Kenley Smith

Kenley Smith

@kenleysmith.bsky.social

Playwright. Co-founder, Tennessee Playwrights Studio (tnplaywrights.bsky.social / tnplaywrights.org). Pawleys Island, SC. WV bred. More stuff at kenleysmith.com. #covidconscious

1,830 Followers 1,580 Following 84 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 weeks ago

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

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3 weeks ago
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Wherefore art thou, Godzilla?

Godzilla Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: ROMEO & JULIET & GODZILLA from @idwpublishing hits shelves April 8th, FOC March 2nd! This comic will please kaiju fans and English teachers alike!

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1 month ago

Tell me how ICE are not domestic terrorists if they instill fear, anger, anxiety, and terror wherever they go. Defunding ice isn’t far enough. Abolishing ICE altogether is the only answer we should accept.

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1 month ago
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Check out video of Red-Winged Blackbird, Brown-Headed Cowbird landing on mollybreen's Birdbuddy feeder Beautiful video of Red-Winged Blackbird, Brown-Headed Cowbird landing on mollybreen's Birdbuddy feeder located in Pawleys Island, United States!

app.mybirdbuddy.com/media/pawley...

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1 month ago
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Cops killed 2 people in chase after stop for a paper tag. Does evidence back their claims? A Mannford, Oklahoma, officer claimed a Bristow mother tried to run him over with her car as she fled a traffic stop. The claim isn't supported by video evidence.

Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Another execution over trivial bullshit.

Cops killed 2 people in chase after stop for a paper tag. Does evidence back their claims? tucson.com/news/nation-...

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1 month ago

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

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1 month ago
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‘How many more Americans need to die?’: Minneapolis mayor lambastes Trump after fatal shooting Jacob Frey’s full response after federal agents shoot and kill 37-year-old US citizen on 24 January

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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1 month ago

no greenlander ever called me a libtard

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2 months ago
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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2 months ago

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic.

It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today.

Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

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2 months ago
I enjoy a nice class of Pinot as the warm late afternoon sun hits a South Carolina pond.

Nice way to celebrate the magic hour!

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2 months ago

T'IS THE SEASON - PLEASE DON'T BE THE REASON ... that an un-vaxed infant, elderly grandparent, or any other vulnerable person isn't here next year.

💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.

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2 months ago
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

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2 months ago

I mean, we all had "Bari Weiss tries to kill a story at CBS that would have made Trump look bad but she does such a bad job trying to kill it that everyone finds out about it and the story leaks within 24 hours" on our Bingo cards, but that doesn't make it any less notable.

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2 months ago
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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

“I think most anti-alarmists don’t have strong values, so they assume no one else does, either. To them, political commentary is a gig, it’s a game.” newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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3 months ago
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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3 months ago

Gee, it couldn't have had anything to do with mental health, right? Only white shooters that didn't grow up in a warzone get the privilege of having PTSD

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3 months ago

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.

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3 months ago

The US system has thoroughly demonstrated to Europe that we can produce prominent families full of imbeciles WITHOUT relying on centuries of inbreeding.

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4 months ago

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

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4 months ago
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This is amazing!!

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4 months ago
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has issued a warning about license plate tampering and has launched a reporting hotline to address the issue.

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4 months ago

If scientists ran the same experiment as many times as Dem campaign strategists have tried the experiment of throwing progressives under the bus to pander to the right and failed, they'd accept it as irrefutable proof that their theory is flawed and adjust accordingly.

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4 months ago
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The Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize the communities they pretend to serve. Let’s show them the same kindness we did to target!

use the website boycotthomedepot.network and the toolkit at bit.ly/boycotthomed... to spread the word!

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4 months ago
A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

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4 months ago

I always have, except for the time a Walgreens employee asked me not to. He wanted an excuse to go outside, and in solidarity, I agreed. Still felt icky, though.

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5 months ago
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

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