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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1m

Mariners fan? Wouldn't those be Saylors?

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure someone has done this, but it popped unbidden into my head after reading another fucking LinkedIn post about how great "AI" will be.

$It's an "Invincible" meme. Omniman and Invincible, labeled "Actual smart and creative people" look at fighter jets in the difference, labeled "AI." Omniman says to Invincible, "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."$

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 4h

They just won't stop with the crazy. Now they are demanding that we "establish justice and insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity."

Radical commies!

David Noll @david.noll.org · 4h

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

David Noll @david.noll.org · 5h

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, it's great Trump didn't get the Nobel and all, but does anyone get an Aung Sang Suu Kyi vibe from Machado?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 23h

Did and done!

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, I get dismissing @kaioken8026 and @ZxZNebula...but @mrright8439? Madness.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

These have been my pronunciations since someone taught me the difference a long time ago. But I don't get bent out of shape is someone uses the long "i" for a short book. Now if someone called the initial coat of paint a "primmer" coat, I might short-circuit.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

This is the hard truth of it.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's Frozen

Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · 1d

John Carpenter's 101 Dalmatians

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Almost certainly. Minecraft had no business being as good as it was.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck is WRONG with you?

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w56...

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

“I cherish peace with all of my heart. I don't care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it.”

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, you know, FUCK THE YANKEES, right?

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure someone has done this, but it popped unbidden into my head after reading another fucking LinkedIn post about how great "AI" will be.

$It's an "Invincible" meme. Omniman and Invincible, labeled "Actual smart and creative people" look at fighter jets in the difference, labeled "AI." Omniman says to Invincible, "Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."$

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Moredecai

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I always think about that idea of Mao's about letting a hundred flowers bloom. Social media has done that. But we're OVERWHELMED with weeds.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

I connected with a history community after my PhD cratered. I've read so much scholarship and learned so many things I might otherwise have missed in a silo.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot overstate how much I need this to happen.

Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Also, Krypto is the best. He needs a series.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Vanity is exactly the place to hit these fucks.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

AOC: Stephen Miller “looks like he's 4'10”. He looks like he's angry about the fact he's 4'10”.”

@aoc.bsky.social

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Also, how do you write a pitch?

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Also, does @jamesgunn.bsky.social take pitches? I have half an idea roping in the Golden Age Sandman, the Albert Höllerer Swamp Thing, maybe Solomon Grundy, the Question, Renee Montoya, maybe Jack Knight, Green Arrow, and Jack Hawksmoor. The ultimate fanfic. But I'm the fan 🤣

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Also, Krypto is the best. He needs a series.

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

I have the new Superman movie, WHICH I FREAKING LOVE, BY THE WAY, on in the background while I work. My complaint, and this stretches back to Snyder's BvS, is Lex Luthor playing increasingly like the Joker. Lex isn't crazy. Lex is brilliant, arrogant, jealous, and megalomaniacal. But not crazy.

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