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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.
December 3, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
It’s pretty striking how this time, Trump’s cabinet picks are basically Celebrity Jeopardy of appointments - every single selection is a character from television. There are barely any Rex Tillersons or Steve Mnuchins, just an endless series of famous MAGA clowns and sycophants
December 4, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
over thanksgiving a family friend gave me an extended guided tour of pro wrestling, a subject to which I had previously dedicated exactly zero minutes of my life, and I have to sort of agree with @owillis.bsky.social that it basically explains all of politics
December 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
people think I'm saying "Trump is WWE" or "the wrestlers are MAGA" but what I'm saying is that audience emotion and on-stage performance shaping each other reciprocally captures mass politics in microcosm in a way almost nothing else does
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Dec 4
over thanksgiving a family friend gave me an extended guided tour of pro wrestling, a subject to which I had previously dedicated exactly zero minutes of my life, and I have to sort of agree with @owillis.bsky.social that it basically explains all of politics
December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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kradke.bsky.social
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the US when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

www.history.com/topics/black...
December 1, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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The Onion store is perfect for that special someone who has nothing. Black Friday Sale here: store.theonion.com/collections/...
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December 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
yglesias actually has no idea why democrats lost the 2024 election - not a single thing he has proposed would realistically have changed the result. what he is trying to do is make his ideological enemies persona non grata within the party. it's a power grab masquerading as election analysis
November 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Dems beat Trump by a lot more in 2020 than he beat us in 2024, and the GOP didn't hand-wring about the need to find common ground with us. They treated us like enemies of the entire country and a critical mass of voters were convinced. "We need to compromise and accommodate" is not the lesson here.
November 30, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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sidlowe.bsky.social
Fascinatingly boring
November 30, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Correct
andyrichter.co Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · Nov 22
Honestly the way “the media” is tut-tutting about Bluesky must mean everyone on here is doing something right.
November 23, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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muellershewrote.com
I love that when I say "the good place" and "the bad place" everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about.
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
angeltee.bsky.social
Make a different in everything you do. One love
November 24, 2024 at 7:12 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
The intense hand-wringing over holding Trump accountable to basic legal and moral rules, the insistence that problems caused by Trump are ultimately the responsibility of voters and must be solved by them… they all run strongly against the kind of reassurances people are seeking from government
November 22, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Nazi March Condemned For Not Procuring Proper Permits
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Nazi March Condemned For Not Procuring Proper Permits
November 18, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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What To Know About The 4B Movement
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What To Know About The 4B Movement -The Onion
November 18, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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kradke.bsky.social
Best Practice

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists
#X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere .. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular #Bluesky.
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · Nov 15
NEW: "Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists"

UK political journalists: "Twitter was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over...

"We have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience. And it has been a well of ideas and discourse. Unfortunately that well is now poisoned. All of us have seen X become more toxic and broken since Elon Musk took over in 2022. Feeds have become less useful. Engagement has plummeted, except for those who will pay. Replies gain traction not through merit, but through the corrupted blue-tick system. We have seen hate speech and abuse deliberately dialled up and amplified, boosted not just by the algorithm, but by the owner himself. And England’s racist summer riots were one of many factors suggesting to us that X is not a neutral platform, but a space that now seems to glorify misinformation at a great cost to our public sphere. Millions of people are ditching X, and we are doing so, too. We have taken the view that it is no longer a useful tool for objective reporting, but a weapon being wielded by a narrowing ideological set. A tipping point is coming. Perhaps we are already in it. After much consideration, we have taken the decision to move over to other platforms, in particular Bluesky. For some of us that means instantly deleting our X accounts, for others it is a more gradual process. But we are all putting the majority of our efforts into building more constructive online spaces elsewhere for political dialogue and reporting. Bluesky is becoming a new hub for political discussion, and we encourage other UK journalists to join and become active. We are already seeing far higher engagement on our posts there than we’ve seen recently on X. And importantly, the mechanisms to limit abuse actually work. We enjoyed Twitter while it lasted. It played an important role in shaping many of our careers. And it was, for a long time, the place to be for UK politics. We believe that time is now over. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter
November 16, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
“Let’s analyze the defects in Jewish culture that produced the Nazis” is the book you’re looking for here
chatterton.bsky.social Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social · Nov 16
Yes, it is! Which is why I’m interested in a serious book that outlines the many cultural and political missteps that helped pave the way for the authoritarian charlatan to get back into the White House.
November 16, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
Ok I want to make my skyline more quirky so I feel less stressed. What are some weird, funny, quirky, silly accounts that you like to follow here?

I’ll drop a few I like in comments

Brownie points go to everyone who shares accounts that use ALT in their images.
November 16, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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blushyspicy.bsky.social
Quick Arcane Vi sketch ✨
November 16, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
White people sure seem a lot more economically anxious than nonwhite people, even though nonwhite people are poorer! Curious!
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
It’s comical that it’s the year 2024 and the left is still trying to push this economic anxiety nonsense on us
November 17, 2024 at 1:57 AM