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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, it's kind of telling just how many of the people who insist Link did a bannable action then go on to add "but he should have been banned long before that." Kinda giving away the game there, you just don't like him and want to clean house so you can have Normie Twitter 2.0

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 21h

"it's not anthropogenic global warming until it's too late to mitigate"

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 21h

and instead of just your mom and pop and weird uncle gassing themselves up, the group chats also included almost every CEO, billionaire and political pundit

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 21h

So say we all

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 21h

To be fair, it never really left - the only reason people stopped being mad is that people stopped wearing them

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 21h

And a sobering reminder that these types have always been around, it's just that the Internet and social media have allowed them to agglomerate into an unholy gestalt massive enough to effect social change

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 22h

"It would never work anyway," the final argument of cheapskates.

The same argument used by Musk to not donate money to solve world hunger; the same argument used after every (successful!) UBI trial; the same argument used against universal healthcare.

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 22h

How dare you question my integrity, when I've worked so hard to show you that I have none

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Same mentality as folks who oppose raising the minimum wage because they want to punish "bad service" by withholding tips

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Hasn't she done enough harm already?

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, if she were truly single-minded she'd still be protesting climate change and only climate change. Instead she's shown an admirable willingness to champion other causes that wouldn't have impacted her if she didn't involve herself with them.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

The worrying possibility (as Bill Kristol of all people has mused about) is that the ascendent period of the center-right was a lengthy postwar aberration, and what we're seeing now is right-wing politics simply returning to its natural state

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

So much of their project is simply "we should be allowed to parade our mediocrity for all to see, and everyone else must be forced to regard it as genius"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

"Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim".

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

deadsimpletech.com

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

"Hire this man!"

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

It's more or less true, in the sense of "wanting to preserve the status quo with minor adjustments". Republicans are happy to toss the status quo, and centuries of tradition/precedent, into an active volcano if it fails to fulfill their desires.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 1d

The government were told about this but they're too arrogant to listen to job centre staff or disabled people, who are the experts.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stretched job centre staff struggling to get disabled people into work

The government wants work coaches to provide personalised support, but some have caseloads of up to 200 people.

www.bbc.co.uk

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Even if they aren't sincere about the stuff they say, forcing them to keep up the kayfabe acts as a brake on their more destructive impulses

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, seeing a player stride out to bat decked out in chainmail and green and gold heraldry would be pretty cool

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, the Trump method: continually escalate so every scandal seems quaint and outdated by the time the public has caught on

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

Or, perhaps: "see? global warming cultists don't tell you that if you want to really fight climate change you're going to have to sacrifice the asthmatics"

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gengarro @gengarro.bsky.social · 1d

I fear A.D.: The Bible Continues is where the series started to get weird and lost me.