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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 22h

Fences and locks exist not because they cannot be bypassed, but because they will usually be respected.

A determined teen could probably get crack cocaine if they really wanted to, but that doesn’t make it pointless to keep drug content off their favorite app, it makes it even more important.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 5d

Why posting ai video lol

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 6d

“Am I wrong not to want to brace” is my reaction to practically any alcoholic drink 🤢

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 17d

I guess I see it differently, her post-run book was a big opportunity to say something and lead the party in a positive direction. I can’t properly judge without reading it, but it seems like she wasted the opportunity, which is a valid thing to criticize.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 17d

The dems have no leaders, as in people who have a bold vision and try to sell it to the public. We have politicians who try to meet the public where they’re at, which results in low enthusiasm and books that answer questions no one asked.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 17d

They’re not saying it failed to prove its thesis, they’re saying that the choice of thesis is emblematic of why the party is in so much trouble.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 21d

They go hand in hand, living well enough to be healthy in your 80s will keep you living to your 90s. If you hope to refuse treatment once you’re old that’s fine, but it’s pretty likely you’ll feel differently about letting yourself die when the time comes.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 25d

50/50 whether they’re a nuisance for bikes or help bike infra get taken seriously but they’re cute and low carbon so I’m here for it

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · 28d

Music seems harder to maintain an audience with, even if I love a musician it’s only a matter of time before I overplay their stuff and move on

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Gavin vetoed ranked choice voting in California so I’ll always hold a grudge for that

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wrong. Spidermen production is up 6000%, I will alert the shareholders.

Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 27

Crab soup day?

Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 26

We generally encrypt DMs and don’t make these apps mandatory

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nevermind, you're using it to learn C, but I still wanna hit someone with this meme lol

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

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- Large Onion, 2025

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

That’s clearly not the lesson people are learning, given the mentioned trend

Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Yep, and more of those who do are doing it casually.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

@grok how switch timeline

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Probably a bot but even a bot should know better smh www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

2. Voting patterns in the 2024 election

Voting patterns among many demographic groups in 2024 were similar to those in 2020 and 2016, but Trump made gains among several key groups, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.

www.pewresearch.org

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 25

“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought.

Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 25

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man with the words bait used to believable below them

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man with the words bait used to believable below them

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 24

Isn't autotune quite common in professionally produced music? Unless you're specifically interested in showing off skills, each of these tools can be reasonably useful, but outsiders think they make you a "fake instant pro".

Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 23

Evil version of the TF2 coconut

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Political Will @genghiskhandybar.bsky.social · Aug 20

Not getting the lunch/food bit