Pete Mortensen

Carla Speed McNeil @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:49 UTC

We lost Michael Zulli today. Beautiful, lyrical, mystical storyteller, he was part of the BW Boom of the 80s with his PUMA BLUES, he drew some gorgeous stuff for SANDMAN, and a startlingly fun book about Alice Cooper. All that’s just for starters. Some people, you think will always be out there.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

Not just marginally!

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

This is the worst thing the New York Times has ever done

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

And the town underestimated what he...could do for them.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:35 UTC

Good to see they’re finally doing this. But they need to hang it on the Republican party, not just MAGA Republicans. And again, the media strategy has been poor so far.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

There hasn’t been a single ad made by the campaign or major pacs about it yet. And they aren’t bringing it up in every interview they give. They aren’t pinning it on the entire party. They’re barely pinning it on Trump.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:16 UTC

It’s baffling to me that Trump has made clear that Project 2025 is his biggest vulnerability, public interest is through the roof since Henson brought it up, and neither the national media nor the Democrats think it’s worth talking about.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

A doomsday machine that he built himself

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 05:38 UTC

As tew this ots fuhndun iss-yew…

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

This is a great point

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:10 UTC

Yes, and crucially, they did this with a Mac PowerBook notorious for hardware issues

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

It’s high time for a nouveau Cocteau twins eyebrow revival

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

The essential irony at the heart of Lolita is that Humbert as written is charismatic, cultured, good with words, and, even though he outright confesses to horrible crimes and acknowledges he is trying to justify his own monstrosity, readers believe he can’t be that bad because of his sophistication.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

It is fun to imagine Nigel Farage giving a speech using Tim Roth’s “I’ve been shot, I’m bleeding out, LARRY!” Voice

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

Yes seems like the only choice

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

I can’t explain how, but I think the Dems will get a trifecta if they just use the Elam ending.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

Proposed laugh line, “this isn’t your dad’s mistletoe!”

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 03:13 UTC

I have intensely mixed feelings about Mark Kozelek at this point, but Red House Painters’ cover of “All Mixed Up” by the Cars is a song that genuinely changed my life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSU...

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

The hatin’ ass has turned its attack onto the HBC

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

Honestly, as with Biden Old, whatever each party is panicking about is what too many political reporters will cover. The GOP trying to run from Project 2025 is good for America, as it might actually lead to coverage of its monstrousness

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

I literally don’t know how to show my ass as much as so many people on this platform do so dozens of times per day.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

I literally can’t imagine seeing a tweet like this and thinking it indicated there’s an executive order solution to restoring Roe

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

It somehow seems more innate to Bluesky than Twitter, for reasons I can’t fathom.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

pontefractioushutup, imo

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:18 UTC

I really need everyone to learn about and get excited for American discus thrower Joseph Brown.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

I came to a stop and put my feet on the ground. I am not going to violate the laws of the road and put myself in harm’s way from the other drivers who haven’t seen your little hand wave because my presence on the road makes you nervous.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

It’s that, and I want to throw things at drivers who try to wave me through when they have the right of way.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:46 UTC

As a cyclist, I can say that, if anything, they might be dangerously cautious?

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

I can say they’re much less disastrous than the Cruise cars were.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

As someone who deals with those cars all the time, “Good luck, babe,” indeed

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

It’s insane that this hasn’t been a focus in this election cycle! Possible they’re waiting for Trump to announce his VP, but they spent time doing this in 2020!

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

It’s also not clear that Johnson wouldn’t have won if he had stayed in the race. Which is one reason I am not persuaded that Biden stepping down, regardless of replacement, would be more likely to stop Trump.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:21 UTC

Clearly false. A good friend of mine met him in May at the White House, and he was extensively lucid, got interrupted during the conversation and then resumed what he was saying mid-sentence

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 02:28 UTC

I do wonder how much the takeaway among undecided voters will wind up as “so these really are the candidates, huh?”

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:36 UTC

Many are asking: Who is the #BlueJays' Grimace? We might finally have an answer.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

@davidjroth.bsky.social I needed you to be aware of the last sentence of this very silly tweet. It is a phrase that will live in my head forever, especially said in Bill Simmons voice: "Could Shaggy be the #BlueJays' Grimace?"
x.com/keeganmathes...

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

Time For Her To Make The Donuts

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:32 UTC

And honestly that the discourse has now set the bar for Biden's performance so low that he either easily clears it repeatedly and gets a comeback narrative going, or he actually reflects true deterioration that could merit a consideration of him stepping down. If you're gonna faceplant, do it now.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 05:14 UTC

An acquaintance of mine thinks the elite Dem and media panic is because they’re just now realizing that Trump could win, while those of us who are aware of how close the race is kind of priced that in

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 04:45 UTC

Gay Talese reference?

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

There is one exception. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

Surely there's a nascent Jarvis Cocker with a landed title and a degree at an oxbridge out there, right? Right?

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

x.com/TomPelissero... Alert @davidjroth.bsky.social and @mobute.bsky.social, NFL-produced Hallmark movie.

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

There was a very good podcast that went into what minimal good might be findable and the truly awful bad in the Cowboys cheerleaders are as an organization over time. This sounds like it took nothing from it. Excellent stuff from Texas Monthly www.texasmonthly.com/podcasts/ser...

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 22:15 UTC

I met Ian almost 20 years ago, and I found him an interesting thinker with provocative ideas about video games as vehicles for rhetoric. The Atlantic discovered him and tried to make him play the character of tech prophet, and it's not gone well at all. He peaked here. www.wired.com/2011/12/ff-c...

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Pete Mortensen @morepete.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 22:09 UTC

Thought Catalog was the platform thinkpiece millennials created and deserved.

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