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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18m

how it started how it’s going

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 23m

Mikhail Gorbachev lived long enough to see Pizza Hut both come to and then leave Russia

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 30m

imagine a world where Pierre Boulez is good at remembering names

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 49m

a very annoying day on here was when I pointed out that Mamdani literally cannot move money for the cops over to the MTA and people were like "you think the rules matter these days?" and it's like, walk me through the scheme, man, tell me the details

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1h

I saw a guy that was like "why is Zohran triangulating when he already won the hard race" and it's like, buddy, definition of that word aside, it gets *so much harder* from here

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1h

I think Trump causes people to believe that any politician, once elected, can just do whatever / piss off whoever they want, eliding the fact that having a trifecta + essentially the judiciary makes that super easy vs. say, being a big city mayor where you continuously have to actually, like, work

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

wait did they actually hire Melted Solids or were you speaking figuratively

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

it’s one of the few pop music albums that’s completely, totally justifiably an hour long

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12h

every year I’m blown away by the quality of Anderson .Paak’s “Malibu” — it doesn’t seem possible and weirdly, despite his ascendant fame, people don’t seem to talk about it much

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h

fwiw, you can believe that there is a right to armed resistance that also comports with the rules of war, as Mamdani’s father, Rashid Khalidi and others advocated:

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Columbia Faculty Letter: Grave Concerns About the Well-Being of Our Students

This letter has now been published here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSxEIf0j1H6v3R4549yxfetSBy1ioc6VHyJa3vKfvgyVFX9TAluk_1laTuSBKAyzqjF3hJT9EVw0P7a/pub. Please follow this link to...

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 18h

no one who currently invokes the Hannibal Directive thing believed, at the time, that killing civilians was wrong, it’s entirely kettle logic. afaik, even Hamas did not claim that the majority of deaths were friendly fire.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21h

iPhone face recognition: “eh it’s nearly pitch black in the room and you’re laying down with your nostrils in the air but I got you, cmon in”

Microsoft Authenticator face recognition: “I’m sorry, you have a trace of ennui in your countenance, please try again”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

I’m not one of those “well if it pisses off the left and the right, it must be doing something right!” kinda guys, but it is a pretty decent sign of relative sanity if two broad flavors of psycho are mad at you

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credenzamostro.bsky.social @credenzamostro.bsky.social · 22h

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

not to be condescending but that literally always occurs to me

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

people are mad because he didn’t turn to the camera etc. etc.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

online is weird because you get to simultaneously read about how Mamdani is a messaging genius and also how every single statement he makes is some massive unforced error

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22h

“10/7 was bad and everything that followed in aftermath was worse” is a perfectly moral and popular position. it’s more or less the American consensus on 9/11.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h

"the AI bubble will collapse because the technology has plateaued and cannot improve"

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"we are on the verge of superintelligence"

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I am always saying this

Cup O' Coffey @ammathor.bsky.social · 1d

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

for every season there's a Nelson, a Parton, an Earle, perhaps a Chick of the Dixie variety

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I dig that Zach Bryan wrote an anti-ICE song, that's nice, although I'd caution against drawing any larger cultural conclusions, as there has been Lib Country and Chud Country for pretty much as long as the genre has existed

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

“I have been criticized for my conservative allies”

“Holy shit you got criticized for your allies wanting lower taxes?”

“LOL no...no not those allies”

“So....deregulation?”

“Haha no not those allies either”

“Which allies, exactly?”

“Oh, you know the ones”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a certified “be fair to people you don’t like”-er but the rest of the paragraph is *worse*! she’s accusing people who share “facile, external markers” (which is to say, liberal/left gay people) as being de facto enemies of the “fight for the West”. that’s bad!

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I think some people have done it for their own deceased and it’s brought them solace — that definitely does not mean they should do it to someone else and I find it grotesque but I recognize the phenomenon

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

there’s gonna be a lot of people who are desperately going to try to stop their siblings from doing this

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