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proud liberal with emoji characteristics 🧦🔰🦀
proud liberal with emoji characteristics 🧦🔰🦀
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this is now a Charles Sumner stan account. man got beat nearly to death for calling out slavocrats for being the awful, un-American pieces of shit that they are
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Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??
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Mods are asleep, post the unknown gods that buggy dwarf fortress newborns worship
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Mods are asleep, post the unknown gods that buggy dwarf fortress newborns worship
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one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
one thing we need to do as a society is treat all fraud or theft over $100 million or so as a potential capital crime, with the possibility of execution for offenders.
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the hyper-fixation on tearing benefits away from the "unworthy" is a cultural degeneration that I don't know how to talk about in objective terms from the perspective of liberalism
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the hyper-fixation on tearing benefits away from the "unworthy" is a cultural degeneration that I don't know how to talk about in objective terms from the perspective of liberalism
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Also: Dad died. A few days later the family uses the EBT card to buy food. So what?
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Also: Dad died. A few days later the family uses the EBT card to buy food. So what?
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You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
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If you're getting bent out of shape about a Pres. Primary horserace poll 3 years out, please turn off your computer and throw it out the window.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you're getting bent out of shape about a Pres. Primary horserace poll 3 years out, please turn off your computer and throw it out the window.
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The Massachusetts Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would create statewide rules to restrict attempts to remove books from school libraries. Here's a look at the details: www.wbur.org/news/2025/11... @wbur.org
What's in the anti-book ban bill the Mass. Senate is expected to pass
The Massachusetts Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would set statewide rules for removing material from school libraries. Here's a look at the details.
www.wbur.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Massachusetts Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would create statewide rules to restrict attempts to remove books from school libraries. Here's a look at the details: www.wbur.org/news/2025/11... @wbur.org
were it me? I simply wouldn't vote for a pedophile once, let alone up to three times
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
were it me? I simply wouldn't vote for a pedophile once, let alone up to three times
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
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The police should be broken up into like four forces each with different responsibilities and applicant pools.
My take as well: We need everything from "social worker who can dodge a punch" to "SWAT team" because sometimes someone's having a psychotic break in public and sometimes someone has a gun and hostages. The police being our one-size-fits-all solution is pretty stupid in that light.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The police should be broken up into like four forces each with different responsibilities and applicant pools.
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Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
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I don’t really know what over/under means, I fake it every time
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I don’t really know what over/under means, I fake it every time
last sumo tournament of the year started last night. last tourney there were some amazing records and bouts from the highest ranks. Aonishki, one of the two Ukranian wrestlers in sumo, has had a meteoric rise this year
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
last sumo tournament of the year started last night. last tourney there were some amazing records and bouts from the highest ranks. Aonishki, one of the two Ukranian wrestlers in sumo, has had a meteoric rise this year
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'Touch the stove' works as an analysis of the GOP's self-destruction. It offers relatively little for positive Dem strategy.
At this point, Republicans have stepped in it pretty well and all Dems need politically rn is not to lose. I'd hold out for more but Trump has taken a huge fucking hit here.
At this point, Republicans have stepped in it pretty well and all Dems need politically rn is not to lose. I'd hold out for more but Trump has taken a huge fucking hit here.
Yeah this part is darkly funny. Before this started, *many* people here insisted that Dems getting an ACA credit extension would be a massive GOP win (because 'TOUCH THE STOVE'!). Now many of the exact same people are denouncing it as a massive failure if they don't get one!
The goalposts keep moving on this too. If the outlines of this alleged deal are correct and it goes through and the GOP either welches on the promised vote/votes against extending the ACA credits, that’s what Bluesky wanted pre-shutdown, but now it’s the Dems selling out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
'Touch the stove' works as an analysis of the GOP's self-destruction. It offers relatively little for positive Dem strategy.
At this point, Republicans have stepped in it pretty well and all Dems need politically rn is not to lose. I'd hold out for more but Trump has taken a huge fucking hit here.
At this point, Republicans have stepped in it pretty well and all Dems need politically rn is not to lose. I'd hold out for more but Trump has taken a huge fucking hit here.
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Castlevania S1 and 2 really were superlative. great writing, fantastic animation
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Castlevania S1 and 2 really were superlative. great writing, fantastic animation
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Without question, one of the hardest things I’ve taken on.
In 2021 a single, Muslim, Bangladeshi young woman raised in Kensington got elected to the NY City Council in D39, the district that de Blasio and Lander had represented. Her name is Shahana Hanif and she won re-election in 2025 with a remarkable 70% of the vote against seriously funded opposition.
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Without question, one of the hardest things I’ve taken on.
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a pet peeve is when someone responds to a remark about unseasonable weather with "oh, but I like it better when it's <cold/hot>"
climates radically changing shouldn't be okay simply because of one (1) person's preference
climates radically changing shouldn't be okay simply because of one (1) person's preference
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
a pet peeve is when someone responds to a remark about unseasonable weather with "oh, but I like it better when it's <cold/hot>"
climates radically changing shouldn't be okay simply because of one (1) person's preference
climates radically changing shouldn't be okay simply because of one (1) person's preference
oh, that clarifies things. the answer is yes: liberal feminism ruins toxically masculine workplaces (laudatory)
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
oh, that clarifies things. the answer is yes: liberal feminism ruins toxically masculine workplaces (laudatory)
posting is praxis
Fellas, is it idealistic to log off?
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
posting is praxis
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Say what you will about the median voter but at least there is often an eventual recognition that the stove exists and is in fact hot
JPMORGAN'S DIMON SAYS DEREGULATION IN BANKING WILL LEAD TO GROWTH IN MORTGAGES, TRADING AND LENDING
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Say what you will about the median voter but at least there is often an eventual recognition that the stove exists and is in fact hot