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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone@svenmar.bsky.social |
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observe, ponder, then and only then speak
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Faine Greenwood
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Faine Greenwood
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if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.
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devon rubin
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“if money was abolished would you still make content?” is the most insane AI bullshit i have ever heard in my life i was making art and drawing way before i was making money for it how fucking corrupt are these pieces of shit? money is barely part of the equation. its only there cause i NEED IT
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Welcome to America!
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Pwnallthethings
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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.
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David Marshall
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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.
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Elon Green
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Yeah, this seems worth avoiding.
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A.R. Moxon
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The kid was returning a BB gun to a mall, which is not something that carries the death penalty last I checked.
The man—who was a danger—decided the child—who was in danger—was a danger.
He was encouraged to do this by our dominant cultural narrative.
www.the-reframe.com/cruel-luxuri...
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Alisha Grauso
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I haven't stopped thinking about this since I read it.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Wrong captain of the Enterprise
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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They don't have Harold Ramirez anymore so maybe they could use a replacement slow guy who doesn't play much defense and is supposed to hit lefties but hasn't really
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I hope they at least make a phone call. It's sad and hilarious reading about how poorly he's been hitting when his lousy numbers are still better than multiple Rays regulars
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Whine About the Machine
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Corporate executives only want corporations to be classified as legal persons when it's convenient. This is one of those times.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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So somebody really turned a tragic fatal case of late onset pica into a "funny" singalong for children? I can see accidentally swallowing a flying insect, but after that, the old lady has some serious issues and was in dire need of an intervention, not play by play lyrics over a sprightly tune.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Kirk would have that AI self-destructing in minutes, especially if the episode was running long
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A.R. Moxon
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Authoritarians love to pretend that being socially shunned for being an abusive asshole is actual literal violence but the actual literal violence that abusive assholes enact and enable is not violence.
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Karl Bode
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that is the correct answer
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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There are a lot of otherwise nice old Cuban and Puerto Rican and Venezuelan abuelas around who only get their news through their pastors and right wing Spanish radio. They're completely enclosed in an alternate reality cocoon in which Biden is a baby killing Stalin and Trump is basically the Messiah
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Cubans in Florida are still mad at Democrats because JFK didn't send in the Air Force to the Bay of Pigs. They've been screaming that Dems are communist since 1962 and converted a lot of newer Hispanic arrivals to that POV though extreme right wing evangelical and Catholic churches.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I don't know, I think a lot of people in positions of power are afraid to provoke a more violent response and kinda hope the fascists would just go away or maybe chill out. See Munich, 1938
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Jen Ebbeler
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Stolen from a colleague…
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Pathetic, deliberately misleading, and contrary to evidence is standard operating procedure in Tallahassee. Also deliberately cruel and shamelessly corrupt
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I 100% believe it. I had to turn it off a couple of episodes back when they reached Trill and the guy in the robe said they could only beam down if Burnham answered a riddle. 🙄
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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It's just silly. And besides the unexplained why, *how* would an ancient Romulan set up a complicated puzzle across several systems? It's the stuff of mediocre video games
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I hate how key characters disappear for several episodes at a time, including during situations when their expertise could be an important part of the plot. Then they reappear in their normal jobs with no explanation and are given nothing to do🤷‍♂️
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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The new season of Discovery is doing the same thing again but with an added Dora the Explorer video game-style quest. Not sure I'm going to finish
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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So I stopped by the 26th precinct and look what I found in the break room!
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Peter Sagal
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I haven’t said much about the protests because I’ve nothing original to say. (I know, innovative approach.) But as a nervous-to-paranoid American Jew, I’m a lot more worried about the guys in the background than the woman in the foreground.
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Emily Lakdawalla
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Hi y'all, I've been extra absent for more than a week because I have been DOING BATTLE with an ANONYMOUS ASSAILANT who has been trying to steal my identity and my credit. The battle isn't over yet. But I wanted to share some lessons. I'll give a TL;DR first. 1/
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Ravin Boodram
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Maybe Columbia should pull this page about they handled students protesting the Vietnam War, considering they haven’t learned shit.
news.columbia.edu/content/new-...
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I have to say, the great Daniel Pinkwater himself replying to my comment about one of the treasured books of my childhood is a highlight of my Gen X life. Baconburg was my refuge from junior high since my lame friends would not agree to forming a chapter of the Wild Dada Ducks
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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And it obviously worked out. A meddling editor could've try to make you cut out big chunks of the Snarkout Boys because they "don't move the plot forward", but those are often the best parts!
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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They'll still get alumni donation letters, though
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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I had the book on tape read by the author. He does it very well
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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There's a sequel but it's not as good imo.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Daniel Pinkwater's Young Adult Novel might be the perfect short story, at least for the weird kids. His novels are less well structured but they're so bizarrely funny and interesting that I don't care that he appears to be making up the plot as he goes along.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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It's sad how often people on the right side of history are reviled in the historical moment, and then even after it's acknowledged that they were correct, the things they said are twisted & edited to serve the needs of the ideological descendants of the those who reviled them. It's a circle
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Everyone should watch the PBS American Experience documentary 1964. Extremely pivotal year, including the beginning of the student free speech movement. Mister, we could use a man like Mario Salvo again
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Costa Samaras
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"For the 1st time since the mid-20th century, over 95 percent of this year’s planned new electric-generating capacity in the US is zero-carbon."
Read that again.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & the Inflation Reduction Act are enabling a clean energy economy. www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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Yes. And the ultimate example is the Nazi concentration camp guard's "I was just following orders" defense
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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If you ever do read them, I recommend starting at the beginning. "Master and Commander" is the "Where No Man Has Gone Before" of the series - the characters are still developing but it sets up everything nicely. Even includes a Gary Mitchell of a sort, but without the creepy eyes and god powers
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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They're very well worth your time, I think. It's a brilliant 20(+1) volume treatise on character, relationships, and the human condition masquerading as a rousing adventure story set in the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. Also lots of humor ranging from scatologic to Latin tags to dad-joke puns.
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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The "Billionaires for Bush or Gore!" political comedy troupe kinda worked. Wouldn't make sense these days
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Sven "Tomatio" Marstone
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*crying Commodore Decker meme
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