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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 9h

bah I didn't mean to say "agreed" in both responses.

Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 9h

agreed

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 13h

agreed on the general point, but this particular story seems to be based on nothing

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Donald Trump’s 19-year-old son, Barron, could be in the running for a top job at TikTok, according to the president’s former social media manager.

Trump has previously claimed that he “saved” TikTok and that users now “owe” his government for allowing it to remain available in the US.

Jack Advent, the president’s 22-year-old former social media manager, joined in by saying that Trump should give his teen son a position on the social media platform to broaden its appeal for young people.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 14h

presumably *someone* says "I now pronounce you..." Presumably not the taxidermied bear. Maybe they use a hidden speaker?

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 14h

how have I taught "Performative Utterances" and uptake this term *without* bringing up whether the taxidermied corpse of, allegedly, Cocaine Bear is able to officiate legally binding weddings

Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · Sep 7

huh

According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to a loophole in Kentucky's marriage laws.[4] This claim is only partly true; the bear does not have the authority to solemnize weddings, but the state of Kentucky cannot invalidate marriages performed by unqualified persons if the parties believe that the person marrying them has the authority to do so.[16] As such, it is a belief in the Cocaine Bear's authority that allows her to officiate legally binding weddings in Kentucky.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 14h

here's one from 1979 I wasn't expecting. Smooth jazz/new age sax pioneer John Klemmer blitzing through a tenor-drums duet with Carl Burnett. One LP was duets, one was trios with Bob Magnusson on bass.

youtu.be/TedlsTdS9Is?...

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YouTube video by John Klemmer - Topic

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15h

heads up, this story looks like complete nonsense.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15h

Mary Worth:

July 31, 2022 tweet from Ron Iver @ronnui_ Hot air balloons kick ass. Are they safe? Not really. Can you stop if you don't like it? Think again. BUT can you steer? Listen don't bring that negative energy into this wicker basket ok I'm gonna light this flamethrower.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15h

going to say this louder: do not share headlines from the Daily Telegraph unless you have checked that the underlying facts support the headline, because they make shit up

especially if they wrote a sentence in passive voice, because with "Joe Bloggs said to be werewolf" it matters *who* said it

Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15h

"Jenny Holzer tipped for Nobel Prize in Literature" just because I posted that they should give it to her

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 15h

insane *and* not out of keeping with the existing Trump corruption. but British outlets seem to have a track record of headlines like "X tipped for Y" where the underlying story is "Z, who has nothing at all to do with Y, says X should get it"

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

heads up, this story looks to me like it's been spun up from nothing

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I linked to a different story because the Telegraph has a paywall, but its photo caption says "Barron Trump’s potential new role at TikTok was pitched by Donald Trump’s former social media manager" so I think it's the same underlying nonfacts.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 16h

I was going to angrypost about this, but the underlying story seems to be "rando says something stupid"? Can Trump even appoint people to the TikTok board?

I mean it still absolutely sucks, but this looks like "UK papers will say anything"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 1d

Won’t some dice decide most now?

#palindrome

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot in good conscience recommend that my undergraduate or masters students go to graduate school in the USA. I will support them if they apply but I cannot recommend it to them. This is a change from 30 years of practice in which that was my strongest recommendation.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17h

golf. Golf. male friendship. GOLF. take the flag out ya numbnutzes

1/10 QDUs

("Hi and Thirsty smile on the same panel" pulls back ahead of "Hi and Lois smile on the same panel")

Thirsty, about to take a putt, surrounded by fallen leaves with a clear path to the hole: Thanks for clearing the way.

Hi, holding a mini-blower: Good thing I broght my mini-blower.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17h

though Hi & Lois today is depressingly Bumsteady and also golf

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17h

already said basically this in the comments, but godDAMN do I hate it when people suck up to Dagwood

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17h

honestly great job by the artist expressing the strip's world view

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 20h

the people whose job *is* to stop things in this exact situation, elected government doing illegal things, is the Supreme Court. And they are enabling Trump furiously, and there's nothing Democrats can do about that without retaking government and doing some radical (and necessary) things.

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 21h

and for a straight duo, here's Lyons (alto) and Cyrille (drums) doing Take the A Train in 1981. (released 1988 I guess)
youtu.be/5SMhnpKdATA?...

Take The A Train

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew Cyrille and Jimmy Lyons (aka the Cecil Taylor trio without Cecil) often recorded as a duo. Here they are in 1979--a great sax-drum year it seems--with Jeanne Lee on vocals. You may have heard a bit of this in Ghost Dog when Forrest Whittaker is stalking the mansion.

youtu.be/SO7MBs2bQ7g?...

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YouTube video by Andrew Cyrille - Topic

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 1d

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

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