JK
@miniver.bsky.social
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· Apr 28
Arizona Public Service killed my mother
www.APSKilledMyMom.com
I put together a proper website
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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My mother Kate Korman owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly before her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity.
Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.
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www.apskilledmymom.com
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Also worth repeating: Mamdani's greatest power isn't something just anyone can learn or emulate. He's got an entire PHILOSOPHY and MORAL CORE based on care over punishment that informs everything he says and does. Without that, the charisma means nothing.
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This is absolutely Mamdani's not-so-secret secret power: he knows who he is and what he believes and he wants to help ALL of us. So you can't trip him up with a trick question; you can't get a fake note out of him. BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE AND HE'S DONE THE READING AND HE'S HERE FOR US.
100 percent. I think he benefits from what most great orators benefit from: he knows himself—and more importantly, he talks to (and understands) what moves people. And, as far as I can tell, he believes what he’s saying.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Also worth repeating: Mamdani's greatest power isn't something just anyone can learn or emulate. He's got an entire PHILOSOPHY and MORAL CORE based on care over punishment that informs everything he says and does. Without that, the charisma means nothing.
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Oo, better phrasing:
No kings means no princesses, too.
No kings means no princesses, too.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Oo, better phrasing:
No kings means no princesses, too.
No kings means no princesses, too.
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It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price. It dramatically damaged Donald Trump. It cued up the central arguments of the 2026 campaign. It just didn’t go far enough. The ball was fumbled at the end. So we need to demand more.
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It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price. It dramatically damaged Donald Trump. It cued up the central arguments of the 2026 campaign. It just didn’t go far enough. The ball was fumbled at the end. So we need to demand more.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price. It dramatically damaged Donald Trump. It cued up the central arguments of the 2026 campaign. It just didn’t go far enough. The ball was fumbled at the end. So we need to demand more.
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It demonstrated that Democrats can go to the mat when the public is behind them and not pay a political price. It dramatically damaged Donald Trump. It cued up the central arguments of the 2026 campaign. It just didn’t go far enough. The ball was fumbled at the end. So we need to demand more.
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“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
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I don’t believe Vince Gilligan set out to write ‘Pluribus’ as a COVID analogy, but unmissable references to the pandemic abound as he sets up his “joining event.”
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I don’t believe Vince Gilligan set out to write ‘Pluribus’ as a COVID analogy, but unmissable references to the pandemic abound as he sets up his “joining event.”
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"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I don’t believe Vince Gilligan set out to write ‘Pluribus’ as a COVID analogy, but unmissable references to the pandemic abound as he sets up his “joining event.”
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I don’t believe Vince Gilligan set out to write ‘Pluribus’ as a COVID analogy, but unmissable references to the pandemic abound as he sets up his “joining event.”
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Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim
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Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim
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An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
deadsimpletech.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim
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Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim
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I have a prediction about what will happen
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I have a prediction about what will happen
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
In principle, capital markets seek profit, but zillionaires are political actors who want power.
They can already afford all the •stuff• they want. They value servants made compliant by financial vulnerability, and government made compliant by corruption and lack of public imagination.
They can already afford all the •stuff• they want. They value servants made compliant by financial vulnerability, and government made compliant by corruption and lack of public imagination.
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In principle, capital markets seek profit, but zillionaires are political actors who want power.
They can already afford all the •stuff• they want. They value servants made compliant by financial vulnerability, and government made compliant by corruption and lack of public imagination.
They can already afford all the •stuff• they want. They value servants made compliant by financial vulnerability, and government made compliant by corruption and lack of public imagination.
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If we ever get back to proper rule of law constitutionalism, the presidential pardon power needs to be curbed if not abrogated. Require senate supermajority approval, at minimum.
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
If we ever get back to proper rule of law constitutionalism, the presidential pardon power needs to be curbed if not abrogated. Require senate supermajority approval, at minimum.
Truly the worst medium of our era, and that,s with a lot of competition
I hate leaving voicemail.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Truly the worst medium of our era, and that,s with a lot of competition
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The first part of Zosia’s introduction at the beginning of Pluribus S1E2 is top-notch. Vince Gilligan never forgets a screenwriter isn’t a *dialog writer*, a screenwriter is a visual storyteller
Pluribus | Zosia Cleans Up The Bodies
YouTube video by Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The first part of Zosia’s introduction at the beginning of Pluribus S1E2 is top-notch. Vince Gilligan never forgets a screenwriter isn’t a *dialog writer*, a screenwriter is a visual storyteller
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I loved GdT’s ‘Frankenstein’ as a film, contemporary gothkultur, and a love letter to James Whale’s original film … but I was very frustrated with it as an adaptation of Shelley’s novel, and this little videoessay addresses most of the reasons for that.
Mary Shelley's James Whale's Guillermo del Coppola's Frankenstein
YouTube video by Atun-Shei Films
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I loved GdT’s ‘Frankenstein’ as a film, contemporary gothkultur, and a love letter to James Whale’s original film … but I was very frustrated with it as an adaptation of Shelley’s novel, and this little videoessay addresses most of the reasons for that.
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being an in-group contrarian in small doses is healthy but i've never seen anyone that does it more than that who was happy
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
being an in-group contrarian in small doses is healthy but i've never seen anyone that does it more than that who was happy
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"If we are to deal adequately with folly, we must understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is a moral rather than an intellectual defect. There are people who are mentally agile but foolish, and people who are mentally slow but very far from foolish ..."
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"If we are to deal adequately with folly, we must understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is a moral rather than an intellectual defect. There are people who are mentally agile but foolish, and people who are mentally slow but very far from foolish ..."
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union address in TikTok form
TikTok video by TrashCaulin ♻️
www.tiktok.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union address in TikTok form
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You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
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in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.
It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.
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if you can't think of what to do with MJ in a story (as many marvel writers seem to have an issue with), my suggestion always was uh give her superpowers, but making her Venom?
I had literally never thought of it and it just hit me how, uh, fucking perfect it is, holy crap
I had literally never thought of it and it just hit me how, uh, fucking perfect it is, holy crap
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
if you can't think of what to do with MJ in a story (as many marvel writers seem to have an issue with), my suggestion always was uh give her superpowers, but making her Venom?
I had literally never thought of it and it just hit me how, uh, fucking perfect it is, holy crap
I had literally never thought of it and it just hit me how, uh, fucking perfect it is, holy crap