@popservations.bsky.social
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Listen to the bosslady:
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Listen to the bosslady:
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I'll never forget how a bunch of influencers were like "Project 2025 isn't real, Trump said so" before the election and now everything from Project 2025 is happening and people won't even connect the dots because so few people are willing to read a 922 page document
January 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'll never forget how a bunch of influencers were like "Project 2025 isn't real, Trump said so" before the election and now everything from Project 2025 is happening and people won't even connect the dots because so few people are willing to read a 922 page document
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Send in the clowns.
January 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Send in the clowns.
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Like @aoc.bsky.social said, it's going to be all this, all the time, except on BlueSky. Everything else is operated as a right-wing propaganda machine.
An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
January 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Like @aoc.bsky.social said, it's going to be all this, all the time, except on BlueSky. Everything else is operated as a right-wing propaganda machine.
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Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
Former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards has died
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
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Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.
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It was never about the price of eggs. It was always about contracts and regulatory relief and crony capitalism. It was about turning money into power and power into more money. They are not for us. And they aren’t pretending any longer.
January 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It was never about the price of eggs. It was always about contracts and regulatory relief and crony capitalism. It was about turning money into power and power into more money. They are not for us. And they aren’t pretending any longer.
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This thread- wow
🚨 A truly stunning thing happened yesterday.
Timing so perfect that I wouldn’t dare put it in one of my novels, because no one would believe it.
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Timing so perfect that I wouldn’t dare put it in one of my novels, because no one would believe it.
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January 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This thread- wow
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You know, there actually isn’t any law of nature that prevents a Democrat - even Joe Biden! even Kamala Harris! - from going out and saying “The new president is launching a fraudulent investment scam days before entering office and should be considered fundamentally disqualified for this position”
Holy shit I assumed this was more NFTs but it’s specifically a *fungible* asset meaning he’s selling his own crypto coin. On top of that, it has a crazy fucking disclaimer and all the hallmarks of a fucking rugpull. This is fucking nuts.
When you compulsively turn everything into a grift so you can bleed money from your supporters but also don’t really understand what a meme is conceptually:
January 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
You know, there actually isn’t any law of nature that prevents a Democrat - even Joe Biden! even Kamala Harris! - from going out and saying “The new president is launching a fraudulent investment scam days before entering office and should be considered fundamentally disqualified for this position”
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But, remember, friends, it was a Biden admin guy who sent an angry email to Facebook because Instagram accidentally stopped allowing them to get new followers that's the REAL controversy.
At least according to the headlines I keep seeing.
At least according to the headlines I keep seeing.
So the owners of CBS News are considering paying money directly to the president to get better regulatory treatment from his administration?
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
But, remember, friends, it was a Biden admin guy who sent an angry email to Facebook because Instagram accidentally stopped allowing them to get new followers that's the REAL controversy.
At least according to the headlines I keep seeing.
At least according to the headlines I keep seeing.
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You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
Remember their goal is to terrorize us. And social media is a fantastic way to spread terror. We don’t have to help them.
Based on the vibes of my timeline today I’m feeling like the next two weeks are probably gonna be a really good time to reduce social media use as much as possible. Because YIKES.
January 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You do not have to consume every single tiny piece of bad news in order to be a good person. It’s ok to miss things. Traumatizing yourself isn’t the same as activism. Bearing witness to the point that you’re paralyzed with fear and horror and fury isn’t going to help us get through this.
Helps to have never started. 😎
So wait… Can I stop giving a fuck about TikTok now?
January 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Helps to have never started. 😎
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wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us
“Fix Your Hearts or Die”: David Lynch’s Work Has Always Been Deeply, Powerfully Queer
The filmmaker was so much more than just an influence on his legion of LGBTQ+ fans.
www.them.us
January 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us
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Remember when he wrote an odd op-ed saying the criminal cases against Trump should be dismissed?👀
January 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Remember when he wrote an odd op-ed saying the criminal cases against Trump should be dismissed?👀
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was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
Was just thinking about him yesterday. He was one of my teenage heroes. 💔
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
variety.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Was just thinking about him yesterday. He was one of my teenage heroes. 💔
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If your senator was a yay here, call them ASAP and ask them what the hell they're doing and to vote no on the final bill. Politely. Language via @detentionwatchnetwork.org to use here: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
The Cornyn amendment expanding mandatory detention passed 70-25. 49 GOP yays, 21 Dem yays, 25 Dem nos, 0 GOP nos.
Ron Wyden did not vote.
Ron Wyden did not vote.
January 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If your senator was a yay here, call them ASAP and ask them what the hell they're doing and to vote no on the final bill. Politely. Language via @detentionwatchnetwork.org to use here: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
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We shouldn't trust any of the background checks being done on Trump's top nominees to uncover actual problems—or even uncover the obvious problems. As it turns out, that's on purpose: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-fbi-ba...
The FBI background check on Pete Hegseth is a whitewash—and that's on purpose!
The incoming Trump administration is trying to cover-up the FBI's investigation even before it takes office
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We shouldn't trust any of the background checks being done on Trump's top nominees to uncover actual problems—or even uncover the obvious problems. As it turns out, that's on purpose: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-fbi-ba...
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In honor of carrie underwood performing at that man's inauguration I am going to continue my tradition of never listening to carrie underwood's music.
January 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In honor of carrie underwood performing at that man's inauguration I am going to continue my tradition of never listening to carrie underwood's music.
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Alternative Number Ones on "I Feel You" and Depeche Mode's pivot to blooz-rock sleaze: www.stereogum.com/2292378/the-...
The Alternative Number Ones: Depeche Mode’s “I Feel You”
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
www.stereogum.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Alternative Number Ones on "I Feel You" and Depeche Mode's pivot to blooz-rock sleaze: www.stereogum.com/2292378/the-...
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United States Supreme Court rules 5-4 that South Korean authorities cannot arrest President Yoon
Breaking: South Korean authorities arrested President Yoon at 10:33 a.m.
January 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
United States Supreme Court rules 5-4 that South Korean authorities cannot arrest President Yoon
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I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job
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Dear friends in tech: If your CEO is desperately seeking the approval of an octogenarian who assesses technologies based on the advanced criteria of "which desperate supplicant has written me the biggest check?" your pathetic employer is well past its days of producing any innovations. Just leave.
January 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Dear friends in tech: If your CEO is desperately seeking the approval of an octogenarian who assesses technologies based on the advanced criteria of "which desperate supplicant has written me the biggest check?" your pathetic employer is well past its days of producing any innovations. Just leave.
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A reminder that someone with Hegseth’s history - public drunkenness, serial adultery, financial fraud, extremism - would not pass a routine background check to work at the Pentagon.
Hegseth, here on camera, says he was denied the ability to serve over concerns of his extremism raised by his own unit, HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS.
If this isn't disqualifying I am not sure what is.
If this isn't disqualifying I am not sure what is.
Hegseth: "I volunteered to guard the inauguration of Joe Biden but was denied the opportunity to serve because I was identified as an extremist by my own unit for a Christian tattoo." (Hegseth at the time was a January 6 hype man on Fox)
January 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A reminder that someone with Hegseth’s history - public drunkenness, serial adultery, financial fraud, extremism - would not pass a routine background check to work at the Pentagon.