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Kevin Kretsch
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Musician, guitar tech and teacher, physics PhD. Long Covid disabled. Amplify voices that need to be heard. He/him. Irish and US citizen. Black Lives Still Matter! Paris, Buffalo, Dublin. www.youtube.com/@DrKevGuitar
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Kevin Kretsch
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James BariÅ”iÄ
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This new government is awful. It's been almost 24 hours and nobody has been sacked or had to resign yet. It's just not natural. Starmer should resign.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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I've been seeing people saying that because JK Rowling routinely uses UK libel law to silence critics, Gaiman's failure to immediately do so shows his guilt. That's incorrect, and I think it's worth talking about why - it goes to important facets of defamation law abuse. š§µāļø
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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Pro Tip: Most paper publications live and die by advertiser dollars, NOT subs. The PAID subscription numbers drive ad prices. Clicks are nice and once drove prices, but since they can be schemed, paid subs are king. Boycott their advertisers, cancel your subscription.
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Sarah Walsh
@bigdamnherossir.bsky.social
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Just watched an absolutely panicked local news segment about lead in baby snacks and it ended with "But will the FDA listen??" ... Yeah probably but the Supreme Court is dismantling the regulatory state, shame you couldn't mention that bit you Sinclair fucks
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CZEdwards
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PSA: Psychologists have NEVER EVER EVER had prescribing rights. We donāt want āem, you WANT a pro watching you who has zero ego involved in the drugs youāre taking. Weāll work with your GP or a psychiatrist for you, but walking scrip pad is the med school grads. Weāre software.
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Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
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Yep. The most fair and democratic distribution of seats relative to votes does not care who we like or dislike. Every other party loses from Labourās massive gain, even the ones we detest.
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Jamie McKelvie
@mckelvie.bsky.social
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For those who don't know: this is James Timpson of Timpson key cutters/shoe repairs/dry cleaners. His company employs ex-convicts and even runs work training programmes in prisons. Genuinely inspired choice.
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It's ME(Jaime)
@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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"Pace myself up".
I know it's REALLY hard to grok, but pacing is not about increasing what you can do a little every day until you're back to normal. That's graded exercise therapy, and it does not work for people with PEM. š§Ŗ #MECFS #LongCOVID
Pacing is this: www.meaction.net/resource/pac...
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onekade
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Eric Adams: the worst major city US mayor? I know there are other bad ones but heās gotta be top two or three if not the worst.
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Bob Cesca
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Something hopeful: We're 61 electoral votes away from passing the National Popular Vote compact. If, say, PA, NC, VA, MI pass the law, 272 electoral votes will be decided by the national popular vote. The legislative process is underway in those states.
www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
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Kevin Kretsch
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Trump will pardon people who are useful to him or who could turn on him if he doesnāt. Those people will be neither.
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Kevin Kretsch
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Kevin Kretsch
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Del - Martian Observer
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As promised
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Googleās emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoftās 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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Kevin Kretsch
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Yes, a minority government or coalition government with independents or a third small party is what *should* happen. There is reason coalition governments are so frequent around the world in countries that use more democratic voting systems. Itās not in itself a bad thing.
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Kevin Kretsch
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But the fact remains that Labour have a huge parliamentary majority from a minority of the vote, making a massive parliamentary gain from the most paltry increase in actual votes and 66% of the didnāt vote for them. Itās not made less awful because the conservatives lost popularity.
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of āBiden Oldā and āRich Dems Worriedā above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Kevin Kretsch
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In a democratic voting system that bottom graph (seats won per million votes cast) should be approx equal for all parties. The same issue exists in the US, albeit with a smaller number of parties.
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Kevin Kretsch
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Labourās share of the vote barely changes but they double their number of seats. FPTP is a wildly undemocratic way to run elections. (Yes, this is todayās āhill I will die onā.)
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Kevin Kretsch
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Labourās share of the vote is virtually unchanged since 2019 but suddenly they have doubled their share of seats. This is due to the flaws of First Past The Post (FPTP) voting system, which is by far the least democratic way to run elections. Itās also part of why US politics is so badly broken.
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JUCIFER
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seeing the occasional "nyt= trying to mess up electionz i am so unsubscribing" take on here lately as if pro-eugenics, pro-genocide, anti-trans, anti-immigrant, anti-poor, etc consent manufacturing didn't faze em enough to act, but now it's aimed@ things they think *matter*...š¶
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Kevin Kretsch
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Damn right. Itās deeply undemocratic. Labor now have 62% of the seats in parliament, doubling their number of seats from 202 in 2019 to 412. BUT they won not even 34% of the vote, gaining a less than 1.5% more compared to the last election. Itās crazy.
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Kevin Kretsch
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šŗšø and š¬š§, look at this: UK general election, Labour win 412 seats, a 63% majority and gain of 211 seats since last election. Stunning result. BUTā¦ Only 33% of actual votes went to Labour, a tiny 1.3% gain since the last election. See how āFirst Past the Postā voting produces undemocratic results?
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Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
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šŗšø and š¬š§, look at this: UK general election, Labour win 412 seats, a 63% majority and gain of 211 seats since last election. Stunning result. BUTā¦ Only 33% of actual votes went to Labour, a tiny 1.3% gain since the last election. See how āFirst Past the Postā voting produces undemocratic results?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
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Itās a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitlerās ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?
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Kevin Kretsch
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Ketan Joshi
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Turns out anti greenwashing regulations work!
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Amy A
@lolennui.bsky.social
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any excuse to post this one, happy 4th!!
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Sophie Bee
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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid
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Kevin Kretsch
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Convince me the NYT has not explicitly defined their mission as to undermine democracy as thoroughly as they can.
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Jen Gentleman
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Vote
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Kevin Kretsch
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Merry anniversary of the 1776 brouhahahs and the embarrassment of George III. Hoorah! šŗšø May Georgeās descendants and their landkin kick the Torys squarely in their most untrustworthy bottoms. Hoorah! š¬š§
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Rose Schmits
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With āalliesā like these who needs enemies
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Kevin Kretsch
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Thoroughly enjoying UK election humor this morning. Thank you, everyone! š
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Kevin Kretsch
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What pisses me off most about the āBiden is oldā press coverage, is that Biden, and everyone around him, everyone in the White House, everyone around Harris, are far better human beings, and not intent on destroying things for their own wealth and power, than Trump and his MAGA cronies.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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I really wish people listened to those of us who have spent years studying and writing about the far right and the coup they have been planning for decades. Because now they are just straight up telling you their plans because they are so emboldened by the fascist captured courts.
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Jeramy Neugin
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Frances Elizabeth
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Kevin Kretsch
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Not news. French banks won't lend her party money and the cash has been coming from Russia, organized by or with the blessing of Putin, for quite some time now.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
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Kevin Kretsch
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None of that will happen easily or quickly but it absolutely requires democrat majorities in the house and senate, i.e. our votes, and the prerequisite is the initial conversations need to happen. THAT NEEDS US, to call and lobby our local and state lawmakers to put those things on the agenda. 2/2
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Kevin Kretsch
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We fight fascism by staying in the battle. We fight fascism by demanding reform: New voting systems (more democratic and beak the current two-party disfunction), reform the senate and electoral college, expand the supreme court, term limits for senior justices, tough enforceable ethics rules. 1/2
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Ciara | CiaraĆoch šØ
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All good!
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Elle
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so great that Europe's doing this again with the diseases
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ONeillJones
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic āplease donāt feed my work into the AI garbage chute plsā clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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John Kennedy
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
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Kevin Kretsch
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I wouldn't put it past them.
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