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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 12m

I have a friend who lives in ternate so I'm kinda freaking the fuck out rm

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not sure I entirely agree with your analysis. I'm sure the economic component is a factor, but I tend to think people are more motivated by psychological need than economic need

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

Autism Moms(tm) are like this as well. "The child I have received is not the child I wanted or expected, someone or something must be at fault"
It's basically a demand to speak to the manager of human developmental biology

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

These are the noises Jack Posoboic makes while jerking off

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

what the fuck

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

Most extreme case is Elon. All his kids were conceived with sex selective ivf- literally assigned male - so when his trans daughter came out it melted his brain, because he didn't *design* her with that in mind

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

It's the same as a lot of the trans kid stuff. Some parents think they own their kid and should be able to control everything about their kid.
When of course a child is a human being.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 5h

The... what?

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7h

If you can believe it, this indictment is even more thin than their indictment of Comey. It was reported that this entire thing hinges on an incorrectly filled out form *that wasnt even actually submitted for the mortgage application*

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 7h

"Trump fires a US attorney and installs one who files facially specious charges against two people Trump has demonstrable antagonism for" is not, I think, going to be a winner for him

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

Jack Posobiec spread antisenitic hate on Twitter for years, including tagging Jews with triple parentheses.

JD Vance wrote the forward to Posobiec’s book, Unhuman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 6h

this is going to be another all-time easy vindictive prosecution motion

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

while I acknowledge that LLMs do have some uses for stuff like “producing code with knowledgeable human supervision,” this perfectly reflects how I feel about using it for my own creative work

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

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

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 10h

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

it’s so cool that this is a government by and for the sweatiest and most unpleasant conspiracy theorists in the country

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10h

LET THE GOURDS HEAL YOUR PAIN.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

buff.ly

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

PLO recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993 and then what happened is a question nobody seems to answer on here

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10h

I keep learning the lesson “Maybe I’m too hard on myself and I’m actually doing ok.”

I need it to be repeated some more but at least it sticks for a few seconds now.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16h

In which the editorial board of the Washington Post effectively endorses President Nixon's claim that "when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 11h

the fiction stuff is interesting, i've encountered a number of friendly acquaintances in "let's chat about TV" type spaces who have a full on political belief that subtext is bad. fiction needs to have clear morality that must be told explicitly to the audience. stop the show and turn to camera

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 11h

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

yeah man we are trying to win a civil war before it breaks out

vanagonfan @vanagonfan.bsky.social · 13h

"We have to potentially immiserate millions if we *really* wanna defeat Trump!"

Yeah that fucking sucks, actually.

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