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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 5h

In his *first* term it was openly known that he believed whatever he heard from the last person to talk to him and he was exhibiting obvious dementia symptoms every single day. Anyone think he's any sharper eight years on?

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 8h

"Nuh-uh!" is also, interestingly enough, the response that every Holocaust denier has to millions of pages of evidence.

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 8h

Thousands of voters BEGGED her to stop funding a genocide. Turns out Kamala Harris would rather fund the massacre of thousands of children than win an election, and she got both wishes.

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DracoDracul @mattilda-dracul.bsky.social · 10h

The democrats are a party for no one that promise nothing and deliver less.

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 9h

Music Time / Styx
Dare to Be Stupid / Weird Al
R.A.M.O.N.E.S. / Motorhead
My Heart Will Go On / Los Straitjackets
Welcome to the Jungle / Big Daddy
When the Daylight Comes / Ian Hunter
Oh Sheila / Ready for the World
Clementine / Tom Lehrer

Johnny Cash-alike TBD
Phil Spector-alike TBD

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 9h

Working on a playlist for soundalike pop and rock, like Fontella Bass' "Rescue Me" sounding a hell of a lot like Aretha Franklin, or "On the Dark Side" by John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown band. So far:

Rescue Me
TCB or TYA / Bobby Patterson
On the Dark Side
Baby, I Love You / Andy Kim

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, sweet! I'm an atheist, so you can plan to throw me into a death camp later in the name of unity and eventually maybe doing something good for a minority in the future, eventually, some time?

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 11h

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy for the gold; "Rain on the Scarecrow" by John Mellencamp for the silver. I contain multitudes.

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 16h

It's October, and that means it's HubrisWeen time, everyone! @sadhbhgirl.bsky.social and I will be doing 26 brief reviews of October-appropriate movies now through Halloween, with episodes dropping at noon Eastern time.

So far: Altered States and Becky!

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 1d

"Let's do the fucking news!"

Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 1d

The Detroit News or Free Press (I can't remember which) did it a while back when a new CEO of the Detroit Medical Corporation was selected after a lengthy search:

COLLINS TAPPED TO RUN DMC.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

How does one “win” the news

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminiscent of Mitt Romney hiding his taxes for as long as he could even though that made him look terrible. Whatever's in the Epstein files, it's bad enough that the obvious coverup of a child molester ring looks BETTER to Trump.

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 1d

I think that only works if the soldiers of the empire have the capacity to feel shame. ICE doesn't. They deliberately lowered the hiring standards in order to ensure that ICE doesn't.

Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think that it's good journalism to use a 30+ year old photo taken in another state as an illustration of what is supposedly happening in Portland?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 2d

Change isn't necessarily bad, but it can be disruptive and irritating.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, there used to be enough movies released that the one-screen theater in Ypsilanti, MI changed films three times a week. You gonna tell me they were ALL brilliant? Or even good?

Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 2d

This is an important Urban Studies note.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 3d

"Sheena is a punk rocker."

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 3d

"moon is a big egg"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Neopet Sematary @telstarman.bsky.social · 3d

When he says "we" would have won in Vietnam, that's of course without Trump at any point 'cause he had really bad bone spurs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 4d

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone.

The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

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