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SRE and Python developer artist, elder goth, hobbyist mermaid, breast cancer survivor she/her https://linktr.ee/bshaurette Gleefully blocking spam accounts since 2023

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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?

Federal workers aren’t furloughed.

Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.

Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.

It puts the politicians jobs on the line.

They get the budget passed.

09.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 2701    🔁 897    💬 84    📌 79

We sent the presidencies of Harding and Nixon straight to hell for a fraction of the corruption that happens every hour of every day on camera in this regime

08.11.2025 05:58 — 👍 715    🔁 171    💬 7    📌 4

fwiw I moved most of my domains over to PorkBun earlier this year and it was smooth as could be - I really like them

08.11.2025 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s been my research process for almost every personal dollar spend for a few years now.

08.11.2025 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am digging the creative dunking by the Dems

06.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 1956    🔁 265    💬 32    📌 8
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🌴🐍 PyCon US 2026 is heading to California! 🇺🇸☀️
Join us in Long Beach for the world’s largest Python conference! 💙

📅 May 13–19, 2026
📍 Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center

💡 CFP open until Dec 19, 2025
🤝 Sponsorships now open
🔗 us.pycon.org/2026

#PyConUS2026 #Python #PSF @python.org

05.11.2025 22:01 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

This is awesome and true wthhyb.sacha.house/

06.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

05.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 19846    🔁 5904    💬 267    📌 748

It’s only a Guillotine if it’s from the Guillotine region of France.

Otherwise it’s merely a sparkling wealth redistributor.

05.11.2025 06:32 — 👍 77    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

It's important to remember that the Democratic establishment isn't responsible for any of this. They actively fought against the things that brought so many wins last night.

05.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 36    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

:D I hope you at least slept in a little bit today. You’ve been hitting the ground running for months, you deserve at least a small break before you dig in for the hard work ahead.

05.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I can’t remember the last time I happily sat and watched election returns come in. My stomach has been a solid knot since January, but tonight it’s loosened a little.

05.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Let the natural experiment in Democratic governance begin The socialist Zohran Mamdani and centrist Daniel Lurie offer two possible futures for the party.

How about ALL the different futures? We contain multitudes and we don’t hand over the keys to billionaires is a pretty good vibe www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

05.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 766    🔁 78    💬 17    📌 3
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05.11.2025 02:41 — 👍 87287    🔁 18523    💬 3230    📌 2421

"“It is clear to anyone with a glimmer of intellectual honesty that we have to rebuild our brand and move to the center if we ever hope to win red and purple seats ever again,” Legacki said.”

Oh they can fuck right off with that. How about just helping the American people instead of “branding”?

04.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”

Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”

Woke up today to the news

04.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 7301    🔁 1726    💬 138    📌 230

I’m up a few hours early myself and I hadn’t heard yet, so you got to tell two people, technically! 😆🎉🥳

04.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins:

Baldwin (WI)
Bennet (CO)
Booker (NJ)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Klobuchar (MN)
Ossoff (GA)
Peters (MI)
Rosen (NV)
Schiff (CA)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Welch (VT)

02.11.2025 14:51 — 👍 1615    🔁 626    💬 103    📌 102

This dance is so well-known and beloved, and popular with flash mobs for years. I wish the guy who choreographed it were still around to appreciate the impact of his creativity. 😀

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

01.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

01.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 34999    🔁 4170    💬 1002    📌 368

If this isn’t a “let them eat cake” moment, I don’t know what is.

01.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

augh that’s so creepy I love it

01.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Glamour UK Magazine made 9 trans women as their collective Women of the Year

Instead of offering congratulations, JK Rowling naturally tried insulting them instead

Glamour’s response, however, is priceless

31.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 435    🔁 107    💬 19    📌 15
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David Brooks: "If you want a policy change, go to the voters. Don't shut down the government. ... Our democracy has deteriorated to such a degree [that] there should be howling outrage."

31.10.2025 22:53 — 👍 215    🔁 41    💬 36    📌 2

We’re going to have to raze the whole thing and restore it once this is all over, aren’t we?

31.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thieves Rob 1,000 Collection Items From California Museum Native American artifacts and jewelry were among the objects taken from the Oakland Museum of California’s off-site facility.

Well this blows. :/ I love the Oakland Museum so much.

hyperallergic.com/1053431/thie...

31.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps:
"NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE"
– US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

A tweet from John Fugelsang reads in all caps: "NO FOOD FOR YOU UNTIL THE DEMOCRATS LET US TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE" – US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

This perfectly encapsulates what the GOP position is on the shutdown.

29.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 5064    🔁 1729    💬 97    📌 41

He just wants to spread propaganda and he has the money to do it.

29.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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