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JB @jables.bsky.social · 1h

I think the off ramp is that they are just failing at their goals and will crumble. The problem with that off ramp is it involves the country also crumbling.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 9h

Based on my own professional experience, I’d go as far as to say that if you just hope to have a general white collar job and don’t have your eyes on a specific niche, an English or other humanities degree is perhaps the single most useful education to have.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 1d

That explanation makes much less sense when you realize that line directly preceding that is “have a *couple* of kids”

And obviously the more plausible explanation is that she just got incredibly lazy in this album, but that’s understandably not a welcomed take for some ppl either.

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airuhgo @airuhgo.top · 1d

Taylor won’t see your mean posts but your 35 year old billionaire friends who write ass lyrics will :/

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 2d

He has a habit of getting drunk and running his mouth, especially if someone isn’t giving him what he thinks is his due. But then the does the Kanye of old thing where he solemnly apologizes and says he’s working on himself. Music rips though.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

NYT's Ezra Klein: Taylor Swift's Album Is Good, Actually

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 2d

He has plenty of issues being an asshole, and I did (and still do kinda long term) worry about him going full Kanye. But musically he has been way ahead of the usual country guy drivel.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 2d

Long time fan of hers and yeah, one of the reasons I find it so hard to listen to is all the right coded dog whistles.

JB @jables.bsky.social · 2d

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why many marry producers or other behind the scenes nerds. They get the business but aren’t celebrity freaks themselves.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

a taylor swift album so bad it got me revisiting brat

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

im going to go even further and say, there's a certain bravery being shown by msnbc, or some of the bro podcasters expressing doubt about this. more than others! i would resist any instinct to dismiss or chastise people as they show signs of coming around. we're gonna need every body we can get

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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 5d

-Obsessed with conflict
-Riven by petty grievances
-Likes football

Welcome back Richard Nixon

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 5d

I like a number of songs on the new TS album, but there’s just no getting around the fact that it’s hilarious to fall deeply in love with Travis Kelce. It couldn’t be funnier if you wrote a set of romantic pop-ballads about Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 5d

So it’s almost like the safety net is there for when you find yourself in a jam through no fault of your own. Why didn’t someone think of this!

JB @jables.bsky.social · 5d

You are lying

JB @jables.bsky.social · 5d

At some point can we just express anger without being tsk tsk’d in the mistaken idea anyone is surprised. Bad things are bad.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 6d

I hate living in my own house with my hot wife and drinking beer and smoking weed whenever I want. Bring me back to being a sad dork with a curfew!

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 6d

I love the Bluesky post that just assumes everyone besides the poster is an idiot.

JB @jables.bsky.social · 7d

Then you are a bad person

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 7d

I’d advise against it for their own safety, but flying here to play some random ass club would still be an entirely Different Thing.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 7d

And it’s not as if there has been a big backlash against these same sorts of comics getting cozy with Trump and promoting him on their various podcasts. Oh wait!

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 7d

He’s wrong about the entire concept of what he’s even criticizing and has made up an entirely new argument just to be a contrarian.

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sorry this isn’t a real post is it.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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