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Phoebe Juel
Phoebe Juel
@mattycornfed.bsky.social
Intl Humanitarian Law, Ag Health and Safety, Public Health, Civil War History, Rabbits, and an Haiku or two. Unicorn, Pioneer, Catamount, Hawkeye. Exasperated/Exhausted Episcopalian. Holder of a Jeopardy! annuity
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You mostly can't taste the air anymore. Medicine is better on every level The access to peoples' incredible array of creative expression. Seeing, reading, watching, enjoying what folks are inspired to make is wonderful and it's so easy to do now.
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
I did not require IV fluids in 2 consecutive RAGBRAIs for this hair-helmeted dingus to spew this nonsense. You tell me what's tougher, pedaling up rollers in 100 degree+ heat index (the road was literally melting) for 8 hours, or sitting your fat ass on a cushioned seat over a motor?
Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."
He's a solid dude and the district is souring on the incumbent. Chip in, great things could happen. www.justinwagnerforcongress.com
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Two beautiful Iowa Hawkeye moments in less than a week? My cup runneth over.
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
This must be that devotion to women's sports the right talks so much about.
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
For any candidates or staffers: pick a thing in this, fireworks, island rental, the bar bill, whatever. Figure out the cost. Cut an ad showing how many dinners for a family of 4 that would buy, or tanks of gas, or doses of insulin. "They're getting a party; you're getting the bill."
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
Never going to get over the fact that "making things dirtier and poorer" is exactly what Ohioans said poor people from Appalachia were doing when they started leaving coming to Akron, and Toledo, and Middletown.
JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"
Stuff like this is why olde-tyme vaudeville comedy like Abbot and Costello was good for people. They did whole bits on Abbott doing a run around on Costello, borrowing money from him, then lending it back, and at the end Costello owed more than he'd had it his pocket to start. This is same deal.
Remember when they promised everyone a check from all the “savings” made by DOGE
He's about one half step way from saying that measles saved us from the burden of their useless eating.
Dr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in PAG yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. We lived this during covid."
First one to post Great Big Sea? Really? Okay. (Dang it was hard to pick just one) www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlfZ...
Also - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.
Questions about troublesome priests.
Blanche: "The president does not expect any of his leaders, including me, to just say yes to him no matter what ... there's this extraordinarily false narrative that POTUS wakes up & calls me & says, 'Todd, go prosecute x or y.' He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that"
I had an ugly message board argument in undergrad back in the early 90's. Kept telling this very confident dude that they weren't just coming for abortion, they were going to come for non-barrier contraceptives, too, claiming they were abortifacients He said that was crazy and it would never happen.
What is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take
I'm convinced that this is what he thinks he's thinking of. He saw a picture somewhere since, as we all know, he would never have seen the military application in person. www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-histo...
I'm not convinced Trump knows what a vaccine is or how they are administered. What's he talking about? "They give these massive- you ever look? It looks like a Coca-Cola bottle. They're pumping this massive amount of fluid into a child's body" (dear reader, syringes look nothing like Coke bottles)
Isn't it funny how they key to dominating the future is to pour more money into what these dickweeds are already invested in?
EMMER: Our enemy -- China -- is trying to stop us from beating them in the AI war by frustrating our ability to build data centers BARTIROMO: Yeah. It is an industrial revolution part 2 with the amount of jobs and build out from these data centers, and it's certainly helping the economy as well
That CD binder is a personal attack. (You will pry my road atlas from my cold dead fingers.)
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
We're a couple of pressers away from him claiming that Minnesota killed the Minnesota soldier killed in Kuwait.
Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
I love Maytag Blue. Great stilton is life changing. So is a truly sharp cheddar. Aaaaaged gouda, like, crunchy gouda Manchego with green peppercorns in it Swedish Vasterbotten This German Hirtenkase that apparently isn't imported to the US anymore and which I will miss forever.
People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese