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Anil Dash

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that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things


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wait what

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

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Taco Bell's Cannon's avatar Taco Bell's Cannon @jamtoday.bsky.social
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I said to someone else the other day, this is the most insane spasm of cowardice I have seen from Democrats in my lifetime and I lived through the Reagan years. It really is like a very specific group of people had a mass hysteria event or ate moldy wheat or got a bad batch of LSD.

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Derek Powazek's avatar Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social
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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.

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In case you’re not willing to believe they’re hell-bent on enabling the fascists

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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aaand predictably, Sulz has started the anti-Kamala attacks ,guy really thinks he can swing the election to whoever won't raise his taxes, this POS needs to be put back in place the American people ASAP

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Zamira Rahim's avatar Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslight America for him.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

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Jeffrey Vagle's avatar Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
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What is Heritage rebelling against?

- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Emily Gorcenski's avatar Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski
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The UK election was really close, a true nailbiter, it was probably a smart move for Starmer to sell out trans people to get those extra votes

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life

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Karen K. Ho's avatar Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social
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I feel bad for the journalists inside the NYT, the WSJ and Washington Post trying to do excellent work in spite of leadership decisions and terrible op-eds that undermine those ongoing efforts

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People do not realize, when reacting to NYT-contrived moral or social panics, that it’s the same as boomers reacting to what the Facebook algorithm (or Fox) feeds them.

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George Pearkes's avatar George Pearkes @peark.es
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It's really jarring talking to people who are in/out of the "media types or politics sickos" Venn. The obsession is just not there at all, regardless of opinions on Biden's fitness.

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Molly White's avatar Molly White @molly.wiki
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those arguing that taylor swift can't be a role model because she is an unmarried and childless woman at 34 are doing a great job of arguing that children need more women role models who are unmarried and childless at 34

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's avatar Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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if you squint at the 2022 midterms you might think the US counts as part of this overall pattern, though obviously this year's election will be the real test

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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And also, I REALLY need U.S. Democrats to be paying attention.

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rahaeli 's avatar rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
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JOANNA CHERRY IS A PIECE OF SHIT WHO CAN SUCK MY ENTIRE COLLECTION OF SILICONE DILDOES FROM THE FUCKING UNEMPLOYMENT LINE WHERE HER BIGOTED NAZI ASS JUST GOT THROWN

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Paul F. Tompkins's avatar Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social
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The person who invented Jell-O has got to be one of the freakiest weirdos to ever have existed. I’m sorry I’m up late and thinking about how unsettling and alien the texture is & thinking that whoever came up with it must have been a giggling maniac who wanted to make people nervous

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚's avatar ❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚 @tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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Just because the world is bad doesn't mean you have to be; try to do good

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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Chrissy Stroop's avatar Chrissy Stroop @www.bugbeardispatch.com
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“Electing the Democratic presidential candidate this fall—who, we have every reason to believe, will still be Joe Biden—is the only way to prevent the rise of a corporate-Christian American dictatorship with the criminal Trump at its head, his every whim rubber-stamped by an illegitimate SCOTUS”

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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The NYT also allowed him to exclude his partisan inclinations. From the 2018 piece: "In a bland way I hope to see Republicans control various state and national offices. This arises from a single issue: the legality of abortion."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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A lot of people are racist, hateful, bigoted, and these figureheads give them permission to be their worst selves. That's really the long and the short of it.

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.

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Gail Drakes's avatar Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social
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I believe that in all our movement work, whatever brand, we should try to meet people where they are.. including emotionally. I also believe that we are in a post-pandemic collective mental health crisis, in part due to not having time/space to grieve. Keep these truths in mind! 4/

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❀°。der Siebenschläfer  *.゚✿ ⋆'s avatar ❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social
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Yascha Mounk tipping his hand that he and the rest of the centrist & right-of-center media would 100% run the Claudine Gay playbook on Kamala Harris

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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This makes my day :)

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gaeel's avatar gaeel @gaeel.spaceshipsin.space
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I've said this to you before a few times: Glitch is amazing, I've used it for silly art projects, Discord bots, teaching introductory programming classes, one-off tools for colleagues, weird prototyping and exploratory work. It's inspired a lot of my current thoughts about the web and web culture

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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Been thinking a lot about this! I don’t have a specific recommendation yet but definitely recommend everyone buying a personal domain if they can.

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Anil Dash's avatar Anil Dash @anildash.com
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Yeah for sure, but it’s a thing I’ve been interested in for a long time, not sure it would have organically found me

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I do recall.

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.

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Ingrid Burrington's avatar Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
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Saw a lady on the street today wearing an Nvidia shirt that said "I am AI", that's going to be haunting me for a while

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John Kennedy's avatar John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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You want your MTV? ⬇️

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ProPublica's avatar ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social
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The NYPD restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.

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tweety fish's avatar tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish
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The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

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