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@probablytails Wait, this is real?

@AnnaR_alabama @KelemenCari @TGrammie2 And then work where?

@KelemenCari @TGrammie2 Have your kids move to a smaller town. People used to spread out. There are still homes available for $125k. You just can’t live in the city.

I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!” Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes. And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it. Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner. Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes. And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush. When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived. The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story. Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent. Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why. Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work. They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on. So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard. Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week. It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle. Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth. Credit to original author, unknown

@1972RanPar Not til sophomore year when my history teacher made it known that she was voting for Obama and that anyone supporting McCain were being “brainwashed” by our parents.

When you were a kid in school did you have the slightest clue of your teachers' political views? I did not.

@DevynStruebing @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw Check out Helen Scheurer’s books if you haven’t already. I loved Legends of Thezmarr!

@rootboundrebel @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw I have many books and buy many actual books, but the Kindle, imo, is worth it. You can easily take it anywhere, and you can download the Kindle app on your phone or tablet. I love the easy access, and being able to read no matter where I am.

Two book authors spewing hate on Charlie Kirk passing and devoted fan tears up books in disgust from their comments.

@DevynStruebing @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw Okay I might finally cave and get a kindle

@rootboundrebel @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw I've read some books from some of those authors with Kindle Unlimited, but thankfully, I don't own any of them. I highly recommend adding that series to your tbr. The magic system is so different and the story is unique. I've read The Road to Hell series many times now.

@DevynStruebing @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw Yes as soon as I started adding to list I was so relieved to see none of them are in my collection. I’ll have to add that to my tbr

@rootboundrebel @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw I LOVE that series so much! Patiently waiting for the 4th book to be released. I hope you enjoy the series! I'm terrified to find out what other authors are awful people. I'm really hoping Brenda K. Davies doesn't get added. Her The Road to Hell series is one of my favorites.

@DevynStruebing @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw SAME! I just started Ever King.

@rootboundrebel @MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw Happy not to see Keri Lake, Harper L. Woods, or L.J Andrews on this list.

@MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw Yes, several are romantasy genre authors

@rootboundrebel @1OgOutlaw All of these?

@FerfeLaBat @1OgOutlaw It’s fine that they’re not conservative, just be a human and don’t make nasty comments supporting someone’s death.

I hate to break this to you, but there are very few conservative Romance Novelists out there. Dear Author and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books we’re doing cancel culture before it was even invented. Ravelry, and all of the hangouts for romance fans are all rabidly leftist. You would have to stop reading Romance novels almost completely if you want to avoid rabid leftists. It is what it is. Unfortunate, but 🤷‍♀️.

@MONKP1776 @1OgOutlaw

@1OgOutlaw Who are the authors? I want to make sure they’re not on my shelves.

@1OgOutlaw Here’s an ongoing list of authors who have made shitty posts about Charlie Kirk:

@RobertMSterling Not to mention the school shooting argument, making it sound as though we don’t care. I read one comment that said “Apparently he’s also famous for EXPRESSLY stating the kids dying is “worth it” to protect the gun rights” They refuse to research and leave their echo chamber.

(Warning: long rant) My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues. Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly. I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own. Here are the facts: Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over. Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept. Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it. These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements. Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this: These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not. These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened. When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice. They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit. And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety. When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.” They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep. And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes. When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person. And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them. For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit. In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations. In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism. > “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.) > “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.) > “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?) > “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.) In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection. > “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.) > “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.) All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells. You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it. Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do. If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

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@SolportTom Omg please someone make tickers work like usernames. Once one is used another can’t be launched with the same name( Including capital letters). 🙏🏻

Yo, just want to say pvping runners is pretty lame and we’re working on how we can potentially improve this. If something is running just join in and collectively send it higher it’s more fruitful. All liquidity concentrated in one place and all focus/attention in one place is how high ceilings are achieved. Sure a pvp might go to $2m or whatever bs but it’s pretty easy to add +10m to a mid cap. Liquidity is already rotational and staggered and it’s slowly improving as we onboard non trench cap on @bonkfun. Goes without saying that we’ll not be supporting a pvp on a big runner. 🤝

@whoismrdarko Can’t wait to see yours! I’m still planning to add one to my mermaid sleeve 🫶🏼

My next livestream on #pumpink will be the #anglerfish tattoo I've been promising that community forever, will be roughly same time as today and during the tattoo I will explain how the #pumpink utility will work for holders and other meme coin communities in the future.

We didn’t come this far just to come this far.

@slayphindotweb3 A true angel

everyone was sidelined with #useless some folks including myself gave useless at the lows (5m), yet the entire ct faded until it ran to 200m+ now, ct is still sidelined with #startup, and we are still early i kept bullposting, even made graphics and wrote a thesis, all the time, including at the lows (3m), and yet the entire ct faded but, as we have seen with useless and now startup, one kol by one kol is slowly entering and acknowledging them (eg. @machibigbrother @ShockedJS @snipeder) dont be sidelined, it will run, with or without you it's up to you if you want to join the journey it's a matter of when, not if, ie, #startup is coded after all, the product is the market cap

@whoismrdarko Anglerfish fam forever

I don't even know if the #anglerfish community is even still here my bro but if they are tell em to make their presence known on this post and ill fulfil what i said with that tattoo on the live spaces, i just needed the solid black to heal before we did it, these impatient traders cant wait a few weeks lol if they make their presence known on this post they can make their presence known in this space, believe me brother, might not be this year or for the next 5 year but I guarantee you there will be a modern day animated story reimagined by a big motion picture company about this #anglerfish and we will do dmaga numbers, trust, 100m or so, only ever been one anglerfish narrative in this ew world and only one notable anglerfish token on the blockchain, I'm not selling for nothing. But in saying that, yall day traders that follow me, this flip might take you 5 years lol, but believe so if you have the spare money, I put my reputation behind it, bank on anglerfish to make waves in the next few years.

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