable parliamentary system. Conservatives know this and is in part why the senate exists in the first place, it checks the popular will

Democrats want this war on Iran!! Look at the rhetoric for the last 10 years! Obama might be the only prominent Democrat who didn’t constantly talk about attacking Iran. They get everything they want (war, friendship with Israel) while the GOP gets all the blame. Could not be better for them

pure speculation but because people are gonna say “it’s the Republicans! It was a party line vote”: if the republicans didn’t have the number, just enough Democrats would have crossed the aisle to support this. You cannot convince me otherwise

Trying to channel it into wishing it on a very specific set of people

why don’t you be a real fucking journalist and point out the bullshit behind this

An orange tabby kitten getting real flat to hide under a trash can.

An orange tabby kitten standing on his hind legs and peeking through a slot in a table.

Le scoundrel.

Abolishing the Senate is a sensible position, alongside the Electoral College and Supreme Court

i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.

Yes! I definitely view the handing of the election as when the political contract binding the parties was torn up and the moment Democrats became more concerned with “decorum and norms” than an ideologically forward platform

Came out at the same exact time as Office Jim’s Venezuela agitprop Amazon show!!

Remember when they made a JOKER movie and Entertainment Weekly refused to assign a letter grade to it because they thought the film was too dangerous and irresponsible

Destabilizing the Middle East has been a long bipartisan project in the name of US capitalist imperialism. It's always been like this. Hillary even mentions Israel here, imagine that.

“I’ve actually let AI do 99% of my coding in recent months” says the guy whose website has been running like absolute dogshit lately

The world will not have peace unless the USA falls

Cuba is in a major blackout now. No country brave enough to stop it. No people powerful enough to pressure their government. Bleak

It’s no mistake that I find “authoritarian” and “totalitarian” to be useless terms but nothing shows that more than recent days. Somehow a country led by a faction actively undermining democratic safeguards wantonly blackbagging people and murdering them in the street doesn’t qualify as either.

TLDR: preserve the "moderate" Gulf Arab states which are all US backed dictatorships and Metternichian monarchies and dismantle Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.