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We’re allowed as you know as resisters, like 50% of all revolutions have used the guillotines. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the guillotines

It seems like a damn low bar, BUTT

I'm not sure if this is helpful but I think covid was a trauma that we were never allowed to recover from. It was just like somebody flipped a switch one day and was like alright back to normal but things aren't normal and every new hardship no matter how minor is still adding weight to a heavy load

Not claiming to have heard the Audible Voice of God commenting on the subject, but I *suspect* he feels more name-taken-in-vain-ish by someone who yells "I'll pray for you" snarkily than by someone squawking OMG bc they closed their finger in a desk drawer.

I like presidents that don't joke about pooping on their citizens.

The Nobel Committee has a chance to do the funniest thing next year

All most shelter pets need is for you to give them time to get used to you. Some of them don't even need that and are a ball of snuggles and scampers straight out of the box!

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution aren’t just framed documents behind museum glass. They’re contracts—signed in blood and rebellion—and the people who marched this weekend decided to enforce them. Micahel Cohen

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

Another 80%!

Staff: Sire, we will put you in a crown and remind everyone of your Royal Incontinence! Trump: sounds like owning the Libs to me!

For those asking after the woman who was arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest in Fairhope, Alabama, @gambleganders.bsky.social says she was released after being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. I told her I bet Bluesky could find her a lawyer!

Society just works better if we all look out for each other a little.

We've got to stop behaving as if we're not responsible for one other. Eradicate from your mind expressions like, "I don't owe you anything.""They/she/he doesn't owe you anything." That "owe" is thinking of us in terms of transactions as if our value is only important in terms of profit & loss.

I want these motherfuckers taken straight to the Hague. What, you say, come out the international criminal court has not been convened yet? Let them wait under house arrest in a fucking conference room with cots and a single electric kettle idgaf

Police just detained two protesters. One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

From pretty padded-lilies, Kermit hopped across the sea, With a banjo he'd be playing, That inspires you and me! Kermit sung to make folks happy, Let us sing to make them free, Our Frog be hopping on!

They have sounded forth the ribbit that shall never call retreat; They are lifting up the hearts of men with jazzy dancing beats; Oh, be swift to go and follow in the prints of webby feet! Our Frog is marching on.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the frogs They are leading forth the unicorns & funny cats & dogs They are coming from the rivers, from the ponds & from the bogs Their truth is marching on Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Their truth is marching on

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

If you refuse to let the immigrants free, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

Guy driving by: "Go back to Houston, liberals!" Me: *looks at sign* *looks at person next to me* "I guess he has something against George?"

Ready to head out and make some noise!

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. - Leviticus 1933/34

TFW the "cluster charge conference" got quietly rebranded "regional charge conference" which you can only assume means you're *not* the only one...

Look, where else would you find out about velociraptor breakaway collars that break too easily?

"Shutdown" but they kept this guy working.

With permission form @ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social: #FreeSpeechZone #FirstAmendment #FirstAmendmentRights #LestYeForget #LestWeForget

A visual aid representing our local free speech zone:

This is a great sign.

They shot the dog. 💔 If it were a movie, this would be where the tide turns.

TFW either you forgot the name of one of the lists you blocked or it changed to be funnier and this is how you find out:

TFW you QRP to RP more

As we discussed the pandemic’s early days a friend said he misses when people were baking sourdough, and another friend said she misses when people could work from home, and another friend said they miss when people were still trying to take care of each other.

One weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

80% on today's Which Came First!

Elder abuse and exploitation is objectively mean and sad, whoever is happens to.

I really worry about the “exposure to disease to prevent disease” strategy that many governments have taken… especially for the young… As if the immune system is an inexhaustible resource that can be repeatedly plundered.

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.) If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

I believe that every human life has an absolute value, and is worthy of being shielded from harm. That belief is reason enough for me to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, to avoid being an enabler of illness and mortality. #COVID19 #respirator

IDK who needs to hear this bc they're having the Fall Knitting Urge and their wrists are saying no, but: loom knitting is valid and the loom hook is much wrist-friendlier than usual needles.

Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:

Most of civil society doesn’t ask absolute questions like this, especially on questions of health. If you say “So I should wear a seatbelt FOREVER??” Or “so I can NEVER smoke in this preschool classroom?” People will rightly look at you like you’ve gone round the bed.

Fascinating new paper: higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correlate with higher health-related absences from work. "COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic," the authors write.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

What could be more like passing children through the fire to Molech?

Regardless, caring about how your actions affect other people and making choices in line with that is about your values. So, no, I don't think people developed "empathy burnout" as a result of 2020. I think people, especially in 2021 going forward, got permission to stop caring.

10 days!