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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 12h

Shoulda kept it in the booth.

CNN @cnn.com · 13h

A federal judge dismissed the defamation lawsuit Drake brought against his own record label, Universal Music Group, for publishing and promoting Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Drake’s lawsuit in connection with Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ tossed by judge | CNN

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the defamation lawsuit Drake brought against his own record label, Universal Music Group, for publishing and promoting Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 19h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 18h

I get confrontational and interrupt them. I’m not saying it’s right, I just don’t have patience for it, and I don’t want the conversation to suffer!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 19h

Ewwwwww

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20h

And if he’s repeating himself over and over instead of saying new things, he’s insisting on being obeyed.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 22h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 21h

Must be!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 22h

😂😂😂

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t know if it’s dismissiveness or an inability to feel time passing while speaking, but it’s so…common.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 22h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 1d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 23h

I think that’s sometimes true but the majority? I’m skeptical.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 23h

I am sure, but I did join Hillel in college 😂

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

It absolutely *is* polite! Cooperative overlap is a supportive and loving way of talking. There are only, like.. one or two cultures where it's _not_ considered polite, and they can go fuck themselves if they think the rest of us have to conform lol www.anildash.com/2021/09/26/c...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

It is absolutely white supremacy that treats cooperative overlap as "wrong" or a threat while treating hostile, enforced silence as expected norm during a conversation — especially between friends or loved ones! So *many* of our cultures, and neuroatypical interactions, rely on overlap as support.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Eight people connected to a Texas midwife accused of performing illegal abortions have been indicted for practicing medicine without a license, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced.

Eight people charged in connection with clinics providing abortions, Texas Attorney General says | CNN

Eight people connected to a Texas midwife accused of performing illegal abortions have been indicted for practicing medicine without a license, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

No, but they are inspired by her example.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

I think, and this is a personal observation , it’s only off topic if you aren’t sure your conversation partner sees the connection between thoughts. Sometimes we make a connection in our mind and just start talking about it and assuming the other person has the right context to make that connection.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 1d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Is it possible the only reason being interrupted bothers us so much is that it’s supposed to? This will be an easy no for many people, I’m sure, but I hope they ask themselves why. What feeling does it give you? What does it mean to you when you’re interrupted by a conversation partner?

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

The politeness question also asks us to infer that the interrupter either doesn’t care what the speaker has to say or assumes they know what the speaker will say, but I find that more often than not, it actually indicates excitement or passion or deep curiosity about the topic being discussed.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Still, the insistence that interrupting is always impolite doesn’t leave room for the nuances of banter, cadence, or the tendency of some people to monologue until they’re interrupted because they can’t break the chain of their own thought and need the conversation partner to do so.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

However, not everybody can do this because the interruption they want to make doesn’t build on the current topic as much as it changes the topic, and that’s difficult for someone (like me!) who likes to stay on topic until the subject naturally diverges into something new, but adjacent.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

I know it’s not technically polite, but I love having a conversation with other people who are comfortable with short interjecting interruptions. To me it makes the conversation feel more like something we’re weaving together rather than alternating individual presentations. It feels more alive.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Truthfully, when Dolly goes I’ll spend a week making sure every bit of news reporting on it isn’t AI before I react.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

I knew she wasn’t dying, I would’ve felt a disturbance in the force.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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