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an eloquent attempt at ire
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an eloquent attempt at ire @eloquentire.bsky.social · Apr 2
if someone gave me $500 so i could do some professional development courses, I would pay you back double on the occasion that I actually landed the job

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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user borderlinereminders: It takes real strength to say, “I don’t like this part of myself, and I want to work on it.” We all have traits shaped by trauma, by survival, by what we were modelled growing up. But when those traits start to harm us, or harm the people we care about, it’s our responsibility to notice and adjust. “I shut down every time someone’s upset” “I guilt-trip when I feel abandoned” “I lash out before I explain how I feel” These examples aren’t how it has to be. They’re starting points for change. You aren’t doomed or irredeemable. Saying “That’s just the way I am” might feel protective in the moment but over time, it can become a wall between us and the relationships we want to build. Healing means learning to say: ”This is how I’ve been but it’s not how I have to stay.” “I’m allowed to outgrow my old coping mechanisms.” “I want to become safer for myself and for others.” Change doesn’t make you less you. It makes you a version of you that can breathe easier, love deeper, and communicate more clearly. It can improve your quality of life and make your relationships more fulfilling.
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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daviddaniel.bsky.social
Text of a Sarah Kendzior post screenshot, with a photo of Johnny Cash giving the finger: I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” lyric of “Folsom Prison Blues” in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, “I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die”. They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on “Folsom Prison Blues.” BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WSJ article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times I inquired. Later I was told it was for the “Folsom Prison Blues” reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky’s behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky — though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain’t never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain’t never got nothin’ from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky…
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
As someone who grew up watching Indian films John Wick is just ok. His moves aren't even spectacular. Vijaykanth once wanted revenge on someone in New York City so he threw himself into space & waited there till the earth rotated and NYC was below him then landed on the WTC to save on plane tickets
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h
Anyways my point is that the first John Wick movie kicks fucking ass but the subsequent John Wick sequels are over-long and oftentimes boring but no one wants to say that because we all like Keanu and want him to be happy
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
eloquentire.bsky.social
this has to be evidence we live in a simulation
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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eloquentire.bsky.social
🔥ANARCHOVAXXED🔥
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
eloquentire.bsky.social
Wii Ennui: A Nintendo Wii Postmortem
yelix.bsky.social woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 1d
a very very long time ago i was listening to a video game podcast that has long since stopped existing where a frustrated listener wrote in asking what “Guitar Hero Ennui” was because he misheard them talking about “Guitar Hero on Wii”
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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austinkelmore.com
Fun fact - the Oscars were literally created to union bust!

Studio execs wanted something they solely controlled that others desired and then used the Oscars to force workers to get in line with threats of never giving it to them if they didn't.

Feels eerily similar...
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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austinkelmore.com
Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of the Academy Awards stated:

"I found that the best way to handle filmmakers was to hang medals all over them. If I got them cups and awards, they'd kill themselves to produce what I wanted. That's why the Academy Award was created."
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
eloquentire.bsky.social
a few people pointing Thing™ out & making "most people" aware of it is how we know about most of the cool things we know in/about video games
docseuss.bsky.social docvember @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d
"I'm the guy who hears someone using voice distortion on a woman to try to make her sound like Darth Vader before the WOOOH ITS A GIRL WEARING POWER ARMOR WITH A VOICE MODULATOR??? reveal and I can tell who the voice actor is, so I'm hypersensitive to sound"

him: "most people can't hear that"
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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falconeerdev.bsky.social
This happens when you have no filter and AI does indeed suck balls..

www.eurogamer.net/ai-as-a-crea...
AI as a creation tool "sucks balls", says Falconeer and Bulwark dev Tomas Sala, but it's the future we should be really worried about
Tomas Sala is a solo developer known for aerial combat game The Falconeer and sea-town building game Bulwark - projects…
www.eurogamer.net
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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falconeerdev.bsky.social
So as off right now the Falconeer is 50% off to celebrate its release. And here's a #howitstarted shot by shot comparison of how the game evolved with the Remaster.

If you enjoyed the game, now is no better time than to leave a review on steam and support!

store.steampowered.com/app/1135260/...
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
eloquentire.bsky.social
high salaries for electeds needs to come with the death penalty for corruption, especially bribery

you should not be a public servant for the check. administrative staff are a lil different as i do believe they should be paid well in order for them to focus instead of living on the poverty line
ryanlcooper.com ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5d
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 6d
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.

We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
eloquentire.bsky.social
they're gonna cancel this game bc it offends nazis
knoebel.bsky.social Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 6d
'Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra' delayed to an unspecified date.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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falconeerdev.bsky.social
The falconeer Revolution Remaster is free to play now till monday !!!!

store.steampowered.com/app/1135260/...
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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derek.bike
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Many truly moving and exciting things in that speech, but this was a HIGHLIGHT
ditzkoff.bsky.social Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 7d
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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adashtra.bsky.social
"SAY DRAKE"
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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gregpak.net
repeat that last line to yourself. this is enormously important.

"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"

ACTION. that WE DO. this is all real; this is all possible; this is all essential. let's DO THIS.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
eloquentire.bsky.social
what could possibly be clearer about the popular will than a city making this man their mayor 7 months later?
marcofoster.bsky.social Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Mar 12
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM