CaliCarol

Got kicked off twitter before I could quit in disgust. Business advisor, #Democrat, native Californian. I hate Vladimir Putin with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. #WeAreNAFO. Going to be more mellow on Mastodon, I promise.

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2024-04-13 16:31:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7
Yep. Since I became acquainted with Doctorow's enshittification thesis for tech I actually see it everywhere.

2024-03-26 05:10:39

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
I've seen your photos here and mildly unsettling is an understatement.
But, all kidding aside your work is fascinating. Keep sharing!

2024-03-26 05:06:52

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
Oh, that wasn't blood? JK

2024-03-26 05:05:43

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
Aha. Yes, to each his own.

2024-03-26 05:03:13

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 ymmv?

2024-03-26 04:57:36

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@npub1yk6…4zz4
Beautiful? Eye of the beholder, I guess. Yuck.

2024-03-24 22:39:38

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@npub1vqm…ccpx
It really couldn't be happening at a worse time. I hope environmental organizations start amplifying the problem.

2024-03-24 15:57:38

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@npub1vqm…ccpx
It's like that if, when playing the funny video - as a bonus feature - it used enough energy to power a small state for a month.

2024-03-22 12:52:08

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@npub1lf4…kcjr
What the f*ck? No... do not stop hitting Russian refineries. It's a perfect strategy and if we're mucking with that because of concern about oil prices? F*ck that, no. Don't listen to us. I'm going to write my Congressman.
#SlavaUkraini

2024-03-17 23:23:27

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@npub1grx…uxfe
IKR? How is Microsoft involved in AI when no matter how many times I tell them I do not want to see emails from a given source they can't f*cking figure it out? I keep getting those emails? And they're going to facilitate AI in Healthcare or science or programming? GTFOH

2024-03-17 15:45:41

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@npub1grx…uxfe
I agree he cannot undo the damage he has done. "Death tax" etc. But I do credit him with what appears to me to be genuine anguish about how badly it has ended for his party, and the country. I feel like he really has regret.

2024-03-15 21:08:52

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@npub1dyt…q8lq
Looks like a closeup of a dirty snowball.

2024-03-14 14:08:51

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@npub1pu6…u9fd
Wow. The dude nails it. You could say the same damn thing about Americans.

2024-03-03 20:50:20

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@npub1zva…e2q5
I don't understand why one or more "moderate" Republican Reps won't put that gun to his head. The stakes are so high. All that's left in the GOP is traitors and cowards. It's a disgrace.
#VacateTheChair #BidenHarris2024
#SlavaUkraini

2024-02-17 04:33:23

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@npub1qjr…kgt0
Magic

2024-02-16 20:57:42

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@npub1fzq…spuu
F*ck off. If it wasn't for our contributions this war would be over. #SlaveUkraini. But I'm blocking you.

2024-01-31 19:55:13

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@npub153s…cvd9
I am quite sure no one needs to know about this. Creepy.

2024-01-14 15:17:01

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1pfv…fepy
This is an ahistorical and very bad take on the situation. Biden is 100% doing what must be done v/v Taiwan. Not coincidentally, his position is congruent with the new Taiwanese government's.

2024-01-13 06:10:29

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@npub17he…gsxz @npub135d…tg9k
I'd like to forward this to someone but unlike the dreaded YouTube there seems to be steps I can't navigate. Is this also on youtube?

2024-01-12 23:33:56

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@npub1pak…jkzf
I miss Chuck Wendig from when I was on the birdsite.
Edit: just looked him up and @npub1h6m…jthw has an account but hasn't posted since May.

2024-01-03 16:58:12

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@npub1fzq…spuu
If you're that woman or her friends and family this is of course a terrible outcome and all those missiles are pounding the rubble from previous attacks into fine powder.... but can we pause for a minute to consider the immense cost in armaments Russia is incurring daily? To pick off one or two civilians? This is a truly pathetic military strategy. #SlavaUkraini #PutinIsGoingBroke

2023-12-30 22:39:09

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@npub1hvd…9sq9
Isn't that what your publ7sher would cover? I know nothing about this but it would seem they would have that type of coverage. Could add you on as add'l insured?

2023-12-30 07:03:21

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@npub1mhp…6t73
Does Trumpy McStinkeface take baths?

2023-12-28 19:13:04

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@npub1lnm…624t
Thanks for the review! I think I'll get out and see it in a theater today.

2023-12-25 16:43:51

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@npub1vun…0h9t @npub1hyk…3p33
For me his "enshittification" speech has really crystallized the state of play in the tech world right now. I had started trying to do search differently but that sealed the deal. I'm Firefox on laptop and duck duck go on phone and never going back. Except maps. I should probably make a change there too....

2023-12-24 16:07:45

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@npub16lu…5aha @npub1w66…jcep @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1lvu…3ua2
IMHO an "atheist" who is proselytizing is absolutely doing it wrong. They are very much maintaining relationship to religion as an antagonist. A true atheist leaves religion behind completely: their former belief system (if they had one - I didn't as a second generation atheist) and anyone else's. If you still care what others believe you aren't an atheist yet.

2023-12-24 15:44:04

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@npub1ks4…x88p @npub19en…7qak
I'm personally in a "wait and see" posture on the "Threads in Fediverse question" BUT I recognize that among the vulnerable communities that have found safe expression here, the trans community above all seems to flourish and so I will only support the idea of federation if it can be done in a way that absolutely protects people from open bigotry.

2023-12-22 20:19:06

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@npub19fc…ay3c
OK that's great that you're committing to vote for Biden. But why are you participating in and amplifying the negative messaging? You are only hurting the future Dem nominee and in doing so helping Trump. "Better Dem candidates" is only relevant in '28. If you persist with this messaging you strike me as probably a troll, and not a real Dem voter.

2023-12-22 20:12:25

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I'm going to suggest you listen to Biden's recent interview on Conan O'Brian's podcast. He's a real mensch. Your characterization reflects the Biden image that MAGA world and the media are successfully (so far) creating but that's not the man. #Biden2024

2023-12-21 04:02:51

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@npub10jk…dpae
That literally litter the cities that allow them. Goid riddance.

2023-12-20 04:54:17

Well this is exciting! Who will be the winning bidder on the #ColoradoDecision #SCOTUS vote? The Kochs v. the Russians? Place your bets, people.... #USCorruption (I hate them but I'm rooting for America's home-grown evil villains.) #Koch #Putin #SlavaUkraini

2023-12-20 04:01:55

I am genuinely perplexed by the absence of ANY reference to the Russian psyops we are being subjected to in the media. It's f*cking happening, it's not conjecture. Watching #PBS for crying out loud: "why are we so polarized?" I mean we're polarized because the f*cking social media platforms we own have created a perfect vector for our enemies to attack us, that's why! Christ it drives me mad. Florida's election systems have been completely fucked for years. Remember what Sen. Nelson said? JFC

2023-12-16 16:53:38

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@npub1fzq…spuu
It's really quite something to watch Russian psychological operations working world-wide against Western democracies: Polish truckers, GOP Congressmembers, Canadian truckers, Brexit... the list goes on and on. It's reaching a crescendo but if we American voters do our part we can end Putin's evil asymmetric warfare once and for all. #Biden2024 #SlavaUkraini

2023-12-16 16:18:44

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@npub1fzq…spuu
Strait to the dump!

2023-12-12 01:39:32

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@npub16zx…xzxc
Yeah, he's an evil blowhard but did you get a load of that mustache? Obviously he has no women in his life who care about him or they'd never allow it. What a clown. #uspol #ChristianNationalism #fascism

2023-12-11 17:28:23

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@npub1fzq…spuu
#KickHungaryOut

2023-12-10 23:19:00

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@npub15th…6nvx @npub1z83…ewtc @npub1xg3…nyjk
The far right are snowflakes like you anarchists. I express a different political view and you react with some weird emotional sh*t. Calm down.

2023-12-10 23:05:15

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@npub15th…6nvx @npub1z83…ewtc @npub1xg3…nyjk
Well them's fancy words but, with respect to guns, when you are arguing against gun regulations you are indistinguishable from a card-carrying NRA radical in the American political context. Your distinct justifications are immaterial to the kid hiding in a school closet.

2023-12-10 22:50:43

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@npub15th…6nvx @npub1z83…ewtc @npub1xg3…nyjk
Horse shoes, folks. Horse shoes. At the extreme ends of political discourse the radicals share the same opinions.

2023-12-07 07:38:09

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Ah yes thanks. Just listened to a Bloomberg #OddLots podcast talking about the US multi-family residential market and the bad f*cking bets that were made there in the last two years. We've really got to get some better regulation on the f*cking investment ecosystem. That sh*t's about to blow sky high from the sounds of things.

2023-12-07 07:31:43

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
I'm no economist but doesn't a potential for economic trouble imply reduced rates going forward?

2023-12-03 19:15:34

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@npub1fzq…spuu
Wow that's really ghoulish. We've absolutely got to support Russia's defeat. Won't be easy. Their hybrid warfare attacks here in the US haven't won the day yet but it's a real fight: disinformation, corruption, blackmail, supporting the proliferation of guns, all leading to their capture of the #RepublicanParty . They're half-way to winning. I still think we will prevail. Then we'd better pick up the pieces unlike our conduct after the Cold War ended. #SlavaUkraini

2023-11-28 18:10:45

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@npub1fzq…spuu
And 1,000 dead sons of Russian parents every day for this. #SlavaUkraini

2023-11-28 04:24:32

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@npub1gmx…atcq @npub1ls2…g28m
I work with a young man in the foster care system who recently told me he listens to Joe Rogan. I openly expressed my disgust with the guy but - God help me - reading this exchange I realize I need to listen to that trash show a bit so I can keep abreast of and counteract the mysogynistic programming as best I can.

2023-11-15 16:21:01

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@npub1fzq…spuu
How embarrassing. 4.5 million rubles = 50,000 dollars. Putin is laying waste to Russia. Such a strange country.
#Putin #Autocracy #SlavaUkraini

2023-11-11 15:58:56

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@npub1fzq…spuu
What. Still?

2023-10-23 22:01:35

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@npub1a0v…feqr @npub19fc…ay3c
I read something years ago that has always stuck with me. Some psychologists were studying the criminal mind and decided to study the psychology of cops - as a control group, or something like that - at the same time. They were stunned to find that the psychology of the cops was the same as that of the criminals.

2023-10-23 20:30:35

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@npub1fzq…spuu
I mean, don't let the door hit you on the way out, Viktor.

2023-10-23 06:27:46

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@npub18sn…5r2q
Whoo boy. All that wasted electricity to spit out this f*cked up sh*t.

2023-10-19 14:33:29

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@npub1hyk…3p33
This Doctorow fellow really sees things clearly, and most importantly, writes with such simplicity that we can see it too.

2023-10-18 15:12:21

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@npub1r7e…mre3
You obviously do not understand much about the world, do you? You should stick to your parochial Scottish interests and leave international diplomacy and world affairs to the grown ups.

2023-10-18 14:42:45

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@npub1ls2…g28m @npub16kg…hh7t
In this incident one must ask "cui bono"? Who would want to hamper Biden's diplomacy and his visit? Who would want to bring the Arab street into the conflict? I think it's clearly Hamas and Iran that are the big "winners" here. Did we think the Hamas plot ended at attack, murder and kidnap? Or did they correctly predict Israel's response and have many more steps planned after October 7th? People have said "it's a trap". Maybe Israel will slow down a beat now.

2023-10-18 04:31:43

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@npub1vyt…mgjn
Dang. That looks amazing.

2023-10-18 00:47:33

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@npub19fc…ay3c
As a parent of a kid who wet the bed until about the age of 12 and is now a successful adult ... some kids just do that and it doesn't have to mean anything at all. But yes, always good to keep an eye on kids because if there's trouble in the home they need the village to step in.

2023-10-16 04:19:09

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@npub18yv…xxyn
Dealer's plates, so... that guy didn't buy it.

2023-10-16 03:48:28

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@npub18yv…xxyn
Better looking than the "Tesla Truck" which passed me by on a California freeway today. No one who isn't a brain-dead Musk zombie will buy that farcical machine. Frankly, it might snap them out of their fantasy that he has perfect judgement.

2023-10-14 05:35:54

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@npub108x…8n99
Oh. My. God.

2023-10-14 01:52:03

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@npub19fc…ay3c @npub16v6…n0n0
Yes! I didn't know who the hell he was when I watched The Drop and the performance was so intense I never noticed the accent. And Locke - the car one with Olivia Coleman as the voice of his girlfriend - is an absolute tour de force. He's my favorite living actor right now. He even makes a Marvel movie (Venom) cool. The Revanent? Fury Road? Dunkirk? He's amazing.

2023-09-30 07:11:40

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@npub1y7p…66re
Dandruff shampoo?

2023-09-28 14:16:46

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@npub189n…satx
This sh*t is unbelievable to watch. Truly insane time to be alive.

2023-09-27 15:21:32

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@npub1fzq…spuu
#Budanov will drive a truck through these ethnic divisions. #Putin getting a taste of his own medicine. #SlavaUkraini

2023-09-15 21:33:36

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@npub1fzq…spuu
Gee, that's a shame.

2023-09-15 08:13:48

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@npub1vqm…ccpx
Who cares? It's funny.

2023-09-08 14:52:45

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@npub10c5…2yav @npub189n…satx
I've noticed a very sharp decline in links to nazis dot com recently. I used to encounter it mostly in the #ukrainewar coverage I follow. They've finally made the break. That news about the top nazi thwarting a planned maneuver by Ukrainian forces against the Russians in Crimea must have sealed the deal.

2023-09-03 16:54:32

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@npub1xr8…3q0g @npub1c2y…jycf
We're in a world war - we just don't seem to recognize it yet -because the sides aren't nation states against nation states but global fascism against the citizens and systems of democracies.
#WWIII #fascism #democracy

2023-08-30 02:02:42

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@npub189n…satx
They aren't moving here, trust me. They're just going to turn open farm land in my County into buildings that they will sell for profit. Nothing fancier than that.

2023-08-27 02:28:37

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@npub153s…cvd9
I'm not sure where everyone will end up, but for me this platform with its distributed system and lack of advertising or algorithms makes it my choice for the long haul. There are folks I followed that I miss but I never really had a "network", so easier for me to turn my back on the places they have gone. I think it's unlikely that everyone ends up together again, but if they do my hunch is it'll be #mastodon.

2023-08-24 02:37:18

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@npub1fzq…spuu
Now that #Prighozin is dead I will float my theory about that bullshit "coup" he led. #Putin saw him as a threat, but because of their long relationship he thought he could use him to smoke out traitors in the Russian military ranks. So Putin convinces Prighozin to lead a pretend attack, anti-Putin elements show themselves and after he's mopped up that mess, he offs Prighozin who thought they had a deal.

2023-08-22 08:34:07

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@npub1sfh…9gqj
So the Russian Air Force is attacking dinghies right now. Real bravery there, boys.
#SlavaUkraini

2023-08-22 08:22:05

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Good luck to 'em but they aren't the last economy standing. In fact, they've got some very, very serious problems. (Shhh it's a secret.)

2023-08-22 08:12:12

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Unfortunately for them I'm guessing it won't be that simple.

2023-08-22 08:07:35

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Great plan. If they don't run out of money.

2023-08-19 15:34:21

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@npub1fzq…spuu
Reading this it occurs to me what a great relief it must be for these two to get away from the constant threats of assassination. I hope they have a few days to relax. #zelensky

2023-08-18 18:04:51

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub10le…8r3l
I guess that whole "non-violent protest" thing and the sacrifices necessary to be heard could be characterized as foolhardy if all that matters in this world is "the benjamins". And by your definition workers' strikes for better pay are foolhardy too. You might want to think again.

2023-08-18 17:20:11

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@npub10le…8r3l
#Hero

2023-08-12 05:01:34

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@npub1vyt…mgjn
Yes you did.

2023-08-07 22:04:19

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@npub1fzq…spuu
#RussiaIsATerroristState

2023-08-04 06:51:52

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@npub1fzq…spuu
If the best US military advice is to plunge into minefields.... for the love of God don't listen to us. I mean we've gotten our ass handed to us over and over again. JFC. Take the weapons, nod politely, and fight your own fight. #SlavaUkraini

2023-08-03 04:36:48

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@npub153s…cvd9
If this is an indictment then the trial is November '24 and we'll have a verdict. If you care about the US staying a democracy, do what you can to support our pro-democracy efforts!

2023-07-18 03:26:46

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@npub1vqm…ccpx I'm ready to man the barricades.

2023-07-18 03:24:37

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@npub1vqm…ccpx This mother f*cker. The bad guys are standing up many anti-American candidates. This moron West, RFK, Stein, Williamson, Trump... useful idiots all. Add this No Labels caper funded by corrupt American oligarchs and it's clear America's democracy is in a final battle we have to win.

2023-07-18 02:16:07

#AndersonCooper has that stupid clown Cornell West on. And I can't watch #msnbc right now because the awful #JoeScarborough has taken over #ChrisHayes Monday slot. I think I'll watch local news to see how hot it is today.

2023-07-09 03:11:25

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@npub18kh…v8r8
How about neither?

2023-06-16 14:58:38

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@npub1pdv…gqz2 Are you in an actual log cabin?

2023-04-30 01:45:59

I've been busy so just catching up on the Trump diner horseshit and all I can see is the poor secret service guy who has to stand between Trump and a fan and J6 criminal. He's probably MAGA but if he isn't.... what a shitty job.

2023-04-21 16:14:28

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#[0] #[1] I'm curious if Musk comped only men? Would definitely be on brand for the little fascist.