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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 4h

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h

“Answer me these questions three, or billing rates shall rais-ed be”

Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 4h

Be advised, the fey folk have bewitched Apple management. Avoid delicious-looking pies and shiny red apples. Watch where you sit while you watch PLATONIC

the company said "Apple
TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity."

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 15h

I was thinking about Nicole tonight because she also did mutual aid. I remember once I got let go when a restaurant I worked at closed right before rent was due, and she literally kept me in my apartment. I was just a person she sort of kind of knew on Twitter.

Miss her energy. A good take.

Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 8d

This was doubly weird, because Nicole Cliffe was basically the platonic ideal of that-era Twitter account.

An incredibly wealthy elite who was smart enough to act occasionally embarrassed about it, and who was also sort of insane but in a fun, rather than violent or scary, way.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d

I remember people went absolutely ballistic about this and it was partially why Nicole Cliffe left Twitter. It's kind of infuriating how people lost their damn minds about it. (Also, remember when people thought a Nigerian fan of Buttigieg was a sock puppet account?)

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 2d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 16h

Books aren't just what the writer puts in. They're what the reader puts in, too. And some readers are assholes.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 16h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16h

I firmly believe that Digimon could have stopped 9/11 but I hesitate to say the same thing about most Pokémon.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 17h

the students at the encampments were right

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 16h

Here's a podcast where two guys read every Kurt Vonnegut novel and talk about them endlessly, in case you were worried this opinion wasn't sourced in solid facts gradschoolvonnegut.libsyn.com/0-grad-schoo...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 19h

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 22h

I sometimes think that a lot of the irreconcilable differences in society roughly boil down to the tension between people who think no one (including themselves) really understands anything, and the people who think "no one understands anything except me, and I am very sure of myself."

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s supremely pigheaded — and I think, supremely common — to interact with someone assuming they know what you know already, or are at all sensitive to your present state and how it’s been constructed over the course of the day. That’s as true with a life partner as it is with a stranger.

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s extremely weird to me as an autistic dude fully cognizant of how he’ll never fully grasp variant paths of approach to a given subject or experience. When you meet someone you cannot ever know how the last five (5) minutes of a person’s life affected the way they react to you or behave

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

But a constantly refreshing timeline, designed around virally spread reposts, collapses context basically by default. It’s baffling to me that high-follower accounts / ppl who go viral aren’t constantly aware of this phenomenon, or understand the strange noise of the platform through it.

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

Is it the case that social media’s systemic promotion of reactionary affect has crept back up the feedback loop and is affecting real life? I think that’s inarguable. You could make a good case that the isolation / disruption of 2020 flash-boiled a critical mass of brains with Too Online particles

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

You have to be constantly aware that when you say “I see people doing X” or “My menchies demonstrate Y”, you are making people up. You are the guy who’s in a rush to get somewhere and feels he is surrounded by slow and inconsiderate drivers.

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

Personally one of the things I’ve noticed abt people who are too online is that they forget the design and purpose of social media. To deduce discourse capacity from these platforms is like deducing popular fashion from time spent in a Turkish bathhouse

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 1d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 1d

Analysis of PARABLE OF THE SOWER as a visionary or utopian text, as opposed to a bog-standard post-apocalyptic novel, are driven by wishful and revisionist impulses; it is barely more than a WALKING DEAD or THE ROAD WARRIOR with some new age gloss

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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James Lyden @jameslyden.com · 1d

I always said that conspiracy theorists should be forced to organize an office holiday party

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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