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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 16h

New spirit animal just dropped

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 17h

Lewis Black, thank you for your service, you can now retire if you're feeling it, this guy's got you

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 17h

Contextually, this translates into "The fuck no, bitch" in American English.

Not fully on board with the B-word but I'm all about the Nazi-shaming.

Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Whiteness is the ladder. It needs to be dismantled and used as kindling

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

When I think about how, say, the Daley Machine (and plenty of Average Irish-American Chicagoans, including some of my people) treated Black people fleeing the Jim Crow South my blood boils

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

The horror of the famine our ancestors survived and fled was on a scale that really should have (and for some, did) instill an abiding empathy for internal and external refugees

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when Bush's 2004 RNC adopted his recently-deceased self as their mascot over the objections of his daughter

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 1d

If these goons come to NYC, we have GOT to get a crew of inflatable Scabby the Rat clones going

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I know, there's a whole universe of rightwing Trekkies out there who never seem to grok that they're basically Borg/Pakled hybrids

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

The people *working* on these technologies talk about "cognitive deskilling" ffs

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

You don't get to be a rightwing shitball and a fan of universalist and humanizing (albeit Anglo-exceptionalist) sci fi fandoms

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no uh uh "Bareface JD Vance" is wearing a late-80s-era Dr. Who sweater and this is absolutely unacceptable

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, did Tucker Carlson steal his look AND personality from Rowdy Roddy Piper's performance in this video?

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Man I just went down a crazy rabbit hole of rewatching the Cindy Lauper 'Goonies' video with all the WWF geeks in it over and over, telling myself I was performing 'critical cultural analysis' or some bullshit like that. I say this without judgement.

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

C’mon Nobel committee, it would piss off all the worst people across the entire uh right and center and uh imperceptably-left-of-center of the American political spectrum, it’s a beautiful thing

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Pure and unadultered GenX lead paint-addled nostalgia for the most mediocre ‘80s pop culture pablum, nothing more

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Joe the Biden should be awarded the Nobel “At Least You Tried” Award

bart simpson is looking at a cake that says at least you tried

Alt: bart simpson is looking at a cake that says at least you tried and then dumping it in the garbage

media.tenor.com

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

10/10 no notes

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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.

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

I make a couple kringles exactly once a year and only because I live a thousand miles from Racine, WI and several thousand from Denmark

Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Baked goods involving laminated doughs are pretty much exhibit #1 for specialized labor

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 2d

God the Axios Stupid is blinding — “could drive a further wedge between Mamdani and Jeffries?” Honey, I don’t think that wedge can get much more further

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 2d

“Oppress me, I’m Irish ☘️ ☘️ ☘️”

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Haunted Kenosha Kid @matthewmarnold.bsky.social · 2d

You would think, wouldn’t you, but somehow we’re still wracked with status insecurity. Internalized colonialism from the old country or just seat sniffing servility to the new regime? IDK but it’s not very consistent with our brawling, proud and rebellious self-image

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