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Madeline Ashby@madelineashby.bsky.social |
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I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. www.madelineashby.com/contact/
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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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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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Not for nothing, but there was an episode this season where I said “Oh, I’ve seen this deck!”
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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Much like SUCCESSION, I do occasionally suspect that THE BOYS has access to insider flaks who do a little story consulting on the side. You get asked to take notes because of your “pretty handwriting” enough times, and who knows where those notes might wind up?
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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There's a huge proportion of the US citizenry, probably the majority who have no idea what Project 2025 is or what Doug Wilson's church in Idaho aspires to do. They neither support it, nor are they opposed to it...they just don't know and don't think they need to care about it.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Ex-Evangelicals have written about this dynamic at great length and I don't have anything to add to their insights, but I do think that folks interested in building civic capacity around democracy should be mindful of the space between baddies who are more vs. less knowing and willful about it.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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But it's inconceivable to the Christian Nationalists we meet in this podcast that they might be the baddies, even tho they seek to turn the US into a nation in which everyone is a cis het Christian like them. This involves a complete disregard and disrespect for people who are different from them.
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Kevin M (...Effin') Kasch 凯养龙
@tenletters.bsky.social
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No paywall / gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/s...
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Waving away dangerously autocratic & illiberal stuff like the Reawaken America tour as just "church stuff" is how fascism comes to America with the passive assent of millions of apolitical white people who have no deep desire to be "the baddies" of American democracy. www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1...
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Salena Koster
@salena.bsky.social
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Minnesota Born Adopted people: As of today, you can now request a copy of your ORIGINAL birth record from the Dept. of Health, free of redactions or court orders or permission from anyone else.
Here’s the link:
www.health.state.mn.us/people/vital...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social
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🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court OVERTURNS ban on ballot drop boxes. Congratulations to our client Priorities USA and the voters of Wisconsin.
We are not done fighting for free and fair elections and we are not done winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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Hello!
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TKarney
@pecunium.bsky.social
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The GOP has *never* "loved the troops"
And the troops they love least are veterans.
We are expensive (because service is hard) and many of us vocally disagree with them; visibly, for being hypocritical shitheads.
www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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I can only imagine the fight between the editor and columnist over the inclusion (or lack thereof) of one small but occasionally intrusive detail regarding which part of Osiris was never, er, re-membered.
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Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. *
@eileengunn.bsky.social
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This large, picturesque photo illustrating an essay about the Extreme Xtian Right reveals far more about the Right's future for women than its caption explains. Intentional? If so, well done! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...
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Kyra Freestar (she/they)
@kyrafreestar.bsky.social
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Land back is not a metaphor.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/w...
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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But this was misinterpreted as a zero by a different research group down the line. And the narrative of an out-of-control (and foreign, and flamboyant) super-spreader was just just too delicious for the media to resist.
Full doc here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamd...
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@pairofclaws.bsky.social
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Judging folks for not knowing the thing "everyone knew" in your whisper network is a great way to tell the people whose safety you don't care about that you also feel morally superior to them.
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Jen Donohue
@authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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Strange Horizons hit base funding, so now it's STRETCH GOAL TIME!
they need like $1100 for the first one
www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...
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Null convention
@nullconvention.bsky.social
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no, activism is not "calling out" random destitute trans women because you thought they said something you didn't care for. nothing has ever been helped or improved by throwing shit at trans women on social media.
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Suyi
@suyidavies.com
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What Wole said. If you'd like to listen to 4 African writers of science fiction and fantasy, flung all over the world, discuss what it's like to dream up the Afrocentric worlds we do, come join us on Saturday!
Registration link is here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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I swear the way Tom Hollander delivers his lines about potatoes in PRIDE & PREJUDICE comes straight, as it were, out of THE OLD DARK HOUSE.
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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There’s a whole beautifully blocked sequence where Hooper patiently listens to all Brody’s concerns, alternating between “Yes, you are,” and “Yes, you can,” and the film has taken such pains to show how harried Brody is that you see immediately why he’d jump on a boat with this guy.
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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Given what happens in the JAWS novel (yikes) it was bold of Spielberg to have Matt Hooper show up with two bottles of wine, ask Brody “How was your day?” while holding his gaze for a full minute, and then get him in a boat (which Brody hates) while talking about his rich he is. The game on this guy.
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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THE OLD DARK HOUSE is, unironically, one of my favourite films ever. It does things in two minutes that lots of other films struggle to do in 20.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
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Are you a registered Democrat? Are you represented by any Dems in the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate? How about your governor? Today is an excellent day to reach out and leave a voicemail about any pressing concerns you may have....
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Violet Blue®
@violetblue.bsky.social
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New: US and UK slammed by bad surges nationwide, CDC quietly acknowledges covid isn't seasonal and recommends layered protection (after 4+ years of us begging them to), video of an experimental long covid body scan at UCSF, Stevie Nicks masking, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/pandem...
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Madeline Ashby
@madelineashby.bsky.social
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1) DOJ prosecutes anyway; discovery influences votes 2) Biden gets it together 3) 25th; Harris steps in; Biden nails obvious talking point about helping make history a second time; a Black woman mobilizes new voters & validates Dobbs concerns 4) Ivanka publicly defects; Trump experiences ego-death
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Anyway congratulations to the Tories on absolutely eating shit. You've worked so hard for this
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Now. Knowing that— admitting it and accepting it: Will you stop making excuses for them, stop looking for the "rational" reason? And just do what it takes to make sure that these people and their hateful bigoted values don't succeed?
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
@kevinjkircher.com
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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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A lot of people are racist, hateful, bigoted, and these figureheads give them permission to be their worst selves. That's really the long and the short of it.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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I unironically believe a small but not completely insignificant amount of this has to do with a number of the greatest and/or most famous political and social heroes of the mid 20th century being killed/assassinated before they had a chance to get slightly older and therefore publicly more flawed
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
@josie.zone
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This is just Bluesky
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Sabrina Vourvoulias
@followthelede.bsky.social
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"What men call banshees, women call prophecy."
Am absolutely enamored of Dahlia Lithwick's turn of phrase here: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Anna O Law
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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“Screaming. Insubstantial. Hysterical. What men call banshees, women call prophecy.”
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Grand Moff Shaun Duke
@shaunduke.bsky.social
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As long as the director's cut of Nightbreed remains on Tubi, I'm gonna rewatch it almost every month. I really do adore that movie.
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🏳️⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime
@josie.zone
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reskeeting my own bangers in a depressive haze like
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The Globe and Mail
@theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion - Indian residential school survivors and families deserve an easy-to-use database of names and records: The TRC called on Library and Archives Canada to protect Indigenous peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape
@breakify.bsky.social
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This kind of thing tends to happen when you have no regulation and oversight, and you let corporations do whatever they want to maximize profits.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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The reason the media couldn't really cover this lawsuit extensively is because she dropped her lawsuit on November 4, 2016, just four days before the election, and her real name was never revealed. She had received death threats, according to her lawyer, despite never being named publicly.
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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Oh don't worry, all that Nazi stuff is just talk. He'll never carry out those wacky policies. [ @latimes.com, 1933]
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Meredith Hindley
@mhindley.bsky.social
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DC folks, there is a boil water advisory for the whole city! Plus the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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What is Heritage rebelling against?
- Civil rights
- Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust
- Marriage equality
- Fair immigration
- Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Yes, Trump has been legally determined to be a rapist. Because too many people somehow don’t seem to know this.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)
@mostlybree.kitrocha.com
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I am super emotional guys. Like so emotional I can't even really process it yet. I was *hoping* we would make it to this goal by the end of the auction. I can't believe we've hit it on Wednesday. 💗