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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 3d

A deeply powerful final message.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 5d

I would argue Louisiana is better than Texas but u know whatever

Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 6d

(I don't know how many linguistics nerds are out there but this one's for you guys)

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 6d

In America, history is aspirational

Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 6d

It's a weird artifact of (mostly) American journalists copying British journalists despite the fact that most Americans pronounce the "h" in "historic".

People are free to pronounce things however they want, but it sounds strange because it's an uncommon combination of sounds in American English.

Silksongita @elsangito.bsky.social · 6d

“an historic” just feels wrong

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 6d

Just discovered @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com and even though the news is stressful, the conciseness and clarity with which this site presents it is calming me down again

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 6d

I think I prefer my dentist to be less passionate actually

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 7d

I'm currently reading Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror", about the 14thc including precursors to protestantism, and this joke landed for me

Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 7d

i'm not sure if these kinds of things are worse if they're AI bots run increasingly amok to agitate on social media, or if people are really just this basic (p.s. it was a very touching original post, hard agree)

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 7d

The one on the right (Alyssa Farah) was at my weird tiny Christian nationalist college right around when I met you -- I think I watched a movie with her and a couple other people a few weeks before I got kicked out of there. Odd small world.

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 10d

I use programmer tags like [TODO: xx] and [TBD: xx] as this also makes them searchable!

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 11d

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah kinda weird that people are so uncritical gung ho about promising a future that is either false, or slavery

Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 16d

I came from Kirk's world. It is a standard evangelical dualism to profess love for the targets of their violence, even amidst the act. And their targets aren't going to be recently-ex-Maga white boys with guns like the actual shooter -- they're going to be trans and queer Americans like his partner.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16d

Some pundits praise Erika Kirk for her forgiveness, calling it an example for all. This is witless. One needn’t question the *sincerity* of her statements to do the basic work of reading public politics as such, by asking “what does *she* mean? What do her followers hear?”

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16d

“Sincerity” has been the sand trap of American public life for a century. So many conflate it with virtue in itself; so many others, encountering ugly politics, focus on what they then imagine must be their lack of sincerity, rather than the facts of real, sincere, brutality.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16d

Some pundits praise Erika Kirk for her forgiveness, calling it an example for all. This is witless. One needn’t question the *sincerity* of her statements to do the basic work of reading public politics as such, by asking “what does *she* mean? What do her followers hear?”

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 19d

Many dumbasses are not fascist, but every fascist is also a dumbass

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not exactly sure what yet but there's something important about this video. youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?...

I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 23d

hell yeah

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 23d

imagine wanting aislop when you can get humanityslop

Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for your service new Michael

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 24d

Nobody, and I emphasize, nobody should go to the US. If you're games industry, I promise you that there are better events everywhere else.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · Sep 8

Possibly trying to make my "playing with cute cats" state machine while playing through War in the East 2 has influenced my state naming conventions

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Israel’s double-tap attack on Gaza’s last arguably functional hospital—which killed first responders & 5 journalists—turns out to have been a quadruple-tap strike.

The IDF claimed it attacked the hospital bc Hamas operated a camera there, but provided no evidence for the claim. 🧵

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Tim Raveling @tsraveling.bsky.social · Aug 31

I once listened to an interview where they asked why the truck sim games (ATS, ETS2) are so popular when they just simulate a day job. Answer is that they cut out all of the boring stuff and pay the driver like $200/h, which makes it just smooth and satisfying. Much of art is intentional editing!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them.

Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · Aug 28

Sharing this finding: Harris voters are the only group of people remotely likely to say it's OK to cut off friends/family for political views.

I don't think they're *wrong* — again, it's a question of identity. But we're very different from most of America. www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-ameri...

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