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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · Jul 29

A year ago I lost one of the closest friends I'll ever have. This piece is my attempt to expand & cement his legacy.

Please be gentle with yourself—it's a sad story—but I really hope you'll read it.

Dear Businesslady: Grieving at Work

"It is what it is."

www.thestopgap.net

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 2d

if you haven’t read this yet, it’s worth reading

Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 9d

& speaking of quality writing by actual humans, I absolutely loved this piece about the decline of Kanye written by a fellow former fan. (in case you're blissfully unaware of what he's been up to lately, CW for, among other bleakness, the sincere? heiling of Hitler) www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

An Intimate Chronicle of Kanye West’s Fall from Grace

The rapper and producer has become a pariah, running for President and praising Hitler. A new documentary gives insight into what went wrong.

www.newyorker.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

Listening to this on repeat and grieving the loss of the Republic

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

The most beautiful string arrangement from a Nazi composer since Carl Orff

Portland Cello Project Covering Kanye West "All of the Lights"

YouTube video by portlandcelloproject

www.youtube.com

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about 'making up half of it' is that ONE KNOWS ONE'S MADE IT UP - & one DID THE CREATIVE WORK to make it up.
People using LLMs mostly don't know & haven't done those things.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 2d

Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Disney animation version of Maid Marian, Robin Hood's fox gf

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 2d

that is EXACTLY it!!

as someone who's occasionally been encouraged to "get into" "that space" (which, already a hard pass on nomenclature alone) I'm like "but I'm just trying to offer commonsense interpretive advice? I'm a pretty good writer/think-through-er but...charging people to talk to me??!🤢"

Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 2d

lol

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

If a company can fire Lisa at will because of who she is, then it can fire me. And I suppose that doesn't register to people who don't have random-ass bigots with a truckload of power deciding they just don't like that you exist, but I need you all to figure it out before the country falls apart.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 2d

I have a scholar whose work you might enjoy (albeit more recreationally than professionally) samfoxschool.washu.edu/people/facul...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 2d

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

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.

buff.ly

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 2d

Oh fuck I hadn’t thought of this one.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 3d

MARK MY WORDS:

“Trump 2028” is going to be him running his daughter Ivanka Trump.

She would be a puppet president with Kushner as her handler. It’s why you see them cozying up to celebs and donors.

He beat 2 women & wants his daughter as the 1st female president

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d

yeah this is just obviously true and revealed preferences confirm it. it’s an argument for heavy state subsidy of children

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

I think the thing with the debate about ‘Pro-Natalism’ is that everyone kind of dances around saying explicitly is that revealed preferences show lots of people think having kids of sort of sucks for the parent but is clearly necessary for society.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 3d

you could undermine the structural integrity of that li’l sticker by running it hard against the edge of something—we had glass counters behind the register at Borders that were GREAT for this. I’d regularly open CDs that folks were struggling with immediately upon buying them, & felt so powerful 😌

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3d

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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