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Struggling in general to be honest. Finishing the second season of Severance is the only thing sustaining me at the moment.

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The finale was amazing, completely delivered on all fronts. If anyone involved in making the show is reading this, thank you.

Mark Scout somehow manages to be both the most beautifully loyal man on the planet and the most frustratingly audacious motherfucker on the planet. What a guy.

#severance

21.03.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah they said less than three years, I’ll see you in 2 years and 11 months!

21.03.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha no problem, an effect of constantly switching between Bluesky and Reddit for severance banter

14.03.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I definitely thought the cabin was going to be where they fully reintegrate Mark (which could still happen!) but I definitely wasn’t thinking about iMark and oMark finally having a conversation with one another.

Excited for it nonetheless!

14.03.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Devour feculence!

14.03.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller should pay for the therapy I’ll need after watching the MDR team fall apart in every possible way #severance

P.S. Fuck you Jame Eagan, I hope Helly beats the shit out of you next week

14.03.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’d rather throw trans people under the bus than change any of their wildly unpopular policies.

Guess it’s easier to cling to power when you villainize the marginalized instead of taking a risk and doing what most voters actually want: for politicians to abandon their corporate overlords

06.03.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Democrats will continue to lose if they don’t pivot to more fiscally progressive reforms and focus on them while also getting better at outreach.

Look at all the polls you want, keep watching Pete on Fox all you want. But also enjoy continuing to lose because low-income voters see us as the elite.

06.03.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pete campaigns for the Democratic Party. That’s why he was on Colbert. That’s why he did the campaign circuit for Harris. Yet she lost. In that regard, his messaging failed. Wasn’t just him but he failed.

Union protections, healthcare campaign finance reform, fiscally progressive reforms.

06.03.2025 07:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you don’t think any policy change is necessary we’re at an impasse.

Otherwise, I agree messaging was also terrible! Yet the Colbert interview sounded like the same messaging last year. Conservatives change your mind! Trump is repulsive!

They don’t care. Didn’t work in November won’t work now.

06.03.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohio voters cannot not worsen the conditions of their state, even if their livelihoods may depend on it.

06.03.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sticking to a message that didn’t result in the win you desired also won’t help. If people don’t vote for you, ultimately you have done SOMETHING wrong.

I don’t claim to know the solution but I don’t find it arrogant to say that the policies and strategies used to pushed them failed electorally.

06.03.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly I’m just frustrated because his talking points didn’t feel dissimilar from when he was campaigning for Harris. Which didn’t work.

I just feel like it’s Groundhogs Day and Dems aren’t changing their strategies or policies at all despite failing as hard as they did.

06.03.2025 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

While I understand that, Buttigieg absolutely has influence in the party. He is being floated as a candidate for the Senate in β€˜26 or the presidency in β€˜28. He has sway. Disappointed he praised the IMO fangless response from Sen. Slotkin. Colbert should’ve questioned this if he thinks Dems failed.

06.03.2025 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It might not be Friday but Severance comes out tomorrow and that’s all I need to keep going

06.03.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adding to that, voters don’t give a fuck about decorum or tradition anymore. Be loud, disruptive, and groundbreaking when you fight for the rights of your constituents.

Don’t just sit there quietly while a madman bulldozes through an antiquated system that doesn’t hold him accountable.

06.03.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen Colbert complaining about how Democrats aren’t doing shit during his monologue but then not bringing this up while he interviewed Pete Buttigieg, arguably one of the biggest figures in the Democratic Party right now, proves media types like him are as useless as Democrats themselves.

06.03.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Had to piggyback off Helly’s hard-earned work to get some.

That first bone session has multiple asterisks next to it!

21.02.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be precise, fuck them kids (I know it was you, Miss Huang)

21.02.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re supposed to wait?

21.02.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to think I flirt as well as Helly R. but deep down I know my game is as atrocious as Helena β€œcome meet my dad” Eagan #severance

21.02.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dog-walked with a single question, Mark can’t catch a break

14.02.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kendall could praise Kier but Helena could never L to the OG.

14.02.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Destroyed Mark too 😭

14.02.2025 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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More than 800 people submit testimony against Ohio's massive higher education overhaul bill β€’ Ohio Capital Journal Hundreds of college students, university faculty and concerned citizens submitted testimony against a controversial bill that would overhaul higher education for Ohio’s public universities.

Ohio Senate Bill 1 would ban diversity and inclusion efforts at the state’s public colleges and universities, prevent faculty from striking, set rules around classroom discussion, and put diversity scholarships at risk, among other things.

12.02.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

Following Ben Stiller for #Severance crumbs but intermittently seeing his basketball commentary that I don’t understand is a burden I’m willing to take on. Maybe I’ll end up a Knicks fan.

Please can Friday come sooner.

12.02.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dr. Strangelove’s wet dream

11.02.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

IT SOLD OUT AGAIN.

I’ll just have to settle for my lumon lapel pin πŸ’”

11.02.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The best (or worst) part is when their dumbasses get fact checked and then they somehow disappear into the internet abyss.

You just know they learned nothing from the interaction.

11.02.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I couldn't teach college students truth if zombie bill passes. It must die | Opinion The Orwellian doublespeak in Senate Bill 1 should chill every Ohioan.

My op-ed yesterday in the Columbus Dispatch against SB1. Please read and circulate. And write your own op-ed’s. And get ready for opponent testimony, probably next week. Keep an eye on @osuaaup.bsky.social

www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

06.02.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

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