The 2024 Enrage FF by Posting Stuff From Bluesky Thread

https://bsky.app/profile/funkelly.bsky.social/post/3kl4drdi3v325

https://bsky.app/profile/xwordy.bsky.social/post/3klhu6xe7i32s

https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3kljjjbrbq42v

https://bsky.app/profile/utopia-deferred.bsky.social/post/3klkk6qfgos2d

https://bsky.app/profile/weirdmedieval.bsky.social/post/3klpjucrf7k2x

https://bsky.app/profile/profmusgrave.bsky.social/post/3klqendi6g52b

https://bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.social/post/3klxgabjzhk2h

https://bsky.app/profile/theonion.com/post/3km3xtlip2d24

So this Blue Sky thing is really just going to be another twitter because twitter sold out to elon.

I was hoping for something new and exciting, but I was not expecting anything new and exciting. The internet seems to do a great job at meh that entertains the vapid and annoying.

https://bsky.app/profile/pwnallthethings.bsky.social/post/3kmdxtjibqj27

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3kmewgaafvp2l

If anyone wants a real description of what happened, instead of some useless tweet, here is a real article about it.

https://gizmodo.com/supreme-court-social-media-freedom-of-speech-1851286507

Seems like the lawyer was trying to make a point and it made no sense.

Here is a link to the actual audio clip so you do not need to use your brokedick tweeter half ass substitute account.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5107612/user-clip-sir-wendys

https://bsky.app/profile/skulleigh.com/post/3kmtnes542q2p

I am pretty sure after you pull that out you have to kill Abbott with it and then you are officially king of texas because thunderdome rules are you keep what you kill.

That would be the Texan variation.

https://bsky.app/profile/rincewind.run/post/3kncij6oxzt2h

Dear rich scumbags who rip us off. Do not threaten us with a good time about you going to jail.

Seriously, I would throw little hands don into genpop on rikers if I had a choice. And we should tape it and show it to everyone in the top ten percent as what will happen to you if you do not give back.

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https://bsky.app/profile/celebrityhottub.bsky.social/post/3knlho6qp2c2l

Southern people call that grits.

https://bsky.app/profile/frovo.bsky.social/post/3knue3ubek32q

File this under: No idea if true. Good enough not to have to be.


Being a Twain scholar means having access to a basically limitless repository of kickass anecdotes. None more important than this one.

1/11

In 1901, New York’s GOP establishment, including the recently-inaugurated Vice President, Theodore
Roosevelt, gathered at the Lotus Club to celebrate the signing of a police “reform” bill.

2/11

It was designed to further
concentrate Republican power by giving the Governor greater authority over police commissioners in the urban areas presumed to be Democratic strongholds. Since Republicans had a stranglehold on Albany, this was their way to seize control of NYC.

3/11

Roosevelt had pursued this legislation during his own tenure as NY Governor & earlier as President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners, but it was Gov. Ben Odell, in homage to the emergent party Boss, who finally signed it into law. The formal toasts were to him.

4/11

Twain was arguably the most famous person in the world in 1901, & a notoriously in-demand dinner speaker. But he was not invited to the police bill banquet, nor was he a member of the Lotus Club, though he’d been there on many occasions.

His famous face got him in the door.

5/11

He came late, took the dais like he owned it, no doubt with much excitement from the lubricated crowd & said,

“Let us abolish policemen who carry revolvers and clubs and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on spring and love.”

6/11

Twain well knew, those words would run in newspapers
across the country; that really, whatever he said thereafter, & whatever collective exhale it might produce in the room, didn’t matter.

7/11

An occasion which had begun with Republican leadership
signing autographs for the wives of patrolmen and the Governor receiving a series of standing ovations from men in uniform ended with reporters rushing to get the words “abolish policemen”
to press.

8/11

In the coming years, partisan wrangling over the police bill would become a centerpiece of what Dan Czitrom calls the “police scandal that launched the progressive era.” Odell would lose the Governor’s office to a prosecutor who won corruption cases against him.

9/11

The GOP would lose both houses of the state legislature.

The unraveling began with Twain turning Odell’s local victory lap into a nationally-covered embarrassment. The first salvo in Twain’s troll fight with Roosevelt which would continue for the rest of his life.

10/11

I think about this a lot when people tell celebrities to STFU about politics.

END

https://bsky.app/profile/mattseybold.bsky.social/post/3knwqhj5h2p2j

Although… Are we really comparing Twain crashing a party to draw national attention to a corrupt fucking bill to Matt Damon hawking crypto in a Super Bowl ad? Maybe certain celebrities should STFU.

I think a man comparing a drunken, brawling man to a summer's day to his face might get his own face smashed in.

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^Speaking as someone who learned drafting (that's making blueprints) before CAD was a thing, and then studying Chinese in college, I can say that having to learn how to do such things trains your mind in ways that few things can. Supposedly, the original writings of Asian masters can be detected from forgeries because when viewed in infrared, the works of the masters glow differently than the forgeries.

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https://bsky.app/profile/svnsxty.bsky.social/post/3kotvtobfci22

Think of all the indigenous people who would not have been killed. All the wars that would no0t have been fought. The torturous deaths that would not have been done because of witchcraft. Imagine the amount of money that could have been spent on homes, food, medicne, and other needed things rather than building churches, printing bibles, and making all that religious flare and tchotchkes.

We would be so much further along if the people who wrote the fiction about jesus aborted their efforts and did something useful with their time.

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