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GrumpyBen@grumpyben.bsky.social |
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He/him. I'll fill this if and when I become interesting.
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ClockworkCanary
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Actually, this isn’t all. You know how you think the dems are conservative? You are correct. Our system, the way it is currently built will only sustain two parties. Kill off the Republican party. Kick them out. Then there’s room for a different party to rise. It’s happened before. Ask the Whigs
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Faral Cane
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Hey guys; vote plz. K thks
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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The media's standard seems to be "is the action out of character?" As if the candidates were, I don't know, wrestlers.
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Celeste Pewter
@celestepewter.bsky.social
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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We first said this during the GWB era, and it remains true: "Republicans are terrified of the Democrats' hidden agenda. Democrats are terrified of the Republicans STATED agenda."
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s 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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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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"there's a huge amount of hype — but so far, the only companies making much actual revenue off AI are the ones selling the hardware it needs, like Nvidia." futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Starying to feel hard to avoid the conclusion that this gang up on Biden is the mostly white Beltway press being Big Mad that the last president was chosen by Black voters who DGAF about their dipshit endorsement and by golly they are determined those lessers will not do it again
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Faine Greenwood
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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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What are we imagining? That they live on energy drinks and protein shakes?
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Stonkers
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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John Shirley
@johnshirley2024.bsky.social
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"34 Felonies? So what, Biden is old and has problems speaking extemporaneously in a debate. A jury said Trump was guilty of rape and had to pay restitution? So what, cost of beer and gas went up. Trump is going to turn America into a fascist country? So what, I can't afford a new Dodge Ram."
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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Good? Good.
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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...The people I hate the most are all billionaires, they wouldn't even notice 100K$ extra.
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Kelly Turnbull
@coelasquid.bsky.social
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I HAVE NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE THAN I WANT THIS DEER HEAD SOMEONE POSTED IN THE BAD TAXIDERMY FB ACCOUNT
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Popehat
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There is no depth to which Jonathan Turley will not sink. He’ll say that Trump will never do the outrageous things Trump threatens to do, and that there are laws in place to prevent it, then when Trump does them he will say the laws don’t apply and that Trump was forced to do the things by woke.
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GrumpyBen
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I just wish they didn't talk to each other, so we'd have some competition in the marketplace of stupid, so to speak.
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GrumpyBen
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I'm stunned at the strength of the groupthink among tech executives, their brains are all breaking the same way on the same subject. I thought it was bad among video game executives. They can make mistakes but not all the same one at the same time!
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GrumpyBen
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Well summarized! And those integrating GenAI in their processes will have a rude surprise once the venture capitalists jack up the access price to cover the real operation costs. So an extra argument is: avoid lock-in! It doesn't run on your own machine? It can go away anytime.
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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GrumpyBen
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Supreme Bud.
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Serenity Now!
@cpo10za.bsky.social
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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” If that doesn’t give you knots in your stomach, you’re not paying attention. The 3 left-wing SCOTUS Justices should hold a press conference & hammer home just how fucked these right-wing-dominated rulings are.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again
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Brian Thill
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There’s just one small problem with everyone’s earnest suggestions for how Biden and the Democratic leadership can address this latest crisis: it’s precisely the Democratic Party’s perennial unwillingness ever to address any of these kinds of crises that got us here in the first place.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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at this point the main reason i think there’s little upside in biden dropping out is that the only real option is Harris and the media hates her even more than it hates him
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GrumpyBen
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America loves itself a senile, rubber-faced man.
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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The New York Times and numerous columnists who write for it haven't called for the rapist convicted felon fraudster to drop out. NYT is right-wing garbage. They gave the Nazi, Musk a platform to curse out companies who didn't want their ads next to Nazi content. bsky.app/profile/numb...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org
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Age verification systems are surveillance systems. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Tiffany
@superflypixie.bsky.social
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Just FYI for your followers in California, Medicaid/medi-cal patients can still get free Covid tests at the pharmacy (at least at CVS), and I just figured out that Kaiser will mail you 2 boxes at a time, 4 boxes a month per member in the household.
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Scott
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and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.
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GrumpyBen
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That's the American Way!
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GrumpyBen
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I do not understand this tweet, but it reads like the beginning of a dystopian SF novels from decades past.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Evergreen
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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GrumpyBen
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Ah, thank you, that has given words to a long-nagging thought.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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relatedly, i am going to lose my mind at how 90 percent of trump coverage treats him as if he wasn't president for four years
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GrumpyBen
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I love that in DA2 all Hawke's companions have lives outside of adventuring with Hawke - they even have day jobs! And you can have that when the plot is not MUST HURRY SAVE THE WORLD NO TIME NO TIME OH RACING MINIGAME.
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GrumpyBen
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That part in Inquisition where Varic has this elaborate anecdote about "flippant" Hawke tricking muggers in joining a card game... Man the new game as a lot to live up to.
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GrumpyBen
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Surely "chaps" alone means "two or more of Bertie Wooster's male friends, pip pip, ahoy"? English is not my first language.
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Joseph Fink
@planetoffinks.bsky.social
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Turning on Netflix, hitting "skip recap", then "skip intro", then "skip episode", then turning off Netflix
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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...Taking bets that the image was made with GenAI?
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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Now I want to see giant tortoises as battering ram in a fantasy movie.
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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Thinking how I know plenty of gender-neutral alternatives to "folks" but HR would object if I called my reports any one of minions, mortals, or earthlings. Yet all three would be technically correct.
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GrumpyBen
@grumpyben.bsky.social
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I had memory-holed the Buffy movie!
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GrumpyBen
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CIA used to fund the arts during the Cold War - jazz tours, writers' workshops, abstract painting... Let's find an excuse to bring that back.
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