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anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · Feb 1

There will be many opportunities to protest in the coming days but throughout the most important political acts will be acts of real life connection and mutual support

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 19h

great record!

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 22h

in all seriousness, the heroic vision of newspapers was justifiably forged in the watergate and pentagon papers era. the owners of the post and the times very much did act for the public good (at great risk!)--and there are many other such examples but those are the big ones.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 22h

they were undoubtedly a public good -- in spite of themselves.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 1d

(disclaimer: this advice does not apply to large campaign donors, major corporations allied with the regime, big agricultural interests, and fellow travelers running other countries that rhyme with "concertina" if you are one or more of these things, the government will very much help you.)

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 2d

it's true they have loaded it up with so much dumb stuff nowadays (see also: every other major tech product). but i've never expected a word processor to be a creative tool. it's just a tool for putting words on a page.

agree on scrivener. that product has always just baffled me.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 2d

those fingers are nightmarish

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 2d

*astronaut meme*

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

see also: grand juries

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

trumpists are one of two things: 1) malevolent dunces or 2) craven opportunists who think they can profit from 1)

when 2's trade blows up, this thing is gonna sink fast. unfortunately we're tied to the masts, too.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

price changes sentiment quickly

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

sherman is america

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

No signs? Instant credibility destroyer, even before you trotted out those bogus charts. Ciao.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

a coup at every level of government led by quacks and cranks

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 4d

bad people do bad things

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 5d

failsons flying every institution into the mountain

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 5d

As opposed to LATE circumcision??

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 5d

social media has slowly merged the venn diagram of all the fringe goofballs into a single circle

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 6d

see also: El Cajon (if tourists ever went there)

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 7d

Rick James and Neil Young were in a band together.

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 8d

meh - none of them have sex anyway.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 12d

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 13d

no way i’m falling for this a third time

Sign reads “Parking for BJ’s in rear of building.”

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 28d

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun

911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great

me: so who do we call

911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

anadromy @anadromy.bsky.social · 15d

love that book so much and try to read it every few years