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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 11h

I've done that flight so many times that it was like a morning commute at one point.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 12h

"Is the junior staffer in the room with us now?"

flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 13h

God I love moderation lists on bluesky

Screenshot of ismisa.bsky.social with the moderation tag "Low Quality Replies"

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 13h

What was it like dating Taylor Swift?

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Pale Blue Dot still can make me tear up every time I hear it after all these years. Especially when Sagan is narrating it.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

i had no idea this was even happening.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 1d

My senator, Jeff Merkley, is on *hour 16* on the Senate floor, breaking down Trump's tyranny and authoritarianism.
www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

www.youtube.com

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Followed by "But it was a pretty sweet video right?"

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Timothy™️ @posttim.bsky.social · 2d

Every single day, damn it.

Simpsons meme: don’t make me tap the sign and the sign says,

“Fascism-lite” isn’t a strategy to defeat fascism but it’s very effective in normalising it.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

I take it with a grain of salt since the source decided to remain anonymous but there is a story from a witness saying he's called it his "little totenkopf" back in 2013.

There's no outside verification on that so take it with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I suspect he did know.

flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you end up a Nazi bar. The GOP did this "Well they didn't know any better" shit for 40 years and now they're a Nazi bar.

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Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social · Nov 21

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

He handled it piss poorly, and his pundits handled it even worse. I honestly don't care that much about him. All y'all around him choosing to carry his water are what depresses me.

The GOP started out the same way. Now they're a Nazi Bar.

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Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social · Nov 21

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Dude is a historian and a prolific redditor. The odds that in the intervening 18 years he didn't ever find out that he had the SS totenkopf on him (and according to one person, he'd brag about it by name back in like... 2013) are basically zero.

And as I said elsewhere, it's in the fucking meme.

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

media.tenor.com

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

He replaced it with a ragnarok/dire wolf thing... Which like... "let's get white supremacist adjacent" is not a good course correction.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

if Platner had covered his swastika up with a Dickbutt tattoos and i think I'd be on board

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Or a lot less bothered by it than they pretend. This is the same folks who beat their chest over the nazi Young Republicans chat thread.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

That's fucking terrifying.

Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

To put it bluntly, it's how fast his pundits defaulted to Nazi symbology being negotiable well before we got to "do or die" time. Like, at this moment, he's a long shot even under the best circumstances. Burning your principles this early suggests they weren't really sincere principles.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

The podcast Cognitive Dissonance summed it up well. It conflates the business of medicine with the science of medicine in bad faith.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Hadn't seen that yet, just heard him announce that he had. Do you have a link?

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Quick and easy way to block all the government bluesky accounts from trolling you.

They're already the most blocked accounts on bluesky. Keep it up!

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I'm willing to take the totenkopf story with a little grain of salt since it's an anonymous story and I don't know if it was verified independently or not but it seems likely.

Hadn't heard about the 1919 one... LOL and JFC.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. It still probably would be too much for me but I could understand it. Because the neo nazi fucks look for opportunities like that to sleaze in. Look at the fucking GOP for proof. They tried for 50 years and finally took over the party.

It's the Nazi Bar story all over again.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

For what I care about Graham Planter himself in all this, Laura hits the nail on the head. There were ways of addressing this that would have defused everything.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

If this man drunkenly got a skull tattoo, discovered its associated with Naziism after the fact, was like "oh shit," got it covered or removed immediately, and now was like "Listen, I understand why people are upset, here's the story" we'd be having a very different conversation right now

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

I've said elsewhere if he was polling in a dead heat or ahead of Susan Collins I could get the realpolitik argument to let it go for the greater good. But even if he won the primary his campaign is a long shot. Burning your principles for a pipe dream seems like a bad deal to me. YMMV.

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flatline42.bsky.social @flatline42.bsky.social · 1d

And to boot, the speed at which the punditry et al were like "well Nazi symbolism isn't really a deal breaker" was depressing. Like, Bernie's take on it was hot garbage and I'm disappointed. My main takeaway is that the Democratic party is okay with flirting with fascism even in long shot cases.

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