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My squash breeding project 🧵

JOHN F KENNEDY: "Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

I will never shut up about the sketchy, textured look of 1960s Disney animation. There is so much warmth, soul in these rough, hand-drawn frames of The Sword in the Stone.

@twunkinchief Well whether or not schools can teach anything is a different matter and I’m not optimistic in that regard

i honestly doubt that they can teach it with a critical lens at schools and it can easily influence people to convert to Christianity inadvertently and that I don’t think is ok - but if they can teach and dissect it properly and point out the flaws in it then yeah it’s worth teaching

I don’t really understand why this is so controversial. The Bible is a relevant human document for understanding the development of the West, just like the Classics or the Magna Carta.

@twunkinchief I'm pretty sure it's only unconstitutional if it's being taught as religious study rather than a work of literature

@_petemoss_ I mean it’s stupid too and probably unconstitutional but I’d rather they read that than the other bullshit religious books

(Leslie Knope voice) It’s a great country to be a man who writes. Herman Melville. EB White. Me.

BREAKING: Member of New York’s rental board resigns, decrying political “theater” Hours before the Rent Guidelines Board was set to make a final vote on a potential rent freeze for rent-stabilized units in NYC, Christina Smyth, the board’s lone landlord representative, resigned. Smyth said she believed the outcome of the vote had already been decided before the process was complete. She asserted that the board’s hearings, data, and public comments were merely “theater,” and that the majority ignored evidence of rising operating, insurance, and property tax costs faced by landlords, instead moving toward a rent freeze for political reasons.

Today the Supreme Court made it impossible for people who develop cancer after using Roundup to sue Bayer for failing to warn them about the potential cancer risk. The Trump administration URGED and PLEADED the Court to reach this result to protect a FOREIGN chemical company—and it did at the expense of Americans. What happened to America First? For an administration that promised to take on corporate capture and Make America Healthy Again, this is a STUNNING betrayal. Farmers, families, and cancer patients currently in litigation with Bayer will never forget this.

There is "Queen Elizabeth cold” (pronounced “kyauld”) and there is "Tolkien cold” (pronounced “qōld”). The former is when the wind is biting and causes you to shiver, and the latter is a damp, gloomy chill that you feel in your bones

This is a joke don't @ me

If John Adams were alive today his favorite member of Congress would be Susan Collins

@yeMikeSmith MODERNA YES 🔥🔥🔥

@_petemoss_ -Marauder -Moderna -Marlboro -Monkey pox

One of my chickens is called a Marraduna and for some reason I cannot for the life of me remember that breed name so I’ve referred to it as a: -Madonna -Mortadella -La Mancha -Mandela -Marijuana -Massapequa

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I don't particularly like Micah Lasher, but let's remember the important thing: Jack Schlossberg lost hilariously badly.

-Margarita

My favorite thing about television is how it’s used to create scenarios that never happen in real life in order to convince the masses that such scenarios are constantly happening in real life

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

My aunt wants me to design a vegetable garden in the shadiest part of her yard 😭

The Bolsheviks were a tiny extremist group nobody took seriously. They could have been crushed at any time. Until one day, they couldn't. Soon they had control of all of Russia. They were insane. But that did not matter. They were organized and committed. They ruled for 74 years.