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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 17h

gonna make a concerted effort to Log Off for a while. if any mutual would like my discord shoot me a DM

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 19h

is this about jkr or jordan peterson?

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1d

“Abolish borders” is great and worth saying often, but what do you do when a large number of mobilizable Americans could actually be on board with massive changes to how immigration works in this country, because l’m not sure that’s impossible to get to from here

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

There’s also another aspect of this: reporters are cosmopolitan, urbane people that live in cities. Many of them have internalized the fact that people like them are not “real Americans”. So they attempt to correct for this perceived inauthenticity

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 22h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 1d

t4t vibes

C3p0 and R2d2 in a spaceship hallway. Soldiers behind them run like they're late for movie night. C3p0 looks mildly consternated but then he always does look mildly consternated

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Captain Suboo baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 1d

trans rights!

Pearly Sweetcake @sugarblind.bsky.social · 1d

trans rights

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always “I‘m worried there’s not a place for old white guys like me anymore.” Oh, cool. I’m worried the government is gonna make my healthcare illegal but yeah that sounds bad I guess.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I hate profiles of conservatives who are worried that their country is changing and would welcome profiles of liberals and leftists who are afraid of same thing from the opposite direction and treated their concerns the same kind of reflexive deference

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Max Munchies @ghostdoggtv.bsky.social · 2d

The Republican party is a national suicide pact

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 2d

Going with your "can do Star Wars things" point, I think for me I'd say "the minimum competency necessary to participate in the conventions of the genre". There are styles of games where you definitely want to start at "useless but fails in interesting ways".

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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bepis jr. @bepisjr.bsky.social · 3d

Tweet from “Thing Bad” username @Merman_Melville
“Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day”
4:03 AM Jan 25, 2019
101 replies, 7.9K retweets, 33K likes, 1K saves

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 21d

A really striking thing about the US is how it feels like everyone is constantly trying to rip you off. You have to hold constant vigilance against scam. Absolutely corrosive to social trust and a core part of our current political problems.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 3d

This gives me hope. That Calif can get serious about climate. That young people and new immigrants to Calif might have same privileges I did. That we can make transit work. And that we transit advocates can learn from this phenomenal work by housing activists

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 3d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 3d

As the shutdown extends, the rhetorical utility of a 94-style Contract With America becomes significantly greater.

Democrats need something material they can point to and say, "These are the perfectly reasonable points Republicans are refusing to do their jobs for."

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 3d

ah but have you considered: solar power is gay

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone thinks its a bad idea to put massive solar factories in Nevada. Have you *been* to Nevada? It's completely inhospitable in all but a couple of places.

You can't farm there, you can't ranch there, you can't live there.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4d

tracy refuses to commit to any of the rules about what comedians can’t say at the festival so they send jenna instead, who is immediately removed from the stage because the first words of her act are ‘my vagina is’

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 4d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

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Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 4d

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

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Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite writer quotes of all time.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 5d

increasingly of the opinion that cis people, broadly, cannot be trusted with cyberpunk

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not really sure tbh @delphicreject.bsky.social · 5d

yeah, the debates about the ethics of gen-ai itself seem kinda secondary to the societal consequences of building a machine that makes infinite fake news. I think "do we want to live in the world this creates" is a way more straightforward question, with a much clearer answer.

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