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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 25m

My ★★★½ review of School in the Crosshairs on Letterboxd boxd.it/bjgfa7

A ★★★½ review of School in the Crosshairs (1981)

Psychic schoolgirls vs fascists in brightly colored pop battles. Wonderfully bizarre, as expected, but perhaps a bit too slow burning.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1h

*stares in Southern California*

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 6h

"We believe in decentralized self-moderation...NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 6h

"We are shutting down the follwer labeler but this has nothing to do with Bluesky mods having a crash out when it flagged all the racists and transphobes they follow."

Cmon.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 8h

There is never a bad time to wear a Dolly shirt.
That being said, if Dolly does die, I'm pretty sure that kicks off The Event.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 9h

Looks like I'm going to have to explain to a bunch of people the difference between CHIPS, ABA, and SWIFT again, and why, yes, it is actually important that we send out a nine digit number to the system expecting a nine digit number and we can't "vibe code" that shit.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 11h

Treasury / accounts payable / accounts receivable

We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 12h

Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 23h

My ★★★★ review of Carry On Teacher on Letterboxd boxd.it/biIH3F

A ★★★★ review of Carry On Teacher (1959)

Is it sentimental? Yes, it is extremely saccharine, but it's also briskly plotted and very funny, though much of it is very of it's era. It's a delight.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

At some point, even for the most tech bro brained, you have to wonder if having literally everyone yelling at you all the time is worth it to keep around a guy you already changed the rules to keep around.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Every day it's a new person from Bluesky leadership taking a turn to say that they take harrassment and negative user experience seriously, and yet, the literal one guy they could toss out of here to prove it...remains here.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Shelved by Genre is the show.
I mostly like it and Just King Things but this is raising red flags about the quality of their research.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

"This a weird digression with funny animal aliens."
Yeah, Alan Moore definitely isn't drawing comparisons between his work and an earlier comic that discussed environmentalism and fascism, he'd never do something like that in a subtle way.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

It makes me SERIOUSLY reconsider other podcasts by these guys I've listened to.
I dont expect an average person to be familiar with Pogo, but if you're doing a *critical analysis of Swamp Thing* maybe get a copy of a Kelly book from the library.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

"Why are these characters using such florid language?"
Because that's the cadence of Walt Kelly comics.
"Why is the spaceship called Find The Lady?"
Because it's a pun on the pun of Churchy LaFemme.
"Why do they look like Bone?"
Oh fuck you.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Had to pause listening to a podcast episode because the hosts were bagging on the "Pog" issue of SWAMP THING in a way that made it clear they had no fucking idea what Pogo was, other than a comic strip, in a way that makes the entire discussion suspect and meritless.

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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom is a NON-VIABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. None of the quippy clapback posts mean a goddamn thing if he is willing to throw the queer community under the bus at any opportunity he gets to do so.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

The New York Times exists at this point to launder hatred for trans people. Today's coverage includes a citation to this law review article that says conversion therapy bans are anti-religious discrimination and it's not illegal to ban queer behavior, only queer identity. 🙃

Religious practitioners were exempt from the bans, and they have continued to provide most conversion therapy, according to researchers who track it. But the bans, the legal historian Marie-Amélie George has argued, created “a social norm against conversion therapy writ large,” which influenced even the practitioners not directly regulated by them.

LGBT rights groups have recently made bans on conversion therapy, a
practice intended to reduce or eliminate a person’s same-sex sexual
attractions, a primary piece of their legislative agenda. However, the
statutes only apply to licensed mental health professionals, even though
most conversion therapy is practiced by religious counselors and lay
ministers. Conversion therapy bans thus present a striking legal question:
Why have LGBT rights advocates expended so much effort and political
capital on laws that do not reach conversion therapy’s primary providers?
Based on archival research and original interviews, this Article argues that
the bans are significant because of their expressive function, rather than
their prescriptive effects. The laws’ proponents are using the statutes to
create a social norm against conversion therapy writ large, thus
broadening the bans’ reach to the religious practitioners the law cannot
directly regulate. LGBT rights groups are also extending the bans’
expressive message to support the argument that sexual orientation is
immutable and to reverse a historical narrative that cast gays and lesbians
as dangerous to children. These related claims have been central to gay
rights efforts for much of the twentieth century and continue to shape
LGBT rights battles. While the expressive effects of the bans are important,
the laws and the campaign around them may have a negative effect. LGBT
rights organizations working on the laws do not distinguish between
conversion therapy efforts aimed at changing sexual orientation and those
targeting behavior. This is troubling, not only because it fails to
acknowledge the needs of same-sex attracted individuals who wish to live
in accordance with their religious beliefs, but also because it reinforces a
limited view of gay identity. Many within the LGBT movement contest the
identity model that legal advocates have championed, and that conception
of se…

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Both Bari and MattY quit their jobs and pretended they were fired so they could promote their substacks. Neither have ever been cancelled or interesting

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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Corey Walker
@CoreyWriting
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16h
The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, that's a fair cop...

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

I am not understating how horny for Sal Mineo this is...

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

Vinegar Syndrome has WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? for 50% off today, and that is a banger of a feel-bad film. Looks gorgeous, written by DOOM PATROL creator Arnold Drake, and EXTREMELY horny for Sal Mineo being only part of its queerness.

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Dorian @dorwright.bsky.social · 1d

If someone with "former FBI" in their bio is telling you the "correct" way to protest, absolutely do not do that.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · Aug 4

Oh my God, look at this rando dipshit going on and on about why stealing and non-consensually sharing nudes from multiple users isn't that big of a deal!

*Finger to ear*

I'm being informed that he's the head of Bluesky Trust and Safety.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

These two things are of a piece, even if the motivations and details differ.

Trump’s justification for his authoritarian crackdown is an America that doesn’t exist.

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Lizzie O’Leary quote post of a CNN post that pairs the headline “What is the insurrection act?” with an image of an on fire Winchell’s Donuts from the 92 LA riots.

O’Leary: Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsk... • 57m
This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.
CNN:
@cnn.com • 7h
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes
Zachary B. Wolf. cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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