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Erica "digifox" Kovac@digifox.binaryden.net |
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Software Engineer | Social Democrat | Pro-Nuclear, Pro-Growth | Transfemme, she/her | Opinions are mine, not my employer's
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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"lets just move on as a country from the bush era torture" predictably did not heal the nation, it just empowered the torturers to grow bolder and entrench their power.
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Nash
@radiodeadair.com
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Let me spoil this one for you: every single source is confidential. Every single one. We don't know how close they actually are to anything, and not one "Democratic leader" is even named in this article. Not. One. This is just messed up. This is Inquirer level reporting.
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker
@robmacwolf.bsky.social
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Note that when all these authors are saying "it'll be illegal for me to write if the Republicans get their way," that isn't like some unforeseen side effect of overzealous censorship. Making it illegal for LGBTQ writers to publish, for LGBTQ people to speak, Is The Goal.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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We gotta have a conversation about how there are enough people who consume the news specifically to feel panicky and helpless that it's a viable business model for the New York Fucking Times
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John Leavitt
@leavittalone.bsky.social
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Support the troops
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Daniel A. Horwitz
@danielahorwitz.bsky.social
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🥳
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/u...
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NightEyes DaySpring
@nighteyes.bsky.social
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Almost all of my writing can't be distributed if Project 2025 comes to pass. Even the clean stuff won't be possible to distribute because it contains LGBTQ+ characters, and they will count that as porn. Also, I will be in jail.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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there is a lot of “democrats are the only agents of american politics” underlying fantasies of contested conventions. meaning, no real consideration for how republicans will respond politically or legally for that matter.
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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I am somewhat confused by the wording in the story but - No purchases of any stocks ever/no sales within 90 days is GOOD - No trading of single name stocks (buy or sell) within 90 days of legislation is an improvement but not sufficient IMO
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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The details of this are surprisingly good! There's no reason that members of Congress should be trading single name stocks, even if it's being done on their behalf by an advisor. *SENATORS ANNOUNCE DEAL ON CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING BAN: NBC
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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File under "priors confirmed, back to work everyone" but the apex apolitical DC technocrat just said this because somebody in the House asked him. *POWELL SAYS NO WHEN ASKED IF HE'S SEEN BIDEN COGNITIVE DECLINE
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running against democracy: www.al.com/news/2024/07...
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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If Biden loses, who gives a shit who was right, the country is in deep, deep trouble. Truly, truly irrelevant who was right about what online. If Biden, or Harris, or by some bafflingly strange error some local shop assistant called Mr McGreggor wins, who cares. The top-line is Trump /must/ lose.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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As I've noted many times before, a lot of claimed "far left" Americans think they're communists, but are actually libertarian populists in terms of the ideology they actually act on bsky.app/profile/prai...
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Aaron Sojourner
@aaronsojourner.org
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"a majority of the 13 principal U.S. statistical agencies have lost more than 14% of their purchasing power in the last 15 years, limiting their ability to innovate." 1 example of deterioration 🚨 due to inadequate funding, BLS is cutting the sample size of the monthly Current Population Survey 🚨
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Norm DePlume
@kbuts.bsky.social
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The sampling bias and response rates have me concluding that the polls are mathing properly for people who answer telephone calls from unknown numbers but nobody else.
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Jorge Caballero
@datadrivenmd.social
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Trump's Project 2025, page 591: coerce individuals to work multiple jobs by making it easy for large employers to re-classify workers as independent contractors with limited access to benefits and without the ability to unionize
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Mina Li (she/her)
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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:
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Bugge-Finder Private Newton Pulsifer 🏳️⚧️
@apsciencebydan.bsky.social
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I don't know if I quite belong in #portfolioday, but here are bugs I've made for myself, friends, and family. All from scratch, wood, wire, beads; based on creatures I find here in Florida. 🖤🧪
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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This "Judeo-Christian" Sabbath talk from the Project 2025 folks is what we might call "going off the rails on a crazy train."
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Communications tip: don't say "Project 2025" say "Trump's Project 2025." He's trying to run away from it, tie it to his neck like an anchor by making the words "Project 2025" naturally follow the word "Trump" in people's heads.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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Cannot stress to you how poorly Project 2025 functions as a policy document, though. Far from being a grand plan to overhaul the Executive, it's more like someone's notes to write a bunch of policies if that person didn't know what the next person needed guidance on to craft a policy
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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It's funny because most of the time my debate experience is helpful in commenting on politics but we've gone directly from a 10 day long freakout on the matter/manner split to looking a policy document and I have trained for this
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Erica "digifox" Kovac
@digifox.binaryden.net
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(To be clear I also have sleep apnea)
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Too Big to Fail
@toobigtofail.bsky.social
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Who do you trust more to set standards for bacteriological testing in food processing plants: an unelected scientist with a doctorate in biochemistry and 30 years experience in food safety protocols, or Matthew Kacsmaryk?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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The NYT managed to almost singlehandedly blow up the working relationship between tech world and mainstream journalism, which strengthened reflexive luddites outside of tech world and deranged tech hypemongers within tech world. It's a big reason why AI doomerism caught on beyond one small group.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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Everyone is suddenly noticing how much the New York Times straitjackets its coverage to fit pre-chosen narratives and I am here for it. Their first big experiment with this, btw, was adopting a mindless anti-tech line back in the 2010s that wrecked their ability to actually hold tech accountable.
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Blarion Furrydelphia
@blarion.bsky.social
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new guitar decal courtesy of @motoyote.bsky.social! looks pretty hawt to me idk
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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them’s the stakes
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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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and just fwiw I reject the idea that it isn't the media's job to inform. like that is our literal job. if people think things are not the way they actually are, that is by and large because we, the providers of information, haven't done well, right?
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First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
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I mean, I worry a little bit about when normal people find out there are also LEFT-of-center think tanks. "You mean YOUR people are writing evil plans all day too??" "I mean -- yes, but -- no, see, it works like this..." and so on.
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yarrriv
@yarrriv.bsky.social
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remains to be seen how this plays out in the election but the other day somebody asked "why don't dems have their own project 2025" and one reason is that voters don't like shadowy manifestos aiming to reshape society
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ExecutiveOtaku
@executiveotaku.bsky.social
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Make a super-empowered fascist border force (or 'border' force that will be sent in as stormtroopers to stir up domestic trouble, see: Portland). Put CISA into Dept. of Transportation? Are they high? Coast Guard to DOJ? What?! Privatize TSA? Privatization should be a dirty word, this isn't 1995.
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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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“Would Russia really deliberately attack civilian objects in Ukraine?”
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Rufus Hickok
@rufus-hickok.bsky.social
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This is true. Also why the idea of a "protest vote" is just the dumbest frigging thing imaginable. You might as well just write your secret wishes on a rock and bury it in the backyard and pat yourself on the back.
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Erica "digifox" Kovac
@digifox.binaryden.net
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Didn't think of that as a sleep apnea thing. I'm also still nursing some throat grossness after my illness a couple weeks ago
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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Project 2025: They Hate You And Want Your Money To Go To Your Boss
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Jorge Caballero
@datadrivenmd.social
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Coach Gowron
@coachgowron.bsky.social
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There are some struggles, worthy causes, that you will never see come to fruition in your lifetime. That does not make them any less worthwhile. Indeed, to work toward a righteous victory for those who come after you, whom you will never meet, is glory unsurpassed.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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Biden's core weakness is not his age but the average voter's anxiety over inflation; if we lose with Biden we probably lose with everyone else
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Jay Weixelbaum
@jayweixelbaum.bsky.social
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In sum, folks calling to replace Biden are both wrong on the cognitive science *and* the history. I get it. They're afraid. We're all worried. We often don't make smart choices when we're scared. Let's pause, take a breath, look at the science and expert analyses, instead.
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Ashley, 69th of Her Name
@ashleysays.bsky.social
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Me, a 37 year old: I wonder what’s new in candy
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hola, mi nombre es francine pants
@robertjbennett.bsky.social
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"the use of heavy machinery or any tool of modern industry is a grave sin" is one of the stupidest, worst legacies of the 1970s environmentalist era
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Jack Guignol
@jackguignol.bsky.social
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Another funny thing about that meme: if by "older literature" we're talking about Victorian-era authors and the like...they often had beards much bigger and crazier looking than GRRMs. On average, they didn't resemble the first guy at all.
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ellie lockhart (she/they)
@eleanor.lockhart.contact
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if you haven't heard the Nixon/Kennedy debate: rhetorical scholars generally agree that Nixon had a fairly strong performance verbally and could be argued to have "won," but polls showed only radio viewers got this; TV viewers were distracted by JFK's good looks
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Mike Gonzalez
@mestizoqueso.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, the company’s CEO is tweeting out voter fraud conspiracies and bragging about twitter usage using a metric he pulled out of his ass.
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Stephen Wolf
@stephenwolf.bsky.social
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AP: ‘This is break glass in case of emergency stuff': Analysts alarmed by threats to US data gathering
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Erica "digifox" Kovac
@digifox.binaryden.net
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An enormous amount has been done in the name of a weird absolutist form of environmentalism that actually has slowed our efforts at decarbonization.
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Erica "digifox" Kovac
@digifox.binaryden.net
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Biodiversity loss is bad but the breadth of some types of environmentalism is "paralyzing fear of doing anything at all because it might kill off one fragile species"
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Erica "digifox" Kovac
@digifox.binaryden.net
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I agree with Leigh Phillips in general but this does, indeed, seem to be a weird thing to cling to.
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