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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3d

Time to repost a classic.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8d

oh it's time to post the Tetris story again. (short version: reporter goes to cover early e-sports, discovers that his wife is, unknowingly, the greatest Tetris player in the world)

archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

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ceej @ceej.online · 9d

From the very first cave paintings humans have ached to see themselves reflected in the mirror of consciousness, to pass the world through a prism of common experience and make meaning from the threads of our shared humanity. Our entire economy now hinges on the idea that people don't

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Skyler @skylarious.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know why this post got me to look into the game, but I bought it and it's charming. Does a lot of things I'd been interested in seeing games address when it comes to the stresses of everyday life.

jenny @qdork.bsky.social · 9d

day 3 #indiegames #gaming #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 10d

It's undeniable that ICE is worse under the second Trump term than it was under Biden or Trump 1 or Obama or Bush but that ICE would be used in this way for these ends is as foreseeable a disaster as leaving a loaded gun on a table next to a case of whiteclaw. It's as much a failure of prevention.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 10d

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

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ceej @ceej.online · 10d

fair play if trump does unveil a magic bed that can cure all known illnesses I will have to hand it to him

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11d

One of the best things about Liberalism is that it freed people from the tyranny of communal and traditional rule.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11d

did not realize that prisonculture's "abolitionism" consists of believing that lynchings would be better if they were conducted at lilith fair

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, America collapsed into a personality driven hybrid regime, but for a short period of time, I could be really smug about how right Juan Linz was online

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13d

reactionaries have to fall back on bullshit like this because their ideology is a warrior cult and warrior cults keep getting their asses kicked by bureaucrats, shopkeepers, and industrial production

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 14d

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16d

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 15d

The New Deal and Great Society were in a sense bourgeois capitalism paying protection money against radical politics

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16d

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16d

I hung out with a undergrad friend who is a very artsy type recently last time I was stateside, lives in the bay making a living as a musician, and got into it with him about this: he insisted that Trump wasn’t that bad “they were all the same” and it’s like, no, dude, they’re really not

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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 16d

Me, the day after the Black Eyed Peas get arrested for speaking out against ICE: "none of us are free unless..." (deep, heavy sigh) "unless all of us are free"

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Skyler @skylarious.bsky.social · 16d

Agree with everything here, this is an important inflection point and a symbol of what we can do collectively. But imagine waking up from a week-long coma and seeing this exchange. "Wow these folks really love Jimmy Kimmel..."

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 16d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly kind of hilarious that after 50,000 different galaxy brain ideas they tried running in one of the two major parties in a two party system and it worked,

socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 18d

Pretty clear that running socialists within the Democratic Party has been the most successful electoral & rhetorical strategy of US socialists in 40 years

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 18d

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

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MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 18d

MUST SEE: The ending of this Mariners vs. Astros game is WILD 👀

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19d

The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 19d

That isn't how you spell Zinn. The left shouldn't use symbols of genocide and injustice in the fight against injustice. We are for the oppressed people not the state. You don't win by trying to get your enemy's respect.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19d

or don't honestly. just be fine with other people doing so and don't act like an obnoxious 19 year old that just read Howard zine for the first time.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21d

ah, well

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 23

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

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