Abby Normal
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Had a kid to explain the dad bod. Worried about her future. Still a Jersey boy even after almost 20 years in the ATL.
Why are we pretending he wrote this? Motherfucker didn’t write a single paper in college and we think he picked up a pen?
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2d ago"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more." - David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/op...
I’ve used Duck Duck Go for years and it’s basically Google if Google did what it claims to do.
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · yesterdayRecently started using Duck Duck Go and I have to say it’s nice to not have my search history stolen and funneled into social media sites and my email and every other website I visit
I will not fall for this trap. So many of these answers are directed at driving me insane. The others I have no idea. It is awesome late night scrolling tho
Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?
What bothers me about the audit question isn’t the obvious corruption—that’s old hat. It’s that after refusing to release & now saying he is immune from audit he’s just plainly saying “I have committed tax fraud”. Not anymore illegal than everything else but I’d love to see someone state it plainly
It's hard to overstate how ISOLATING and scary it was with a child under 5 waiting for that under 5 vaccine. The world was kind of moving on and you not only couldn't, you had to be scared for your child every day
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d agoAlso the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
I wrote about how the late Vincent Pastore was so good, David Chase abandoned his original plan for Big Pussy to disappear for good at the end of The Sopranos' first season:
Vincent Pastore was too good for 'The Sopranos' to forget about
How the late character actor got David Chase to change his mind about what to do with Big Pussy
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"Your behavior and beliefs are making you a bad husband and father" is a totally normal, even conservative, statement to make. It reads as a damning insult because the behavior is so bad! Vance should be shamed for it by people who actually have values
Not just ok, it’s essential. It’s the most extreme version of “I’m not racist I have a black friend but that blacks live ipso facto where crime is” Or “I’m not anti Semitic but there are Jews pulling strings”. Because it’s “my family and kids don’t get deported because they have secret service”.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 5d agoHe is using his position in one of the highest offices on earth to strive for a world where the only way his kids *may not* be terrorized or brutalized for the color of their skin is if the people he incites towards racial violence daily are aware in advance that they are his kids It’s ok to say it
You'd be pretty shocked. Based on what I saw it was reported, and investigators didn't pursue it.
Conservatives have been waging war on this country my whole life. I’m 42. My first polirical memory is when a right winger attacked oklahmoa city. Then columbine. Then Scotus saying votes don’t matter. Then they made school shooting an inevitable. Then they did trump. Conservatives hate this country
Wow was Picard terrible but I fucking loved seeing them all again. I wish the people in charge had been fans.
100 is great grandparents and my choices are farmer/carpenter, physician or homemaker. For grandparents ibanker/professor, pastor/farmer, homemaker
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
do you think a single woman who has ever accused a prominent man of sexual assault has had it improve their lives? it is a tremendously brave action precisely because coming forward usually ruins your life instead go fuck yourselves
Please explain to me how Tilly Norwood’s gonna cure cancer.
Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.
📌Six years ago tonight, while John Lewis became the first Black lawmaker to lie in state our Capitol Rotunda, Trump made a point of saying he would not attend. He did this because he’s a bigot, and his rancid base expects this kind of grotesque behavior. Six months later they attacked the Capitol.
This is actually a wonderful example of why we should not try to squeeze ourselves into their framing. As Jess points out beautifully, parents rights is never about parents like us and it never will be. Because it's a thought killing cliche designed to undermine equity and progress.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
Just made the wife’s final student loan payment. It feels pretty good. I’m 42. Long time to carry debt that’s not a mortgage.
I remember seeing someone say we need a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and Margot Robbie playing a couple who get mistaken for assassins who are played by Elijah Wood and Samara Weaving, and I may not ever stop wanting to see that movie.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Is Mitt Romney still alive? Whatever happened to that shitheel?
Grew up near this. I think it was the Wiz for a long while.
old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 2w agothe flag ship, union, new jersey, 1978
