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Mike Wasson@mikewasson.bsky.social |
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Pittsburgher in London.
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Josh Chafetz
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3/ We are in a moment of high and rising political violence. ~ 9% of all US presidents have been assassinated, and ~ 13% have been either killed or wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Mike Wasson
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I should've italicized "almost," it's doing a lot of work. There is a little bit in Blade Runner about the sadness in the loss of nature and the inability to capture it by other means. (I haven't read DADoES in a very long time so my handle of its themes is extremely fuzzy)
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Mike Wasson
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Honestly, I completely forgot that it’s nominally an adaptation. (Actually, not even nominally in the literal sense.) they’re just two different stories, in different media, that almost touch on the same subjects.
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Mike Wasson
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On the other hand, when Mao swam in the Yangtze after he had been marginalized, he regained power and initiated the Cultural Revolution. Be wary of old people exercising.
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Mike Wasson
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He's such a sweetheart. So kind, yet also one of the most capable mathematicians alive. An amazing communicator, too.
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Mike Wasson
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Or to translate into Southern, "come and take it"
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Mike Wasson
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Both of them looked like shit afterwards, too! W had the sense at least to retreat from public life, but Trump clearly lost his mind.
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ryan cooper
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sort of half convinced swapping out Harris would be a marginal increase in Dem chances, but I am extremely sure that being stuck in this discourse for the rest of the campaign would be ruinous
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Mike Wasson
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"After years in the presidency, he's exhausted, looks more frail, occasionally gets confused, but there's no accusation of mental problems" is a description of Obama.
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Mike Wasson
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There is definitely a degree of that, too. Every time I hear a TERF mention that womanness is inherent in having a cervix or a uterus, I think about the people close to me with hysterectomies.
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Jamie Gump, testing the acceptable limits of hubris
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Hubert Humphrey 1968
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Mike Wasson
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4:2, most of the time
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Mike Wasson
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Actually found it offensive in my capacity as a straight man. I don't think anything has ever done that to me before.
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Mike Wasson
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Stored in the same part of the brain as the ability to smell. It's how I lost my ability to listen to podcasts.
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Mike Wasson
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I suspect that's true, too* but I think she has really blinkered and limiting ideas about womanness in general. * The male pseudonym thing would not be weird for anyone else, but coming from her it really makes me wonder if there's something else going on.
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Mike Wasson
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But of course no one who's thought about it thinks like that. It *only* seems plausible in Rowling's world.
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Mike Wasson
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That's why she makes up fake cishet men, who from context must be trans allies, who view trans women as men who have failed at being men, and have to be sent down to the minor leagues, so to speak. (Or perhaps "failed in London, try Hong Kong") Women are lesser men, so for a true man it's easy mode.
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Mike Wasson
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Trans women supposedly upend that because their existence is the oppressor simultaneously gaining the second-best advantages Rowling-feminism seeks for cis women.
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Mike Wasson
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She doesn't view sexism/misogyny as only a situation where one gender has structured society to its benefit. Rather, she views that hierarchy as *natural & inevitable*, so the goal of feminism is to protect the position of the inherently lesser group.
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Mike Wasson
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This is the Rosetta stone that makes me think I finally grok Rowling's transphobia.
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Mike Wasson
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It’s impressive how it’s simultaneously insulting towards trans women, straight/bi cis women (of at least average sexual experience), and cishet men at the same time
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Mike Wasson
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There’s something here analogous to how Trump as president would go on Twitter and tweet like a regular punter. Maybe he doesn’t want to talk about it because you’re famously batshit about the topic, in a very public way, and doesn’t want to get roped into that!
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Mike Wasson
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Either an off-by-one error, or it removes the snoozed email from the page but then tries to modify it at its old location. (I run Gmail with 50 emails per page)
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Mike Wasson
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Today, every time I snooze an email in Gmail, it freezes. I need to refresh the page. Anyone else seeing this?
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Mike Wasson
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Yeah, they suck. They also are a useful signal for disenfranchised Muslim areas to signal that the big parties need to do better, though. But mostly they suck.
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Mike Wasson
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Go full Diamond Joe. Violate a cruising ordinance by driving past Alito’s house three times within two hours, while blasting heavy bass out of his Camaro. At 3am. Be old, do crimes
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Mike Wasson
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The rituals must be respected. This is the way.
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Mike Wasson
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His district literally includes the Hampstead Heath ponds!
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Mike Wasson
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Meanwhile, in my district. Interesting that we got pamphleted by both these guys and Farage’s lot
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Mike Wasson
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It wasn’t his choice. It’s a toss up as to whether he’s going to keep his seat. I see a lot of visible support in the district—much more than for Labour’a candidate—but polling says otherwise. But it’s a hard to poll race, so who knows.
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Mike Wasson
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Daniel Gilmore
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Like with Trumps guilty verdict, the Biden campaign is very obviously going to continue to attack this decision and hit SCOTUS specifically from now until November. Most poasters are just keyboard warriors who don’t actually understand how politics or campaigning works.
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Mike Wasson
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I know nothing about Austrian politics, hoping the effort you put in there works out if you need it to
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Mike Wasson
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We’re a few months from permanent residency, at least the UK seems to be going in the right direction for once Good thing years of underinvestment, an economy going nowhere, and likely austerity never leads to fascism [frantic, shifty eyes]
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Mike Wasson
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Congratulations!! Try to sleep well, because you’re not really going to get enough until at least the midterms (assuming we maintain the form of democracy)
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Asher Elbein
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On the other hand: this is usefully clarifying. No more fucking around. I will be voting for Biden in November to block Trump from re-ascending to power. No kings in America.
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Daniel Roberts
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In a weird way, SCOTUS did the Biden campaign a big favor, because everyone knows the stakes now and no one should give a flying fuck about whether Biden spaces out every now and then. The alternative has become unimaginably bad.
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Kashana
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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”
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Mike Wasson
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Hasn’t really been my experience in the UK. We have a toddler, so many pubs are child friendly; more often than not they’ll have high chairs.
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Mike Wasson
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Kyrsten Sinema, unity VP pick
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Mike Wasson
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He unified the steppe tribes, from the Yoopers to the Hoosiers to the people who say "ope" a lot, in worship of the all-benevolent skyfather, Tengri. Only he can bring peace to the warring Democratic factions.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer
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starmer needs to be bold. this isn’t a time for incrementalism. within the first year there needs to be a program to deliver hot and cold water from the same faucet at minimum
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
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A note here: Roberts’ opinion in Loper Bright says courts *may not* defer to reasonable agency interpretations of the law, which actually goes ever further than returning to the status-quo-ante-Chevron, which judges sometimes did defer on a case-by-case basis
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Mike Wasson
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I’ve decided that the only people who I’ll accept making this argument to replace Biden are the “Pritzker, Khagan of the Midwestern Steppes” people, since it’d be in character
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Lord Businessman II
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The important thing to remember is that even though this is a pretty understood and expected result, calling for Biden to step down is not about Democrats losing, it is about other things that are very important like I don't like him
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Mike Wasson
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It is really astounding how much Brexit tanked brand UK and let all the negative bits leak out I couldn’t really believe it when it happened, it was so stupid, but then we elected Trump five months later, so 🤷 Anyway, I’m clearly biased
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Mike Wasson
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Wait, correction: other montel. Which is still really interesting, but more plausible www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a3...
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Mike Wasson
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Also in agreement with this.
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Mike Wasson
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Yeah, she sucks, it’s too bad most of a generation only read one book
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