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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 15h

The difference between getting a selection of thoughtful, genuine replies and getting a bunch of half thoughts coming from cough syrup enthusiasts who were just jolted awake and stumbled across your post by accident

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 15h

The one great thing that Twitter still has and this place doesn't, is the ability to restrict the replies you see on your post to the people who follow you.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 20h

You can't claim to stand for "higher values" while also supporting, even tacitly, a never-ending campaign of destruction, murder, rape, starvation and torture.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 20h

The unbearable contradictions of the neoliberal order are tearing everything apart and driving everyone insane, and the massive human rights crimes of the last two years have really accelerated the process. Every liberal institution has lost all credibility.

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 20h

we are!

Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 1d

Part of this nightmare era is the complete, engineered collapse of belief in human creativity and an increasingly desperate belief that nightmarish computer routines will somehow produce new wonders

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 6d

for real

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 8d

I am getting my act together. I have a new assistant, I am redoing all my digital stuff, I am redoing my website. I will be raising all prices for prints, maybe even later today (they are way too low). But if you want a print at the low price- laaast chaaance
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 14d

You're still "struggling to understand," the typical liberal stance

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 17d

my sibling is on the opposite coast, they did well and have a flourishing career!

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

I sometimes think that about departed loved ones too

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

Still, better than letting it all go, imo

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

lol

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

it's great. yayyyy

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

sounds like they've got it together

Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

oof

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

it really is

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

sharp as always

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

Query: How many of you feel like you've spent more time caring for your parents as they aged than they spent caring for you?

Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

Our country is in the state it is at least partly because the Silent & Boomer generations lived longer than anyone expected having learned nothing about how their own bodies work and how to stay healthy

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

This is why, besides the AI bubble, the only growth in jobs lately has been in the home health care sector, and everything else is FUCKED

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

They also don't understand political processes and never relinquished their control over anything

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

Our country is in the state it is at least partly because the Silent & Boomer generations lived longer than anyone expected having learned nothing about how their own bodies work and how to stay healthy

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21d

yeahhh they're a huge part of the problem actually. kinda the cause of a lot of it

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 23d

wow! recipe?

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 23d

wow!

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