Fishpeddler
@fishpeddler.bsky.social
Boardgamer... that's about it. Oh, and I work in the garden a lot.
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This entire video is fantastic, but my favorite part has to be the shout out to the great work of Dr. Richard Pan. @drpanmd.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...
Doctor Answers Vaccine Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This entire video is fantastic, but my favorite part has to be the shout out to the great work of Dr. Richard Pan. @drpanmd.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...
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The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The thing with car culture is that you create a social model where every human being is, by default, disabled and cannot meet their daily needs without a mobility device. People have a relationship to their car more akin to a wheelchair than to a train. That's a problem.
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"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong
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Progressives think I'm right about the challenge, but many of them view egalitarian policy as a panacea. I like egalitarian policy! But I think they're wrong about the politics. We're witnessing the fruits of decades of effort to propagandize low-info voters, and need to blow it up or neutralize it.
This School Of Democratic Thought Is Killing Us
A better one is available.
www.offmessage.net
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Progressives think I'm right about the challenge, but many of them view egalitarian policy as a panacea. I like egalitarian policy! But I think they're wrong about the politics. We're witnessing the fruits of decades of effort to propagandize low-info voters, and need to blow it up or neutralize it.
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"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
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September 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
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If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.
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This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.
www.thenation.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.
My latest in @thenation.com
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
June 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we are having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."
German Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."
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Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.
May 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.
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I made this for you to share with people in your life who believe the lie that our mainstream media has a liberal bias. What other videos about our information ecosystem would you find helpful? youtu.be/AZOpA9WF9bg?...
Is LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS a MYTH?! The answer may surprise you.
YouTube video by Public Enlightenment
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May 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I made this for you to share with people in your life who believe the lie that our mainstream media has a liberal bias. What other videos about our information ecosystem would you find helpful? youtu.be/AZOpA9WF9bg?...
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it just often hits me in the gut that the entire federal government of the united states, one of the largest and most powerful organizations in history, is currently being run by about two dozen people whom you could not trust to competently wash a car
🎁 gift link: "Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat (Gift Article)
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
www.nytimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
it just often hits me in the gut that the entire federal government of the united states, one of the largest and most powerful organizations in history, is currently being run by about two dozen people whom you could not trust to competently wash a car
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I must say I no longer believe that this is reminiscent of the Nazi playbook, I believe they’re using the Nazi playbook - offshore extermination and concentration camps, targeting people on basis of race and manufactured legality, academic onslaught, media, gender policing it’s all there.
April 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I must say I no longer believe that this is reminiscent of the Nazi playbook, I believe they’re using the Nazi playbook - offshore extermination and concentration camps, targeting people on basis of race and manufactured legality, academic onslaught, media, gender policing it’s all there.
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It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
Gritting my teeth and watching the clock as DOJ misses its daily 5 p.m. ET deadline for giving Judge Xinis an update in the Abrego Garcia case ...
15 minutes late so far ...
15 minutes late so far ...
April 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.
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Done. BTW, here's a site that tells you how to reject the corporate candidates if you're an REI member: www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-boa...
Vote NO in REI’s Board Election | REI Union
Learn how REI Co-op members are standing up and fighting back against their corporate Board of Directors during this year's election.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Done. BTW, here's a site that tells you how to reject the corporate candidates if you're an REI member: www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-boa...
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Right, so, let’s be clear what’s going on here. A handful of shameless hacks are hoping to cozy up to power by putting an academic gloss on Trump’s crackpot notions. This allows political actors to pretend the plain meaning of the Birthright Citizenship Clause is fiercely contested by legal scholars
March 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Right, so, let’s be clear what’s going on here. A handful of shameless hacks are hoping to cozy up to power by putting an academic gloss on Trump’s crackpot notions. This allows political actors to pretend the plain meaning of the Birthright Citizenship Clause is fiercely contested by legal scholars
That there is a happy cat.
February 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
That there is a happy cat.
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This is not a good answer to this prompt but some chain of memories led me from it to one of the greatest videos on YouTube—Bowie and Jagger’s Dancin in the Streets is a C-tier 80s song and F-tier video, but this edit horseshoes it all the way around to sublime. youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?...
Dancing in the Street // Silent Music Video
YouTube video by Strack Azar
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February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This is not a good answer to this prompt but some chain of memories led me from it to one of the greatest videos on YouTube—Bowie and Jagger’s Dancin in the Streets is a C-tier 80s song and F-tier video, but this edit horseshoes it all the way around to sublime. youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc?...
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3rd many in communities supported a harmful man because they believed he would be harmful towards others… and somehow leave them alone
February 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
3rd many in communities supported a harmful man because they believed he would be harmful towards others… and somehow leave them alone