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Shiv Ramdas

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Storyteller. Ignyte, Nebula, Hugo finalist. Work in
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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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They did it all for the jazz

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Remember back when boy bands were all about the music and not the marketing?

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Prof's avatar Prof @wertle.bsky.social
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Seattle residents! Contact your City Council people before Tuesday to express support for this legislation. It waives codes that currently make it impossible to convert office spaces to residential ones. This will help with the housing crisis!

www.king5.com/article/news...

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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damn lotta ppl gonna get Teslas huh

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Politics is bad. I choose cake instead. Cake is good.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

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Laura Gillian's avatar Laura Gillian @lgbookworm.bsky.social
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This 20th century speedrun is moving fast if we’re already at the Business Plot

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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now if you wanna say muslim voters hate him you have a point.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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bizarre take about a guy who is only president because of Black voters

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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he's bottom 3 and he ain't 3

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty stunning how the billionaire class(and yes that means the legacy media) have completely turned on Biden. They'd rather have a fascist dictatorship than pay taxes and a living wage to employees. Insane power grab in front of the cameras

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Don’t know what kind of advertising budget Bluesky has but they should probably do advertisements whenever Elon makes death threats. That’s just smart business

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Jonathan M. Katz's avatar Jonathan M. Katz @katzonearth.bsky.social
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Ok I just moved from “unsure” to “dump Biden”

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Joe Biden there’s one way to shut up the New York Times

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.

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Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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i think of some y'all are being entirely too naive about the type of coverage harris would get

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I mean you left out a third option there

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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turns out the villain monologue is actually incredibly realistic

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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OK but you yeeted the bastards into the sun yaay

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I guess Bidens age doesn't matter that much to me cause I don't think US Presidents do nearly as much as the myth likes to tell. Reagan spent the back end of his run with Alzheimers, last guy played golf & shitposted for 4 years, idc if Bidens an ent who speaks once a yr, taking it over Project 2025

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I just need one of the wise heads losing their shit since last week to explain to me how the debate was worse than the mass murder

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Oh they know what they’re doing here

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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It’s pretty alarming how the reporters suddenly devoted to watchdogging Biden can’t tell the difference between real drastic glitches like in the debate and normal fumbling

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Now everyone--The Times and, sorry to say, MSNBC--is noting every missed syllable. The man has a stutter. I don't stutter but I am a mushmouth who speaks too fast and slurs words. I've had to overcome fear of public speaking. I have empathy for Biden. The press has empathy for no one (but Trump).

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Yikes, stay safe! Feel better soon!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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i’ll tell you what, man, if biden manages to survive and win another term, i hope he and his aides remember that it was mostly the ancient centrists — not the progressives and not the younger dems — who came behind up him with the knives, and that he responds in kind.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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I am always nice what do you mean

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Thing is a piece of land not just property but also is a place where plants and insects and animals all exist in a really symbiotic cool ecosystem and I'm not about to cock it up so some prat can feel better about his property value

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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It's also really funny because I have never ever lost my temper at him, I just amuse myself during these conversations

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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0 chance he write this, the syntax is all wrong. Though I have long suspected he doesnt write any of em anymore and its all them trying to match the way his brain worked in 2016. He's too far gone to do a social post anymore

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Asshole Neighbour went to my wife crying about how he wants to tell me to mow the lawn but is afraid that I'll lose my temper at him if he does and my champion spouse was like "yeah you're right he will you should try not telling him anything." Keeper.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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be very afraid because I tend to remember promises like this

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation “don’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves “why didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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heck they've radicalised me so much I actually considered streaming about politics yesterday. Thankfully sense soon prevailed, but if you fall to the Dark Side once it tends to be a matter of time

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Sela of the Disastral Clocktower's avatar Sela of the Disastral Clocktower @sela.bsky.social
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I would really hope publishing “voting is bad actually” ON THE FOURTH OF JULY would have SOME effect

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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there is a literal Business Plot afoot to unseat the most pro labour president of our lifetimes(unless youre way older than me)

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