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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 1d

Just tell me to stop! But here is another one that the gamer group recommends: kinfirechronicles.com?gad_source=1...

Incredible Dream | Kinfire | A Gentle Rain

Discover the immersive worlds of Kinfire and A Gentle Rain. Shop exclusive merchandise, add-ons, and dive into free webtoons, expanded lore, and designer diaries. Explore the latest board games like A...

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 1d

Fellowship of the Ring: Trick Taking Game is more low key and pretty fun, too. (asking my gamer group now so may provide a few more)

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 1d

Nemesis is a good one, too, but it is the kind of co-op where you may have to screw someone over to win. It is like a knock-off of Alien movies. Is pretty fun

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 1d

Marvel Zombies is pretty fun; have played that a bunch with people and still enjoy it. There is a Lord of the Rings (Adventure to Mount Doom) game based on Pandemic's mechanics (apparently, I never played that game) that I enjoyed recently. I'll try to think of others

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been thinking of Trump’s government as the Regime of Type One Error.

In statistics, Type 1 error is when you get a false positive, or claim to have found a relationship that isn’t really real. It’s like convicting someone who is actually innocent, for example.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 6d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7d

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 7d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8d

1) Know your values, frame the debate

2) Repetition is key to persuasion

3) Communication, public speaking, and on-camera performance are skills you need to train at to be good at bsky.app/profile/theb...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8d

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

You’re on social media but think you’re above being targeted with and impacted by propaganda 🥲

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11d

“Don’t let them get to you!” another mom wrote. “Only moms know what’s right for their monkeys!! Bumping your head is actually GOOD for you!!! Why is no one talking about this???”

I’m a MAHA Mom, and Here’s Why I Won’t Stop My Monkeys from Jumping on the Bed—No Matter What the Doctor Says

I’m a proud mother of five who is obsessed with keeping her monkeys healthy. Some people think it’s crazy how much time I spend making sure everyth...

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 11d

[being hyperbolic! Tho to revise to mainstream press is mostly not hyperbole]

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 11d

The only respectable journalism happening in the US right now folks. Love it

Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 11d

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 16d

It's not just that David Simon rather put a gun in his mouth than use AI--it's that he discovered his true passion for the written word.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16d

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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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 17d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Caddie Alford (she/her) @caddiealford.bsky.social · 17d

Crowd-sourcing: any recommendations for a student interested in pursuing a UX/technical communication/rhetorical analysis of patient portal design (in this case, MyChart)?

#TeamRhetoric
#TechComm
#AcademicSky

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 17d

Do you mean recommended readings? If so, I would use “critical interface analysis” as a keyword. There’s a handful on a variety of interfaces that might be good models

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 17d

Big improvement here. The only problem is, they're still 100% defending the status quo, which is NOT WORKING FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. Everyone knows these are health insurance company subsidies and this is an insane way to fund health care. They could tweak it a bit and improve it even more!

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 18d

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 18d

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 18d

Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic insider, and his firm Avoq lobby for Amazon against federal labor protections supported by the Teamsters.

Elmendorf bundles six-figure sums for the DCCC and DSCC; reformers urge Dems to reject lobbyist cash, but that's not going to happen under current party leaders.

Top Dem Bundler Lobbies Against Worker Protections for Amazon

Steve Elmendorf, a major DCCC bundler, is lobbying for Amazon on the Warehouse Worker Protection Act that is championed by the Teamsters union representing recently-striking workers.

readsludge.com

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 19d

Reading the Hobbit to my daughter. Every passage is like:

"The goblins were upon them! Gandalf did something magic and there was a cloud of smoke or some such. Who cares? Anyway the important thing is..." ::several pages on goblin anthropology::

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 19d

Where are the media headlines on whether JD Vance and Catholic Supreme Court Justices are betraying their faith like the endless stories over the years on pro-choice Catholic Dems?

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