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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 54m

yeah i just can't believe that the dot product of that sentence with the slur vector is zero

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 1h

'Ophelia' (1852)
the Tate, London
Sir John Everett Millais

Paul D'Amato
from his 'Water for the People' series
a woman in a white dress floating in her back in a flooded street next to a car and a couple of bystanders, her arms extended

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

doing bonus army to yourself to own the libs, but with the actual, active-duty, mobilized army this time

CNN @cnn.com · 5h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

love when you can tell which part of the sentence some fuckin creep is drooling over.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

it's a weird fuckin prize

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

honestly are there non-Milkshake Duck peace prizers

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

oh say does that bold pastel banner yet wave
o'er the town of the free and the home of the braaaaaaaaaave

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1h

that's fuckin right

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 2h

if a channel primarily contains motivated or deceptive signals, rational actors will disregard messages in that channel, especially noncostly ones.

Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 2h

... which feels timely, I suppose. This paper was led by Mona Simion from the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre, and argues their case that *irrational* resistance to evidence is actually rare, but rational evidence rejection arising from misinformation and disinformation is widespread... (2/3)

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 2h

maybe if you run far and fast enough it'll disappear

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 2h

In the crucible of the moment the man Wilson describes decided in spite of anything the Bible says to lay down his life and his son’s lives to preserve a social order where he got to beat and rape his brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 2h

Like it’s one thing to do this kind of wishcasting about the prospective or counterfactual impacts of Christian moral teaching, kinda naive and cringe but like, okay. But this is just factually dishonest.

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 3h

This just happens to be historically false, also

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