cheyinka

cheyinka

@cheyinka.bsky.social

My avatar's my Pokémon Go avatar: a pale woman with long, dark hair, wearing dark sunglasses, a mask covering her nose and mouth, and also a straw hat in the shape of a Sandygast.

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If I outlive the person elected president in 2016 and 2024 I will have a Mass of Thanksgiving said. If my husband also does, I will have three said.

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I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

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Politics are divided between two groups. The people who are mad at Biden for federal overreach in prosecuting January 6th and the people who are mad at Biden for not using federal overreach in prosecuting January 6th.

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this makes more sense when you learn the author has moved to NYC to now do her dumb podcast from there and is getting praise from ol hasan

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Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

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Replying to @aidancomerford.bsky.social

No, Beth wasn't just cleared of all wrongdoing, it was found "there was harassment of the second respondent by the claimant related to gender reassignment". Beth is the victim here, and even when she is forced to flee to the literal other side of the world they just can't stop bullying her.

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This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government

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I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

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Sushi in Japan is for rich tourists and corporate expense accounts, not normal people. At nominal exchange rates (eg tourists), the median American is richer than all but the top 5% of Japanese households, and even adjusting for PPP differences they’re comfortably in the top quartile.

Lycopersicon Esculentum@lycopersicon.bsky.social

@evanwch.bsky.social Most Americans think the Cheesecake Factory is a "nice and fancy restaurant" while the French get farm fresh cheese at gas stations and the Japanese get flawless sushi in subway stations BECAUSE US capitalism has kept us poor and abject. So that's for pointing our the problem.

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I fear this stuff sells, if not to the marginal voter but to the Republican base who might not otherwise bother to turn out. The last time I was in Michigan I was peppered with questions by a couple about why "you let Britain be taken over by Muslims". When I objected they asked if I was a Muslim

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

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lmao even DataRepublican is like “uh folks we need history e-day turnout or we are capital-F Fucked”

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Guys, is it good news when the biggest GOP shill on Twitter is not showing their predictions because of the impending blue wave?

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this floridian is correct the discourse we need to be having: CHEESECAKE FACTORIO

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Okay wait, this could be fun. Brigade, the game, but you have to scale up to cheesecake factory scales of service

Ed@ed3d.net

this floridian is correct the discourse we need to be having: CHEESECAKE FACTORIO

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In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

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We’ve extirpated their natural predators and so they’re experiencing a population surge. Soon they’ll have stripped the local environment and mass starvation will result. A cull is necessary but the humane solution is to reintroduce Anabaptists.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social

Seems a touch brutal.

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Pope Leo: “Without love, our faith would be deprived of its essence, our good works would be reduced to mere moralism, and our hope would be in vain. Dear friends, we cannot truly love God unless this love overflows into love for our brothers and sisters.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Replying to @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social

This reminded me of the 2013 MIT study that judged people's global fame by how many different languages they had a Wikipedia page in, and concluded that by this measure the 5 most famous people in the world were: 1. Jesus 2. Obama 3. Corbin Bleu from High School Musical 4. Confucius 5. Isaac Newton

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"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social

Elrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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Replying to @theophite.bsky.social

Shep died and you're basically a reaper who thinks they're Shep would be a much more compelling reason for various bullshit in 3 than the Star Child

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Replying to @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

most of the internet is not free, you're just paying in eyeballs the fact that internet advertisement is *effective enough to be worth the spend* bewilders the everliving shit out of me and I wonder how much of the end-of-ZIRP catastrophe is "it wasn't, actually, as it turns out"

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If you gave me $446 million American currency units I would be calling lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents in that order. Actually my newly hired army of assistants would be calling real estate agents.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

$446 million of his (sometime) reported net worth of $1 trillion means he’s still only spending 0.0446% of his net worth to try to buy elections. put in more concrete terms: if you had $100, this would be like spending less than 5 cents. now tell me again why i should vote against a wealth tax.

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A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”