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michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · 4d

@mlb.com Fuck you, fuck TBS, and fuck Booking.com for this camera angle.

michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · 8d

@tapemachines.bsky.social Glad to see you back on the beat, my man. And congrats on relieving yourself of the WWE burden.

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TAPE @tapemachines.bsky.social · 18d

yeah that's the energy i usually get from wwe on-screen moments involving the undertaker and stephanie mcmahon. how genuine it all is.

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michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · 17d

Why are you treating a memorial service like it's the fucking Met Gala?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

The list of guests at the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday included President Trump, high-ranking members of his administration and far-right media personalities. Here is a look at who was in attendance.

The Conservative Figures That Attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial

Led by President Trump, the list of guests included high-ranking members of his administration, conservative influencers and far-right media personalities.

nyti.ms

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michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · 17d

Gonna celebrate tomorrow's announcement by crushing up some Tylenol so I can snort lines off my Obama '08 china to own the cons.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

People who think this isn't bad are fucking lying to themselves from a place of tremendous privilege about what living in a society rent by civil conflict actually looks like.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

No, I don't want my kids to grow up in a country where bombings, assassinations, beatings, and all of that are part of the expected course of social and political life. You can feel however you want about the guy, but you have to be a truly spectacular dumbass to not see how this leads to bad places

Mike Piper @wazzbot.bsky.social · 28d

What a laughable, totally expected liberal take. You can't hold your nose, just once? You want people to feel bad for celebrating the death of a man who celebrated the death of so many, wrote off the death of children as the price to pay for muh freedom? Yet another display of fishhook theory.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

None of this is a denial of anyone’s lived experiences of oppression or violence. The implication that I’m unaware of that, or its history in this country, isn’t right. But bad things can get worse. That’s what I’m saying.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

It’s appealing to draw a continuous through-line of political violence in American history, and yes, aspects of it have always been there. But acting like it’s always the same, always as bad everywhere, is just not an accurate way of understanding that political violence or what we can do about it.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

Clinic bombings, police violence, militias, Gabby Gifford, list goes on. All of that is political. What I’m arguing is that there’s a qualitative difference between - ballpark - the late 1960s and the 1990s/2000s in scale and intensity, and we’re returning to the former.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve gotten some good responses to this, mostly along the lines of: what the fuck has been happening in the last few decades, if not political violence? And that’s a totally fair point. At no point did I say that we’ve been absent violence or that we were peaceful during that time.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

It's worth mourning the end of a 40ish-year-long broad American consensus that political violence is a bad thing, one that leads to lots of innocent people getting hurt and killed. We've been watching that consensus erode consistently since 2016 at the latest and now it's fully gone.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence is bad because civil conflict is absolutely fucking terrible for everyone. It empowers the worst people within a society and feeds into endless cycles of escalating violence that get harder and harder to stop.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

Most of American political life has quite heavily featured violence: riots, murder, extrajudicial assassinations, property destruction, and so on. It's a marker of how successful the past 40 years have been on that front that many Americans have chosen to forget our heritage.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

It's worth mourning the end of a 40ish-year-long broad American consensus that political violence is a bad thing, one that leads to lots of innocent people getting hurt and killed. We've been watching that consensus erode consistently since 2016 at the latest and now it's fully gone.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

Police brutality is bad; systematic racial profiling and illegal deportations are bad; abortion clinic bombings are bad; mass graves are worse. You know what a child's skull looks like after multiple blunt-force traumas? That's the floor. Keeping everyone out of mass graves is the fundamental goal.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 28d

The big reason I'm trying to hammer "civil conflict/political violence" here is because I've spent a substantial chunk of the last five years looking at mass graves. I want a society where people aren't plotting to kill their neighbors and throw them into one. That's where all this can lead.

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michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

You're not bloated!

michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sometime in the last few months Bill Simmons morphed into a bloated @lukethomas.bsky.social.

michaelfagan.bsky.social @michaelfagan.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'll cosign this.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Jul 26

I think what exhausts me about social media is not the trolling, it's the cynicism. Post after post about how everything is ironic and detached and hopeless. It's the kids from Homerpalooza in the Simpsons:
"Dude, are you being sarcastic?"
"I don't even know anymore"
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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · Jul 24

A defense contractor selling a home spy device designed to look like warplanes of the most recognizable fictional fascist genocidaires is going to stick in my head for awhile.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · Jul 23

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Jul 22

Next acts of the drama:

1) Trump pardons Ghislaine Maxwell
2) Maxwell affirms Trump's version of events
3) MAGA is astonished and offended that non-MAGA suspects a quid pro quo

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · Jul 22

Imagine the idiot failson of a Norman baron going to colonize the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1115 or so and dying of dehydration after getting too drunk and not realizing he needs to drink water. That guy absolutely existed and he needs more representation in our understanding of history

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TAPE @tapemachines.bsky.social · Jul 21

two child-brains having a fake conversation neither actually believes in. that's showbiz, baby!

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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · Jul 15

Not that Epstein’s crimes weren’t serious, but given the scale of devastation from this admin plus with the right’s penchant for conspiracism as the prevailing epistemology, I only half paid attention to this story for most of its life.

But given how they’re acting now, they’re hiding something.

Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · Jul 15

New: Metadata shows nearly 3 minutes were cut from what the DOJ & FBI described as “full raw” Epstein surveillance footage.

WIRED previously revealed the video was stitched together in Premiere Pro. Now we’ve found one of the source clips was nearly 3 mins longer than what was released

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

www.wired.com

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