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@EricGrevstad

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Spoutible touts insights from industry leaders, journalists, and notable figures. I'm half of one of those. Tech writer, Democrat, two cats.

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Tim Kreider: "American conservatism is demographically terminal and knows it." Today's GOP is a last, panicked bid by a white male religious minority for permanent rule by any means including cheating and violence. To say you're a Republican is to say you have exactly two values: privilege and hate.

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Via MockPaperScissors: "Weird Al" Yankovic thanks Spotify for his over 80 million streams on the service this year, which earned him $12. United Musicians & Allied Workers reveals that the most artists can earn from Spotify is $0.003 per stream, dropping to zilch for two-thirds of tracks in 2024.

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Tom Sullivan at Digby's Hullabaloo quotes a Bluesky user: "Humans have an incredible ability to underestimate how much worse life can get for them personally, and to rationalize themselves as the exception to what would come from putting people like this in charge of the apparatus of government."

Seamoura (she/her) (see-more-uh) @Seamoura

I'm growing increasingly convinced that some people are blind to very real threats because they've never experienced hardship.
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Do you remember the song? Let's all go to A&W! Food's more fun at A&W! We'll have a mug of root beer and maybe two or three! The food's just great and what variety! Hey! Let's all go to A&W! I can taste it now, can't you? Hop in the car! (Hop in the car!) Come as you are! (Come as you are!) To A&W!

Craig Baird @cdnhistoryehx

A&W wasn't founded in Canada, but it feels Canadian.

The United States has nearly 10x the population of Canada, but Canada has almost double the number of A&W locations (1,029 vs 600).

This is the story of A&W Canada!

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What are your favorite songs from the Spoutible Christmas Album? Spoutin' Around the Christmas Tree … All I Want for Christmas is a Blue Check Mark … Wrinkly Nubs, Wrinkly Nubs, It's Raisin Time in the City … (to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen") Don't Piss Off the Canadians …

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Dr. Jill is looking for the Christmas pickle and balls.

kat4obama @kat4obama

Keep the faith. Spread the faith. :)

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Don't tell @Olatunde

AJ McKinley @AJOHMS1956

I will never succumb to aquamania!
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Today's #trivia question: Marvel and DC are the twin titans of comic books, even holding a joint trademark on the word "superhero." What does DC stand for?

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"Vast majority of fentanyl smugglers" is another libtard buzzkill about American citizens at legal checkpoints. Why, of 1.8 million Border Patrol arrests of illegal crossers, no fewer than 279 (0.02 percent) were carrying fentanyl.

Deb Della Piana @factivist_1

ALLOW ME TO REITERATE ONCE AGAIN WHO THE VAST MAJORITY OF FENTANYL SMUGGLERS ARE. THEY ARE AMERICANS SMUGGLING IT INTO THIS NATION FOR CONSUMPTION BY OTHER AMERICANS.
https://www.npr.org/2022/0...

Many Americans falsely think migrants are bringing most of the fentanyl entering U.S. : NPR

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows that big numbers of Americans believe incorrectly that "most" of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is smuggled by migrants. It's not the only misleading claim getting traction.

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Spoutible must be attracting newcomers; today I've had three messages or conversations saying merely "Hello" or, from one gentleman, "Hello dear." None from the usual busty bombshells, but I deleted them unanswered anyway.

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You know you're supposed to be face up in the chair, right?

AJ McKinley @AJOHMS1956

My massage chair just made a pass at me.
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I wasn't sure at first whether this was THE Esther Schindler, who is among the closest thing to legends we have in technology journalism. It is, and if you need an editor or writer for hire you couldn't do better.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler

Reminder: Need an outstanding editor and content marketing goddess? I’m available for full-time or freelance work.
https://www.linkedin.com/p...

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#NoRaisinNation and I will never knuckle under to The Man, or The Grandma. April has never forgiven me for outing her as Mrs. Claus. As I said back in May, she lives far north and raisins are the lumps of coal of the food world.

Karen Dykstra @KarenDyk

Excuse me, @EricGrevstad but the big boss @cbouzy has spoken and disparaging raisins could get you suspended. I wont do that but you will get a time-out.🤠 Alexa, set the timer for ten minutes.

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Don't succumb to April's sweet grandma charm, Marco. She's a ruthless mob boss who wields a mean shovel. We at #NoRaisinNation and #GrapesGoneBad welcome all newcomers to our never-ending fight against the wrinkly shriveled menace. Two! Four! Six! Eight! We Don't Wanna Desiccate!

Marco DuCharme @Marco_

I'm new here and someone said be aware of the raisin mafia. I have no idea 💡 what that is.
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I think the 1989 movie's is the coolest Batmobile and I'd be happy to have a foot-long collectible desk clock from the DC Comics online store. How much would you pay? Fifty dollars? A hundred? Two hundred and fifty? One can be yours for THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Photo of collectible Batmobile desk clock on sale for $35,000

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I think when Paul McCartney finally stands at the Pearly Gates, St. Peter will check his book and say "Wow, the Beatles … Wings … classic after classic … not only welcome, but almost a saint!" and then say "Oops, 'Wonderful Christmastime'" and pull the lever for the trap door.

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Many of the "I'm not a photographer and I took this photo. Now you" pictures are truly beautiful, but I'm tempted to join in with one of my blurred shots of my thumb.

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Trump is a special, psychotic case, running to avoid prison and take revenge on anyone who's questioned his godhood. But whether for president, Senate, or school board, any and every Republican wants a world where women and Black people don't have rights and gay and trans people don't exist. Period.

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It's the first #Caturday in December! Rascal (Li'l Booger, Hell's Kitten) keeps an eye on our neighbor. Yes, he squeezes through and gets trapped behind the blinds sometimes. #stupidcat #numbnuts #CatsOfSpoutible

Photo of Rascal the naughty cat sticking his head through the window blinds

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Today's #trivia question: The third woman and first American female in space was Sally Ride in June 1983. The first woman in space orbited 20 years earlier; she remains the youngest (age 26) and the only one to make a solo spaceflight. Can you name her?

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Silly AJ. The Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries started 24/7 Christmas movies in mid-October.

AJ McKinley @AJOHMS1956

The Christmas movies started tonight.
Let's hope I can make it to the 25th.
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Tonight was my wife's 20th anniversary viewing of "Love Actually." Richard Curtis has apologized for his movie's whiteness and fat-shaming and I love Lindy West's famous 2013 takedown, but I admit I'm a sucker for Prime Minister Hugh Grant and the scene where the kid first calls his stepfather Dad.

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I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You

We open in a fucking airport. A fucking AIRPORT!!! Of course Love Actually, the apex of cynically vacant faux-motional cash-grab garbage cinema would hang its BIG METAPHOR on the bleak, empathy-stripped cathedral of turgid bureaucracy known as “the airport.” Of course. And then, of course, Hugh Gran..

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Since we all love you and want you to live long and prosper we frown on the cigarettes, but your diet is close enough to mine to be an equal concern.

AJ McKinley @AJOHMS1956

I bought a bag of humpty-dumpty sour cream and onion rings, a Jersey Milk chocolate bar, a giant bottle of Pepsi Zero and 20 ciggies.
I am momentarily content.
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Give CNN credit for reminding folks that basically everything Donald Trump has ever said, says today, and will ever say is a lie. Though only a partial fact-check, today's article is labeled "90-minute read" after Daniel Dale's byline.

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Trump’s avalanche of dishonesty: Fact-checking 102 of his false claims from this fall | CNN Politics

For the third straight presidential election, Donald Trump is campaigning on an avalanche of dishonesty.

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This is probably an intellectual reference to Kafka's "Metamorphosis," but could be just due to @bmwillz ' bedtime snack of raisins.

King Lavender-licous ? @BMWillz

Gonna try to sleep. If you don't hear from me after tonight it's because I grew an exoskeleton and pincers... 😬 Good night. *chirp 😮
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Rick Wilson on MSNBC tonight: "We should be thankful James Comer is running this investigation, because James Comer is a man, clearly, who is easily overcome by inanimate objects. This is a guy who would lose a debate to a toaster oven. I have old pairs of Crocs smarter than James Comer."

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I've been called the spleen of Spoutible.

Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy

I understand your wait-and-see posture. However, people using a platform, disappearing, and returning is common for new platforms. How long did it take you before you used Twitter regularly? It took me years, and the same is true with me using Facebook. People like you are the heart of Spoutible.
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I'm not familiar with the movie but wouldn't Bigfoot be better employed in back of house crushing the grapes?

Chuck Tingle Book Club @ChuckTingleUnOfficial

Do you believe Torbo was being exploited in any way by the vineyard?

How much busier were they due to having a bigfoot sommelier on staff?
#CTBC
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@April_Sparkles

This is the best course of action. 🤭💛

Read aBannedBook @RetiredLibrarian

I blame Myles.
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"Ah, Henry. He was so much more than a statesman and conduit of pure evil and a friend. He was a husband. He was a generous father and grandfather. He loved dogs, even when they did nothing but howl in his presence."

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I, Shub-Niggurath, Have Come To Eulogize My Great Friend And Partner In Human Suffering, Henry Kissinger

SIT AND APPRECIATE HIS GREATNESS, MORTALS.

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He's worth a block. A boorish egomaniac who made a few correct election predictions and thinks he walks on water.

Frank The Bunny @ZomBunnyFrank

Yet another person using his large following to equate the worst people to LGBTQ people and their strong allies. Because trans women are totally a joke amirite?
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