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3 months

Recovery is not just a river in Egypt. (Or even one.)

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

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The reason sex with a vampire doesn't usually result in pregnancy isn't because their sperm is dead, it's because the vampire can't come inside without an invitation. Thank you for coming to my HaunTED Talk.

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Nothin, if they aren't Nazis. Feminists have been called Nazis for decades and haven't unfurled a swastika flag yet.

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Why not? Would it make her feel bad?

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My daughter, Ivanka, just arrived in South Korea. We cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country.

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This is the best tweet since the Flat Earth Society announced it has members all over the globe.

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Okay, new request: each Knives Out movie should have *an additional* Daniel Craig, *each* of them sporting a different, equally inexplicable accent, with all accents changing between movies.

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BREAKING: Rian Johnson's KNIVES OUT sequel, KNIVES OUT 2: MURDER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, will see Daniel Craig in a dual role as Detective Benoit Blanc and his twin brother Joe "Bang" Blanc, an incarcerated explosives expert. The film is expected to hit Netflix in 2022.

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Unfriendly reminder that when homophobes and transphobes say, "We were fine with you types until you started going after kids.", their definition of "going after kids" includes *existing*. They want to end our existence.

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Hey can someone get in contact with the ACLU and see if this couple is ok

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Here's a reason I'm a pro-mockery of the OceanGate fiasco: that whole "regulations stifle innovation" thing that crops up in their PR to present the whole "untested and unlicensed" thing as a feature rather than a bug: people who want us eating heavy metals for breakfast say that

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I understand why it works, but the fact that you can erase most permanent markers (at least from non-porous/non-staining surfaces) by scribbling over them with an erasable marker and then erasing that is one of the most actually Looney Tunes things to exist in real life.

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@stillgray Seems less like "enforcing the mask mandate with a bat" and more "defending self against a belligerent person who chose to be belligerent over masks, with a bat." Weird how conservatives suddenly don't believe in stand-your-ground depending on who is standing on what ground.

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"Cure is simple," the doctor says. "Have some cake." "But, doctor," the man sobs,

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How the right-wing turns an unpopular position into a cultural stronghold: First, start with a position that most people would disagree with and that they can't possibly defend in the public square, like "No one should be allowed to be openly gay."

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@DrPaulGosar ...wait, though. If there are six of them who are against Trump and only one of you, aren't *you* the one who is going against family for the sake of political ideology?

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Just to recap: 1. The police are not obligated to protect the public. 2. The police are not obligated to uphold, or even obey, the law. 3. The police are not obligated to put themselves in harm's way to prevent harm, even to children. Why do we have them?

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In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers "have no legal obligation to protect the public":

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There is something specific that I want to talk about with the very neutral way the guy who tries to intervene responds by saying that the gentleman who had already rented the bike should reset it so that she can have clear title to it.

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Well, gang, it looks like we've solved another mystery!

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Turns out that millennials don't 'spend' a lot because they are poorer than previous generations

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Twitter's all a-buzz with news of Ariana Grande's new single, 7 Rings. But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made...

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@Liz_Wheeler Church is anywhere, wherever you pray. Aren't you a Christian? Is something wrong with your house that Jesus isn't welcome inside it?

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The idea that Jeff Bezos could run the USPS better as a private service is ridiculous on its face; Jeff Bezos couldn't even run Amazon as a private service if the USPS didn't exist as a public one.

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What is happening across this country is that the police are rioting in response to attempts to hold them accountable.

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@philipaklein Yes! And vaccines are a slap in the face of everybody who died of polio. My cro magnon ancestors didn't die of exposure so I could live in a house with walls and a roof! Down with progress! Everybody lives a short, miserable life or it's not fair!

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Telling incels to go visit a sex worker... I don't know how many times we have to have this conversation. Most incels aren't. Not celibate, and not involuntarily so. They actively hate women, and women sex workers more so.

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While trained combatant Daniel Penny smiled and choked the life out of a man for no particular reason, he participated in a conversation about how to tell when the man he was choking was dying. Everybody understands this was murder. Some people just think it was a good murder.

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Remember when acclaimed novelist John Boyne Googled "red dye ingredients" for a historical novel, copied down the top answer preview, and put Octorok eyes, Lizalfos tails, and Hylian shrooms (not mushrooms, but shrooms) in what was ostensibly real-world 12th century Eurasia?

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So I just saw someone wondering how liberals can cut ties with conservative friends and family members over immigration policies when most Americans (including most conservatives) support immigration reform. I'm going to talk about what I call the Shirley Exception.

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Note: Mass surgical sterilizations in the US are only "like Nazi Germany" in the sense that Nazi Germany was like the US. The Nazis studied our eugenics movement, which was government-backed and viewed as compassionate, scientifically-minded, and progressive by those who did it.

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Just so everyone's clear, we are *well* past the point of "First they came for" right now.

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Just so we're clear, when we say these people are Nazis, they are evil, and they want bad and dangerous things, it is not an exaggeration, it is not hyperbole, and it is not inaccurate.

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@stillgray Of course the video "conveniently" starts at the end of the confrontation, leaving us to fill in the blanks of how an hourly retail employee reached the point where he felt physical self-defense was necessary.

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So. If you thought the silly nonsense of "pizzagate" reached its nadir when someone invaded a pizza restaurant with an assault rifle demanding to see its (nonexistent) basement and after that it must have died down... it didn't. Instead, it got weirder.

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It's weird how many people tweeting "congrats to Trump" and implicitly saying they won't vote now that Bernie's out seems to understand that 4 years of Trump *is* going to be nightmarish and only make things worse. You... you are admitting you have the power to stop this.

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Supernatural romance where a modern woman falls in love with the ghost of an old timey nobleman but then she becomes aware of all the anachronisms in his stories of his life (potatoes pre-contact and the like) and eventually he admits he's just a guy who died at a costume party.

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There's a thing I hear from new D&D players or potential players - "I'm just afraid of making a fool of myself." Listen. Please listen. You will make a fool of yourself. Absolutely. And you will be fondly telling people the story of how it happened for the rest of your life.

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If you think cops deserve respect because their job is dangerous, I have some news about sex workers that'll blow your mind.

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you BUTTER jorts? you coat his orange body like the blueberry muffin? oh! oh! jail for pam! jail for pam for One Thousand Years!

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@gocomshukurself @aprettyPR And the part where he told her he was staying home "to make sure she's okay" in order to be alone to kick her out. Such cold premeditated lying.

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@jaxson_davidson Cryptoscum will say "People don't like crypto because it democratizes finance" while they have four buildings wasting rare earth minerals and electricity to mine the fake money they plan on trading for real money.

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Boba Fett: Guy in cool armor that scares Han Solo but only shows up for five minutes, does nothing, dies. Star Wars Guys: What a cool mysterious dude. He must have an amazing backstory. I'm invested! The Widow Omera: *knows how to shoot* Star Wars Guys: wtf. wtF. WtF. WTF.

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If you want a nickname that will get under Trump's skin: Dirty Donald.

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@BillKristol If a Supreme Court Justice decides to shred the basic human right to privacy, I see no reason we should not take them at their word that no right to privacy exists. Can you think of a terribly compelling reason why they should be accorded rights that they explicitly deny us?

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There's no acrimony in his voice. He doesn't sound like he believes he's taking a side or evincing any hostility or threat. I want to be very clear: this is not "There's no racism in his heart." This is what racism in the heart sounds like, very often. This is how it works.

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If I understand where the Republican Party is at on this Kavanaugh thing, the position is: 1. Every teenage boy rapes some girls sometimes, that's just normal. 2. Except Kavanaugh, who did not. Is that the shape of it?

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A thing that this Muskwitter thing is throwing into sharp relief is that Elon Musk has never in his life had to try to sell a product or service to a community that was not self-selecting in his favor.

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If you're just waking up, be advised right wing news and social media are going up be talking about "DC home invasions" today. It's bull. Protesters fleeing militarized police violence were invited into homes by good neighbors, which the police then besieged.

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The most expensive cab ride in mythology occurred when Hades took Persephone to the underworld for six months and Demeter was running the whole time.

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@SCOTUSblog What a horrible thing to befall exactly nine people who are set for life no matter what happens. My thoughts and prayers are with the exactly nine extremely powerful victims of this heinous transgression. How can we help all nine victims in their trying time?

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Weird how the "broken window" theory of policing is never applied to policing, isn't it?

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Make college free. Cancel student debt. "Won't the people who already paid be bitter?" I'd hope they would be happy no one else has to go through that. Would you stop using plumbing because it's not fair to people who died before it was invented? Forward. Always.

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People expressing hope that in the future we won't have to plan for or around covid because "it will just be like the flu" really, really hammers home how badly we have dropped the ball as a society in conveying how serious a deal the flu is.

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Elon Musk trying to *force* NPR to come play in his personal sandbox, where he's stuck them with a misleading label to discredit them, puts me in mind of the observation that right-wing social sites keep failing because what they really want is access to victims.

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better link

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Remember the thing when Trump was running for office where people denied he was a white supremacist candidate but all the Nazis and white supremacists were going, "He's our candidate!" Look at the people cheering the loudest for Elon Musk's Twitter buyout. Same thing.

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I think that as white people, we really need to be better at understanding that "racism in the heart" doesn't always look like visceral disgust or histrionic hatred. It can be literally thoughtless. Careless. Mindless. Reflexive.

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@Ha_KimSolid 1. Doesn't want baby. 1a. Doesn't want another baby. 1b. Doesn't want baby right now. 2. Can't afford pregnancy. 2a. Can't afford childbirth. 2b. Can't afford raising a child. 2c. Can't afford to change living situation. 2d. Can't afford time off work.

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This isn't denying you're a Nazi. It is admitting that Nazis have a branding problem.

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@libbyemmons "If only the pro-choice movement had focused on upholding and advancing anti-abortion rhetoric, the anti-abortion movement might not have gone as far as it did." is a heck of a big lie to try to sell.

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That scene in Batman Returns where Batman completely ends the Penguin's political career by broadcasting a recording of Penguin saying "I played this city like a harp from hell." is now officially the least realistic scene in any superhero movie.

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Trump mocks John McCain's ``thumbs down'' on the Obamacare repeal, tells Nevada Republican convention that ``it doesn't matter. We gutted it anyway.''

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Oh, wow. If this is how it works, it will be centuries before we let another man be president after Trump!

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Theresa May's incompetence has set women in politics back decades

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I've been reading cops on cop forums about the protests and the more I read. It's not even the super evil stuff. They just seriously don't get it and don't want to. Like the Buffalo incident. When people question them (other cops, not BPD ones) about it, it's normal to them.

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Third, create a context in which they can conflate those two positions, however implausible it might be on its face... such as a series of laws that equate being openly gay (or acknowledging the existence of gay people) in schools as being akin to sexual predation in itself.

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...Cyclops? Wait. WAIT. W A I T Was OceanGate the company that is named in the credits of Subnautica because Unknown Worlds Entertainment used their submarine name in the game and had to license it from them?

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(He had already built the Cyclops 1 out of conventional materials) Rush contracts with Spencer Composites, an aerospace carbon fiber manufacturer, to design the Cyclops 2 hull... *IN ONLY SIX WEEKS* (This article is very detailed)

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What's funny is that the right has been calling women they disagree with "feminazis" for decades now and yet we didn't start chanting "blood and soil" over it.

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@MikeStuchbery_ @EmpresWife I blame the Left for calling everyone they don't agree with 'Hitler' for the last 15 years. It ironically created real nazi apologists. It's quite funny when you think about it.

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It's not that he's coming in her side or is responding to her performance of tears or that he believes her over him. All of those things are true, but there's something very specific here I want to point out: He doesn't care what the facts are. They mean literally nothing.

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If you want to know why conservatives are going scorched earth on the Barbie movie, it isn't "misandry" or a trans actor playing a Barbie of "wokeness". It is the first scene, depicted in the first trailer, and the primal conservative fear it displays.

Barbie | Teaser Trailer

#BarbieTheMovie, from director Greta Gerwig, only in theatres Summer 2023

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Police say they can't do their jobs unless: 1. They are allowed to open fire at the *slightest* fear for their lives. 2. They are allowed to use force to punish people they find disrespectful. 3. They are allowed to lie to the people they serve. Conclusion: They're unqualified.

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René Descartes: "I think, therefore I am." Academia: So wise. So profound. Renée Descartes: "I think, ther..." Academia: Don't start a sentence with "I think". It makes you sound weak and uncertain.

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@Teslaconomics So it drives faster in a busy environment than a human driver would, but takes longer to accomplish the goal. It disregards both the rules of the road and courtesy. And it could have ended in disaster if not for the cooperation and patience of actual drivers. That sum it up?

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A while back, I tweeted that in case anyone isn't clear, we are well past the "first they came for" point. This is a big story and I'm not sure it's possible for it to get enough attention.

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In some cases, passport applicants with official U.S. birth certificates are being jailed in immigration detention centers and entered into deportation proceedings.

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The masculine urge to close the very door you're trying to go through and then mew helplessly from the other side of it until Jean hears you and lets you out.

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This thing where New York is suspending habeas corpus is really THE WHOLE THING in a nutshell. Law says the government has to charge people or release them. COVID-19 means they can't safely get people in front of judges as they're arresting them. So what do they do?

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Did a lot of people forget after an earthquake in Haiti, a Nice White Church Lady from the US was stopped at the border into the Dominican Republic with a bus full of kids and claimed she'd been given permission to just take X many children to put up for international adoption?

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So a thing I'm noticing is people replying to tweets about if Twitter stops working or if Twitter goes away by talking about Twitter being overrun by bots or drowning in racism or what we think the turning point will be. I just want to clarify: the site might stop working.

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"I can prove that this is my coffee I'm trying to drink and not hers. It's my name on the label and I have the receipt." "Oh! No problem. We'll just remove the label and I'll take that receipt."

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@GhostCatLady @ellle_em I'd tell the boss, "Fire department or TV news. Your pick."

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@dh4onethingonly Either God is good and will not punish people for being as he made us nor for refusing to flatter him with worship he does not need in which case no one need worry about pleasing him, or God is evil and will do whatever he wants in which case no one need worry about pleasing him.

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The Shirley Exception is how people who are only mundanely monstrous, moderately monstrous, wind up supporting policies that are completely monstrous. And when they do, they always want credit for their good intentions towards those they see as deserving, not the outcomes.

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@MattWalshBlog Just another reminder that the conservative idea of "Christian family values" don't extend in any way, shape, or form to valuing one's family. It's purely a buzzword used to try to control other people's family out of spite and fear.

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Second, find a position that most people would agree with and that can't be easily argued against in the public square, like "Children should be protected from sexual predation."

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I love seeing people talking about "another lockdown". My household hasn't changed its routine since the end of February.

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If you were being honest, do you think your mental health can survive another lockdown?

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"Don't be fooled by rainbow capitalism, they just want your money." Sure. But at the point they think our money is a better bet than the money of the people who want us dead, who want us afraid to come out in public, who think names and pronouns are genetic... it's a good sign.

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At Starbucks, writing your name on a cup and calling it out is a symbol of our warm welcome. Starbucks welcomes you, whoever you are. #whatsyourname Find out more at

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Then fourth, and on an ongoing basis... sometimes in small incremental ways and sometimes in large rhetorical leaps... work to shrink the distance between their abhorrent actual position and their feel-good cover position in the public eye.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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@ellle_em I swear this whole thing is happening because the poster resents the therapist and wants to force her daughter to get a job.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

6 years

@Ha_KimSolid 3. Doesn't want to start family with current partner. 3a. In it for a good time, not a long time. 3b. Currently planning an exit. 3c. Fearful, needs to be able to make an escape.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

5 years

So, this is something that came up in the exposes on the Republican-owned farms in Iowa, but: the reason rich white people who depend on immigrant labor are pro-GOP is they want to be able to call ICE on their own workforce to keep them in line.

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@Ha_KimSolid And of course you can answer any of these with "BUT WHAT IF INSTEAD" or "BUT WHY DON'T THEY JUST" but it's the pregnant person's choice. The person whose body is being used gets to decide what risks to take, what trade-offs are worth it, etc.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

3 years

@Dominatingbody Did you learn how to do this from a video game where you just hit the "attack/use tool" button vaguely near an interactable object? Because that's the vibe I'm getting.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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Love this thread, and it reminds me how the worst thing that Doctor Who ever did with the Weeping Angels is let us see them move. The angels can only move when unobserved. In their first appearance, there were shots where they were frozen when no one *on screen* could see them.

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@nessuno2001

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[Thread] I’ve noticed something odd happening in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. True, there’s plenty of odd things going on in The Shining, but this is really weird. 🧵 1/50

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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The unquestioning acceptance that everything in the universe must be hers before it can belong to a Black man. The unthinking attempt to resolve the dispute by suggesting the Black man simply delete his factual claim to the bike.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

6 years

See, the people who are sure that Surely There Will Be Exceptions are very comfortable with the idea of justice being decided on a case-by-case basis. They've always had teachers, bosses, bureaucrats, even traffic cops giving them some slack for reasons of compassion and logic.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

6 years

@Ha_KimSolid 4. Just has different priorities. 4a. Working on self. 4b. Working on career. 4c. Working on relationship(s). 4d. Life involves a lot of travel. 4e. Keeping things flexible.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

1 year

When the gentleman who had checked out the bike offers proof of his claim, the "Good Samaritan" (derogatory) responds in a very... it's like he thinks when he says, "We'll just reset the bike." that he's providing a solution to a problem.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

3 years

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

3 years

BREAKING: After weeks of strikes and protests, Nabisco workers have voted to ratify a new contract & end their strike. The new agreement includes $.60/hour wage increases each year for 4 years, a $5K bonus for all employees, and blocks Mondelez's planned health care cuts.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

4 years

@TheVictor69 @navyvetbolt81 @YaaYaaWhat Anybody who gears up tomorrow is going to be sent out to shoot protectors. Anybody who doesn't is going to be fired, if not "friendly fired". Quitting is the only meaningful act of protest a cop can make right now.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

2 years

People who don't understand finance are fond of saying that Elon Musk never has to worry about money again. I don't know Stephen King's personal finances these days but if I had to guess which one of them is less worried about money, I'd bet on the King.

edburmila.bsky.social

@edburmila

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You can tell he really thought this through, did his due diligence, by the way he’s up at 1:15 AM playing unsolicited Let’s Make a Deal with a random celebrity.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

5 years

Twitter is proposing to hide engagement metrics (likes/retweets) to make the site "friendlier" by removing the appearance of ranking. Here is the truth: they find the concept of "the ratio" embarrassing to powerful people and embarrassing to be associated with.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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"How about instead of trying to be 'woke' or 'PC' we all just try to be decent human beings?" Listen, I've got news for you about what we were actually doing that got us called 'PC' and 'wokeists'.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

10 months

I think we don't really talk enough about how much of the reflexive association of gay with pedophilia comes from the people being loudest about it extrapolating from their own experience of attraction including teens and kids, which they will also defend as right and natural.

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

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no, I don't?

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

7 years

When Sean Connery passes, I hope every outlet that used the shot of Leia in Jabba's chosen attire for Carrie's obit uses this.

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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*Oompa Loompas gather around Prometheus, singing* What do you get when you challenge the gods? Stealing the fire against divine laws? Chained to a rock and pecked at all year. What did you think would happen here? This is what your hubris yields.

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"Oh, these guys are hassling this woman because one of them has his name on this bike? Well, that's an easy fix. He must not realize he can release his claim on the bike and let her have it. I'll just..."

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Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin

@AlexandraErin

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@tjmriley @SawyerHackett You know how Peter Parker is never around when Spider-man is there? Same deal.

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