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this is ryan@thisryan.bsky.social |
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Stacey Abrams in AJC: "Ignore the Joe Biden doom loop" Swing voters "are not choosing based on age or infirmity but an alchemy we can’t control or predict. We have to make the case to these voters on the issues that matter to them."
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ex-Lethality Jane
@lethalityjane.bsky.social
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Watching the "oh no Joe Biden is old" doom panic spiral like
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this is ryan
@thisryan.bsky.social
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Was the finale of Game of Thrones REALLY so bad it burned itself out of the collective consciousness, or did it simply end and then the latest SHOCK DEATH wasn't water cooler talk anymore?
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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë
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I'm probably at least partly wrong about this, but it feels more and more to me like 1) a big part of the policy goal of American conservatism is to "restore" life to a nostalgic condition that never really existed except as a media-created simulacrum, and...
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this is ryan
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more mr. nice guy
@juniorhoncho.bsky.social
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the Munsters could start acting and dressing normal and people wouldn't notice they're draculas or franklinsteins or whatever. whereas with the Addams family, one of them is a hand
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jeff boyardee
@skeet.best
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measuring your midichlorians with the skull calipers
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Joe Wintergreen
@joewintergreen.bsky.social
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some canon new Star Wars thing should address midichlorians by acknowledging them as a whole-cloth pseudoscience and gatekeeping device. qui-gon has the right kind of dadvibe to have honestly believed in it
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🛸clyde bruckman's final repost🐈⬛
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YESSSSS THIS IS THE AMERICAN CHOPPER MEME ABOUT AMERICAN CHOPPER MEMES "this is the only meme format that acknowledges the existence of competing information" is such an important point
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🛸clyde bruckman's final repost🐈⬛
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i still think biden is perfectly well enough to run and more importantly popular enough to hand trump his ass in november, and further that swapping him out is simply trading a known risk for a wildly unknown one but apparently so does will stancil! so, that's not great company to suddenly be in
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this is ryan
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I'm sorry to be That Nerd but in the novelization Luke explicitly rejects their help to protect them and the Chief gives a big speech about how all beings are connected and it's their duty to help and also maybe they're Force sensitive
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mx elle is eepy
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re: neil gaiman all i have to say is, i believe the women who have come forward, and i doubt they’re alone.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.
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this is ryan
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They also assume their customers are repulsed by visible homelessness and love cops.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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this is ryan
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I mean, "Biden should drop out now to save democracy" has big echoes of "Hillary should drop out now because only Bernie can beat Trump in the general"
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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Popehat
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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Brendel
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People are all upset about giving the President almost complete immunity with official acts but we pretty much did the same thing for cops and that’s worked out perfectly
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this is ryan
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I had a recurring donation to them for a while, but I canceled it because they started sending DAILY letters asking for more donations. Classic nonprofit trap where fundraising becomes more important than the actual work.
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this is ryan
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🎶 Wow, what a difference 🎶 🎶 Blockbuster Video 🎶
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Enron Hubbard
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I want them to weep when they lose. I want them to sit there, crying into their celebratory wines, knowing that they will never have power and that they will be a footnote in history. I want them laid low, to suffer the pains of knowing that they have lost, forever.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.
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Pickle Tiedrich
@prettyliltakemachine.is-extremely.gay
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Hearing that the new supreme court ruling would legalize assassination. Terrifying. Imagine if we lived in a country where uniformed officers of the state could just kill people and never face consequences
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this is ryan
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Exactly. You can't call it a revolution when you're not revolting against anything and are in fact creating the tyranny.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
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southpaw
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After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
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Republicans fantasize about being the person who can get away with anything that ordinary people would be punished for. When their idols are forced to face consequences for their actions, Republicans are outraged, because it destroys the fantasy.
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this is ryan
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Matrix, the Overboard Virtuosity Ideal Husband, An Existenz
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
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This quote seems eerily apropos right now.
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this is ryan
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struck by all the (white) people who are OUTRAGED at the immunity ruling and CAN'T BELIEVE the GAY MARRIAGE court could do this when a chatbot could've predicted this outcome. As AOC said, Republicans have been acting like clowns our whole lives are you REALLY surprised?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i don't know whether AOCs call for impeaching the justices will be the right one (it doesn't have a chance in hell of getting through), but the conversation has to start with congress, who are prime offenders in letting the court get to this point, and i'm encouraged someone there recognizes that
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Kandy
@kandyelmo.com
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bringing this here because i've had it
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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From VERY FINE PEOPLE.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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to reiterate, I absolutely don’t blame anyone for feeling helpless and depressed right now - it’s an utterly rational way to feel - but I am saying that it’s gonna be important for us to do what we can to help motivate others to maintain hope in this moment
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rax king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social
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look no matter what happens in november or indeed for the foreseeable future you have to keep being alive and you have to figure out a way to live with yourself. so. what’s that look like? what are you going to do?
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Roxane Gay
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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the postes
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YOU THERE. WHAT YEAR IS IT. ARE FAT WOMEN FUCKABLE YET
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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this is ryan
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Folks who hate the Acolyte must be mad now that ep4-5 introduced a Little Guy. Star Wars fans love a Little Guy. I bet they're pissed now.
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this is ryan
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This might work except Biden has shown he doesn't have any interest in changing our arbitrary traditions
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Catbus
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oh to be a Mossy Frog, happily crouching invisible amongst forest leaves and debris
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this is ryan
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There's that time Han Solo kisses Leia and says "sorry your worship, we don't have time for anything else" but he never elaborated so I guess technically he could have been talking about holochess
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this is ryan
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It's also exploring how none of the magic space cops need to be explicitly bad cops for their system to be inherently corrupt and oppressive, which is a very NYPD blue-style take and very interesting/topical
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this is ryan
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An underlying theme of the prequels (and now the acolyte) was "the Jedi are cops, specifically the kind of cops that shoot themselves in the foot during a gun safety training" and that went right over a lot of people's heads
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Benjamin Tausig
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You watch DS9 and Odo can’t render a realistic nose, or on TNG Data can’t speak in contractions, and you’re like I’m pretty sure they would figure that out. But then you ask ChatGPT to name a food that starts with the letter B and it’s like “Sure! Sandwich.” and you realize they were on to something
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this is ryan
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Which cities? Is this actually happening or do people just BELIEVE it's happening?
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the 9th Circuit never said that you can’t, e.g., bust up homeless encampments. They just said that before you do, you need to provide shelter beds, otherwise you’re just being punitive and cruel. An extremely basic a call for decency, but many West Coast city leaders were outraged
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Adam Bonin
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
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