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Indignant Desert Bird

@longanimus.bsky.social

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A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. W.B. Yeats

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · Jan 2

It is a commonplace that’s hardly worth
A poet’s while to make profound or terse,
That now the sun does not go round the earth,
That man’s no centre of the universe;
And working in an office makes it worse.

- W.H.Auden - Letter to Lord Byron -

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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 4h

SDP: "Sitoudumme 4 mrd. euron nettomääräisiin sopeutustoimiin - ensisijaisesti leikkaamalla - aiempien sopeutustoimien perään."

Kokoomus: "SDP jatkaa tulipunaisella Marinin hallituksen linjalla."

Ahokas: 😳

Talouspolitiikka | Kokoomuksen Partanen: Sdp:n talouslinja on ”sumutusta täynnä”

Kokoomuksen varapuheenjohtaja Karoliina Partanen tyrmää Sdp:n Joona Räsäsen sopeutuspuheet.

www.hs.fi

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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 4h

And now, for something completely different.

Best Halloween costumes I've seen in YEARS.

And CHEAP.

😂😂😂

youtube.com/shorts/kZNFA...

Best Halloween Costumes Ever!! 😭👻

YouTube video by Lee Houston

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

A guy who uses steroids will have an *extremely* recognizable body shape unless he tries very hard to balance this preferential development

Like, he'll have huge shoulders and traps like a heavy deadlifter but somehow have pencil legs

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 6h

…because we don’t want lawyers using the law to interfere with her plans. What’s left? PPE. 2/2

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 6h

Poor old Kemi has a problem. She doesn’t want arts subjects learned, because then people would understand how she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want sciences or mathematics studied, because then people would understand she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want law studied… 1/2

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

i deactivated twitter today. it's becoming pretty obvious they're feeding personal information to bad actors and when i flew back into LAX from France a week or so ago i saw an agent going through a US person's phone. it's just not safe to use

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 1d

Ursula K Le Guin being right again here.
www.ursulakleguin.com/some-assumpt...

Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Patrizio Lainà @patriziolaina.bsky.social · 14d

HIenoa avoimuutta Björn Wahlroosilta myöntää Etlan tarkoitushakuinen politisoituminen. Kaikille lienee selvää, ettei Etlaa voi pitää vakavasti otettavana tutkimuslaitoksena vaan pikemmin elinkeinoelämän lobbaustoimistona tuollaisen toiminnan jälkeen.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 11h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not quite sure what message Russian controlled media is trying to send at the moment

www.mk.ru/politics/202...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 9h

Relatable #AcademicChatter #PoorlyDrawnLines

Four-panel comic: A mouse and a turtle discuss reading. The mouse states they are trying to read more, but haven’t started yet. The turtle interjects that sounds like not trying. The mouse insists it's different. Signed "Poorly Drawn Lines".

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Indignant Desert Bird @longanimus.bsky.social · 9h

"Talouspoliittinen löperöys oli Räsäsen analyysin mukaan ajanut puolueen kamppailemaan äänistä vain punavihreässä leirissä, mikä ei pitkän päälle olisi kestävää."
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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 9h

Niin kauan kuin meillä on elämää, meillä on turhaa toivoa.

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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 9h

Siis että SDP:llä on sellaisia toimia, jotka kirittävän yksityisen talouden kasvua merkittävästi samalla, kun heidän hallituksensa leikkaa tai nostaa veroja nettona yli 4 mrd. euroa. Kuulostaa kyllä siltä, että yksisarvisiin uskotaan. 🦄

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Apr 19

Image of a Durex condom in a plastic snap case: "29 Little Hacks That Could Save Your Life"

saffron-not-so-joy: "is that a fucking game boy cartridge case?"

pancakeke: "this is a legit lifehack because keeping a condom in your wallet is bad news. the friction from it being in your pocket or jostled around wears down the latex and can cause it to tear. if you keep one on you in a gameboy cart case that won't be an issue because no one will have sex with you"

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 14

"When education is not liberating, the
dream of the oppressed is to become
the oppressor" ~Paulo Freire

Image of a cat having his paw bitten by a Crocodile Dentist Game, screaming.

Image of a cat in a crocodile costume.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 1d

I had that dream again

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats, AI boosters, on this new tech utopia!

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 1d

Kill it with fire: "A feature called 'Relentless Follow-up' automatically pesters journalists who have not replied to the emails."

pressgazette.co.uk/news/automat...

Automated PR tool is bombarding UK media with AI-generated content

'Olivia Brown' reads websites, writes press releases then 'relentlessly' sends emails.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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