MDG
@mdglenn.bsky.social
Coffee. Art. TTRPGs. Education. Running. I run on spite and dunkin.
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justice will eventually be served by someone. all of this is just for a season. people are mortal, armies lose battles, political coalitions collapse. don’t end up looking stupid or evil in the future because you thought this was the end of history.
January 7, 2026 at 7:26 PM
justice will eventually be served by someone. all of this is just for a season. people are mortal, armies lose battles, political coalitions collapse. don’t end up looking stupid or evil in the future because you thought this was the end of history.
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Former officer Adrian Gonzales is charged with 29 felony counts of abandoning or endangering a child during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. (via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social)
Uvalde trial to resume after judge rejects mistrial motion
A judge on Wednesday denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case against a former Uvalde school district police officer charged over the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
n.pr
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Former officer Adrian Gonzales is charged with 29 felony counts of abandoning or endangering a child during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. (via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social)
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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For giggles I’m sharing my 10 iconic jams of 2025.
1. @coheedandcambria.bsky.social “Father or Make Believe”
I was eating good with a new favorite banger from my all-time favorite band this year. An incredible album overall but this is my standout pick.
youtu.be/de6OW0I7Yow?...
1. @coheedandcambria.bsky.social “Father or Make Believe”
I was eating good with a new favorite banger from my all-time favorite band this year. An incredible album overall but this is my standout pick.
youtu.be/de6OW0I7Yow?...
Coheed and Cambria - The Father Of Make Believe (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Coheed and Cambria
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December 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
For giggles I’m sharing my 10 iconic jams of 2025.
1. @coheedandcambria.bsky.social “Father or Make Believe”
I was eating good with a new favorite banger from my all-time favorite band this year. An incredible album overall but this is my standout pick.
youtu.be/de6OW0I7Yow?...
1. @coheedandcambria.bsky.social “Father or Make Believe”
I was eating good with a new favorite banger from my all-time favorite band this year. An incredible album overall but this is my standout pick.
youtu.be/de6OW0I7Yow?...
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How many cautionary tales do we need about this? Can anyone in tech actually sit still long enough to finish a book or a film?
Just off the top of my head in fiction: V For Vendetta, Psycho Pass, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Minority Report, Equilibrium, The Giver
Just off the top of my head in fiction: V For Vendetta, Psycho Pass, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Minority Report, Equilibrium, The Giver
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
How many cautionary tales do we need about this? Can anyone in tech actually sit still long enough to finish a book or a film?
Just off the top of my head in fiction: V For Vendetta, Psycho Pass, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Minority Report, Equilibrium, The Giver
Just off the top of my head in fiction: V For Vendetta, Psycho Pass, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Minority Report, Equilibrium, The Giver
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The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them
September 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them
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TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.
Again, this is what I mean when I say the Constitution is broken
Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?
Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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I believe this is known as "regime consolidation"
US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "We're gonna change the laws. We've got liberal judges. We've got liberal laws. Everything is gonna change ... President Trump knows what he's doing."
August 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I believe this is known as "regime consolidation"
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It would be very easy for ICE to make clear who its officers are and to display valid law enforcement creds. They’re choosing not to, to intimidate and spread fear. This is not how law enforcement should operate in a free society.
A man yelled for help as a group of men – one of whom said he was with ICE – picked him up and pushed him into a car outside a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday, video shows.
Man yells for help as apparent ICE agents carry him from LA courthouse into unmarked car, video shows | CNN
A man yelled for help as a group of men – one of whom said he was with Immigration and Customs Enforcement – picked him up and pushed him into a car outside a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday, video s...
cnn.it
August 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It would be very easy for ICE to make clear who its officers are and to display valid law enforcement creds. They’re choosing not to, to intimidate and spread fear. This is not how law enforcement should operate in a free society.
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I hope that future historians absolutely *excoriate* a country on its way towards an HIV vaccine, among other things, that did THIS. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/n...
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I hope that future historians absolutely *excoriate* a country on its way towards an HIV vaccine, among other things, that did THIS. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/n...
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An incomparable legend.
July 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
An incomparable legend.
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Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
July 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
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it’s not enough to ram AI down my throat, i’m also meant to take it seriously! i’m not meant to say fuck you to people who use it to do my job! if i brought some idiot to YOUR job and said hey, check out my boy here, he does what you do cheaper and worse, i hope you’d tell me to go straight to hell!
July 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it’s not enough to ram AI down my throat, i’m also meant to take it seriously! i’m not meant to say fuck you to people who use it to do my job! if i brought some idiot to YOUR job and said hey, check out my boy here, he does what you do cheaper and worse, i hope you’d tell me to go straight to hell!
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The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
July 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
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Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
Flimmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression'
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
n.pr
July 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.
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Hell yes, 2 million raised for @gamesdonequick.com you LOVE to see it!
July 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Hell yes, 2 million raised for @gamesdonequick.com you LOVE to see it!
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One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war
June 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war
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A regional war is still immensely bad but it's not really likely to spiral into WWIII and we do ourselves a disservice but talking about it in that manner.
I will also say that not every conflict is the start of WWIII, as evidenced by every conflict since WWII, and if you’re posting like this is the start of the big one you’re just making yourself and everyone else more miserable about something that is already bad.
June 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A regional war is still immensely bad but it's not really likely to spiral into WWIII and we do ourselves a disservice but talking about it in that manner.
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very well-expressed thread 👇
I know tensions are really fucking high today but I'm seeing a pretty bizarre dichotomy declared between "tell trans kids we will fight to the death for them to have the right to transition" and "tell trans kids that if they do not have access to puberty blockers, life is still worth living"
June 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
very well-expressed thread 👇
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Two things can be true: the Supreme Court is handing down a death sentence to trans kids, and also WE DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT THE DEATH SENTENCE and repeating things like "if you can't transition as a child you might as well die" where scared trans kids can see you talking is morally irresponsible.
June 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Two things can be true: the Supreme Court is handing down a death sentence to trans kids, and also WE DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT THE DEATH SENTENCE and repeating things like "if you can't transition as a child you might as well die" where scared trans kids can see you talking is morally irresponsible.