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Bozoid@bozoid.bsky.social |
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Curmudgeon. Engineer. Occasional pilot and sailor. Former child.
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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I really just don't trust people who have never looked up, blinked, and realized they've spent the past six hours reading, like, the EPRI report on the decommissioning of Three Mile Island or NTSB incident investigations or the complete history of a defunct pentecostal sect of the 1800s
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KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
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"Nobody used to think men exploiting women was wrong" is up there with "Nobody used to think slavery was wrong" as a really impressive giveaway of who you think counts as "nobody".
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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NYT is reporting on this as news, but they clearly don't think Trump's "dark view of tit-for-tat partisan prosecutions" is a bad thing. They've been major cheerleaders of his approach for the past eight years.
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Don Curren đșđŠ
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As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, âThe majority disdains restraint, and grasps for powerâ â and the justices are âmaking a laughing-stockâ of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Rachel Larris
@rachellarris.bsky.social
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The GOP of Utah in 2010 were damned concerned! Concerned that there was no way to charge the teenage GIRL who was pregnant with a crime! Oh sure, law got the man with the bat, but how could they let that girl get away with letting herself be injured! So they decided women couldnât have miscarriages
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Stacey Burns
@wentrogue.bsky.social
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By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, sheâd already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY
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Jay Willis
@jaywillis.bsky.social
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One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesnât (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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NATION may be my favorite, because (a) it's awesomely good and (b) there's no argument about what to read first. Oh, and because the epilogue brings tear to my eyes.
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Present & Correct
@presentcorrect.bsky.social
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387 tiny paper buildings, made in the 1950s / 60's by Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz.
socks-studio.com/2013/12/06/t...
They were stored in a plastic bag, before ending up in a junk shop where Oliver Croy found them in the early 2010s.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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I haven't talked about Linda except in occasional flashes of rage. She sat on the other end of the phone with me during so many long nights. I did the same for her later, because combat ptsd and her ptsd were basically the same animal. I am having a hard time with her dying. Please help my friend.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Insurrectionist Samuel Alito vows to remake America into a Christian theocracy, using his powers as a Supreme Court justice, and says no "compromise" is possible with people who don't want to live in a Christian theocracy. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Sam Alito is right. The Christian Nationalist far right (a movement of which he is a member) has decided that the nation has to choose between their 30% supported, theocratic version of the country or a 70% vision grounded in pluralism and liberal democracy. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Rick âMr. Neighborhoodwideâ
@crystalpepsi.bsky.social
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Folks really need to internalize this more. Fascists donât make the trains run on time. They donât make garbage collection smoother or roads better. Theyâre very very dumb! They do one and only one thing well: inflict pain on their perceived enemies.
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@flglmn.bsky.social
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head of six companies, including a major U.S. military communications contractor and a company that puts wires in paraplegics' brains, wants you to know that he considers filing fraudulent business records to be a trivial matter
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Empathy is human nature. T&S work gives you a unique window into just how frequently *and effectively* that empathy and earnestness is exploited by the worst people and how firmly you have to stop the tactics that those people use even if they're occasionally also used by other people too.
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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"Alito should not be allowed to have a piece of cloth speak for him when he has the largest platforms for speech in the world" - @marisakabas.bsky.social
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drew
@adrew.wifeguy.online
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and there it is. the AG says the governor pardoning a murderer who committed his crime after posting he was going to a protest to cause trouble is good because the AG doesn't like the protestors and because the prosecutor was a democrat.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE FLEW AN INSURRECTION FLAG IN HIS YARD AND WILL FACE NO CONSEQUENCES AS HE DECIDES CASES IN WHICH THE INSURRECTIONIST FPOTUS IS CLAIMING HE IS IMMUNE FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, YES I AM SHOUTING
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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Elon says due to the âmassive influx of illegalsâ that the coming election will be the âlast decided by US citizens.â He claims vote by mail was introduced during the âscamdemicâ to enable mass voter fraud. This manâs brain is pickled in the rancid flavors of insurrection juice.
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Dr. Tessa Fisher
@tessafisher.bsky.social
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Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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+1 for the "2020 Commission" instead.
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Iâve done some reporting on colleges and universities, and been lambasted for relying on students, alumni, and (often necessarily anonymous) faculty and former faculty. Itâs absurd how the standard is just to talk to top administrators, as if theyâll tell you the hard truth about ANYTHING
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Tyler King
@tylerking.bsky.social
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The WA GOP convention outlined a number of new platform planks: - Senators appointed by legislators, not popular vote. - No mail-in ballots and only one voting day. - Opposition to legislation that makes the nation more democratic. - Donât say democracy.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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In light of SCOTUS allowing Idaho's ban on gender affirming care stand during litigation, I'd like to point out that the organization behind these bans--Focus on the Family's Family Policy Alliance's Statesmen Academy--was just recently boasting about and fundraising on its role in passing them. 1/x
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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DeSantis signed a law that protects delicate cops from having anyone come within 25 feet of them while theyâre âperforming their dutiesâ but construction workers have to face the full fury of the goddamn sun
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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social
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Despicable. Ron Desantis has signed the bill banning heat protections for outdoor workers.
Last year, the first heat death reported to OSHA was January 1. That farm worker was killed in Florida.
www.wfla.com/news/florida...
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Just found out openDemocracy is making major cuts, and Iâm being laid off as a columnist.
This in spite of my weekly columns always doing well with the UK audience, landing among the weekâs most read pieces.
Ways to support me:
www.patreon.com/cstroop
www.bugbeardispatch.com
Venmo: $cstroop
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Chrissy Stroop
@www.bugbeardispatch.com
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Just did the math and this blows about a $20k hole in what I expected to make in 2024. I absolutely get it if you canât afford to be a Patreon patron or paid subscriber to my newsletter. Under these circumstances, could I please ask you to boost this post though? That would help immenselyâthanks!
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I donât want any more tech to buy. I donât want smart appliances. I donât want smart pants. I donât want smart dumbbells. I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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Tech is just less fun these days. Regular people can see where they're being monetised, they can see the rot economy in action. Everything is convoluted, full of tolls, demanding your email address and phone number and tracking everything. It's exhausting
www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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I came here to post the same strip. Brilliant!
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Jack Feerick
@jackfeerick.bsky.social
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Ruben Bolling identifies the REAL DEI menace
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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
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Yes, libertarian talking points get you blocked with me. And then being offended when called out for it? Definite block. Your insecurity and fear of vulnerability driving a desire for a fully transactional social system is a you problem to be worked out in therapy, not a viable social contract.
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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"Panasonic has turned down a second multi-million dollar deal to open a battery plant in Oklahoma. This marks the third company to stray away from the state, as lawmakers work to figure out why Oklahoma canât land these large deals."
Weird. Such a mystery.
www.news9.com/story/658632...
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Eugene Finkel
@efinkel.bsky.social
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âItâs a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but from Israelâs perspective I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up,â Kushner said. Congratulations, everyone, we have now officially reached the Gaza Trump Tower stage of "ethnic cleaning."
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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Age 16, $2/hr at the local department store. Two years later (1973) I was up to $3.65/hr plus shift differential in a union shop (steelworkers). I thought I had ARRIVED.
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Matthew
@matthewchat.bsky.social
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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have we considered not letting an extremist authoritarian minority party stock the top court of the land with facts-optional partisan zealots mayhap could help with this ambiguous and causation-free "polarization" I've heard so much about
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Dreadnought Holiday
@dreadships.bsky.social
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"intellectual diversity" = "we need more idiots"
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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Vance may sound like a knuckle-draggin', mouth-breathin' backwoods seccessionist asshole, but he sure does talk pretty. He's still a seccessionist asshole, though.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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Kyle Duncan, the Trump-appointed judge who wrote the opinion litigated and won the Hobby Lobby case when he worked at the Becket Fund. He thinks that other people (your employer or your parents, for example) get to decide when and if you get contraception.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Rest assured, the GOP has a plan to fix this - which is to get rid of NOAA donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-manda...
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Bozoid
@bozoid.bsky.social
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I'll bet "Fake Meat" is what the big kids called Ron in high school.
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Mike Drucker
@mikedrucker.bsky.social
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DeSantis couldâve probably got another few months out of his campaign if he just said he was wearing Godzilla shoes
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Soma Coyote / Ashaa Raven đșđŠââŹ
@coyote.band
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There is a Republican on the Wisconsin Elections Commission who bragged about âmajor reductionsâ in âoverwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.â This was revealed in January 2023. He is still serving! urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/01/10/m...
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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North Carolina's newly minted GOP nominee for governor has: Repeatedly made wildly bigoted comments about women, LGBTQ people, & Muslims. Downplayed the Holocaust. Disparaged MLK as a communist. Flirted with many conspiracy theories such as the Moon landing being faked & 9/11 being an inside job
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Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagnerâs absolutely terrific â like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read â F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...
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