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EsotericMortification&otherthings
@discordantlyurs.bsky.social
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paint huffer | nail biter | teeth grinder... oh! & dance! definitely need to dance more! we all need to dance more - (he/him) Black Lives Matter! | pro-LGBTQ+ | pro-feminism | anti-fascist | vegan for the animals
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sbworkersunited.org
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.

Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out. We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
August 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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kenplume.bsky.social
Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet?

Here ya go...
July 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
She was 23 when they recorded this one.
Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner 06 - Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me
YouTube video by littlesparrow185
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August 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
one of the great anti-nostalgia songs: the old times are gone, thank god. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuv...
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
August 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
"this edible ain't shit"

two hours later:
August 19, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
July 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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veevasearch.com
Rescued #Beagle from #Ridglan Farms

"Her frosted face really tells the story of how long she’s lived inside the facility.

We're so excited for her to experience life’s simple joys - a bed, treats, and so much love." 🐶 🐾 💚

#AnimalRescue

tinyurl.com/ypr9k7ah

Support them: tinyurl.com/mr2tetuj
May 19, 2026 at 1:59 AM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
What the hell is the end of pants?
April 4, 2026 at 6:48 AM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
Most people may not know the technical reasons you’re flyer is shit but they will know it’s shit
leastactionhero.bsky.social Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Apr 2
this linkedin post has everything: hiring your kids, graphic design, replacing humans with llms
Via r/linkedinlunatics Irina Tanenbaum Investment Due Diligence | Startups I Finance | Operations I Al About a year ago, I hired my then-11-year-old daughter as my graphic designer. Today, I fired her. Not because she is a bad graphic designer. In fact, she is excellent. Her taste in colors and fonts is far better than my lifelong commitment to Times New Roman and boring shades of blue. I fired her because I realized that instead of explaining what I need to her, I can explain it to ChatGPT, which then has a heart-to-heart conversation with Canva and, two hours later, I have a pretty decent flyer. Of course, my real graphic designer friends will probably cringe at the color choices or the column widths. Fortunately, my target audience is not judging kerning or layout precision. They care about learning how Al can help them run their business better. P.S. Don't worry about my daughter. She is advising me on prompt engineering and creative direction now!
April 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
Wonder how much taxpayer money will be used to make this trash number 1 on best seller lists?
apnews.com The Associated Press @apnews.com · Mar 31
Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16.
JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, 'Communion,' coming out later this spring
Vice President JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith and adult conversion to Catholicism.
bit.ly
March 31, 2026 at 3:12 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8E...
March 19, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
Where do oil prices go now that Iran counterattacks w missiles all across the Gulf.
A literal trillion dollar question
Insurance → shipping costs → oil prices → a global inflationary shock.
reporting @leeharris.ft.com
ft.com/content/2dc1...
March 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
Suuurrrre
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Feb 13
Ring says it is terminating its partnership with police tech company Flock Safety following backlash to this commercial: www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/...
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Feb 9
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:
February 13, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
let's goooooo
X offices raided in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes
French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of an investigation into allegations of spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
apnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
"We are flowers that break the asphalt"
Stencil seen in Florence, Italy
January 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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atrupar.com
RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
This is incredible
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Jan 20
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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krauza.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis
January 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
Geezuz! They’re kidnapping ppl N the US, trying 2 extort blue states, openly excepting bribes, kidnapping a leader of another country N their own country, ignoring Epstein, AND threatening Greenland/Denmark &more! I expected this frm Schumer &Jeffries but is this what most Dem reps are going with?
amyklobuchar.com Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · Jan 7
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.

Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
discordantlyurs.bsky.social
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains

Neurosis - enemy of the sun
Neurosis album cover for enemy of the sun
December 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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veganhorizon.substack.com
“But where do you get your B12?” It’s probably the most common question vegans hear. Whether it’s meant as a jab or asked sincerely, it reveals a basic misunderstanding of nutrition.

Here's why: veganhorizon.substack.com/p/the-b12-my...
The B12 Myth — 6 Truths About the World’s Most Misunderstood Vitamin
Separating fact from fiction on this vital nutrient
veganhorizon.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM