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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 26m

For example if it's Heidegger you are most likely in a Nazi zombie situation. Bad! Whereas if it's Kierkegaard it's more of a restless wraith scenario, much more manageable

stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 8h

Sure Jan

stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

I think this situation calls for an idiom from closer to home: bless his heart

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

Hate present tense in fiction. Hate it!

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

"If you want access to [the attention economy], you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera. And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot."

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

Books written in first person present tense are icky

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

Curious how this aligns with the jock/creep fascism index

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

The right way to look at this is that Texas is X% immovable, diehard R. What we saw in 2018 was that that number was 51%. That's down from 60% in 2006. This poll might be showing that that number is now 48 or 49%. Which is what you expect to be the case when a D statewide win is within reach again.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

He's a complicated man, and noone understands him but Matt Stoller

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 1d

Oh it most certainly was!

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

I still think about the scene where Pacino finds the bug 30 years later

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

It's like when people were coming for Lil Nas X. Real "you're locked in here with me" stuff

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

Hell yeah

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

Almost everyone on here has fantasized about the day when It finally happens but I think we have underrated the possibility of It being a gradual process that is a source of both physical and psychic torment 🙂

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

Somebody's been watching too many Ordinary Sausage tiktoks

stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public"

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social · 2d

They played that song during the morning announcements EVERY DAY when I was in 5th grade in suburban Atlanta, I assume under the belief they were indoctrinating us to conservatism. Now Georgia has two Democratic senators. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯