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Elisabeth Van Every@e-van-every.bsky.social |
232 followers 215 following 2370 posts
Writer, editor, educator, naturalist, knower of things. Therapy animals, wildlife interp, media, film, fandom, politics, noir, goth, fashion, cocktails, hockey, and anything else I find of interest. Animal photos sometimes. Caution: Swears. She/her.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting
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Outsider Comics
@outsidercomics.com
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We've heard from many community members that COVID rapid tests are hard to find (and when they can find them at drugstores it's like $20 a test) so we're experimenting with carrying COVID tests and selling them at cost: $5 per test including tax (tho each pack has 2 tests so it's $10).
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Joe Sudbay
@joesudbay.bsky.social
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Surely reporters will be asking Trump and his campaign to identify the things on Project 2025 he disagrees with and what part are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal" His own people wrote the fucking thing. So get the answers. Obsess over this for a change
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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At the outset, I want to make it clear that I think the allegations against Gaiman are serious, credible, and very disturbing. Nothing in this thread should be taken as suggesting that I think otherwise. I'm purely highlighting some points about what defamation law can/can't do.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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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. 🧵⚖️
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Laura Seay
@texasinafrica.bsky.social
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Arkansas, y'all.
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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Also not everything is "dementia." A bad speaker getting worse and only being able to work like 6 hours a day isn't necessarily dementia. It's being old as hell and losing a step, which is maybe reason enough to dump him, but it's not necessarily dementia. Dementia is fucking brutal and specific.
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TW
@twesq.bsky.social
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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Can't let our disdain for AI make us forget to go after bitcoin too
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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It's so fun to be a survivor of sexual violence when someone well-known (and especially renowned in one's social circles) is accused of it. *sigh*
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Bob King
@bkingdc.bsky.social
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#HurricaneBeryl forecasts turning more worrisome for Texas: Corpus Christi, a major hub for oil and gas exports, is right now in the center of the predicted swath of the fiercest winds. People in Galveston, Houston and Louisiana should keep alert too. www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...
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Dee (Denice), the Red Witch
@deetheredwitch.bsky.social
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The short version? Things are fucked particularly with the back rent situation. That's our deadline to not get evicted again. Right now, best way to help is donations if you can. Here's the link for that: paypal.me/tormentedart...
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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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Mary Sue
@marysuesays.bsky.social
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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He did something similar a couple of weeks ago in a conversation about Chevron Deference & TFG's intention to destroy federal staffing; he insisted that "most people" don't even understand how much they interact with the fed gov't. He got heavily schooled. "Skill issue" sums it up, for sure.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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I am not kidding when I say that Romancing the Vote has out-organized and done more to materially improve conditions in the southeastern US than any explicitly leftist org. Romancelandia ain't here to fuck around.
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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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Amanda in NYC
@amandapaxton.bsky.social
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I'm still wondering if the virus I had earlier this year was COVID, and if the GI issues I've had since, as yet undiagnosed, are related
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/w...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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On Election Day in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets, where nearly 40 percent of the population described themselves as Muslim in the 2021 census, a campaign truck across from a Whitechapel polling station repeatedly blared a recording saying, “Voting for Labour is voting for genocide.”
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the feminine urge to 🔪 when wrath arrives
@anem0ne.net
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I'm in agreement here and I really wish I could believe more Dems would not just play hardball, but also start making rules in the Calvinball.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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I am anti-carceral generally, but there needs to be SOME kind of enforcement b/c this is a public safety issue. I reported one last week but they'll just get a letter reminding of them of the laws. I'd like to see fines, or fire departments hosing things down and ruining whatever remains.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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Yep. We've got a household near us that sets them off for sports team wins (Seahawks reliably, sometimes NBA, sometimes during other playoffs) and there are others who just do it for the heck of it. Guy building a house across the street is setting them off at the end of workdays!
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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(The context here, for anyone coming to this conversation outside my followers, is that my spouse is an Afghanistan vet with PTSD. We also have a dog & used to have cats. And I get red-in-my-vision angry at the noise and the selfishness and the harm to my family.)
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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I think there is an implicit assumption that "it's just one night" [note: It ABSOLUTELY is not] and it's not worth either the labor or the bad community relations to enforce. But we have to either be refugees from the noise or drug the whole household to bear it, which is...not ideal.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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Rainier Beach was bad when we lived there but the unincorporated area between the Seattle and Renton city lines is nightmarish. A group set up a giant fireworks installation IN AN INTERSECTION. Not a peep out of KCSO.
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Oh they know what they’re doing here
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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Nah. NoVa, rural central PA, rural south NJ. (Also Atlanta but I know that doesn't count as "East Coast") One of the few *good* things about the NJ stint was not having to treat July 4 like a war situation--there just weren't any fireworks.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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I NEVER had to deal with fireworks when I lived on the East Coast. I now live just outside Seattle and there were giant explosions on my street from 4 PM until 2 AM. And they're banned but no one cares and it's not enforced.
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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We’ve been getting a great tutorial on why so many people distrust the mainstream media since the debate. Reminds me of William Randolph Hearst promoting the Spanish-American War to sell more papers; these folks liked the Trump years because it made getting clicks easier.
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Joseph Galbo
@josephgalbo.bsky.social
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Headed to the beach? Anchor that umbrella, friend. A flying #beach umbrella is deadly.
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Violet Blue®
@violetblue.bsky.social
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KNOW THE SIGNS
Is your child texting about #covid prevention?
Link: kck.st/3KhdUdS
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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my favorite historical tidbit is that Nora Ephron, who was married to Carl Bernstein at the time, figured out that Deep Throat was Mark Felt and apparently told a TON of people just like casually at parties she is my hero
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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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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it.
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Captain Chaos
@captainchaos.bsky.social
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Today I'm reminded that NOAA is a phenomenal government agency because from the get-go they've been telling people on the Gulf Coast to pay attention to Beryl and make plans and until this afternoon regional weather services have been saying "bitches be crazy" when people have asked about it
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
@mbkplus.bsky.social
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The biggest issue with Biden coverage is that he’s now The Story, which means that most of the press is focused on The Story and not any of the context or consequences. If we were having a serious discussion about qualifications for presidency, age, and the two main candidates, I’d be fine with it.
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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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David
@finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
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Jesus christ almighty. Her father wrote to Brett's to express gratitude that the confirmation went through.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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Internet law!
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Alan J. Card
@alanjcard.bsky.social
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Just the phase 1 trial, but hopefully an important step toward an vaccine that prevents #COVID *infection,* and not just severe (acute) disease. If so, not only would it drastically reduce transmission, but it could provide MUCH stronger protection against #LongCOVID.
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Seanan McGuire
@seananmcguire.bsky.social
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I have known Indigo for most of my life. Please take a look if you can.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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YEP. Right now I would physically fight every single person setting them off.
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Elisabeth Van Every
@e-van-every.bsky.social
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I am so damn tired of how selfish and mean so much of this country is.
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🌸Bibi🌸♿
@bibicosplays.bsky.social
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I've sold 55 of these skorts! Thank you so much! I need to sell about 65 of them to make these happen! Please continue to share so I can make these happen. I just need to sell another 10 by July 19th! We're at 85% to my goal! Were so close!! Keep sharing please!
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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look at this empty husk of a man standing there in his dad's jacket with his big blue dipshit ribbon
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Bex
@bexcommunicated.bsky.social
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Ah fuck. Everyone who told me Chevron being overturned wouldn’t matter can kindly have a seat now. I don’t really consider myself an expert in much but considering I’ve been working in health regs for the past almost 8 years, I knew this was 100% coming. I just didn’t think it would be so fast 😭
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