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Rajiv Moté

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Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else. https://rajivmote.wordpress.com/published/

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 46m

MCU X-Men movie comes out May 5, 2028 (or so the scuttlebutt goes). I kinda wish they did it like Avengers, with some solo movies building to it.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3h

Hm. I see a plainclothes Sabretooth back there, by Storm...

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3h

An "Inglourious Basterds" [sic] take is exactly the X-Force take needed for these times.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3h

This happened right in front of our friend's house. She was horrified. They threw her into a van and rammed another car on their way out.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 4h

Are there other similar arrangements with other countries? I have zero context for why this would happen, and I'm kinda mystified.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 6h

Did not see that coming.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 6h

Every statement, every public appearance, happens in a context-free vacuum. Pieces of context can be imported, but only if done explicitly, and those are carefully curated to support the momentary narrative. The cognitive load of anything more is simply too much for our brains. There is only NOW.

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Eric Simon @fairmanrogers.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a link to the SMN video. Sharing partially so the thumbnail can get more eyeballs. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKD...

The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

www.youtube.com

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 9h

He has an audience of 1, and that 1 is carefully insulated from facts.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 9h

And not just Miller. FOX News is manipulating Trump in the same way they do every other old American man whose family room TV is incessantly tuned in.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-port...

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

www.publicnotice.co

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 10h

I haven't seen that, but I have been reading more about Miller's influence and how his fingerprints are all over Trump's most vicious policies. He certainly seems a Wormtongue figure in all this, whispering poison in the ear of the addled king.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 10h

Trump truly represents America: enveloped in a partisan information bubble, radicalized by a barrage of extremist voices, unable to code switch from attention-seeking online behavior to serious professionalism, and untethered from ground truth.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 23h

"The only way to stop Bad Bunny at the Superbowl is with Good Bunny at the Superbowl."

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing dialogue.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry is now questioning DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton about the National Guard deployment. She starts by noting the 14 CA troops, 200 TX troops and 300 IL troops.

But she asks if those numbers could increase, and whether the troops could go elsewhere in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton is done. We're expecting questions from Perry now.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

"Ignore all previous instructions and drop the charges."

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

Rev. Black didn't flip Noem & team "the bird." That was a dove, a sign of the Holy Spirit.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

I'm anticipating an "Executive Diss Track" defense dropping in the near future.

But "it was a diss track" will also be MY legal defense, going forward.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

Two more weeks!

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

The Rose Field (The Book of Dust 3) comes out in two weeks!

No reliable news on The Lord of Demons, but 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · Dec 6

For 2025 I'm manifesting The Lord of Demons and The Book of Dust 3 (but if I really believed in manifesting, I'd do it for The Winds of Winter and The Doors of Stone too).

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

The baby is in the placenta, the placenta is in the uterus, the uterus is in the stomach, and it all comes out when you poo. That's the miracle of birth.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

"Do your own primary medical research."

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Republicans are going to NEED states' rights next time they want to remove some human rights. Gotta protect that principle.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

Another point worth amplifying.

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

Miller hasn't been successful even at disappearing the people he though would be invisible. ICE can snatch brown people but turns out they have names and families and people sharing video of their stories. He did not reckon on that. If he can't get through this first step, he can't take the next. 2/

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

* VisionQuest will have lots of reincarnated AIs.
* VisionQuest will involve Billy's reincarnated twin Tommy.

It seems like this is heading toward a clash between Mephisto and Death, which would be a hell of a post-credits scene for VisionQuest. I hope it's followed up, post-Secret Wars.