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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 9d

No. 18: Annihilation by Jeff Vanderman. This book answers a question: what if, instead of being a middling prose stylist, HP Lovecraft had been a pretty good prose stylist? Though the dialogue is rough. idk. the book was fine. Don’t feel particularly inclined to read the sequels.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19m

My man has kratom in stock

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23m

i just don’t think that’s true

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 46m

Easily 85 percent of “for you” posts are unambiguously fascist

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

To be fair. This guy is an ultra-right Christian nationalist. But the fact that this is what the Twitter algorithm is serving up, that it gets a ton of positive engagement. it’s not good.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

@whstancil.bsky.social was right, Musk acquiring Twitter was maybe the most politically important moment of the Biden era

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

Idk what we do about the fact that Twitter is now slow-burn Radio Rwanda. When I say these people are hyping themselves up to kill us I don’t think I’m exaggerating

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1h

I think it was unfortunate that the worst footage of Jan 6 didn’t come out until two years after the fact

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

i expressly did not clutch my pearls about the rampaging mob on september 6, and thought it was mostly goofy. i did believe the people at fault were the officials riling these people up and putting them in legal and physical danger. i agree now they absolutely should have hammered trump

Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 9h

when your enemy forages to eat, burn the fields they march upon. when your enemy posts tiktoks to recruit, ruin their desired setpiece

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 9h

ai-gen physiognomy and voice

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

I think this is wrong. But no 2026 midterms, or refusing to seat the new Congress, would be my personal “go home with your shield or on it“ point

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 12h

putting down my bet: no 2026 midterms

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

But anyway this assumes these people are smart. they may pull the trigger prematurely because they are dumb

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

I think in 2028, any swing state with a Republican trifecta will almost certainly attempt to award its electoral votes without an election though

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

I think explicitly saying “we are not having midterm elections” would be the sort of thing that would actually start a widespread physical rebellion. but the slowburn of bullshit elections? Much safer for the regime

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

actually more likely it would be ICE

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

I think just given how elections are structured (put on by state govts), it’s gonna be easier to just send national guard to harass people where it matters

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

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Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 19h

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

like uh. talk to older boomer lib women. They are saying things I won’t repeat here

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

I think this is a major misreading of where the average rank and file liberal is today

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12h

It’s funny bc the way the geth are described as functioning is basically similar to how the long inference time compute models work

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 14h

I felt like this was harmless until I saw someone mention they had no problem killing the Geth anymore after experiencing LLMs.

That is bad! That is a story specifically intended to broaden your empathy and challenge you and you're no longer experiencing complex human feelings about it!

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 15h

"this is a bad thing that you should not be promoting because it is actually based on realworld racism and is used like realworld racism" is apparently the anti-woke position on bluesky right now, and everyone is rushing to show that they don't agree with it

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

I think a lot of judges are also afraid of being personal targets of violence

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

Say more?

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

There really aren’t good legal reasons

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

In the interest of combating misinformation, the audio of the video does not match the caption at all. It sounds like he’s telling a random woman she can’t drive through protestors. I don’t think she‘s ICE.

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