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Diane Galloway

@adgwatches.bsky.social

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Witch. Strategist. Political scientist. Former union organizer. Current academic. I write fiction, poetry, and political commentary. Dog content as a bonus.

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 21d

[interview] can you explain this gap in your resume?

[me] yes, you see what happened was, the federal government collapsed

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 6h

Many of us don’t even know what he said!

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 6h

“As you know I was very poorly at the holidays”

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Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · 6h

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
"Yes"
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
By Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 8h

I loved to watch for the forced perspective shots to this day. It was masterful stuff

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 9h

Rhetorical type casting

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 13h

The same novelist wrote the Poldark books and Marnie, just fyi

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 14h

Even the girls!

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 14h

It is weird they all look like Ditka’s Minions. Were they chosen to blend in or what

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 14h

She wore out a country music star!!! A job that was invented purely to attract sex from beautiful women

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 14h

Trying to decide if my quality of life is improved or diminished by the knowledge that Nicole Kidman is is need of near-constant schtupping

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 15h

You know she’s pasting that shit on solo in the car on the way to whatever dreadful press conference she’s about to give

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 17h

we keep being told society will collapse if we try to help the poor and maybe not treat rich people like untouchable god babies, and if i can be honest that makes capitalism sound kind of bad!

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

😂🤔😂

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

My printer is on strike since ~August and refuses to even submit a list of demands

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t know if that’s a printer issue. You might want to look into a haunting issue

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think we can know what’s really going on in that soup can he’s using for a brain, but there’s only one reason an old guy starts to reference the afterlife a lot all of a sudden

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · 23h

Making and releasing music is a pure, and at times significant, financial loss for me

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

People with integrity are always saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

My imaginary stasis pod runs on internal batteries with 1000 year output

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

You know what would be cool right now is one of those stasis pods. Hop in there and just tape a note on the outside that says “wake me up when the tribunals start”

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

Can anyone else tell I retreated to the academy after fascists seized power

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

This is the utopia described in William Morris’s radical fantasy novel _News From Nowhere_ (1890). But what else does John Darnielle share in common with Morris? In this essay,

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17h

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve read your poems - the wisdom is undeniable. The baby is extremely cute even if he is stinky at times, that’s a baby’s prerogative!

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 17h

This photo makes me so inexpressibly happy and I don’t even know the baby’s name. Just downloading wisdom directly through the eyeballs

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