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Omg what is this!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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I swear I don't get any kick backs for reposting this but the underlying issue is the media has a bias against protest especially liberal protest. It's called the protest paradigm and its been documented for more than 40 years at this point. Link in next skeet.

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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel's avatar Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social
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If you want to do something constructive, these are the 6 state legislative candidates who could use your donations the most right now and when you donate through Oath they don't send out your email or phone number to everyone! app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

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biden can stay if he uses the new ruling to throw out those six supreme court justices and sentences thomas's wife to ten years hard labor

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Mary Gillis's avatar Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
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I think about this line a lot these days.

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A documentary about Brazilian butt lifts called Nothing Ass Forever

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Yeah to me one of the best/only solutions is to only give out email addresses you can easily kill and replace after a while

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Gautham FC's avatar Gautham FC @gauthamrao.bsky.social
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.

www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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I like the conspiracy theories about how chatGPT has "gotten dumber" because while it's possible they've railroaded it etc it's also just very obvious that the dazzle of the trick wears off fairly quick when you start needing consistent answers

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Paul Frazee 💥's avatar Paul Frazee 💥 @pfrazee.com
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"Who can reply" is now on every thread you create. If a thread ever gets frustrating, click that button and lock the thread. No more replies.

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Microplastics Sommelier's avatar Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Every “person” you see in this is a job an actor didn’t get. Every “object” you see cost prop masters work. Every “set” you see is a place no crew was paid to work. The machine that made it was trained with stolen images. Fuck this video. Fuck the ghouls who made it. And fuck Toys-R-Us forever.

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This is definitely a thing, where if people don’t get it or like it they assume it’s just smarter than them and follow its lead but the emperor has no clothes here

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nothing "gave way" bestie the navel-gazing self-regard was always there for those with eyes to see

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yes lol it has that same appeal as legal dramas where there are rules that must be obeyed

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counterpoint, the bear was never good, it was a self serious show that hoped everyone would mistake people yelling over each other for real plot stakes and many fell for it. but literally no one is ready for that conversation
slate.com/culture/2024...

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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so true! I made a cutting board once and it was fun

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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you can become a member of a woodworking studio if you are in a decent sized city, they have everything and it's not that expensive (wood is decently expensive but not as expensive as buying whatever the thing is that you're making, already made)

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Lauren's avatar Lauren @laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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noticed a number of water and power buildings in LA (maybe all of california?) are pink, anyone know what's up with that

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Elon is doing his usual Nazi shit and just covered for Ted Cruz and the GOP (probably because he and all his buddies are on this list). Also locked out Jim Swift for posting the same thing. Has anyone reached out to @pabloreports.bsky.social to let him know he could post these over here?

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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the way she says "shotput, javelin, hammerthrow" is forever iconic to me

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what do you want to bet the opt-out procedure is a guy pulling you to the side and then mashing your face with his hands as if he's trying to sculpt you like clay

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Chambraigne Socialist 's avatar Chambraigne Socialist @bombsfall.bsky.social
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me: are you dead Chomsky: Now of course this is something we see going back decades, and we must bear in mind the prerogatives (so-called) of elites in the United States, as well as its proxies, and so on and so forth. me: are you dead Chomsky: East Timor, for one example of many

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Lisa Schmeiser's avatar Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social
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I read the sentence "child care has become a market-based system captured, to an increasing degree, by private-equity firms, which now own eight of the 11 largest chains" and -- knowing how private equity firms operate -- the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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1905 movie character nodding sagely: "stocks" 1837 movie character nodding sagely: "slavery" 1842 movie character nodding sagely: "gold" 1967 movie character nodding sagely: "plastics"

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been thinking a lot lately about how this guy was so specifically and categorically on the wrong side of history

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wapo: don’t answer your phone also wapo: we’ve spent millions of dollars on phone polls and that’s bad for biden

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

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Casey Johnston's avatar Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social
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the people can bear no more cognitive burden on behalf of corporations obfuscating their environmental friendliness!!!

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i've done this too, like WHY do they have the symbol!!!!!!

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if i were a politician my platform would be all packaging has to be recyclable, for every container that appears in the recycling but isn't recyclable, the brand pays one cent in fees until it stops

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hmm are 5s acceptable everywhere? It seems like no info I can find is willing to say they are. I can tell you categorically if #6 is recyclable but can't go in the bin, no one knows where it should then go, lol. Where should it go?

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if it's only recyclable by a specialty polyethylene lumber maker or some shit that takes drive up donations once a month: that's not recyclable ENOUGH, do a lap and make your container out of something else or take the symbol off of it

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i feel like we could knock out about 90% of recycling confusion in one step by no longer putting the recycle sign on non-recyclable or barely recyclable materials. literally only 1s and 2s are recyclable, 3-7 aren't. stop putting recycling signs on 3-7s www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/c...

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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel's avatar Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social
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This is very good and also a reminder of why Democrats are so bullish on Whitmer going forward - she's a female candidate who seems truly comfortable in her own skin, which is hard for all the many reasons that Traister has written about before nymag.com/intelligence...

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