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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1m

I was hanging out with my professor in his office and verbally realized in front of him that I forgot to do an ~5 page essay due that day.

I told him I was going to go write it, got up, wrote the essay in less than an hour, turned it in and got the best grade in the class.

He still gets mad at me.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 41m

We should all tell our stories like this...mine is "the time I totally forgot about an essay and cranked out a paper on Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus in two hours and ended up winning an award for it"

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 36m

If there were any doubt that I (still) have PTSD...

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 36m

Lovely for me that now I get to wonder if I'm going to sleep tonight (or what nightmares I'm going to have) because I'm forced to think about shit I haven't thought about in years.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 2h

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 50m

Are there going to be people who manage to get through? Yes. But that's true of basically every system ever created. Mistakes are made.

I can tell you that far more people who are entitled to benefits are denied than people gaming the system.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 51m

You should go get checked out. You are entitled to payment if service gave you a condition you would not otherwise have. You break it, you buy it.

But the idea that there's any widespread fraud is laughable. The process itself is such that gaming it is difficult.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

Truly

BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

The idea that this is in any way an honor system when you have to go through *multiple* examinations is fucking ridiculous.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

They just find the most off the wall examples they can to demonize everyone. It's such an old pattern at this point.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

There is an entire infrastructure stood up around helping veterans navigate this system because is it notoriously difficult and rigorous.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

Getting benefits for known problems let alone "fake" ones is damned near impossible.

This is all so ridiculous.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 2h

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 2h

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

It was one of the books that pushed me along my own intellectual development and away from reform.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1h

I just finished reading decarcerating disability, it was really good. i learned a lot about deintstiutionalization! I feel like it is essential reading for political ed

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

It's been a while since I've read this but it was really, really good.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1h

From what I have seen of this person I do not like. It would not have been difficult to simply reply to you.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

He won’t even support the Democrats in his city so this doesn’t move

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol

(video via Rachel Schilke)

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 3h

Information and devastating that this is even a thing. Please mask up immediately

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 4h

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19

Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

www.news-medical.net

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 3h

Yes, thank you!

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 4h

Man-ays

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 6h

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 4h

(Mostly white) farmers were not duped.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 4h

The one white woman farmer on YouTube (I forget her name) pointed out that this is false.

That farmers knew exactly what was coming, expect a bailout, and voted knowing they'd experience a loss in exchange for things they want (this was not elaborated upon--the answer is racism, transphobia, etc).

Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 6h

Just like he did with the farmers. Sweet talked them and they fell for it. At least most of them did.

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 5h

Why were they in the Weimar Republic, Jack?

These fucking people man.

Like I know what they're doing but it isn't any less irritating.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 7h

Fortunately for me I've evolved beyond arguing with these people.

It's enough for me to point it out and move on, nowadays.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

Meanwhile...

americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

Mamdani Courts the Cops

He is doing a lot better...

americanprospect.bluelena.io

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