FullPlaid

FullPlaid

@fullplaid.bsky.social

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Book: “This likeable character does not want to go on a journey or be a hero” Me, for the 10,000th time: “Oh, then I suppose they won’t.” Book: “Despite everyone’s desires, our character must go on a journey and become a hero…” Me: 🤯

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Latest on Gaza Ceasefire Negotiations: ➤ Hamas-Israel Deal: Talks mediated by the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar are in their final stages, according to Israel’s Ynet and Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds. Hamas is signaling key concessions, including deporting senior prisoners to Turkey, Qatar, or Iran.

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...is protecting certain cohorts rights to violate it above theirs, then those people are no longer bound to it. We are getting to that point than ever e.g., climate change.

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Just to add to this. The popular adherence to the system of law is predicated on a belief in a social contract which is believed to serve all signatories equally. If some people believe this contract is no longer valid as the state (the Leviathan)....

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I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are

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Science Question: When they say "8 MEGA ROLLS EQUALS 32 REGULAR ROLLS" do the regular rolls exist...anywhere? Are they just in the imaginations of toilet paper marketers??? Do they make one tiny "regular" roll per year just to keep the story alive?

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At some point it feels like an action like this was bound to happen because these companies have been so predatory, so callous and so cruel.

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The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were discovered by detectives on the shell casings found at the scene where Brian Thompson, the CEO of major insurance group UnitedHealthcare, was gunned down. abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-...

abcnews.go.comUnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan, masked gunman at largeUnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot near a Midtown Manhattan hotel in a potentially targeted shooting early Wednesday, according to police.
Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com

At some point it feels like an action like this was bound to happen because these companies have been so predatory, so callous and so cruel.

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I would like to lodge a formal complaint against the words “numerator” and “denominator.” If we wanted people to hate fractions more, we could not have picked better words.

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This is the election result that Piers said was the Democrats getting "pounded into total, shameful, humiliating oblivion."

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Trump won the popular vote by 1.5% this year, which according to @piersmorgan.bsky.social was Democrats getting "pounded into total, shameful, humiliating oblivion." @briantylercohen.bsky.social: "Would you have said the same thing about [Trump] in 2020 who lost by a 4.5% margin nationally?" "No."

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When talking about climate change I’ve started to incorporate a quick physical explanation on the basics before getting into it, like “CO2, a molecule that absorbs heat like a black t-shirt,…” or “carbon dioxide, which is opaque to infrared light,…”