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Jacob Harris

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Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future.


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Eve Harms's avatar Eve Harms @eveharms.bsky.social
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I’m sorry I was late to the function, I had to pull over to fire off a series of questionable posts

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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I wish someone published a modern hipster magazine solely on microfilm

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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"Disability should not be a fringe topic. On the contrary, to reflect on disability is to explore the fragility and potency, dependence and independence, constraints and possibilities, and hardships and joys that are a part of every human life." -- Shane Clifton, "Crippled Grace"

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Because, again: Disability is the only minority anyone can join at any time, & which everyone will join, if they're lucky enough to live that long. A disease, a quirk of genetics, a bus, a bad fall from a curb. Anything. And the only thing we have that could consistently make this fact survivable…

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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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Holman was also the chief architect and proponent of parent-child separation, specifically as a punitive deterrent for illegal border crossings

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Jesse Lansner's avatar Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com
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Brian Eno’s “Music for Once-Revered Airports”

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Digital Transformation is a fancy term for making shadow puppets with your hands

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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He also has his own white whale of sorts, but it sometimes evolves what or rather who is driving him onwards to find it

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Another of Donald Glover’s many achievements

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Today is apparently my Bluesky birthday. Please clap.

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Definitely evocative of Moby Dick experience in that it’s sprawling, has an intimidating reputation and a main character who is pretty stupid and sometimes loathsome, but also super weird and often funny when you get into it

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It’s very extra at times but also it’s very dude at times!

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Mike W's avatar Mike W @latimeriidae.bsky.social
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Todays stage is exactly why I’m a fan of Vingegaard: Dude is dropped, never gives up, claws his way back, never gives up AGAIN, and still isn’t cowed by the prospect going to the line with one of the best small bunch sprinters in the world. That he actually WON is genuinely incredible

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"The best part so far about the journalism about Project 2025 is how it has documented its cataclysmic aim of destroying the very notion of an expert and independent civil service" prospect.org/politics/202...

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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That’s the schist right there!

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Old enough to remember when it was used for an Indiana Jones movie

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Dawn's avatar Dawn @502eire.lol
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psych appointment started with a “breathing exercises are really good for anxiety” and then progressed to “the more I see you talking the more elevated I think you are let’s up your mood stabilizer” but I think I’m going to try some breathing exercises too. who has an app they like?

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Mike Wiser's avatar Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social
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Me: I should do this work thing. My brain: Spiderman can't lift Mjolnir because he's not willing to kill. That puts that viral cartoon about Mr. Rogers (Fred, not Steve) easily being able to lift it in a very different light. Who is Mr. Rogers willing to kill?

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Dia Lacina's avatar Dia Lacina @dialacina.bsky.social
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YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Allies Against Democracy: Trump and Project 2025   Trump is not the mastermind behind Project 2025. It’s worse: The rightwing establishment has radicalized to the point where their plans are entirely in line with his vengeful desires. A thread, based on my new piece: 🧵1/

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.

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dr. e. katherine's avatar dr. e. katherine @genuinebilski.bsky.social
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A deeply relatable bumper sticker from my partner's commute this morning

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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I mean, given all the new powers they’ve given themselves, they’re going to need more staff for sure…

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Holly Brewer's avatar Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

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Charm City Slicker (57-34)'s avatar Charm City Slicker (57-34) @sprawlhater.bsky.social
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Brb changing my handle from sprawlhater to suburbiakiller

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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Every online store should have a button like this.

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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I assume that Septimus’ repeated tenet that the trees are alive means “trees are sentient” unless his grasp of biology is really bad 💐

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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Both abortion cases were punts, not vindications. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court
www.jezebel.com/these-are-no...

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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“What we would hope” is doing a lot of Fifth Circuit amnesia

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Now, there are section summaries so if you hate a chapter you can skip it!

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Matthew Cortland (they)'s avatar Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land
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I have re-read chapter 14 of project 2025 for work and i'm genuinely going to go take a benzo now "Add targeted time limits [on Medicaid] or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits to disincentivize permanent dependence"

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Well, there is a lot of sexual stuff to start. Lots of penis stuff at times but also BDSM, rape, sexual slavery, coprophagia at one point, pedophilia, incest even. One of the early chapters also has some extended racism. It’s all from character POVs, but still can be rough, esp when main character

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Yeah, some of the sections are a bit difficult. Even though it’s a character (not necessarily the author’s view) there is blatant racism, sexual slavery, coprophagia, pedophilia, etc. at various points in the book. It was called obscene by the Pulitzer committee

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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I was wondering if you all think I should put a little CW warning icon on the Gravity’s Rainbow reading list for the most problematic chapters? 🚀

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Jill Krajewski's avatar Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social
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wait…… they don’t uwu you like i uwu you

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e.w. niedermeyer's avatar e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io
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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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“So…. is there a Mrs. Piclguy?”

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mattitations's avatar mattitations @mattitations.bsky.social
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hey someone actually made money off bitcoin

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André Greppi | DRES13's avatar André Greppi | DRES13 @dres13.bsky.social
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Hey hey #PortfolioDay
I’m André - a visual artist and creative director reimagining Marge Simpson as a sword-wielding assassin cutting a blood soaked path of vengeance through the streets of Springjuku

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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Sen. Josh @HawleyMO: "Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian Nation. So I am. And some will say that I am advocating Christian Nationalism. And so I do." Christian nationalism is fascism and Nazism as politics-and hawley is a proud fascist.

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Derek Willis's avatar Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social
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TIL: When SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts reported getting a "Churima-Ching gold crown reproduction" worth $1,200 from a South Korean court official in 2009, the Federal Register listed it as being from "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" - North Korea.

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Oh, I shuddered when I read that line. Maybe he wants to show her his knife…

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the platform changed the GOP's position on abortion the same way i changed my position on bedtime when i told my kids they could stay up until half-past 7pm instead of 7:30pm.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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The official 2024 GOP platform makes a reference to "Christian-hating Communists" who the Republicans will keep from entering the country. Back in the early days of the America First movement, "Christian-hating Communists" would have just been a longer way of saying "Jews."

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Jacob Harris's avatar Jacob Harris @harrisj.bsky.social
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Germany is embarrassing itself

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Arlan Hellison (famous)'s avatar Arlan Hellison (famous) @thehell.zone
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EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS GREY GARDENS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, EDITH “LITTLE EDIE” BOUVIER. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. SHOUTING LOUD WHEN I BICKER WITH MY MOTHER OR

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