Dex

Dex

@dex-209.bsky.social

they/them recovering parli nerd

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You know, I bet if we ever get our weird lefty way and defund police, redistribute their responsibilities to civil servants, and overall remove the role of police as "violence-doers", we'll actually see a massive spike of one specific kind of crime

We're gonna get a wave of serial killers who are going to be former cops who had been both feeding and sublimating their urges with the violence of their jobs. And it'll be blamed on the necessity of those same cops

Subliminal messaging? Beta shit. Tap on the shoulder? That's basically cruising. real manly man men post the most thickhead pigshit on main and consider it covert because they didn't literally tag the CIA

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA

I went on a bunch of trains and now that none of my anxieties actually happened, I feel like I should do that way more

It's so satisfying when you're breaking in new boots and they're uncomfortable then you change your lacing and suddenly they're not Can't believe none of my chunky boots were black before, what a terrible oversight

it's midnight, I really don't like hearing the neighbor yelling "what are you doing, bro?" and then his squeaky-voiced, gradeschool-aged child cry, and then the neighbor proceeds to ask the same question several more times

I finished the first draft of what I hesitate to call a novel and now I have no idea what to do with it why did I do this

You know how fascists love appropriating the language of justice movements? Keep your eyes peeled for The Glass Ceiling (rapist) coming in the post election autopsy

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

his fans aren’t ever going to agree that the message of this disaster is ‘the tattoo should’ve been enough’ btw. it’ll be something more like ‘we got our antiwoke rapist thiiiiis close, but our next one will break through’

I'm trying to get a third hand tool to tune the centerpull brakes on my vintage bike and the website straight up doesn't let me search for one

is it not common courtesy to give your own work a read through before handing it off to be edited? Just one, that's all I'm asking

These dweebs are using the language of protest, literally, when that language exists to tell these same dweebs to do stuff. Who, exactly, are they telling to do this? We were telling them, still are, but they must really be lost if they think echoing a scaled-back version of our words is action

Democrats@democrats.org

ICE agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis this morning. Get ICE out of Minnesota NOW.

Goddamn, I need to finish the thing I'm writing. Apparently it doesn't need to be, you know, good

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social

Gag me. With a spoon, even. #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97800...

They don't even know they're on an internet-accessible camera. Wow, deer really are just like us.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Every winter day in a Maine backyard, dozens of deer eat oats, apples and acorns from wooden troughs. Unbeknownst to the deer, four cameras live-stream their every move to thousands of people.

there was a mass shooting in my hometown, Stockton, and people are using it as an excuse to write off the whole city as inherently and intrinsically violent. It's racism, it's classism, it's both reinforcing each other, it's bullshit used to blame the victims of a crime

am I crazy or was there an effort to smear Bernie Sanders as a sexist for saying essentially this once in private?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Former first lady Michelle Obama says the U.S. is “not ready” for a female president and has “a lot of growing up to do” to reach that point. “There’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman. And we saw it,” Obama said.

Stargate is great for that special genre of sci-fi that is gleefully informing hostile aliens that they are dreadfully unprepared for the bullshit that comes out of Texas

A lot of people are missing why the right is reacting the way they are. They don't hate cancel culture or political violence, the only belief they will never abandon is that a hierarchy exists that puts 'us' above 'them'. To them the hierarchy is natural, good, and obvious

Attempts to usurp the hierarchy are doomed to fail and evil, this is why they hate trans people so much. Trans people prove that categories are mutable, which they can't accept so they see trans people as deluded. Changing gender challenges their one core belief, which is why they're so vitriolic

The Saints Row reboot is a ton of fun, it's just got so much charm and character to it. Santo Ileso the city is a great setting and every little detail shows how much the person who put it there cared

Calling it now, when a case reaches SCOTUS about discriminating against unmarried women the majority opinion is going to say "slatterns are not a protected class" then the dissent will still follow their fucked-up logic, "Sluts are, on a technical level, still women"

Nashville Banner@nashvillebanner.bsky.social

Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose lifestyles they disagree with nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

If this, in terms these explicit, stands then I don't see anything that keeps the federal government legitimate aside from force of arms

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

Judge Bennett: Is it your view that if the president simply invokes the statute, gives no reasons, provides no support, and there is nothing that appears to justify it, the court still has no role? No role at all, even with no reasons, no facts? DOJ: That is correct. Unreviewable.

the worst part of posting the last chapter of something is that I never trust I'm familiar enough with the community to adequately tag it

I think the American Experiment nickname is apt because for so long the liberal and neoliberal focus was on performing the process right and any result of good gov't process was a good result now we have people nakedly working toward a specific end, it's no longer experimentation, it's product

I'm not sure if it's something with me or something with the algorithm but my recommended feed is almost entirely horny-but-not-quite-lewd anime drawings Like, it's better than the invective on Twitter, but I'm not sure what I'm meant to do with it either

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