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Ian Williams

@brocktoon.bsky.social

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PhD at UNC studying craft, games, and the miniatures industry. Former Vice wrestling guy. Labor, games, and soccer. Bylines at Jacobin, VICE, LARB, Paste, others.

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For you it's a war between people, for me it is a war of the self

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This is because of Sir Keith winning the election

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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I mean you have to root for England because Rodri being happy turns my stomach

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Ask me, the guy who is simultaneously an anglophile and an anglophobe, how I feel (please don't I haven't decided)

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Oh God is it coming home

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Unironically

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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I like polling being unreliable because I think quantification is humanity's original sin.

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Went to Twitter long enough to see the Miami Vice thing for myself. Made me nostalgic for 2012.

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Lmao three letters of rec and six documents for a visiting position

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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Prayers up for the Democrats who voted strategically for Haley in the primary, and will now get decades of GOP direct mail.

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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The speeches draw praise and scrutiny. Who can tell which is the dominant and/or correct one? Also, the speeches are sort of like MLK's.

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Check out this legendarily dogshit framing from WRAL tho

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Tom Ewing's avatar Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social
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Don’t make me tap the photo

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Really don't think he wins for a variety of structural reasons but he shouldn't be within spitting distance.

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I'm seeing a new vibe in the global warming is a hoax crew: they think the news is lying about current temperatures. Facebook page filled with people saying "yeah that 106, I don't believe it that's not real". So head outside in a parka, I guess.

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Yeah I saw this. Absolute bullshit. It's nowhere to be found at WRAL or ABC11

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This statement isn't even breaking through local news here.

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One of the truisms of the disaffected consent era is that if nothing can change then the election is the only win that matters. It's everything. Then when the next loss comes it's that much more demoralizing.

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It's wild. I'm not for sure predicting doom and gloom but let's pump the brakes a little here. Reminds me of a certain cultural studies luminary opening Biden win seminar with "we won" and I was like who the fuck is we and what's an enacted policy?

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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There’s a hubris on display here that’s counterproductive, and refusing to acknowledge any criticism of Biden as valid has only led to them being even more self sabotaging.

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Shit, Biden was more ambitious in that sense and this is America

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Maybe the French center offers a bite at the apple, in your words, and maybe Starmer rolls back the worst Tory excesses but I've never seen that sort of thing happen post-end of history.

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People have to be more sober about both the French and British elections. The Macronists are going to fuck over the left and the underlying numbers in the UK election aren't precisely encouraging with Reform sitting in second in a lot of places.

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I simply do not do anything which makes me nervous

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Is there any lesson to be taken from the French moderate liberal and left earnestly trying to cooperate and help one another defeat a reactionary threat to democracy? Yes there is, until anyone one degree off from my personal political leanings pisses me off over anything, and I mean anything.

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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I hardly think you need to be a fashion plate (I'm not) but John Cena coming out in his late 40s dressed in his jorts and color saturated t-shirts looks so funny.

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"We can't be bothered to teach it to you but you should definitely bother to learn it" Boy I dunno if that approach is going to work with children or really immature young adults whose motivation for anything academic is either weak and conditional or nonexistent.

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My buddy ate six fiber gummies all at once and he's been farting uncontrollably for hours while periodically screaming you can't have too much of a good thing.

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A friend made me watch almost the whole run last summer. It's intense.

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That's all I've been doing since I heard it. It's Heidegger!

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Like, I don't know what to do who gives a shit what I think? I'm like Biden: I get tired by arguing. Whatever, throw someone up there idc. Yesterday I thought he should drop, then I was talked into he shouldn't, tomorrow it'll flip. I hope they all just have fun out there.

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This is why I'm just enjoying the wild ride that is post end of history history

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Literally the only people who seem surprised by this are the press

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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The unity candidate we need is Jacob Frey

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My brother and sis in law worked on it for a week, leaving his warband sadly unpainted

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Charles Logan's avatar Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social
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"[T]he fight against data centers and the generative AI tools they power is gearing up to be essential to determine who gets to chart our social and technological future." Fellow educators and students, let's develop a Luddite praxis and join this fight!

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LMFAO at NYT *not* disclosing that the guy who wrote this was a clerk for John Roberts! Honestly gotta respect the game.

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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Everyone dumps on the Frankfurts until they need them (the people aren't concerned with Biden's age it's the mass media injecting the narrative MK ULTRA style into a bunch of dupes)

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Vince Mancini's avatar Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social
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🎶 I don’t practice Santeria… 🎶

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Ian Williams's avatar Ian Williams @brocktoon.bsky.social
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I fixed my garbage disposal a couple weeks ago and I felt like a god

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