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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · Mar 19

I'm not ready to talk about the sci-fi novel I'm writing in too much detail yet, but here's a meme about what it's inspired by without any further context

Meme using the intro sequence of Powerpuff Girls Professor Utonium mixing Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice, but accidentally allowing Chemical X to enter the mixture. Each scene has something different superimposed over it to represent a different inspiration.

Sugar: The Expanse/Andor
Spice: Babylon Berlin/Disco Elysium
Everything Nice: Dune/Suzerain
Chemical X: Current Events

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Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1h

"They're gonna silence all dissent and-"

THEY COULDN'T EVEN SILENCE JIMMY KIMMEL

Cosmo grabbing Timmy Turner by the scruff of his neck and screaming in his face

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

People are still doing “there aren’t going to be midterms” posts as we see these people struggle to handle a guy in a frog costume

Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev saying “You are accused of doomer behavior. The court finds you guilty and sentences you to be shot.”

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 3h

Heartbreaking: The worst politician you know just passed a great law.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

Every targeted institution (my own very much included) should cut and paste this letter onto their letterhead.

Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 5h

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

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https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 4h

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 7h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 18h

T-girlrevor @trevorhistory.bsky.social · 18h

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 18h

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty wild that they managed to arrest Rosa Thälmann considering she's been dead since 1962.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

Zelenskyy has made some pro-Palestine statements as of late, especially since Israel has begun voting down UN condemnations of Russia at the US's request

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

And Abiy Ahmed

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IfNotNow🔥✡️ @ifnotnowmovement.org · 1d

Every life is a universe. Any deal that stops the bombs from falling and saves lives is cause for relief and celebration.

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dymphna @dymphna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking more about this and I think industrial music keeps re-evolving from first principles because the conditions that produced it are everywhere

The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 1d

I'm with you there

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Leave Omelas @leave-omelas.bsky.social · 1d

When I put on this uniform, I swore an oath to never wear another.

A painting of women on a battlefield with a large military tank in the background. They're charging forward, and all wearing full friend maid uniforms.

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

Two blank cartoon guys carrying a guy in a stretcher. One asks: "What happened to him?", to which the other replies: "His skeet left his target audience"

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, not sure what that has to do with my original post

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 2d

me and the lads (gender neutral) on our way to enforce the will of the Bishop of Rome by any means necessary (we are going to Costco to get water bottles for border crossers and then we're going to find translators & community resources for them)

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · 2d

dockyard strike in Rotterdam! 🚩

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · 2d

Sjorders in Rotterdamse haven staken, vrees voor opstoppingen

Vakbond FNV heeft de staking georganiseerd. Ze eisen dat de medewerkers een loonsverhoging van 7 procent krijgen.

nos.nl

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

You seem like an extremely pleasant and good-hearted person who will surely be the one to lead the revolution whenever it comes

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

Also, last I checked, they still haven't been able to lift the shutdown.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

I would recommend searching "we are going to win" (in quotes) on here. Tons of people posting signs that they are not as powerful or resilient as they appear.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think that's it, because the posts I'm referring to are talking about the same specific incidents for the most part, I think it's more disagreement about what this administration is actually capable of doing, and how much of what they're saying is bluster as opposed to actionable plans

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

For what it's worth, I think the best course of action is to anticipate the latter perspective, but prepare for the former.

Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I see this administration threaten to do something increasungly authoritarian, half of my feed is like "they're consolidating power! We're fucked!" And the other half is like "they're getting desperate! We're gonna win!"

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

I'm reminded of that one MAGA guy who said during Trump I that if Jesus came back and contradicted Trump, he would side with Trump

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