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Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social |
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Retired Educator / Learning Scientist Solo Game Developer Pixel Artist Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day Male presenting NB Pronouns: Nobody/Nothing/None - any if you must Avatar alt: Pixel art portrait of a Black person with glasses and pink hair
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Bo Thompson
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My favorite example - "Do you have any articles of clothing in your closet that would benefit from sewing repair or hemming? Can you name anyone within two blocks who could help you with that?" The answer is almost always: Yes and No. "How many other mutual assistances are absent in your life?"
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Heck, I wonder if folks who say this kind of thing realize how much of our understanding of the Gaza genocide has arisen from social media collecting and disseminating what much of our news media has worked hard to downplay and avoid.
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Honestly, me neither but I'm glad for the chance to bump into him rare as it is. 🤣
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Yep, we're mutuals and he's a delight.
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Though I will never get those minutes back I spent digging this up, enjoy🤣: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I think a lot of people replace a true idea with a nearby but entirely false idea when discussing positive social media impact: (True) There are a variety of problems that cannot be solved by a lot of people online agreeing it's a problem. (False) Social media can't really change anything important.
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I got it mostly for the Dimension 20 seasons and gosh was it worth it.
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They're great and I wholeheartedly endorse my experiences with their service.
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Every word read a promise kept.🥹
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Lord save me from random folks coming in my replies letting me know that I only have the thoughts I do on laws because of the existence of police. Chile, I'm strictly pro-police abolition. Not reform, removal. I promise you there is not a night that goes by that I think "Gosh, the police are good."
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Hahaha, I love that you think my idea of the law is built on a presupposition that the police exist. I can tell we've never interacted before and it's probably best it stays that way.
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At the risk of getting technical: So, no actually. Self-defense is, as the name implies, a defense against a legitimate breach of the law. It's a justification that does not change that you acted in an unlawful way, it simply removes your liability for the results.
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I should get up and write a chapter or do some game dev. I should.
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Maybe, but I think part of my problem is that you haven't really said any concrete statements about what you think is a better process or how it would work. It's hard to weigh that when you've instead focused on rejecting extreme positions you've heard others mention elsewhere.
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You hesitate for larger changes because small changes have provided you much of what you have today. I do not, because my existence today was made possible by large changes that repeatedly failed incrementally until the pressure left no choice but a tidal wave of change. Over and over in history.
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Until you can provide concrete answers in how to tell the difference, I would say it is not lost on me how your "wait and settle for small changes" answer is not materially different from what I quoted. If you have those answers, I am more than willing to hear them and adjust my thinking.
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Ah so we should wait for a better answer, a better season? How long should we wait? When will you know that stronger, less lawful measures are necessary? And more importantly, what do you tell those who say they do not have the privilege of waiting as long as you?
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Mitch McConnell has entered the chat.
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As I read for pleasure, I often think about how, for many of my ancestors this pointless diversion of mine would be the sweetest nectar because I have the better life they fought for.
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ALT VERSION:
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I've had posts on this platform published with citations three times to my knowledge. I still occasionally get emails about them.
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A couple years ago, I saw a post about a kid who had built a Tetris inspired game but was being hassled about it by jerks in the community. I reached out privately and found out his family was in a tight spot and game dev was his relief. I covered his semester's tuition. He graduated this year.
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I became a contributor on five open source projects because I saw people complain about features or bugs and thought "I know how to deal with that, I wonder what they're doing" and went on to find out nobody had stepped up for those folks.
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Right? It was one of the sweetest, most encouraging interactions I'd ever had. They were so authentic and interested in being the best they could be and I had like 800 twitter followers at the time. Like 20 likes on the thread. Zero pressure for them to care.
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A critique I offered on Twitter about their streaming services ended up being the primary topic of discussion at College humor. I received DMs from Sam Reich and two of their VPs thanking me for taking the time and explaining changes that were coming as a result of my detailed notes.
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Right? Made my whole month.
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Yep. The artist asked if he could use it and a few days later sent me a link which included the comic with an attribution in the margins.
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A fun political thought of the day: Republicans have so built themselves for conflict that they will invent enemies if they can't find someone who wants a fight. Democrats have so built themselves for compromise that they will invent victims if they can't find someone who deserves consideration.
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Agreed. One of my first viral posts happened to be an accessibility trick for using your fingers to compensate for near-sightedness. It was published as a cartoon in a major publication a week later and I still occasionally get thank yous for it.
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Also, because the Democrats would have to commit to large-scale and immediately measurable change. The Democrats have never seen a fence they couldn't straddle and if they can't find a way to both-sides the issue, they settle for making no promises so they can deliver everything they said: Nothing.
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I think so, and they made the smart decision to dramatically change the cast and backgrounds of the ghosts to reflect American stories. It really gives a different plotline legs.
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It is indeed and I quoted an excerpt on that to those today!
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I love the show Ghosts and I'd love if the writers took a big chance in season 4 and revealed that Sasappis, the Lenape ghost whose death hasn't been revealed, isn't trapped like the other ghosts and voluntarily chose to stay with his unharmed form because he comes from a spiritually aware people.
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People love repeating I Have a Dream, but it's really the Letter from a Birmingham Jail that I find myself tapping the sign over and over for folks. MLK had deep, meaningful thoughts that apply today and the strongest ones I think came up in that letter.
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And I mean it when I bring up MLK Jr. I've pulled out an excerpt from his Letter from a Birmingham Jail discussing the dangers of White Moderate rhetoric undermining resolution. I would sincerely encourage you both to read it and think about how your position differs from what he describes.
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I am free, benefited from an unsegregated education, allowed to vote and own land despite my Japanese heritage, and to marry my male partner because of "wild suggestions" at various points in this country's history. You will likely never convince me to worry if it's safe enough for you.
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White folks, if you ever feel the urge to bring up the Civil Rights Act in a conversation or debate involving a Black person I implore you: Think twice. You likely haven't studied that era as well as you think you have, and preconceptions and biases you don't even realize you carry will emerge.
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And yet again, when folks like you bring up the Civil Rights Act, I would refer you to MLK Jr.'s thoughts on the dangers of the White Moderate. What you're doing? Exactly what he told us to fear. Don't do it.
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idea that *change* occurs in small steps, and both of the things you just argued? Were NOT incrementalist even if they arose from decades of strife and struggle. They did not change in small, gradual series of steps. They were massive and sweeping even if they arose from long periods of strife.
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This is historical revisionism at its worst. Yes, both had struggle for decades prior, but you could say the same about any number of things currently occurring without attempting to conflate it with incrementalism. Incrementalism isn't the idea that all things arise from small struggles, it's the
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And he better stay that way, because I'm not above a personal foul for my freedoms. 😤
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With no slight to you: I think incrementalism has had decades to demonstrate it's going the wrong way, and we are approaching critical margins where the groups closest to the fire can't afford to wait and see if it's too late to reverse course gradually.
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Meanwhile I'm ready to fistfight air bud. 🤣
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When folks talk about the US devolving into lawlessness if the Democrats match Republican strategies, I don't know how to take that seriously. If you're law-abiding and someone else isn't, that won't stop them from criminally victimizing you. Lawful behavior is no safeguard from lawless behavior.
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So, here's where I think we disagree: You imagine all lawlessness is the same. I don't. I think a constitutional crisis that forces both sides to discuss remediation is rapidly becoming the only tool in an electorally gridlocked nation to address the disparity in law-respecting behavior.
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Ha, it really does tempt me to roll out the social media game I was designing for BlueSky last year.
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I'm terrified the first time I see someone level 2. 🤣
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Agreed, it's a series that has proven surprisingly resilient to reinvention.
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @funkelly.bsky.social 5
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"Shhh, if we stay very quiet and don't move, maybe the feelings won't find us."
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