Deathiel Skelly

Deathiel Skelly

@saffroncomic.com

Writer of Saffron and Sage, read it at http://SaffronComic.com. He/Him. Member of Spiderforest Icon by @naomifranq.bsky.social

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How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

The White House put an AI video of Hillary, Chuck, Hakeem, Kamala, and Ilan jamming out to The Gap Band’s “Outstanding” like a Tiny Desk concert and described Democrats as “washed up,” but damn they never looked cooler. Total self-own.

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Every news story is like “DSA-backed candidates win big in municipal elections; National Hoe-Scaring Committee furious, demands answers”

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social

My vague sense of DSA dynamics is that the folks I know in local chapters are like earnest lefties and the things I see on here about the national folks make them seem like insane cosplayers

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In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Yeah start insinuating he has morning chai rather than coffee, say that he knocks things for 6 rather than hits a home run, allege that he is generally a clean living good boy who loves his mother and prays every Friday (pejorative).

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It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

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whomp whomp

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

"Past operations already set a precedent for this kind of strike" is an all-time euphemism for "We already tried this and it didn't work"

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

The Iranian regime could ultimately fall if a devastating direct strike on its leadership is paired with military measures never used before. Past operations already set a precedent for this kind of strike.

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Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

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After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

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Replying to @politiburb.bsky.social

No. This is dooming for nothing. Lula *did* end up cruising to re-election, it was called an hour after polls closed. The fact that he managed to pull that off when everything was pointing to a Bolsanaro win is not terrifying, it's inspiring. Stop looking at things through the worst possible lens.

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Replying to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

the idea that a city's social services should be paid for one-by-one by these insane discretionary deals on a development-by-development basis is just madness. it's such a tremendous drain on the general prosperity in return for ???

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Hard to believe “look at the crazy low prices in this old timey newspaper” is now from the Obama era.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

REALITY CHECK Send this to all the clowns saying, “The prices were higher under Obama.”

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Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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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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This guy opened his speech with “Good Moleman to you”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Replying to @dirtsecret.bsky.social

keep thinking about the kid sitting next to me and reaching over to his dad during the big battle scene and quietly being like "dad im scared" and his dad asking him "do you want to leave?" and the kid saying "no... i want to keep watching"

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Serbia defeated a 14 year regime backed by Putin. Brazil stopped a takeover supported by the richest techno-oligarchs on the planet and meddling by the American government. Hungary finally ousted Viktor Orbán earlier this year. They did it by voting. Never tell me voting is useless.

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you underestimate the people at your peril

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

The fact that Homestuck, after having the biggest collapse of any webcomic or kind of even any media property, is "getting good again" is both kind of amazing and high-key damaging to my mental state, but I really have liked nearly everything in Act 2 so far.

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“What was your biggest impact on the Internet?” Being the cause of this

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" Well unfortunately,