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Braaaaaaaaains Spears

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Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · Nov 16

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing millions of people that what they really wanted to do was argue with complete strangers on the internet 24/7.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 14h

There’s no lack of them in Ag or Engineering departments.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 16h

I’m going with Crystal myself but Louisiana is a good second.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 18h

I have a hard time believing Trump would care about the Nobel if Obama didn’t have one.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 19h

Every time someone says his name I’m shocked to discover he’s still alive

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 20h

Goddamn I needed that beautiful idiot dog this morning

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton are certainly cool also, but yeah.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds like a you problem

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m looking sideways at anyone it’s at the company that supposedly vetted him as a candidate in the first place.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d

Normalize taking your work email off your phone.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 1d

Normalize taking your work email off your phone.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 2d

“Fun”

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 2d

I would bet that 70% of Republicans correlates pretty highly with the percent of Republicans who live in suburbs and rural areas and who think cities are inhabited by liberals and people of color.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 2d

I would wear that shirt

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I'm definitely IN this tweet

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

There's a tshirt I've been thinking about a lot lately that reads "It's so weird being the same age as old people."

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 2d

Might make some of those encounters around the sandwich area kind of spicy.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

Hat tip to whoever chose the photo for this piece.

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Ex-NFL star Herschel Walker confirmed as first U.S. Bahamas ambassador in nearly 15 years reut.rs/4nz4psg

Ex-NFL star Herschel Walker confirmed as first U.S. Bahamas ambassador in nearly 15 years

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed former NFL star and political candidate Herschel Walker to serve as the United States' next ambassador to the Bahamas, filling a position that has been vacant for nearly 15 years.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

Blow The Whistle Referee GIF

Alt: Blow The Whistle Referee GIF

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

Live your life in such a way that you can be picked up at the airport in the Weiner-mobile.

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched the Weiner-mobile pick up someone from the airport

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

About this part in particular—human artists, even commercial ones, put something at risk in the creative process. AI-generated art lacks that risk to me.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally I just finished reading this and I agree completely.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 3d

There's a new The Oatmeal about AI art, which gets at the thing that ends up bothering me the most about AI art, which is that art that isn't the product of human creativity has no meaning or import.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

So in the mid-60’s, the federal government offered states a bunch of funding if they passed helmet laws, and all but California did, but in 1975, thanks to major lobbying pushback, that federal funding was uncoupled and now a bunch of states have repealed their helmet laws.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

We already did, decades ago. There’s a lot of states with no helmet requirement whatsoever. It’s one of the biggest unknown public health self-owns ever.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 3d

This one is up there with repealing motorcycle helmet laws, frankly.

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · 4d

Fair