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Harmless Artist @dunhillpage.bsky.social · 13h

They wanted the House.
They wanted the Senate.
They wanted the White House.
They got it. All of it.
It's all theirs.
And it's shut down.

They can lie
They can troll
They can "own the libs"

But. They. Cannot. Govern.

This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

William Lloyd Garrison called it, "A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell," referencing Isaiah 28:18.

PBS did a series years back called "The Abolitionists" that featured him in one of the episodes. It was a decent documentary.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

To be fair, they were trying to increase the franchise just enough so that the planter aristocracy could maintain control of things without angering small landholders enough to provoke a rebellion. It is an agricultural document for an agricultural society.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 9h

Ubuntu Linux was able to get an endorsement of sorts from none other than Nelson Mandela

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HED4...

Ubuntu told by Nelson Mandela

YouTube video by Sylvia-Educomm

www.youtube.com

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

woody from toy story is peeking out of a zipper and says i don t believe that man has ever been to medical school

ALT: woody from toy story is peeking out of a zipper and says i don t believe that man has ever been to medical school

media.tenor.com

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

Loud Green Batrachian Team

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

The Antichrist is also responsible for the close door button on elevators, and for ads being twice as loud as the TV show.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

Biden did this all the time, unfortunately.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.

Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution."

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

It's like the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Constantine Cavafy

"Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 10h

Ideally, some job training is recommended.

Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks!

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 12h

Awooooooooo!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 13h

WHO could have predicted this?!

/s

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 13h

In other words, not the kind of God robust enough to satisfy most believers, and certainly not the God in all the books about him, except for the ones about demigods like Hercules, or maybe Zeus on a good day.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 13h

Take out the role of gods in natural phenomena like thunder, floods, etc. and plug in scientific explanations for them instead, and what we're left with is thin gruel, indeed, a kind of non-intervening, God-of-the-gaps, the kind who saves you parking spaces and helps you find your keys.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 13h

The problem with that is that it's quite difficult to tease out what a universe with a intervening deity would look like; the world looks mighty close to how it would look if there was no thumb on the scale at all (like that old line about God always being on the side of the biggest battalions).

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 13h

I think the "you can't prove there's no god, so you're forced into agnosticism" rejoinder is a kind of theological shell game. The gods of most major religions today aren't exactly recluses living in mansions. Instead, they're famous for being deities who actively intervene in human history.

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Hoppy Croaklightly @hoppycroaklightly.bsky.social · 14h

One could think they were sincere experiences while still maintaining a skeptical view of them. People hallucinate dead loved ones all the time; some people think they're actually seeing the dearly departed IRL; they're sincere in the belief, but that doesn't make the belief epistemologically sound

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 14h

After ordering people out of the street, ISP cleared the entire “free speech” zone into the street before “curfew.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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