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JDC Burnhil

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he/him. Writer of stories, scripts, and essays. Strongly committed to clear thinking. Always fascinated by writers' shop talk about how to achieve certain effects. Also interested in science, esp. computers and epidemiology.


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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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Call your rep today to encourage them to support AOC’s articles of impeachment. I will block anyone who tells me why they, personally, cannot and therefore why it’s pointless.

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It's your thing 🎵 Do what ya wanna do 🎵 I can't tell ya who to sock it to 🎵 However be aware that being free to choose who you sock it to is not the same as being immune from criticism of your socking-it-to decisions

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barbisblue's avatar barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social
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You frauded out America of a real election," he continued. "You're gonna pay for it." He also told her that "10 million plus patriots will surround you when you least expect it." "We'll [expletive] kill you," he said. "Watch your [expletive] back."

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Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." Of course, Shakespeare lived in different times. We'd never stand for such things today. The good is to be interred IMMEDIATELY, like radioactive waste.

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I thought that there were two unrelated meanings. One was literal - expenses that you paid out of your own funds. The other related to the musicians' term for a group playing well together, "in the pocket". So OOP would be not playing well with the group.

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Mark's avatar Mark @mmcd.bsky.social
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This is so unexpected and so freaking cool

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TBF, even stealing that line shows good taste.

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Andrea Grimes's avatar Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.bsky.social
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when people are expressing anger and disappointment because an artist whose work they really liked turned out to be a creep it's a cool move to make sure everyone knows you never liked that artist's work in the first place, always remind people that you're better than them when they are feeling low

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Jennifer Liang 's avatar Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social
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Bill and Ted approach everything with curiosity and enthusiasm. They learn from their mistakes and show empathy with others. No wonder the future civilization is based on their teachings.

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Nude For Satan The Reincarnation of Isabel Cave Dwellers (I love the MST3K version, but I also would just totally watch Miles O'Keefe being Hopalong Conan all day.)

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The Fig Economy's avatar The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
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And then sometimes I check their TL and it turns out they’re freaks who should probably be on a watchlist somewhere.

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Burning Ambulance's avatar Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social
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When you start thinking that people who make dark art must surely be dark people, remember that Cannibal Corpse vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is famous for playing claw machines on tour and donating the stuffed animals he wins to local toy drives and children's hospitals.

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim

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Boston Tom Levenson's avatar Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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1/ More on my growing sense that @nytimes.com may just be irretrievably spiraling down. I'd missed last months NYT Magazine piece by Alina Chan once again claiming the COVID pandemic started w. a lab leak.

The Mag pushed that almost certainly false claim seemingly w/out fact checking. Oops:

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simone's avatar simone @simonee.bsky.social
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something that i saw in regard to the latest abusive celebrity man that has been bothering me a lot is someone asserting that because the man in question had written sexual abuse into his work, that should’ve been a red flag to let us know that he was a sexual abuser. no. that is not how that works.

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Joshua Keep's avatar Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social
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Their attempts to boil everything down to a very simple formula for predator detection is so bleak and depressing. And those of us who are survivors know how futile it is. Our abusers most often were masters at hiding their true selves. Everyone thought mine were cheerful, kind, wonderful men.

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PCFclub's avatar PCFclub @pcfclub.bsky.social
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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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New study by Linsey Marr:

“We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 & pulled it through masks. After 1hr we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.” #MasksWork

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"[The nasty motives I have invented for you in my mind can't have you] leaping to the defence of a random stranger without even checking what all the fuss is about." Correct! You have succeeded in determining what is NOT HAPPENING here! Now if only you tried figuring out what IS...

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Kip Manley's avatar Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social
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No, wait, hear me out: in the time between when the leopards are loosed, and when they start eating our faces, we can generate SO MUCH shareholder value—

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Stephen Walker he, him's avatar Stephen Walker he, him @steveinburnaby.bsky.social
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A tiny little bit of searching and who controls MAGA inc. is clear

The Project 25 website is paid for by MAGA inc. which is controlled by Donald J Trump

It's really not difficult to show that Donald J Trump is lying

www.rawstory.com/trump-projec...

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"Incest. Once a dreaded taboo, but is Trump's publicly expressed lust for his own daughter making it the hippest thing around?"

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My worst nightmare Look at that apostrophe placement

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Lance Parkin's avatar Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social
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Hey. If you have ever been somewhere near David Tennant and are semi-randomly approached to see if you have any anecdotes about David Tennant, assume it's enemy action. Sorry for vagueness.

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I'd call that a fair assessment, really. I'm still kind of fascinated with the movie. I often say "it's like they knew a giallo should have a mystery, clues, detection, and finally revelation of the answer, but had no idea all those things should fit together."

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That poster looks WAY better than the movie merits.

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Bela Lugosi’s Meds 's avatar Bela Lugosi’s Meds @garbageganghq.bsky.social
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The year is halfway through. Here’s the 20 worst films I’ve seen this year, arranged from worst to least worst.

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I'd never heard of "Death Has Blue Eyes" so I Googled it. I said "Hunh, it sounds like three movies' worth of premise but none of it done well..." Then I saw "by the director of Island of Death" and was like "Oh OK, *that* explains it..." Gonna have to find Devil Has 7 Faces, LOL.

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Police Are Blundering In The Dark! I remember suggesting that; I'm glad it was memorable! 🤣

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge's avatar We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge @2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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And I appreciate all that, but when you decide "I will pretend Native culture doesn't exist because I don't want to offend them", you are still deciding to pretend Native culture doesn't exist.

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

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John Shirley's avatar John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social
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Using one of my last gift links before my subscription cancellation takes effect

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.

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Rory Blank (on vacation)'s avatar Rory Blank (on vacation) @roryblank.bsky.social
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That kind of shit drives me up the wall, like a Family Guy cutaway where they just do something from a movie or whatever, it feels like watching television for babies but for adults, presenting a bunch of familiar shapes and colors for them to giggle and clap at. It's incredibly sad to me.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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lets be honest, the toughest SOB holding a US passport is Jimmy Carter and it isn't close to close, one of the few people in history who went into a nuclear reactor came back out and nothing at all happened and now dude has lasted over a year in hospice, literal brain cancer cannot beat this guy

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I really don't know how to feel about that last line. The one about 'the orgy of blood will probably be rather unpleasant'. Like, you get this feeling this guy might think that actually needs pointing out...

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Every time I see the "rifka" account it's been spouting some bizarre take that has me questioning whether anyone could actually believe such a thing. Today's conversation has clarified the situation: Indistinguishable from a troll? Treat it like a troll. I am blocking and recommend the same.

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