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The People Mover Who Was Promised

@pmwwp.bsky.social

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Into rail, stats, economics, basketball, dogs, YIMBYISM and normcore (no lightcone) EA. Sometimes wrong, always chugging along.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · Apr 2

Tax carbon not imports

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I was not making a joke.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 1h

Keep your cats inside folks.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 1h

Extremely tragic but the cat ran under the Waymo, so it can't really be blamed for this.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 6h

He was an influencer not a Wonk. Which is part of how you get such a quick dumb change I guess.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 7h

I think there are probably other solutions, like labeling for block lists that are inaccurate for their title, or making all blocklists temporary (users need to resubscribe to blocklists so people don't join one and then forget.)

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

It is one of the more common claims that I've seen from people on the bad place when trying to convince them to post here instead. Getting more people from there to here seems critical for defeating Musk and the rising tide of fascism. User complaints should be listened to.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

That would seem to be excessive.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

*According to the ~1% of bluesky that joins those lists.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

The prize for winning is jail and the prize for losing is the hospital or the morgue.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

LOL I must be on that same list. But I didn't know who she was.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 8h

Matt Yglesias and Mark Cuban yes, Jesse Singal no. Getting involved with the Jesse Singal mess is never a good idea, just stay away from that.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 9h

The issue is that these blocklists generally block a bunch of people who do not at all fit the profile that their titles suggest.

I do not know who the two people listed above are but I'm willing to bet they aren't crypto shills.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 10h

For whichever polling average you prefer. The Epstein ballroom and shutdown are not going well for Trump.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 13h

power with political spending.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 13h

If we manage to get power back in 2026 or 2028, destroying police unions needs to be high on the list of priorities.

Besides making corrupt and racist cops nearly untouchable, increasing crime rates by reducing police effectiveness and increasing police spending, they also help to reinforce fascist

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 14h

of hate.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 14h

Though I agree with him totally on the original disagreement and they were very wrong to quote dunk him when they were in the wrong, everyone in that convo needs to touch grass and calm down a bit. Social media fights over a random primary in a state where you do not live should not cause this kind

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 1d

See also Cuomo closing Indian Point nuclear power plant.

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Pictured is the failure of YIMBYism in Austin (sarcasm.)

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 1d

Raptors championship in 2019. Many cities are bleaker.

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 2d

Blocklists could have a maximum timespan to be a member of them. You should actively have to choose to keep using a blocklist annually.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 2d

This is incredibly disturbing info.

The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.bsky.social · 2d

*RSF forces in Sudan. The people commiting genocide in Sudan and Darfur right now are rebels.

But I guess the same is true in Nigeria with Boko Haram.