Quality Baz
@qbaz.bsky.social
Parent. Nerd. Journalist. Spouse. Cook. Quaker.
Wake Up Dead Man was terrific and thought provoking and heartfelt and funny and complex. Loved it.
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Wake Up Dead Man was terrific and thought provoking and heartfelt and funny and complex. Loved it.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question
Countersigned, emphatically.
I understand why it's like this, but I will never forgive the web for shifting to a form where the two paragraphs of information I need only exist as a ten-minute video.
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Countersigned, emphatically.
K: The guy on the radio, the WI state rep, said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms.
M: Oh.
Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms.
M: Oh.
April 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
K: The guy on the radio, the WI state rep, said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms.
M: Oh.
Me: ... he shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No, he said "I shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms."
M: uh, _you_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms?
K: No. _ICE_ shouldn't be allowed in courtrooms.
M: Oh.
The implicit message in the winking, chortling press conference that Trump and Bukele did this morning is not that they _can't_ do anything about wrongly-imprisoned Abrego Garcia. They of course very much can—they are executives in their respective countries—but will not. This reinforces ... 1/3
April 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The implicit message in the winking, chortling press conference that Trump and Bukele did this morning is not that they _can't_ do anything about wrongly-imprisoned Abrego Garcia. They of course very much can—they are executives in their respective countries—but will not. This reinforces ... 1/3
This. Two heads of state laughing ghoulishly this morning about the innocent man whose life they just can't possibly see any way to help or affect in any way, despite one of them being a self-described "dictator" and the other doing his damnedest to become one.
They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
April 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This. Two heads of state laughing ghoulishly this morning about the innocent man whose life they just can't possibly see any way to help or affect in any way, despite one of them being a self-described "dictator" and the other doing his damnedest to become one.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
This articulates really well some thoughts about the power of widespread public understanding (and framing) in our era of increasingly decentralized media.
“It is not that Americans have touched a stove and been burned. It’s that we have successfully told many of them that stoves are hot.” www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
Forming an Opposition Media Bloc in the Network Era
Media is a crucial tool for building solidarity among opposition to authoritarian rule.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This articulates really well some thoughts about the power of widespread public understanding (and framing) in our era of increasingly decentralized media.
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Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water.
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Those who have won capitalism's game have done so by unnaturally positioning themselves at the headwaters of the natural generative stream created by human society, then damned it for themselves. Having thus stolen as much as they can, these fools believe their theft means they invented water.
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"We are the weaker party. But history demonstrates that weaker parties can still win—if they pursue the right kinds of long-term strategy." www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
Roadmap to American Reconstruction
A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"We are the weaker party. But history demonstrates that weaker parties can still win—if they pursue the right kinds of long-term strategy." www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...
Michel Martin fucking rules. This interview! Tenacious, persistent. How it’s fucking done!
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...
🔊 Listen Now: DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
Morning Edition on NPR One | 5:36
one.npr.org
March 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Michel Martin fucking rules. This interview! Tenacious, persistent. How it’s fucking done!
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...
one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...
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I mean you all weren’t willing to get uncomfortable to fight me and fascism is a lot bigger than I am.
March 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I mean you all weren’t willing to get uncomfortable to fight me and fascism is a lot bigger than I am.
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seen in newark, new jersey
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February 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seen in newark, new jersey
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Driving four teenagers to school, I got to hear their take on how they would play "Kiss/Marry/Kill" with types of triangles. Consensus: Kiss Isoceles, Marry Equilateral ("because they're so stable, long-term") and Kill Scalene ("giving me a serious home wrecker vibe").
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Driving four teenagers to school, I got to hear their take on how they would play "Kiss/Marry/Kill" with types of triangles. Consensus: Kiss Isoceles, Marry Equilateral ("because they're so stable, long-term") and Kill Scalene ("giving me a serious home wrecker vibe").
The kids are alright.
The kids are alright.
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Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
February 4, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
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Merry Christmas to all
December 25, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Merry Christmas to all
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seems very bad that the richest person on Earth bought an election, thus installing his own personal fascist puppet, unilaterally conducts foreign policy violating Logan Act, owns a massive engine of fash disinfo, and has access to natsec secrets while regularly violating terms of security clearance
"Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)," writes @politico.com, "The AfD is surging despite its growing radicalism and persistent warnings from mainstream leaders that it is an extremist, even Nazi, party." www.politico.eu/article/elon...
Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally.
www.politico.eu
December 20, 2024 at 5:25 PM
seems very bad that the richest person on Earth bought an election, thus installing his own personal fascist puppet, unilaterally conducts foreign policy violating Logan Act, owns a massive engine of fash disinfo, and has access to natsec secrets while regularly violating terms of security clearance
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Every single conservative economic theory starts with the assumption that all economic actors are young, healthy, single, orphaned, high-functioning sociopaths whose exclusive aim in life is to accumulate wealth.
November 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Every single conservative economic theory starts with the assumption that all economic actors are young, healthy, single, orphaned, high-functioning sociopaths whose exclusive aim in life is to accumulate wealth.
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
I work in news. I feel strongly that it's a crucial part of a functional democracy. I don't think anyone has any idea how, in this internet age, to go after people's innate tendency to believe things that confirm their opinions and seek out sources of information (true or false) that comfort them.
this one is just going to haunt me. might get a tattoo of it.
November 8, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I work in news. I feel strongly that it's a crucial part of a functional democracy. I don't think anyone has any idea how, in this internet age, to go after people's innate tendency to believe things that confirm their opinions and seek out sources of information (true or false) that comfort them.
This stirred something in me.
November 7, 2024 at 1:28 AM
This stirred something in me.