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David W Stoesz

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Scripter of "Pen & Eye," a cartoon about homelessness, injustice, and the urban environment. Interested in networking with other progressive communicators, activists, and journalists, esp. in the PNW

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And gills

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Also, don't vote

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Incessantly repeating yourself is a sign of dementia, you might want to get yourself checked out.

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Myopic obsessions with bullshit sharpen as fascism advances, says chief bullshit obsessor.

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Here's a drolly narrated spectacle of the kind you little people like. Don't forget to not vote.

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Damon Agnos's avatar Damon Agnos @damonagnos.bsky.social
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Dude Poisoning: food poisoning for men

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The framing and reframing of the actual issues by the media enough to make you feel like you're having a stroke. Nonstop gaslighting.

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Name one person anywhere who formulated this as an ultimatum

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Bold to feature an image of a net on the backstop. Implies that the non-net portion of the image is also a representation, possibly of another backstop, or a semiotically devastating representation of the *same backstop*. They should have branded it "DROWNIN' (in PARADOX)"

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As a waiter for many years I can't stand it because it's such a love letter to the self-importance of kitchen staff. Chefs already take themselves so seriously, they don't need the encouragement!

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Yes, let's close our eyes and hold hands and go over the cliff together.

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The headline writers that have served us so well thus far are going to have a blast under Trump: "Hillary Whines About Prison Chow"... "Hundreds of 'Vermin' Snared in Border Dragnet, President Says"... "'Groomer' Bar Burned, Arson Suspected"... "Polio Cases Soar into Thousands"

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I don't understand any part of this but I support it.

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I'm sure you could phrase this in a more convoluted way if you tried a little harder. 6/10

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Why is Sluggo looking at his uncle through a telescope? Why isn’t that uncle concerned his nephew lives alone in squalor? What’s going on in that family?

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I am an entirely fictitious person you invented to serve as a premise for you to indulge in your weird fetish for policing women's behavior. Can you please supply me with a giant pile of retrograde bullshit?

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Oh fuck yeah, I just fucking love writerly bullshit. Cultural connotations of elderliness, fuck yeah, that's the shit right there. Stroke that chin, motherfucker, don't stop.

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Apocalypse Now MASH The Naked and the Dead Catch 22 Diary of a Plague Year The Grapes of Wrath The Jungle Slaughterhouse Five The Things They Carried A Quiet Peace

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Can't wait til they automate eating strawberries, listening to music, and kissing your spouse.

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Thank you for immediately answering the first question I had!

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David W Stoesz's avatar David W Stoesz @davidstoesz.bsky.social
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Using the category "partisan animosity" does in fact imply apples-to-apples equivalence. A thing on one side, mirrored on the other. Righteous rage or raging bigotry? Let's put them both in one bucket called "partisan animosity." In the name of objectivity.

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I don't think it's chasing clout to observe that "polarization" is not a helpful or insightful framing of this moment, and that we see some version of this story approximately one million times a week.

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(Context is the Seattle police chief, after being forced out of his job, is attempting to distract from allegations against him by pleading gay.)

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Kudos to the Stranger for the headline "Diaz out ... again."

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Curious? Bored? Horny? Wasted? Talked to like a child by a newspaper?

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Shout out to everyone else who's too dumb to get this

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What's a cool thing you know which will serve as a premise for me to say my cool thing?

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Former Windows content person here. The issue is usually executives who want to make their mark by changing everything. There's no career benefit to incremental improvements that honor user intent, which was abandoned years ago in favor of "engagement," i.e. behavior manipulation.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb's avatar Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social
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Raz Segal was not allowed to direct a genocide studies institute at the University of Minnesota because he said this project is genocidal. The people who silenced him are actively laundering this.

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"Hard to escape the impression" is also a real A+ , rock-solid basis for reporting.

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So just a murky both sidesy kinda thing I guess? And not something that, as practiced by one side, is part of a larger insurrectional effort to install a christofascist regime. Thanks for clearing that up for your listeners.

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Chantal James's avatar Chantal James @chantalalive.bsky.social
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People who aren't Black can never understand what it is to have your actual hair, the stuff that grows out of your head according to the blueprint your genes give it, such a site of riotous contention, & so violently socially controlled.

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“The forced implementation of AI into applications is meant not to make them easier to use but to break our resistance; “AI” not only requires and rationalizes far more intensive surveillance of users, it takes users’ agency away on principle and tries to sell us that submission as convenience.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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As usual Asian people have been left out of the discussion about masks and hate. Asian people have been attacked throughout the pandemic for wearing a mask. A mask ban would further stigmatize mask wearing and encourage further harassment and violence against mask wearers.

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David W Stoesz's avatar David W Stoesz @davidstoesz.bsky.social
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Bob Dylan's "Similar to a Rotating Rock"

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And the Rolling Stones classic, "Leaping Freddy Fire"

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Also love that Nirvanna song, "Arrive as-is"

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Let it be Let it be Let it be yeah Let it be Whisper words of wisdom Let it be Like it? It's called "Leave it alone"

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So the song that goes And I say hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey hey I say hey What's going on? And I say hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey hey I say hey What's going on? Is called ... "what's up"?

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The songs are great. The characters vivid and fantastic. It's not restrained or tasteful or cool, it's fucking epic! People love it and not because they're all stupid rubes.

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We picked up this album on your rec and love it.

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David W Stoesz's avatar David W Stoesz @davidstoesz.bsky.social
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Brilliant, thank you for writing this!

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Algorithms now so good at guessing what you want that you can't listen to Sade or even see Sade songs when you search "Sade" because, according to your data profile, you are not a Sade listener.

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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I don't mean to be repetitive but "AI" is being abused by the brunchlord extraction class to replace real truth-to-power journalism with hollow automated, engagement-chasing infotainment simulacrum in a bid to make money and distract the public from widespread corruption and societal decline

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