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JL
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Doggo. He/him. Religious, but not the sort you're probably thinking of. Not the other sort either. On the side of non-evil people everywhere. Alt where fewer of my posts will be angry about politics and society: @jlwastoopolitical.bsky.social
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h
This isn't wrong but it goes well beyond the traditional sorts of media and into social media. "Charlie Brown had hoes" wasn't coined in reference to CNN, after all!
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1h
Ah yes, very interesting. And tell me, Nate, are the people the Democrats need to be messaging to the ones who are already the party's strongest soldiers, or is it, perhaps, some other group?
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 5h
The headline is sorta sending me because I'm imagining an ominous voice suddenly intoning "YOUR PACKAGE IS MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 6h
The people who need to read this won't, and wouldn't take it onboard if they did, but: an older establishment candidate running in a primary against the young(er) populist candidate is not a sign that the "establishment" has too much power. It is literally the opposite of that.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 6h
I agree with this sentiment in the general case, but it's a bit of a non sequitur, wouldn't you say?
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 6h
"Kinda" she says
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 7h
Starting to think that this was in the "Hitler" category of Time Person Of The Year
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 8h
And, imo, "correctly routing each soul to its proper destination" is a reasonable definition of justice here.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 8h
I've reached a similar conclusion. It's interesting to me that you say: not for reasons of justice. A concept I use here myself is "correctness", as in: an ultimate endpoint in hell seems to correspond best to what their actions imply their soul to be like; it'd seem correct for them to end there.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d
look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 20h
The "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" meme
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21h
Man, people really struggle with “the reasons for progress are myriad so you might as well do all of them”
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 21h
Periodic reminder

nb: this applies not only to the actual folks with nominal power, but to everyone, or nearly everyone, who voted for it and is not, by now, wearing sackcloth and ashes and crying out to the heavens for mercy
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · Aug 17
You do not have a sufficient level of wrath and contempt for what these people are. You literally cannot: you would need to ascend into some sort of quasi-divine being to hold the appropriate amount of wrath.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Aug 16
Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 21h
Like it always blows my tiny little mind that we can't just make safe traffic a clear, well- enforced norm.

People joke about human reflexes in charge of 2000+ pounds but like. not talking about needing Blue Angels tier precision here. Most people are neurologically capable, just don't give a shit.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 21h
Discourse around safe driving is always amazing (derogatory) to read, because I go through my day as a driver and/or pedestrian who tries to be reasonably conscientious and safe, and I see people running red lights, going 10+ over, etc. etc. and somehow not getting locked up.

And then...
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 21h
...I get to come On Here and repeatedly see the framing that cars, themselves, are ontologically evil and Degrowth, But For Personal Transportation is the only solution.

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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 21h
Discourse around safe driving is always amazing (derogatory) to read, because I go through my day as a driver and/or pedestrian who tries to be reasonably conscientious and safe, and I see people running red lights, going 10+ over, etc. etc. and somehow not getting locked up.

And then...
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
"Reduces mouth breathing" is almost too good
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
I don't know the context but I get the feeling this person may be using "hate" a bit hyperbolically
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
No, I don't think you're inhuman or lack a soul because you use a microwave or wear a hearing aid, because "heating up food" or "converting sound waves from the environment into nerve signals" are not, traditionally, considered within the remit of the spark of sapience we refer to as a soul
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
Show me something as transparently a bad faith strawman as "people who are against ai slop/creative and cognitive devaluation are against all technology"
Bsky post: "If you follow the line of “technology is anti human & soulless” and “people who like/use/depend on technology are anti human & soulless,” coupled with the dual application of clanker/wireback/etc toward both technologies and humans, it’s pretty clear that they’re being used as dehumanizing slurs."
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
Tl;dr: if you're going to complain that nobody asks for clarification or tries to learn then I hope you're also not giving any shelter to all the people who make seeking information an unjustifiably unpleasant experience.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
I've been around the internet for going on 30 years and have been repeatedly groinpunched for trying to interact with people on the naive assumption that there was some sort of learning or synthesis to be had.

At some point you'd just rather give it a miss. Block and move on, as we call it now.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
And it got me thinking that I'm probably one of those people it's talking about, or at least I might look like one from the outside.

The thing, though, is that trying to "seek clarification" is a process that we've strewn with traps and punishments.
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JL @jlwastooshort.bsky.social · 1d
Not gonna quote the post since it would be completely out of context, but I just saw someone say "People have lost the ability to have a conversation, which requires you to seek clarification if something someone says is confusing to you."
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