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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 3h

My God.

Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 3h

At this moment there are 102 replies and 101 likes.

I have no suggestion worth making in reply - Wagner is long dead - so I refrained from liking the post.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 4h

This is why I was annoyed by some of the discussion of those assholes who used terms derogatory towards robots to insult someone with prosthetics: people were upset that terms disrespectful of machines were used against her, but the problem was they were assholes, not that they had anti-robot words.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 7h

Even leaving aside the Pivot To Video - is McArdle even popular to begin with, and especially as a podcaster?

I don't mean with us, but with any audience? Whom is this for?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

3) The driver they shot did not have rifle, much less shoot it at them like they claimed. She did have a legal, permitted handgun that she apparently didn't touch.
4) The driver they shot drove away, stopped and collapsed in a car repair parking lot. Staff applied first aid and got her an ambulance.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

As best I understand it, what really happened is:
1) At first one car and then two were following the ICE agents' car, honking to warn people they were coming. They almost certainly broke a bunch of traffic laws (not a federal crime).
2) The agents boxed in (or rammed) one car, shot at the driver.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

No, this is all from an incident in Chicago in which two ICE officers shot a woman 7 times. They claimed 10 cars boxed them in and rammed their car, and they exchanged fire with a woman carrying a rifle, then drove herself to a hospital.

None of this is true.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

This is an important video and you should have credited the source:

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

Since people are posting the video without crediting the source, the source:

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear: there's video and this is nonsense.

Has a single federal officer brutalizing brown people for Trump spent even one night in a hospital?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

Way too blandly generous to the Idaho panhandle.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

I think it was very useful and even a good idea, but not a fully formed idea. There were problems with the implementation.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 8h

People don't consent to be in them and can't remove themselves from them. Many people have suddenly gotten large numbers of followers at once who weren't familiar with their posting style, their quirks and obsessions, or their existing followers, which can lead to annoyance and even conflict.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 9h

It's even an old joke in politics, Limbaugh or his imitators were using about Clinton in the early 90s at least.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 9h

At long last we have made the starter packs, from the timeless classic "oh shit look what happens when there are starter packs".

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 9h

It was the 80s. There was a baboon glut. Dirt-cheap baboons, everywhere you went. You'd go to the store for milk and wind up taking a few baboons home, wondering how it happened.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10h

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 11h

(though: very clearly a Sousaphone)

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 11h

This maybe?

Video: Tuba Player Mocks White Supremacist Marchers with 'Ride of the Valkyries' | WQXR Editorial | WQXR

"I didn't really know how to show my opposition," said the musician, "so that was my way of doing it."

www.wqxr.org

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 13h

(this isn't me forcasting doom; they lack the confidence to dress up as a sparkly pink unicorn instead of dressing up as a rugged street fighter, and they'd be less useful to ICE propaganda if they did it anyhow)

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 13h

Fascists have been trying to infiltrate protests as supposed anti-Trump Antifa or 'Black Bloc', hoping to incite violence and give ICE an excuse to escalate. They've been unsuccessful so far - but it's interesting to imagine them try again as giant inflatable cartoon animals.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 14h

That vision:

Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 1d

From what I've seen reported his 'nuanced vision of the military's purpose' was the same one that Arlo Guthrie reportedly said to the military psychologist at his physical when he was called up for the draft.

Four paragraphs of the lyrics of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (1967), from a Google search, including typos copied below with a couple of the typos fixed:

Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 15h

Must be, you were on the Normal Men podcast, an honor restricted to people who are Normal and/or Men.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 15h

Calling Elon Musk, asking if his 6-foot tall robots can fight these 6-foot tall inflatable Kaiju.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 16h

They have opinions about your husband apparently.

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