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he/they @[email protected] Header: @crabbyaf.bsky.social Chair of the Institute for Banger Studies. Liberal. Housing enjoyer, car disrespecter, IVF Accelerationist, progressive taxation lover, renter's friend, greatest city in da world baby
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Which like the reason this is true is that anticheat is basically malware
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skullmandible.bsky.social
"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades
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Ever since steam deck linux gaming has gotten better, but there's still a bunch of titles that don't run (they tend to be AA-AAA)
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diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
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seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social
We primarily hear from the people who are like "Fuck this, fuck the American People, fuck you for not doing enough, I'll never go back and I hope this whole country drops dead" because public communication has a strong negativity bias.
escapedexplorer.bsky.social
I've had this conversation with a LOT of people who were DOGEd or otherwise chased out of the gov't in DC and every single one of them is like "yeah if and when things swing back the other way I will come here and rebuild with my bare hands if that's what it takes"
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craigk4.bsky.social
here's my opinion on "but gerontocracy":

bernie sanders has filed to run again in 2030. when he will be eighty-fucking-nine. it's might be just paperwork. but he has filed. to run. again. when he is 83 years old. today. and he will be 89 years old in 2030. when he has filed to run again.
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caveatofcass.bsky.social
Honestly at this point they're just using Schumer's name as a slur. I've seen maybe a handful of people express legitimate frustration with him in a way that doesn't just sound like the k-slur to my ears.
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segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz
"the Schumerification of it all" fuck ALL the way off, turn around, dance a little jig, and then fuck off some more

so many of you don't even have any idea what the fuck you sound like

or, worse, you DO know
justostrich.com
"We don't want gerontocracy"

Well Maine has the highest median age in the union so maybe they do. idk man
justostrich.com
Sara Gideon lost by 7 points in a Biden +11 state. Maine is not a progressive paradise, and Mills has won statewide before.
justostrich.com
Am I supposed to be afraid of Susan Collins losing her senate seat to a generic democrat
notdred.bsky.social
A lot of people are mad about this post but personally I think history shows that if you give a Dem primary electorate the option of an elderly candidate with high name recognition they are very apt to take that option without regard to consequences a little bit down the road
chanda.blacksky.app
the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians
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diplomatofnight.com
I know making fun of Brianna Wu is like kicking a dead horse but she said on Twitter that Egypt "started the Suez Crisis" by blocking Israel and lol dog the Tripartite War is maybe the most clear-cut case of an act of aggression in postwar history. It was so clear-cut that Eisenhower flipped out.
justostrich.com
This site has the juice (I could only find one amplifier on here who repeated this bullshit and they were already labeled as misinfo by @skywatch.blue)
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jakevig.bsky.social
Other people Homeland Security has arrested in addition to the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa:

- the mistress of the King of Gumdrop Mountain
- the Bride of Frankenstein
- Pepper Potts
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justostrich.com
We've got like Soros and that's it (and he barely gives ideologically anyway)
lordbusinessman.bsky.social
There's a sinecure problem on the left, not enough billionaires that just want to put lefties in our\ face forever, and to the extent they do, its people like Tracey or Greenwald, which is terrifying
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lordbusinessman.bsky.social
I would add that I've done taxes for twenty years and if you're a liberal and give to charity you're in the very very noticeable minority.

Republicans give to charity, and to rw agitprop
eliasisquith.blog
it has a lot to do with incentives.

to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense.

to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative
aelkus.bsky.social
this has been a periodic complaint for decades and I'm curious what is standing in the way of fixing it
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jayapal.house.gov
An elected official called for my execution. This threat is a clear attempt to shut down nonviolent resistance against this administration.

I will not be silenced, and our nonviolent people-powered movement will continue to grow.
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
Cops are great

They're also like a box of chocolates: they'll kill your dog
thetnholler.bsky.social
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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