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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.@irishgeek79.bsky.social |
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Activist. Data Scientist. Scholar: NLP | ML | AI. Disabled. Jewish. Queer AF. pronouns: they/them šā”ļøš³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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One big change America needs is it needs to be illegal to lie on the news. Every teevee network should have to have a nightly news program. Everything else is opinionated bullshit that one may enjoy but we could all recognize isn't the 'news' I mean damn
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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āTootsā is so much better than āskeetsā lol
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Honestly it feels like such a retread of 2016 in so many waysā¦.and not just from Dems. But the media too. They are STILL going on about the debate and the news about Trumps immunity didnāt even last 24 hours. I swear we never fucking learnā¦.
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Sage š³ļøāā§ļø
@trans.bsky.social
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getting blocked & unfollowed by people for being critical of a millionaire sex pest they happen to have liked is unsurprising, but also still disappointing. if you really want, you can still like the art someone awful made without caping for them. stop worshipping powerful men. it never ends well.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Honestly I wish weād do this with the POTUS. I always find it jarring when folks use President as a title, esp after they have left office. Itās not President Trump or President Obama. At best, itās Former President, Donald Trump etc. For him specifically there are other titles but I shall refrain
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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G-d prices in Ireland have gone up even more than they were when I left in 2020. Nearly half a million ā¬ā¬ for a place in Donegal?! I mean Iām assuming itās new construction (unless theyāve given new meaning to ādetachedā) but stillā¦itās the arse end of nowhereā¦
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š¶ļø Caitlin Spice š¶ļø
@catespice.bsky.social
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Seeing more and more anti-trans people blaming transgender people for the growing homophobia in the West. No Terfy McTerface, your gay friend isn't being called slurs on the street because of something I've done. It's because people like YOU are enabling the bigots and they are getting bolder.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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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. Itās time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.
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baby cigarette
@mommywiseau.bsky.social
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King of the Hill is about being autistic and your special interest is America
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Wendy Xu
@wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.
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Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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This but unironically.
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Eb
@ebthen.bsky.social
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From a 2019 thread: Yesterday somebody asked me not to use a word because of its connections with oppression and I went through all the stages of "Don't Tell Me I Can't Use That Word." In my head. And then I got to, "Yeah, okay, I can omit that word from my vocabulary." Decency takes intention.
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Oregon the DMš
@oregonthedm.bsky.social
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Vox and Newsweek finally covering the Trump abusing 13 year old story -checks- on a massive weekend holiday while CNN is still doing the chicken little panic attack on biden
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Sava
@unicorntickles.bsky.social
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Ageist as fuck. Alsoā¦not sure how many people today know this but the longest ever serving president was confined to a wheelchair. Unassisted mobility isnāt a requirement to run this country.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Fuck! That is a harsh reminder of just how horrific Netanyahuās campaign has been!
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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The real question is why are you so entrenched about the use of a handful of words that arenāt gonna change bigots hearts or minds but DO let others know you arenāt an ally. Why are you so insistent on using those words. Maybe examine that.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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So do I. I grew up around them. Hell, Iām related to some of them. Iāve been āfighting the good fightā for 25+ years. Calling them āstupidā instead of a bigot or similar isnāt magically gonna fix them. In fact it just entrenches them further. Thereās literal reams of research about that.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Webdev influencers?! Thatās a thing?! Ok itās time to kill social media. This has gone WAY too far (also agree with you šÆ. Iām just floored by the concept of webdev influencers)
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Iāll still stand toe to toe against those who threaten my and my loved oneās existence. Iāll throw a punch or a rock or pull a trigger if I have to in order to defend me and mine. But I can also do all that while avoiding language that harms the folks Iām trying to protect. /end
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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I get that itās hard and frustrating. I still catch myself and slip up ALL the time when it comes to words like ādumbā or āstupidā or āidiotā. That we donāt have easy substitute words in these situations shows how ableist we are as a society. We need to do better starting NOW. /3
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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By using a word that is used to marginalize a group as a pejorative against a single person doesnāt make the word less problematic to the wider group it maligns. We can punch Nazis AND use better language to cal out their bigotry besides things like āstupidā or ādumbā or r*t*rd. /2
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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As a queer, disabled Jew I know full well what we are up against. Still, calling people āmoronsā or āstupidā bc āitās not directed at a specific groupā is like saying itās ok to call a bigot a f*gg*t or a k*ke. /1
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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Just unfollowed someone so fast on the other site after they shared a post talmbout people being selfish for 'fearmongering' about Project 2025 in order to get people to vote Republicans' stated intentions are scary, but providing accurate info about them is not fearmongering! It's just the stakes!
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Why do that when they can just do it unilaterally without having to risk elections every few years or worry about political opposition etc.
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Link is coconut-pilled. š„„ š“
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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I hate this piece of shit.
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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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I would never favor Trump as President. Didnāt the first time and donāt now. But I was also quite stunned by how quickly so many of the white people who Really Cared about our suffering justā¦ stopped paying attention anymore after he left office. Fascists in many communities noticed & acted swiftly.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isnāt the only thing that needs doing and it isnāt enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isnāt done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I donāt even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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They need a new self help book for companies called āhow to solve all your problems by giving up on that product no one wants.ā
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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āOh Trump is a conman, heās pulling the wool over peoples eyesā Yeah to some degree, but the main core reason he was President and might well be President again is a lot of people fucking love being racist
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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If I have to choose between breathable air / drinkable water and a shitty āAIā that isnāt actually usefulāIām gonna go the air/water route. Google doesnāt need to gobble up electricity to deliver half ass tech that no one wants or needs (it was doing that long b4 āAIā).
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Hold my kippahā¦.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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I donāt even know that they are pro-GOP. They are just pro-chaos. More chaos means more ragey click bait. More click bait means more $$. NYT should be ashamed but isnāt capable of feeling such a thing.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Iād LOVE to see her be POTUS bc she is one of the most qualified people out there IMO. But I also DONāT want her to ever run bc she put up with enough bs for a lifetime when she was FLOTUS. She didnāt deserve the ire of RW media and itād be so much worse if she were POTUS.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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This! āš»āš»āš»I grew up in this āmentalityā (and ran as fast and far as I could when I turned 18). These folks are nuts and are incapable of even seeing their racism.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Iām looking into adjuncting this fall (just for a little extra $$). I now have my marching orders! š
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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what if like for one year every single one of us collectively agreed to go as hard as the Republicans are already accusing us of doing anyway and just see where it gets us
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Then perhaps Biden should start with locking up the 6 justices that issued the opinion as they endanger the institutions of democracy and upholding the Constitution is definitely an āofficial actā of the POTUS. Then go after Trump.
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Eh yes and no. I mean technically you are correct but as Sotomayor points out in her dissent, the distinction is essentially meaningless. bsky.app/profile/nycs...
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Ah sorry. I was a little confused by your comment (and should have picked up on that) but itās been a day and Iām a bit too in my feelings I suppose! Apologies āŗļø
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Emily L. Hauser
@emilylhauser.bsky.social
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And I've reached the point where I, too, believe RBG ultimately failed the country she served so well for so longāyet it is DAMN telling that people are only too happy to lay the blame for what our white supremacist patriarchy has wrought at the feet of that one (1) woman.
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Emily L. Hauser
@emilylhauser.bsky.social
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Had we listened to Anita Hill, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to the women sexually abused by Trump, we wouldn't be here today. Had we listened to Christine Blasey Ford, we wouldn't be here today.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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Voting is not a remedy to the party that you vote for being rendered illegitimate by their opposition
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J B
@johndbro1.bsky.social
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In my opinion, the conservative members of the Supreme Court represent a clear and present danger to the ongoing stability and peace of the United States. Given that situation, a President would be well within his Core Constitutional powers to eliminate that danger
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Shane McGarry, Ph.D.
@irishgeek79.bsky.social
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Um thatās not what sheād be deciding. The argument was made to her once already that his J6 actions were in the āouter perimeterā of his duties as POTUS. She ruled that he wasnāt acting as POTUS but rather in his capacity as candidate. Therefore not an official act of office.
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Radley Balko
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. Itās also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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Prisonculture
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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.
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