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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · Aug 28

Swifties for Kamala has had three sitting Senators on the call so far, for those keeping score on the relative drawing power of affinity groups

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

He shouldn’t be, unless he can demonstrate he has learned to drive safely (how? No idea). But he’d get his license back after being in prison, too. Unless we’re escalating to the death penalty.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

Absolutely. But this is a structural problem: our roads are death traps. The guy should face consequences but throwing him in jail won’t improve bike safety. Take his license, but fix the roads.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

Holy shit the number of people here who think summary execution is the appropriate punishment for negligent homicide.

That’s fucked up.

Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

(Unless you do have data? Please share if so, i strive to update my priors.)

Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

Neither of us can support our assumptions here.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

It was negligence. It caused death and caused sorrow but it wasn’t a willful murder. To me, those are different categories of crime.

If someone wants to kill, you take their gun they’ll go get a knife, so prison may be the answer. If someone is shit at driving, don’t let them drive.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

I’d be fine with his license being permanently revoked. That seems fair and justified. It prevents him from killing more people with his bad driving.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

What would sending him to jail solve? If this was negligence, jail won’t make him more attentive. It probably won’t deter others from negligent driving either. Jailing him would be punitive, compounding harm with harm.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think having him spend the rest of his life installing bollards to protect bike lanes would be a better outcome for everyone than sending him to prison.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

Well at that point he’d be driving without a license, not sure what the punishment is for that.

There’s no good answer here, but yanking his license at least takes his weapon away. Based on the description this was dangerously reckless driving, not intentional murder.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

He’s got a fine, community service, and will lose his license for some period of time.

What more punishment do you want?

Nothing can bring back a stolen life, but throwing the guy in jail won’t solve that either.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

A hippo superhero taking flight?

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 31

I just read The Monster of Elendhaven, and at first I couldn’t figure out the ending. So i went and read a few online reviews, and some of them were so amazingly wrong that it finally clicked and i think i get it.

Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reminder to tell bluesky about the good things you read. Books, articles, blogs, Greek epigraphs written across your lover's skin, mystical sigils glowing on the walls of a brokedown palace, whatever really. Share good stuff.

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Welcome to Ninety Nut November @swolecialism.bsky.social · Aug 30

Honestly I'm just kind of impressed by the idea of a judge who understands computers enough to know what a VPN even us

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Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · Aug 30

Anti-Communist propaganda is one of the core functions of the US government.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m guessing a wedding this expensive is more likely to end in divorce.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

Via collect call.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

I didn’t want to disappoint any temporally-displaced starfleet officers who might see my post.

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Michael Paul 🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · Aug 30

there should be a warning label for low entropy accounts

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dude can’t even order doughnuts.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

May i recommend

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Welcome to Ninety Nut November @swolecialism.bsky.social · Aug 30

this is so fucked up. these people should not be allowed to appropriate dinosaurs from people who are actually cool and good. we should send in the 82nd airborne.

Skywatch Blue / Anti-Alf Aktion @skywatch.blue · Aug 30

We have added a new label “🦖: Dinosaur Emoji”. This emoji is frequently used by so called “Gender Critical Feminists” (Transphobes) from the UK to self-identify. To avoid false positives this will require manual review.

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Kate @silea.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Are you a cop or something?”

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