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Charles Tomlinson Griffes@ctgriffes.bsky.social |
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Going to be totally anon on social media for once.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Next Equalizer sequel should go full William Castle with nurses and an ambulance at theaters.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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The analogy that comes to mind is if the media stopped reporting on the weather because everyone knows it’s hot outside.
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ᴀʟᴍᴇʀɪᴀ ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇs 🎬
@almeriamovies.bsky.social
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RIP Claudio Mancini, (executive) producer* of many Almeria movies and Harmonica's Brother in Once Upon a Time in the West.
* Buddy Goes West / A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe / My Name Is Nobody / Duck, You Sucker! / Once Upon a Time in the West !! #Filmsky 📽️
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Today I learned
naacp.org/articles/dor...
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Everyone a doyen.
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Jaime N. Christley
@rohmersimpson.bsky.social
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Thinking about becoming a doyen. Thinking I might want a sinecure. And an honorarium.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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These law school dudes saying such soup-brained things like “the guy with immunity for all official acts will obey a court order” need more political philosophy in their lives.
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Neglected Books
@neglectedbooks.bsky.social
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You can reimagine the trip by leafing through the books on the Internet Archive:
archive.org/search?q...
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Neglected Books
@neglectedbooks.bsky.social
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Driving directions before Google Maps. In 1901, Rand McNally published illustrated turn-by-turn directions for driving from New York City to Chicago. There were 11 volumes in the set.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Someone said a few years ago, the Germans experienced total military defeat and massive unemployment, what’s our excuse?
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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I suppose no surprise in a fascist movement, but wild that *this guy* is their heroic ubermensch, and the crisis worthy of destroying 250 years of democracy is ... uh, some historically meager immigration and trans people drinking a beer?
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
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Terez
@terez.bsky.social
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good day for rereading this
www.transcend.org/tms/2020/11/...
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Christianne Benedict
@krelllabs.bsky.social
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but Godzilla vs. Biollante is on the Criterion Channel this month. This has long been the most difficult to see of all Godzilla movies. They're also showing The Return of Godzilla, the Japanese edit of Godzilla 1985, which is almost as rare.
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Canada Day is a good day to appreciate the virtues of constitutional monarchy as a system that sharply divides the roles "sovereign who is above the law" and "partisan governing executive facing reelection who is in in charge of the armed forces, the intelligence & prosecutorial agencies, etc."
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”
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journeyman folklorist
@aniceburrito.bsky.social
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Tokyo-Osaka cargo conveyor belt😳
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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I would feel better if those who are supposed to be political experts didn't beclown themselves this way. The choice is: 1) Biden 2) Harris 3) Total chaos / royal rumble, serious risk of coalition crack up. Leading an anti-fascist coalition is very hard. There is no Aaron Sorkin solution here.
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Bruno J. Navarro
@brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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It’s so funny that the official name of the circus music (you know what I mean) is “Entry of the Gladiators”
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Skot Armstrong
@skot.bsky.social
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I had that dream again
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Now feel that we need to see James Bond fighting skeletons.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Yes. This was astonishing.
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Tom McAllister
@tmcallister.bsky.social
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers
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Journal of Art in Society
@artinsociety.bsky.social
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Caillebotte’s famous ‘Paris Street ~ Rainy Day’ (1877) was recently cleaned and had a layer of discoloured varnish removed. Turned out it was not quite so misty! Compare subtle differences between the Before and After versions (Art Institute of Chicago) www.artic.edu/articles/463... rainy-day
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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The departed Prof. Musgrave made the good point that if the Trump administration announces sanctions on foreign banks doing business with American exiles, that would be the whole ballgame. Every door would be closed.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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One of the things I can’t get my head around watching the Biden/Trump debate prep from afar is everyone in the media treating it as normal. Just another Presidential debate. The first debate between a sitting president and a felon and insurrectionist is not normal. It should be watched with horror.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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a wild thing about the “biden’s gonna get magic drugs that transforms him from doddering senility case to rhetorical superman” is that everyone buying in on this idea has older loved ones suffering from old age mental degradation and knows heartbreakingly well this miracle drug does not exist
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Welles’ Macbeth.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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oh my god there's a chinese knockoff of the cybertruck and somehow the cybertruck looks like a cheap knockoff of it
www.carscoops.com/2024/05/dong...
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Valentine
@valent6228.bsky.social
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Dusk, Woodstock, New York (1910) - Birge Harrison
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Sam Bergman
@violanorth.bsky.social
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Really cannot recommend the up north police blotter highly enough
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Adam Kotsko
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
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Prediction: The Supreme Court delayed announcing the president has full immunity to prevent Biden from assassinating Trump on national TV
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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If these drugs existed, your job would make you take them.
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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
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Vital reading for any of us using human brains to report/make/curate content. This is what a cobbled-together suite of online tools can do NOW. How can you provide value to readers/consumers that goes beyond this? Food for thought www.404media.co/i-paid-365-6...
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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When unitary executive/ Project 2025 people say things like "the people issuing regulations need to be accountable to the elected president," remember that they also mean "emergency preparation for hurricanes should follow the president's sharpie map not the actual professional forecasts."
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Daniel Drezner
@dandrezner.bsky.social
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The Texas number is awful but it’s worth pointing out that in an advanced industrialized society the infant mortality rate shouldn’t be going up, like, at all?!
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Jon Nichols
@jon276.bsky.social
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This is brilliant writing.
“Just as Americans are not living under a Biden dictatorship — in which the watchful eye of Dark Brandon prowls the nation in search of malarkey — the United States is also not on the verge of collapse.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Welcome to internet 3.0
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Anya Taylor-Ham
@griph.bsky.social
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I didn't think I had a lot of faith left to lose in people but now every time I hear a speech by a non professional public speaker now I immediately think eg "am I listening to the output of typing 'generate a pre-k graduation speech' into a chatbot?" and i know less peace than ever
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Elizabeth Picciuto
@epicciuto.bsky.social
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From a non-tech person’s point of view, the AI discourse went very quickly from “there’s a 78% chance this will end civilization” to “we’re installing this in all dishwashers, stepladders, social sciences research, and novellas and you will be so so grateful”
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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the goal here is so obviously to terrify people into submission apnews.com/article/trum...
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ce
@siegeweather.bsky.social
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Essay by Jonah Siegel makes an interesting point: if you hold that critiquing the canon is a mode of resistance to the powers that be, you must grapple with the fact that *our* elites no longer go to art museums, see plays, attend film festivals, or read books. Moreover, they hate the people who do.
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) ☮️🕊️🏳️🌈
@jgownder.bsky.social
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"Both parties are the same." Meanwhile"
"“Retribution,” unprecedented force, and militaristic action."
Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extreme
“Yes, we do really want to burn it all down”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
@aesonique.bsky.social
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Preposterous that goldfish get to live among skulls and treasure chests and little colourful pebbles. That should be my environment. What does a fish know of whimsy?
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