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Darth Paradox@darthparadox.bsky.social |
31 followers 51 following 180 posts
Maker of many things - art, puzzles, horrible puns, etc.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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this is the point I keep making and I don’t want to be making it but it’s correct no matter how much the opposition sucks and how much this feels like the same old uninspiring message, the danger of letting Republicans hold power is getting worse they are bad and must be defeated every time
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Oliver Willis
@owillis.bsky.social
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"The members of the mainstream media are human beings (despite frequent appearances to the contrary) and human beings respond to incentives. There is an enormous personal financial incentive to another four years of Trump in the White House" www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-...
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juno. stump ($190/$250)
@juno.bsky.social
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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA
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utopia deferred
@utopia-deferred.bsky.social
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when i say “don’t eat up the elite hysteria that is, in large part, driven by a resentment that he doesn’t treat them like Trump and Obama did” this is quite literally what I mean
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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"you will outlive them" my guy thousands of people will not. Alito and Thomas already have blood on their hands after overturning Roe. Not everyone they have harmed has lived. Not everyone will live. They are killing people right now, today.
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Darth Paradox
@darthparadox.bsky.social
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Same. Thank you for your service.
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Stella
@antlervel.vet
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Like, please, do it! We’ve been asking you to! But it’s never surprising when liberals/democrats get way more indignant about defending institutions and order than actual people
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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The last week of news in the US has been full of examples of the fifty-year organized fascist campaign to use tiny amounts of power in order to achieve their fascist goals paying off in fucking horrifying outcomes while everyone else sat around with their thumbs up their asses.
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It is time to stop paying the New York Times a dime. Yes, that includes Wordle and the recipes. Sorry.
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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i dunno kinda weird (derogatory) this is getting crowded out by debate performance
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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There have been so many of these but they still find ways to shock me
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Bree Lundberg ✨
@breelundberg.com
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This is really great news considering so many of the other major game companies jumped on board the genAI hype train. Once more companies like Nintendo start refusing it, we could hit a turning point.
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Bethany Albertson
@albertsonb2.bsky.social
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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so like i empathize with everyone who's mourning democracy or whatever the fuck right now but it'd be real nice if some of you could take some fucking lessons from people who have had our goddamn senses open this whole time
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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i don't want to alienate anyone with i told you so shit but like if you are just joining us with "things in america look very bad" you might consider listening to people who have been saying that who you have been pointedly ignoring
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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I know everyone says "their reporters do great work" and that's true, but over the course of my life, the New York Times has institutionally had multiple points at which it was important to choose "be evil" or do the right thing and they've fucked it hard every time
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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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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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“Trump would never do this” “Trump factually did do it during his first term, confirmed by 17 sources” “… okay but people didn’t obey the order so it doesn’t count, Trump would never do it for real” a whole entire genre of news story and op-ed, even now
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"
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Bethany Brookshire
@beebrookshire.bsky.social
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I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.
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N. K. Jemisin
@nkjemisin.bsky.social
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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maybe the worst I’ve ever felt was the morning of November 9, 2016, I felt completely hopeless all day we are staring down much worse now, and I’m feeling a lot calmer - possibly because I have my kids now, and I’m responsible for making a world for them to live in giving up is not an option
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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i want to add: if you’ve stopped masking for whatever reason, you can start again. it makes spaces more accessible, it helps preserve your health and the health of the people around you. it’s a tiny action you can take to make the world safer.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation
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Ryan Marino
@ryanmarino.bsky.social
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53% of children followed from birth through age 15 experienced some form of (mostly temporary) housing insecurity. All children who experienced any level of - even temporary - housing insecurity had worse physical & mental health outcomes, with more housing instability correlating to worse health.
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Squire Boone
@isomorphism.net
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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There's nothing particularly savvy and wise and profound in the observation that Trump is a monster, and his election would have republic-endingly bad consequences to everyone living in the US, but it is still true, and it is still the most useful thing newspapers could write about the race
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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part of the reason i am always on about the ideological, non-material drivers of politics is that i am a member of a tiny materially irrelevant minority that is nevertheless vigorously hated and pursued by the right
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Truth Axe
@truthaxe.bsky.social
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Under the current Biden climate policies, if we work hard on implementing them, we can get to an 80% clean electricity system by the end of the decade. If those policies go away, there is zero chance we will get there. Let’s work hard to get to 80% and also add more climate policy to get to 100%.
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Ian Carrillo
@iansociologo.bsky.social
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Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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They don't have an inside to go to. This is "increase jail population and slave labor" ruling.
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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It's not my only reason as Trump's a threat to many people I love and I greatly approve of Biden's climate initiatives, but danged howdy it squeaks in as a close third.
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Col. Boozy Badger
@boozybadger.bsky.social
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A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case. They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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If I’m in charge of Democratic messaging, here are a few things I’m doing in addition to hammering this… (it’s a thread read the replies)
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