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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 8m

I hear that everybody the men know is just as irrelevant as everybody that I know.

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4h

Okay I'm not current on World of Darkness lore, but WHY IS THERE SO MUCH SNOW IN SEATTLE?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

there's not enough video games where you get to shoot Confederates or, even better, Neo-Confederates. it's pretty much just Bioshock Infinite.

H R Pickens @hrpickens.bsky.social · 9h

Related: I'm plowing through Chernow's bio of Grant and it's got a lot in it to savor if you like reading about Confederates getting their asses kicked and their evil hopes blighted.

Sherman is just about to jump off and I can hardly wait.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 4h

I guess the real question is does Susan Collins have to get a Nazi tattoo now or risk losing the GOP base?

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 5h

"Wow. Holy shit, dude. I'm leaving."

"I know, I know. The tattoo. I was a stupid kid."

"Do you want me to drive you to the parlor to get a cover up *right now*? I'll chip in."

"..."

"Okay how about tomorrow?"

"..."

"Fuck off forever, then."

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like there's some self-sorting here.

If I had a buddy who suddenly revealed a Nazi tattoo, I would not question them about it. I would trust their intent and they would simply and immediately no longer be in my life.

Any friends who stuck around were, at least at some level, okay with it.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

I bet a candidate could do well with “yeah, I said some awful things online when I was younger, but I see why it was wrong, and I’m familiar with extremist spaces online, how young men get radicalized by them, and what we can do about it.”

Less good is “it’s wrong of you to care about what I said.”

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 7h

Graham Platner to @daveweigel.bsky.social:
"How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’"

DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 7h

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 12h

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 11h

So apples-to-apples the closest current analog to Clinton running for office (centrist "triangulation," former governor, ethics concerns, noted sex pest, but a talented politician) is Andrew Cuomo.

And, yes, I absolutely find Cuomo's many transgressions disqualifying.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 12h

(So I know we have to fight with the army we've got, but it's okay--essential, even--to demand better than the oops Nazi tattoo guy and the soon-to-be octogenarian woman who wants to be the 51st vote to preserve the filibuster.)

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 12h

New baseline position added:

Abolish DHS. Prosecute ICE. Restore the White House.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 12h

But, fuck, just the total disregard for the history and dignity of the White House, and its place in our democratic project, is so offensive.

What a complete Administration of assholes.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 12h

Even if somehow the ballroom isn't hideous and shoddily built--which seems very unlikely--moving forward in this way at this pace means they're gonna have to tear down the whole thing as a security risk, anyway.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 13h

Even putting aside preservation and environmental considerations, given the timeline there's just *no way* proper planning has been done for such a massive renovation on such a unique building, let alone one with *very particular* safety and security demands.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 13h

(*the allegations definitely appeared very serious and we were, of course, denied a proper investigation. Thanks, Jeff & Susan.

Point being: character is to a Supreme Court justice what athletic ability is to an Olympian. Just good enough isn't good enough.)

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 13h

(This was a great secondary frustration in the Kavanaugh hearings. Like, even if all the allegations didn't amount to anything more than gross youthful misconduct*, we can do better. He's a bog standard Federalist guy. You could find dozens who wouldn't weep and shout, "I love beer," at Congress.)

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 13h

I believe that redemption is available to [almost] all, if they're willing to work for it. Everyone deserves a decent life and dignity.

However.

When you get into rarified positions of public trust, we can and should demand better. A job that calls for the best of us demands a higher standard.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

yeah it is not “liberal censoriousness” to think that you shouldn’t nominate the guy without the sense to not get a nazi tattoo and then not remove it

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 1d

If you see an otter steal a surfboard, no you didn’t.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

www.nytimes.com

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

Limited time on this Earth and you're devoting it to hate?

What a waste of a life.

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

Not gonna reskeet the disgusting Ingrassia texts and...

Look, I'm not without my unaddressed prejudices and blind spots and can always do better, but, damn.

These racists, bigots, and TERFs just make their whole identity into hate.

It's gross, of course, but it also seems so... exhausting.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

Everything I read, saw, heard, or otherwise experienced today was off the record.

Please modify reality accordingly.

Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just looking at the windows haphazardly lying in the rubble...

I guess we all find our own horror in these images and for me it's those windows. How can you not be saving and preserving those windows?!

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

It does. In my experience the Discover playlists are not as well-targeted as on Spotify, though that's not entirely a bad thing. But as a result I use them sparingly. New release playlists work well.

The themed playlists are also pretty good if you find one (or more) that fits your taste.

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Greer-o'-lantern 🎃 @thegreer.bsky.social · 1d

I use Tidal and you can port over your playlists.

When I switched a few years ago Tidal had about 97% of my playlists in their library.

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