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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like I suffer a personal indignity every time I'm reminded I live in a world where that fool exists and prospers, and I've felt that way for FORTY DAMN YEARS

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 14h

also: resisting temptation for ethical reasons is good, actually! it means you're someone who honors your ethical commitments! people who pretend you're unserious because you've given up the use of some shiny but destructive gadget are moral idiots

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 1d

the moment of not knowing how to get from one thing to the next is precious to art, and these fucking LLM people want to rob me of it

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 1d

where do people like this think creativity happens? it happens IN the transitions, it happens in navigating through all the difficult bits; the pleasure of creating is inextricable from the difficulty, it's all one cloth. you deliberately conflate that with rote productivity then you have no soul

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 1d

ICE's main use at this point seems to be as a content mill: a more brutal, Nazified, wider-scale version of fake-doc precursors like Project Veritas. all of it built expressly to suit Trump's tastes

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 5d

exactly the same kind of flattering, complicit, whitewashing bullshit Ravid printed when it was Biden pretending he had the balls to stand up to Netanyahu

He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 7d

practically every figure celebrated on US currency is a slaver or a war criminal or some rich thief, I don't know why I'd care about one more joining the crowd, even a pissy short-fingered one

Defector @defector.com · 7d

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump's likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 8d

how many bots does he imagine have Netflix subscriptions?

He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 8d

"give me a version of 'Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint' but in this one they get it on"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 8d

the problem of a paper tiger equipped with nuclear weapons and a history of their actual use remains unsolved, however

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 8d

although it might preclude us losing a war against Iran, which would be worse

He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 8d

months of the Times propagandizing against Mamdani and all they've got to show for it is an inconsequential split of the Democratic vote? no it's the socialists who are unpopular

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 12d

whereas catholics, in the ecumenical spirit, believe they're all heretics

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 13d

even the fairy tales are fractured now

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 15d

it looks like the horse is wearing the human as a codpiece

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 16d

the cool thing is that Harris's career from this point forward is just a narrowing circle of fundraising grifts and "remember me?" attention grabs until she meets her inevitable end as the punch line of a joke nobody remembers to tell

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 16d

the essence of Clintonism

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20d

I sometimes point out to my fellow white people that when you won't talk or allow people around you to talk about climate or covid or genocide, that's you directly working to diminish the space of solidarity, and that's a political practice and it's one you all do *all the time*

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 27d

Great thread on the social geography that underlies the ICE assault on Chicago

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 27d

In my darker moments working Chicago’s ‘20 Uprising I mapped it out in my head, an arc along the western edge of town where the murals would go: YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE CHICAGO

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27d

Before you comment on anything we report today, please look at this map. Internalize it. Then look at it again.

ICE activity is happening in a ring of fire around the city proper right now, in less dense areas that are heavily disinvested, with few local media to cover quickly developing events.

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urbanobserver.bsky.social @urbanobserver.bsky.social · Sep 4

The scumbags who forced this sweet child to spend her final hours in agony and terror while using her as bait to kill her rescuers are walking free, allowed to travel the Western world on holiday or to fly in and out of their actual countries without repercussions. I can’t say what I truly want.

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hind Rajab.

PRCS Medic: "Hind, why aren't you speaking?"
Hind: "I'm not talking because every time I talk, blood comes out of my mouth and makes my clothes dirty and I dont want my mom to have to clean it."

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · Aug 31

it's a metaphor for being cooped up with Byron, Shelley and Polidori and wanting to chop them into bits and then reassemble the bits into someone who'll have to listen to you

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · Aug 31

look, it's simple, no one should be allowed to play sports until the age of 18, problem solved

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · Aug 23

"the word processor will brutalize your style"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · Aug 23

my literal intro to grad school was John Hollander going on a prolonged rant about the superiority of the codex to the scroll (or scrolling screen) as an information technology, and bigod it's never left me

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