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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 1h

It’s the worlds stupidest, most exhausting ouroboros

a cartoon of a green snake with potato-yi written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a green snake with potato-yi written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 1h

Jenkins is admittedly doing this for the engagement but it's always so telling when people with a large platform use it to flatter the powerful as opposed to sticking up for the marginalized.

Then those same powerful people bemoan the lack of trust in media…

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 1h

lolololol

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 1h

I knew about corned beef & cabbage but not Old Bay seasoning, and DEFINITELY not about British Fish & Chips! 🤯

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 1h

Like this is legitimately blowing my poor little Anglophile mind

www.britannica.com/topic/fish-a...

Fish and chips has long been considered a working-class food, and its origin coincides with the apogee the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. It is believed that the fried
fish component draws on a culinary style introduced by Sephardic Jews who arrived in England after being expelled from Iberia in the late 1400s and early 1500s; the tradition of battered fried fish was long established among them, possibly because the fish could be cooked before the Friday Sabbath and leftovers consumed cold the next day without violating religious strictures. In whatever case, fish cooked "in the Jewish manner" was a popular street food in
London.

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 1h

I knew about corned beef & cabbage but not Old Bay seasoning, and DEFINITELY not about British Fish & Chips! 🤯

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 7

I have been informed that this actor (Charles Korsmo) actually does work for the Federalist Society, which is astounding because I was just making a joke about the character

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Jun 6

This kid now works for the Heritage Foundation

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 2h

Not a shocker, sure, but the sheer audacity is still mind boggling

Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 2h

It’s been long-known that conservatives have a public shaming kink; apparently a lot of journalists do as well 🫠

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 2h

“And another thing, don’t put in The Bluesky I’m mad”

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2h

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.”

Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 3h

I saw this happen with a baby today IRL. This lady, or at least her voice, is actually magic. ITS REAL!!!

✨🪄✨

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUunHyT/

The end 😂😂#baby #kid #fun #funny #funnybaby #funnyvideo #funnyvideos #fyp #fypシ #foryou #babylaugh #laugh #failarmy #🤣🤣🤣

TikTok video by carson_fail

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 3h

Hey Sally quick question what the fuck

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 5h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 5h

42: The answer to life, the universe and everything

(from 2011)

www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

42: The answer to life, the universe and everything

Douglas Adams said it was the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. He meant it as a joke, but a new book shows how the number 42 has played a significant role in history

www.the-independent.com

Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 5h

I know when people start a post with “Honest question” it’s typically followed by the most disingenuous bullshit ever

But like

~ HONEST QUESTION ~

Did all legacy media & associated journalists lose all capacity for shame at some point or has it always been this bad & I just didn’t notice

Sally Jenkins & @sallyjenx.bsky.social
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This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob.

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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 5h

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

ANTIFASCIST FROGS
TOGETHER STRONG

Person in an inflatable frog costume faces down a line of armed security forces in front of the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon.

Three people wearing inflatable frog costumes are standing together in front of the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. One is holding a sign that says “Frogs Together Strong.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t know if having unlimited money actually melts your frontal cortex, but this outcome is observationally equivalent.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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