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ChaseTriesAgain
@chasetriesagain.bsky.social
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Lapsed writer, TTRPG-er, taker of naps, maker of things. Views are my own and do not reflect the views of Turner South and the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (But they'd agree with me if they were based.)
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FROM: darth.vader@empire.gov
TO: misheevious420@huttweb.net
CC: skywalkera@jedi.org, tarkin@empire.gov

h ey found goood spot 4 DeathStar2. gonna have to mu urder sum koalas tho.

Reme mber tht time i killed teh younglings.

"master skywalker there r 2 many of them. what r we goo ing to do?"

hahha
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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strangely inspirational
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Sources in the Trump administration have previously told Zeteo that officials will at times intentionally use popular music from vocally anti-Trump performing artists, in order to trigger a negative response from a famous liberal and provide further amplification of their pervasive culture war,"
NEWS: The Trump-Vance White House is attacking Sabrina Carpenter.

In a new statement, the White House — led by Trump, a liable sexual abuser mired in scandal for ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — suggests Carpenter is "stupid" and is defending pedophiles and rapists.

@swin24.bsky.social reports:
BREAKING: Trump White House Slams Sabrina Carpenter After Using Her Song in ‘Evil’ Video
The Trump administration has apparently identified its latest enemy of the state.
zeteo.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Lofi Girl Christmas streams seem to be having trouble. One is gone and the other is mute.

Alas, my dogs will just have to enjoy the standard channel tonight.
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Gods above and below, if you're letting me upload a resume to 'autofill' the application...don't make me then type the entire resume back out.

I mean, I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna complain the whole time.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.

Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.

Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

1/2
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Well, it's after American Thanksgiving. You know what that means:

A FULL BARRAGE OF HALLOWEEN ADS! Christmas won't expect an ANTICHRONAL ATTACK on its TIMEWARD FLANK.

I WANNA SEE SKELETONS DANCING IN THE SNOW GODDAMNIT. FILL THOSE BASTARDS SO FULL OF CHRISTMAS SPIRITS THEY'LL RUN FOR THE DOORS
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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They call it godshatter. Kid smokes a bowl, wakes up 3 days later transformed into a biblically accurate angel, warped into a enormous vortex of innumerable ribbons of eyes and shit.
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie

reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.

“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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tfw u need seven samurai
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I mix it up from time to time but ALWAYS include:

“Everybody Eats When They Come to My House,” Cab Calloway
“Cornbread and Butterbeans,” Carolina Chocolate Drops
“Shine On, Harvest Moon,” Rosemary Clooney
“Autumn In New York,” Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
“Travelin’ Prayer,” Billy Joel
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Brother I have fucked with all manner of compter shite for decades and never once did misusing the software make me kill myself and I installed Windows 3.1 on a 286.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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🫜
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Fantastic start, of course, but it's funny to start this very American tradition with a British woman singing a song written by British composers for a musical about British class relations in the 1960s.

#MacysThanksgivingDayParade
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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If love were audible it would
snore like the dog, snuggled
against my leg in this bed, taking
more than her fair share
of space, except
her fair share is everywhere and
everything. She gives
me her affection and her
attention. She is waiting
at the door for me
when I come home. She is
perfect.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM