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Liza Mazel@lizamazel.bsky.social |
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Therapist, writer type, armchair activist, kvetch. Raised from early adulthood by Internet wolves. Warning: squees at cats.
I also ramble currently on Daily Kos www.dailykos.com/users/ElizaMazel
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Derf Backderf
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Billionaires ruin social media. Billionaires ruin mainstream comics. Billionaire ruin digital publishing. Billionaires ruin book retail. Billionaires ruin the press. Billionaires ruin the book publishing biz.
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Liza Mazel
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Narrator: Billionaires, in short, RUIN FUCKING EVERYTHING LET'S EAT THEM
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Liza Mazel
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oh. actual experts. That's always nice. our batshit insane cartoon villain party is not fond of experts. if the military and economic collapse don't get us, bird flu from the raw milk drinkers and food poisoning from no more FDA could do the job! Yay!
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Liza Mazel
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ah of course. I would know SFF but for whatever reason H threw me. and ofc i use them too.
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Liza Mazel
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Good to know, thanks. I know a multi party system would not fix everything here-systemically speaking start the fuck with SCOTUS for life and the electoral college-but it might still be an improvement over...this. As it is one of the only two parties we have went full fash and batshit insane. Yay.
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Liza Mazel
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and omfg I just remembered the Sandman ep where Rory Pond plays a hypocritical auteur who kidnaps, controls and rapes a Muse for success. this is bad, kids, see. do not do this thing. I need to lie down. Joss was bad enough.
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Liza Mazel
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all i can say is DAVID TENNANT BETTER STAY GOLD.
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Liza Mazel
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and omfg I just remembered the Sandman ep where Rory Pond plays a hypocritical auteur who kidnaps, controls and rapes a Muse for success. this is bad, kids, see. do not do this thing. I need to lie down. Joss was bad enough.
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Liza Mazel
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*head bang* WHY CAN NONE OF US HAVE NICE THINGS but srsly tho, if the allegations are true (sadly in these cases yep presumed guilty until convincing proven otherwise, his response was oh so typical, TERFs or no TERFs), fuck that guy. fuck abusers. and also fuck TERFs. because, fuck TERFs.
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Liza Mazel
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I DON'T WANT A MILKSHAKE FROM YOU, YOU'RE COVERED IN BEEEEEES!
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Liza Mazel
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yeh. goddamit and yet not really surprised somehow I WONDER WHY
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Liza Mazel
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I can only assume "not as famous as I used to be because I'm not making shit people want these days" = "canceled," then. boo fuckity hoo.
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Liza Mazel
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I've only ever done WisCon. Well no LA Con during Covid. it was disappoint. WisCon has also had its issues but I love it.
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Liza Mazel
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Science Fiction FH?
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Liza Mazel
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now I'm not getting SFFH sorry. I'm sure I know, I'm bad with acronyms. I get the gist. Sounds like a nice world. Can I stake a down payment on a castle?
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Liza Mazel
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I KNOW NOZZING Sure, Jan. At least he/the spox were forced to address it. Good. More of that. A. LOT fucking more. Assuming Biden does debate him again, besides eating his spinach and getting some rest, it'd be awesome if he flat brought this shit up.
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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (he/she/they)
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Probably the worst part of my life was when I was living in homeless shelter in 2019, experiencing unknown symptoms. I had both Medicaid and Medicare, on SSDI, but when I fell and went to the ER I waited for seven hours with no tests performed. Was dismissed with a diagnosis of “homeless.”
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Ryan Estrada
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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”
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Liza Mazel
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GOH?
I'm just. Guh. SO cynical about so many not even just male (at least I never stanned Joanne or god forbid Marion Zimmer Bradley) creators whose work I REALLY imprinted on and was still enjoying.
there's a reason for #MeToo. It is and always has been a fucking epidemic.
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Liza Mazel
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No worries, I'm just scattershotting at the moment. I have people and places I can ask.
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Liza Mazel
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In the pursuit of disabusing them of this idea by hitting their wallet and changing the narrative, how'd you feel about an organized ad boycott of the old Grey Lady?
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Liza Mazel
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and that they think that a second Trump term will again fatten their coffers and not i don't know LAND THEM IN THE FUCKING GULAG YOU MORONS WHAT PART OF "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" ISN'T CLEAR.
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Liza Mazel
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I mean, JKR is now well and truly established as a total (and hateful) crank, albeit still with a shitload of money and influence, so sure she's gonna do that shit. Doesn't make it smart for most people to do that shit.
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Liza Mazel
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From my very surface perusing of the allegation, I unfortunately find it far more believably than not, -unless- they made the nanny affair, the quotes and all up out of whole cloth. Him not suing is a stupid reason to presume guilt tho. I'm just never surprised by this shit alas, TERF or no
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Liza Mazel
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@emilyatlast.bsky.social So, I looked for Sleeping Giants (the successful Fox ad boycotters) and it seems like their account is abandoned since last year. Know of anyone else doing/did that sort of work? I just don't have the experience and think un useful to try to reinvent the wheel.
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Liza Mazel
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I canceled WaPo, still haven't pulled the trigger on Guardian but can understand reasoning.
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Liza Mazel
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I'd much rather give the Trump child violent SA via Epstein story more daylight, but yeah at this point I think if you're not a hopeless crank you're not voting for this guy, really. although he may have just alienated the cannibal faction.
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Liza Mazel
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wankerrsss
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Liza Mazel
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Maybe I'll try asking on kos.
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Liza Mazel
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Yeah. unfortunately looks like the original account went dark. although interestingly there is a SG France and a SG Brazil on here. alas I don't speak Portuguese or enough French to ask things, and in any case they've got their own shit to do.
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Liza Mazel
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Argh. Thanks for checking! Well, poop. I'm wondering who else has this experience? I'm being all enthusiastic amateur and can be cheerleader, but I don't have this particular experience or skill and don't think it'd be helpful to try to reinvent the wheel if there are other interested drivers.
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Liza Mazel
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Garlic! awww. I have a void. She is an adorable, timid, sleepy lump. She hides from everyone but me and the sitter, and is inexplicably umoved by boxes.
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Liza Mazel
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I'm not on the hellsite. Does anyone who is feel like seeing if the US original group still runs an account there?
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Liza Mazel
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So, a quick search on here: there is Sleeping Giants France and also SG Brazil; of course they have their own journalism issues. I don't see the OG account here. I'm gonna go web spelunking.
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Liza Mazel
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unrelated but SQUEE OMG YOUR VOIDY <3
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Liza Mazel
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THANK YOU! Yes, Sleeping GIants were the ones who put together the Fox News ad boycotts. Are they still around? (goes off to look herself).
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James M. Fraleigh
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Sleeping Giants?
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Liza Mazel
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Who's got a platform? Who's got a megaphone? Who's got experience doing this shit? Come on, gang! Let's put on a boycott! We can use the old barn...
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Liza Mazel
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like I don't expect journalists, who need to eat, to take up pitchfork and torch against their own employer (though they've done so at MSNBC and WaPo recently as needed). But the point=make this a story and change the narrative. Why is "our democracy is in danger" not the lede, all day every day?
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Liza Mazel
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I don't know the best idea of what to do with this situation, but, say, if this took off and then people pinged Chris Hayes on here
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Liza Mazel
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Not incidentally, there are real, serious journos posting right here on Blue Sky, (a couple of whom work for NYT & I respect, Jamelle Bouie and Paul Krugman). But also individuals who have at least taken a more measured approach to the hysteria.
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Liza Mazel
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Let's literally and figuratively cancel the NYT. Let's tell them to stop committing journalistic malpractice or wither on the vine. Who were the folks who made dents in specific Fox pundit viability through coordinated ad boycotting? Are they still around?
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Liza Mazel
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So, I've been spitballing this idea. What if us plebs with a platform or talking to each other started that war? NYT is not as deep pocketed as Murdoch, and I presume one goal here is to regain the clicks and dollars they got with Trump
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Sean
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this is wayyy under-discussed
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Liza Mazel
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Oh okay, that's what you get for just c & ping the first search result. well, I bet he WOULD say it. probably it was Marilyn Einstein.
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Liza Mazel
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Thanks for taking one for the team. I really hope whatever the fuck the mincing court fops that pass themselves for serious journalism and the party elite say, he knows when to put his foot down. Reassure his capability, sure yep. He is not a performing monkey. He has a campaign to win.
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Satisfied Psychic
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I watched the interview so you don't have to. It was fine. Biden started fine and got a little better as it went on, George started fine and got a little worse as it went on. It won't change any minds about liking or not liking Biden, but he's clearly in fine mental health (with a stutter).
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Liza Mazel
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and yeah, gaslighting is exactly what's been happening: that's one of the several major food groups of any autocratic/abusive system. Let's all try to keep each other sane. Two and two are four. Trump is a criminal, a fascist, and extremely dangerous, as are the people who put him in place.
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Liza Mazel
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So, I'm kind of a n00b at this shit, but spitballing this idea in hope of people who're interested and/or have done this kind of shit before: targeted ad boycott of NYT. On the grounds of journalistic malpractice and effectively caping for the incoming autocracy. Change the narrative.
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Satisfied Psychic
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There's a week-long dedicated gaslighting effort by the biggest media organizations in America to convince you the sky is falling. Its ok to feel a little crazy.
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