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Duncan Watson@duncanwatson.bsky.social |
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I left twitter long ago but stuck with more free alternatives until now. I am a liberal (not neo) and post about bikes, magic, politics and urban policy. Still exploring
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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For non-cycling fans, this is like Bonds breaking the HR record or Lebron breaking the NBA points record. Cavendish has now won 35 Tour de France stages, more than Eddy Merckx, one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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Oh look a country where people strategically try to prevent the anti-democratic party from taking power
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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pay teachers more
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy, and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about ‘court packing’ and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment.” Correct.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Someday a lot of people will claim not to have supported any of this and you need to survive to remember that they did
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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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As originalists, they should have no problem with this very American form of peaceful protest.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually wrote that Trump telling Pence to claim the wildly unconstitutional power to single-handedly reject certified Electoral College votes, thereby overthrowing Constitutional democracy, can't be illegal because POTUS and VP talking about it makes it an official act.
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Sean Skunk-Cabbage ⚓
@moldybasil.bsky.social
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I simply don't buy the very common argument of "none of the options available to me are extreme enough so I'm going to continue to do nothing" If you can't even hold your stomach and do some harm reduction how the fuck am I supposed to expect you'll be there when we need to march and strike?
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Bill Corbett
@billcorbett.bsky.social
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Don’t worry, Dick Durbin is considering the possibility of a letter that slightly disagrees with them. Mulling it over right now!
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.
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Murshed Zaheed
@murshedz.bsky.social
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Not surprising yet surreal to watch the traditional corporate media swarming over the Dem establishment pushing for its candidate to drop out after a debate while they did nothing to pressure the GOP to drop a rapist, fascist, felon off their ticket. Fascism enablers they are.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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one of the problems with modern politics reporting is that it should not be on me, shitposter, to have to explain presidential campaign fundamentals to the general public, this is literally the job of politics reporters and they are virtually all failures at it
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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to make the implicit explicit, i do not think it would be wise to tell black voters and women who are the party's base that both biden and harris need to get the fuck out of the way for, say, gavin newsom or pritzker or even whitmer, which is what this idiotic "biden must step down" plan requires
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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at the core of conservative jurisprudence - and conservative thought more generally - is an empathy gap the further a person is from their own direct experience the less that person is, to them, a real human being with thoughts and feelings and their own lived existence
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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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The editorial board that endorsed Elizabeth Warren _and_ Amy Klobuchar in the last Democratic primary, and which has yet to call on a convicted felon to drop out as the Republican nominee, says what?
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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*looks around* WELP. I better hurry up and finish this book while it’s still legal for black people in the US to read.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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David Waldman
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Nominate six (or more!) new Justices right now and let a Dem Senate confirm them. Let them wait, stacked in queue, to fill the next six vacancies. If Republicans want to clear out the queue and be able to nominate and seat Justices again in the near future, they can create six new seats for them.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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if Biden wants to stay in the race he needs to do this. Just flood the zone with media appearences and get people used to stammering old guy Biden as something that's normal (or ideally a better version where he's not stammering old guy). Hiding out won't work.
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Blue Virginia
@bluevirginia.bsky.social
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Another very bad decision by the Supreme Court bluevirginia.us/2024/06/frid... h/t @mjs_DC
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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I will absolutely be getting one, I have a book tour and international travel in the fall.
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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I am indeed old enough. I even remember the tipping over media stories on SUVs in the late 90s.
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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Just in case you cared this was to test that "who can reply" is editable after you post a thread. Which it is.
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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test works, yay
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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test post to see about "who can reply" options.
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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Crossovers are legally a light truck. But mostly due to the NHTSA being crippled by funding and well itself.
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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But legally a hatchback is not a light truck, which is why it has been killed basically by all car manufacturers since the light truck category allows them to avoid many regulations and costs.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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Elon Musk agreed that Autopilot/FSD would have allowed Justin Timberlake to drive drunk without getting arrested, literally marketing his cars as DUImobiles. Just incredible how little the law, let alone innocent lives, mean to him.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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Some of the modern hatchbacks are like that, basically crossovers. But I grew up in the 80s and my first car was a mazda hatchback. It was in no way a truck. Plus the ford focus is so nice (now discontinued like all ford sedans). I even had a Ford Focus Electric in 2015
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Place a lot of the blame for these obviously bullshit tech company press releases being breathlessly repeated as fact in major media on this: journalism has been utterly GUTTED in the last 20 years, and there are *very* few reporters with technical expertise who can fact check these claims left
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Backpack and Snorkel
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Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle is very walkable and many attractions are within walking distance from each other. This self-guided walking tour covers the highlights in architecture, history and culture.
#Pittsburgh ba'>g-Tour/'>backpackandsnorkel.c...
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❝marti❞
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Duncan Watson
@duncanwatson.bsky.social
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10 min 0-80% is more attainable. I agree with you on practicality, etc. I miss the Ford Focus which was so good, 4 doors, hatchback, basically a small station wagon.
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Note that in 2020, Trump also packaged up an attempt to frame Joe Biden as the person who initiated the investigation into Mike Flynn, as opposed to Bob Litt. Altered documents were used to package up this prepared attack.
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Cwnidog 🍉🇵🇸
@cwnidog.bsky.social
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IYKYK
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Nikhil Shah
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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@keithjoyce.bsky.social
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Donald Trump’s presidency was daily trauma for most of us that survived it — several hundred thousand Americans died because of his incompetence and indifference during the pandemic.
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Misako
@misakouroco.bsky.social
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A memory from Marmot Pass, WA. 🌎 Walking through old-growth forests, high meadows and open ridges for stunning views. I hope to go back again, hopefully soon! #PNW
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Dr. Lucky Tran
@luckytran.bsky.social
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Reminder: Fascism rose partly as a result of the 1918 pandemic. Do not stay silent about the attempts to ban masks and protests.
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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A subtle thing I appreciate about the 'Star Trek' universe is the frequency with which its futuristic cities feature … walkable or even pedestrianized streets, plentiful shade, and mid-rise neighborhoods of gentle density. Actual cities, in other words.
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