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Average Joe@socialjoe.bsky.social |
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Politics, economics, humor, and woodland exploration.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Anyway in case you've been wondering why the Times has it's knife into the Biden admin, here's why. They reduced access for the most access obsessed dipshits in America. Thats all it took. Well, that and Biden saying Sulz should pay higher taxes on his personal wealth
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Biden should just refuse to allow the NYT to attend WH press briefings going forward & release a statement that its because they cannot be trusted. One President already undermined them to half the country. The next one doing it will finish them off. Sulz wants to play this game, they should oblige
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant.
Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does.
For this reason, hope is what is needed right now.
www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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This chart communicates pretty effectively why it's taking a while for the last 18 months of good solid economic conditions to fully take hold in people's minds— because look at the three years of chaos before that.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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That's one way to get Johnson to smile.
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In An Octopus’s Garden…
@cephaloctopi.bsky.social
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I’m pretty sure it’s actually the fucking Judicial Branch that can’t enforce anything.
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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
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We have a 25th Amendment. I’m comfortable with how it works. And deeply uncomfortable with doing experimental jazz outside of it. On one side, I know what the line of succession looks like, and while I don’t love cops, I’m okay with her non-cop work. The other side is a shit show with nothing.
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Sarah
@notsailingalone.bsky.social
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Apropos of nothing, if your child needs help researching they can get it from actual information experts by going to AnyQuestions.govt.nz and get help from librarians who will direct them to reliable resources they can use. We should fund more things along this line and not fall back on AI.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Excellent piece.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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"The true believers in institutionalism had a theory of power that turned out to not be true." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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I hope the trains are on time and all the escalators are working for you today.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Which volume covers vi vs. emacs?
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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What happens when people with the institutional power to fight evil people don’t fight is those without institutional power despair. You can blame desperate people for the suffering that’s coming their way, if you want, but doing so doesn’t distinguish you from fascists.
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Harry Stevens
@harrystevens.bsky.social
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How accurate is the weather forecast in your city?
Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Excellent reason to buy your spouse a blackjack.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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In a functional democracy Congress would recall itself from vacation and start time process to act against the Supreme Court and protect democracy
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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And their own constitutional power.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Seems bad: "For those impacted, it would mean a normal legal workweek of 48 hours instead of the previous 40."
www.dw.com/en/greece-a-...
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i need millions of people reading about how we had our chance to replace biden and progressives wanted to but it’s too late so now we have to roll with it unless we want to elect donald fucking trump!!!!
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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It's excellent.
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Adam Jay
@bullgooseparty.bsky.social
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The far right is rising because the traditional centrists have failed to offer policies that address inequality and social mobility
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
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Anyone suggesting we have a conversation about Biden stepping down fundamentally does not understand how the sausage gets made inside the party or how dependent the candidate is on autonomous local parties and their bosses (for better or for worse, usually for worse).
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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The whole conversation is dumb.
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Peter Sagal
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The wealthy conservative interests who funded and created the legal movement that has now started to undo the administrative state could afford to take decades to do it because the “tyranny of unelected bureaucrats” was a purely theoretical problem. They made money, just less than they might have.
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Paul Duane
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I think the reason Philip K Dick is still the predominant SF writer of the last century is, he was the only one who foresaw a future where everything would be boring, inconvenient and dehumanising, and where the only way you can win is to somehow refuse to give up your humanity.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Loved him in "I'm Sorry". RIP
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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Even though its 80 yrs old, I still teach Paul Lazarfelds ‘The Peoples Choice’ study about how voters make up their minds in elections vis a vis mass media bc it basically hit the nail on the head. Summarized, his main takeaway was “the ppl watching arent movable and the movable ppl arent watching”
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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Ideally, Biden's team would only have agreed to debate if every time a candidate told an obvious lie, that candidate would have a 10-minute time out during which their mike would be turned off, the moderators would quickly note the lie, and the debate would proceed normally otherwise.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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That guy was already in bed before the debate began last night.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Remember though, when it comes to politics here's the golden rule: ✨ bullying works ✨ so get to it, for democracy
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.
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Melanie D’Arrigo
@darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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We force people into poverty… then criminalize poverty… then put people in the for-profit prisons wealthy people invest in… while those imprisoned are used as slave labor for private companies, to cut down their costs and increase profits…
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The election isn’t really about Biden vs. Trump: It’s a referendum on whether the effort to finally realize the promise of a truly democratic, pluralistic, multiracial society should be continued – or abolished altogether. Those are the stakes. 17/
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PAM!
@pamtoo.bsky.social
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Oh, from Twitter you say? Alright, I'll follow you as long as you don't expect me to remember you.
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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*VW, CERENCE ROLL OUT NEW GENERATIVE AI SOLUTIONS TO DRIVERS
I like how VW's comments (yellow highlight below) is just like "yeah, this is just to show we're innovative, it's not actually something anyone wants". Perfect summary of the AI space.
www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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luke the myoclonic jerk
@coolhand.bsky.social
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My cold and well considered take on generative text AI: I don’t want to take the time to read what nobody took the time to write
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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New York Times 1924. New York Times 2024.
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Jen Sorensen
@jensorensen.bsky.social
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Latest comic: Everything's an "experience"
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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Confidence-suites
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
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Failing to raise the minimum wage is wage theft.
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Haus of Decline
@hausofdecline.bsky.social
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Laura Jedeed
@laurajedeed.bsky.social
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So no shit there I was, sitting in James O'Keefe's office with a Ronald Reagan coaster so his lawyer could snap a picture for posterity. Just out of frame to the left: an enormous gun safe. Just out of frame to the right: a scented candle Here's how it happened:
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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This is so true. I struggled with math until my sophomore year of high school, when I got my first good math teacher. All of a sudden I went from struggling to being an A+ student, and got 100% in every math class from then through to earning my degree.
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Average Joe
@socialjoe.bsky.social
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So true. I struggled with math until my sophomore year of high school, when I got my first good math teacher. All of a sudden I went from struggling to being an A+ student, and got 100% in every math class from then through to earning my degree.
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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
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Oh, this is a terrible idea. How you fund your future Social Security eligibility is based on your income. If your tips aren’t reported/counted as income, you’re erasing at least half of your earnings from your Social Security contribution. It’s a short-term benefit that will devastate long-term. 🎁
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Ellie Margolis
@elliemargolis.bsky.social
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Love to see positive news for a change.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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Fun fact I went to catholic school and we did not display the 10 commandments in the classrooms. We're not going to talk about the crucifex. But yeah this is weird and illegal.
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Average Joe
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It's an odd thing to me, too. The (non-evangelical) Christian school I went to had Bible study class every day and Mass every Monday morning and Friday afternoon. But no posting of or focus on the Ten Commandments. Beyond general ed, the school was about being like Jesus and being kind to others.
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Michael Broussard Arts
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Asking again, my BlueSky friends, to please share this post about the upcoming 10th Anniversary Performance of my interactive play Ask A Sex Abuse Survivor on Zoom. The event is FREE. Would also love to see some of you there. Register at the link.
tinyurl.com/askasurvivor...
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David Buchanan
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Planning a trip to The Internet? Learn this handy phrase before you go: "I do not have the required background to form opinions on this topic"
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