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EssayWells@essaywells.bsky.social |
186 followers 207 following 1165 posts
Scientist, husband, parent, possibly a little too into Dungeons and Dragons. @essayWells on Twitter (Ex-Twitter?)
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Pickle Tiedrich
@prettyliltakemachine.is-extremely.gay
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the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding
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Jerry Chen
@jcsalterego.bsky.social
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❌"I have almost 2,000 people blocked" - clinical - quantifiable - a simple fact, stated ✅"Legions of my enemies have been exiled into the Shadowlands" - intriguing - nebulously threatening - instills a breathless fear into the hearts of would-be enemies
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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the fact that the same people pushing Biden to drop out immediately are also proposing shit that wouldn't fly on The West Wing makes me think we need a complete and total shutdown of the nation's op-ed pages until we can figure out what's going on
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Twitter's Bobby Big Wheel
@kleinman.bsky.social
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Orange Man Bad explains far more than many comparative politics PhDs care to admit
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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If people are wondering why Meta is floundering, it's because Zuck had one good idea: rip off Friendster. Dude has never created anything. He even ripped off Hot or Not for his Facemash thing.
4 replies 10 reposts 82 likes
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I mean you remember, don't you, that I kept talking about the disinformation networks around the border and how they were gaining power? I talked to you about it all the time, for years. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...
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Amanda Weaver
@amandaweaver.bsky.social
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They are not privately worried about beating this fictional "other Dem candidate" because it's past the deadline to put this miracle candidate on the ballot and they know it. They're just feeding this shit to the press to stir up trouble amongst the Dems. Don't fall for it.
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POLITICO Europe
@politico.eu
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🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll.
Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Nice to read a pleasant headline
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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Still doesn't. What we have instead are LLMs, and a lot of theft and lies. Ah well.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Please. I've warned about this exact thing for years. I named the groups and networks and financiers, I explained their plans and intentions, I wrote article after article on it starting well before 2022. There was ample warning
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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This is exactly why the EVA project needs such tight security, Gendo Ikari *warned* you about this.
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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this. that’s why they rig elections, that’s why they stockpile guns, that’s why they puff their chests out and act tough. they’re in the minority. and at their core, they’re weak.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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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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Daniel Malmer
@malmer.com
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A lot of people are going to be surprised and disappointed to discover that waving their copy of the Constitution at the secret police doesn't have any effect.
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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Elon Musk already ran the dress rehearsal for this, by creating the reality-distorting misinformation machine that has made Tesla one of the most valuable companies in the world. If you don't think this risk is real, you aren't paying attention.
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it's gita time
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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GIMME THE JAB www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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From your lips to Lucifer's ears :)
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Sunak fears he’s lost his seat. If that happens he’ll make history as the first PM to be defenestrated.
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Emily 404 Not Found
@emilyatlast.bsky.social
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Planning on voting tactically? Your boundary may have changed, and that might mean your tactical vote needs to change, too. Handy constituency checker tool here:
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
@toadsanime.bsky.social
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Nintendo says it will not use generative-AI, preferring to create stuff that is "unique to" them and to avoid copyrighted material used by gen-AI:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Noticeable change in Ed Davey’s messaging today: “The Conservatives are a failed Government and they’ll be a failed Opposition. Only the Liberal Democrats can hold all parties to account.” Focusing now on the push to be the Official Opposition.
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Elizabeth Sandifer
@elsandifer.bsky.social
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Whereas from a tech-aware skeptic’s perspective, the press went from listening to crackpots with sandwich boards to listening to snake oil salesmen.
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Nate O
@nateo.bsky.social
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Now that the full extent of Nina Power’s obsessive adulation of Hitler and Nazi ideology has been revealed by Luke Turner, never forget professional transphobes Kathleen Stock and Julian Baggini defended her when it was obvious to everyone else who she was twitter.com/luke_turner/...
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Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
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I've been thinking these days about everyone who was warning FOR LITERAL DECADES about how the GOP were taking every opportunity to push judges on to the courts - not just the supremes, all of them - and delaying democratic picks and how that would matter. and it does.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Pete Fraser
@petefrasermusic.bsky.social
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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.
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Emily 404 Not Found
@emilyatlast.bsky.social
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“Nearly a fifth of the population are in poverty, including 3.6 million children” Anyone voting Conservative in this election is basically saying, “screw everyone else.”
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Jonn Elledge
@jonnelledge.bsky.social
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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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These people never ever complete the following simple thought: If everyone who agrees with me doesn't vote and everyone who disagrees with me does vote, who wins all the elections?
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DJDynamicNC (he/him)
@djdynamicnc.bsky.social
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"voting doesn't make a difference" ok sure mate, now I just gotta decide which is more likely, that all the votes in all the elections in all the world have never mattered in any way or that some cynical lackwit on the internet is wrong
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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This IS Heritage's Project 2025. Remember it's not IN 2025. It's BY 2025.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Atrios
@eschatonblog.com
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The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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It's not "every paper of note", it is the same right wing psyop tactic as in 2016, where they are constantly seeking to distract from their own terrifyingly unfit candidate by making the conversation about the other candidate. It's not reporting, they are trying to speak it into existence.
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BeijingPalmer
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
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formerly 'left-wing' UK philosopher and transphobe Nina Power has been exposed in her own text messages as a literal Nazi (occult variety)
x.com/Luke_Turner/...
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Johnny Cans
@oldmatecans.bsky.social
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Aotearoa New Zealand fash detectors are fucking amazing, we had Nina Powers number four years ago lol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨
@davidgerard.co.uk
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Nina Power of Compact gets called a Nazi. Sues for defamation. In discovery, produces chats not just supporting Nazi ideas but calling herself a Nazi. Loses so hard she just declared bankruptcy. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/
the TERF to Nazi pipeline is a doorway, or just walking across the same room
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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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I increasingly feel like the go-to response to the anti-trans ranters should just be: "Normal people don't think about strangers' genitals as much as you do. Normal people don't think about *children's* genitals as much as you do."
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R. Wm. "Ruedii"
@rwruedii.bsky.social
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Part of the reasoning for most Pratchet fans is he was refreshingly wise and had a strong leftist lean. He had the ability to communicate the problems of the world in a manner that wouldn't offend anyone. I'm honestly surprised he didn't slip a character into the Discworld universe who did so.
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ONeillJones
@oneilljones.com
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” 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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EssayWells
@essaywells.bsky.social
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The Car of Theseus, every component being replaced over time with 3D printed replicas and some Lego Technic.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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SpaceX can't find paying customers for more than half its current launches, which it has to fill with satellites for its money-losing Starlink internet service. Scale has brought lower launch costs but not more viable space-based businesses to pay for them, and doubling down won't change that.
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post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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didn't read the NYT piece yet but did any NYT reporters see Biden repeatedly falling asleep in public or was that only Trump
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