Daniel Dupree
@danieljd.bsky.social
Alabama Blue. I love cooking, reading, and video games. Arsenal and Auburn fan.
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But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.
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Until Reagan and Friedman ruined it the goal of business was to grow until your customers were happy and you were making a consistent profit then do your best to maintain that, before slashing the top marginal tax rate made the goal perpetual growth until it's scrapped for parts by a competitor.
Bluesky has a growth problem
Bluesky has hit 38M monthly users, up 8M since March
Once adding 5M users per month, it’s now slowed to 1.6M. A 60% drop
But post volume is falling—more users, less activity
It risks becoming a ghost town with a loyal but shrinking core
#bluesky #fediverse
Bluesky has hit 38M monthly users, up 8M since March
Once adding 5M users per month, it’s now slowed to 1.6M. A 60% drop
But post volume is falling—more users, less activity
It risks becoming a ghost town with a loyal but shrinking core
#bluesky #fediverse
Bluesky Reaches 38 Million Users, Though Post Volume is Declining
Bluesky’s growth momentum has slowed, but it is still growing.
www.socialmediatoday.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Until Reagan and Friedman ruined it the goal of business was to grow until your customers were happy and you were making a consistent profit then do your best to maintain that, before slashing the top marginal tax rate made the goal perpetual growth until it's scrapped for parts by a competitor.
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i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
July 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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I think about this constantly
July 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think about this constantly
Same. Every time.
I watch the news a couple times a month, but the second there is even an inkling that I am going to be subjected to Trump‘s voice, I turn it off…
I absolutely cannot bear to hear his lies or watch his stupid mouth or listen to his 3rd grade words.
I absolutely cannot bear to hear his lies or watch his stupid mouth or listen to his 3rd grade words.
July 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Same. Every time.
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apart from its inherent qualities as a comic strip, I really appreciate that Watterson resisted the urge to franchise and merchandise C&H. There's no animated movie, no tv show, no line of toys, no ipad game.
it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.
it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.
Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.
July 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
apart from its inherent qualities as a comic strip, I really appreciate that Watterson resisted the urge to franchise and merchandise C&H. There's no animated movie, no tv show, no line of toys, no ipad game.
it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.
it exists in its entirety as a comic strip written and drawn entirely by one man.
Our country is absurd.
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Our country is absurd.
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
June 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Again, I’d like to encourage the people who think it’s a good idea to embrace a cruel and capricious dictatorship, while making it clear no legal or legislative authority can stop them from ruining ordinary people’s lives, to keep on reading to see what usually happens next.
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*This* is why they are freaking out about Zohran Mamdani.
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
*This* is why they are freaking out about Zohran Mamdani.
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The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.
June 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.
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yes it’s a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil don’t become therapists
The idea that conservative ideology should be equally represented in everything is ironically a very liberal idea
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
yes it’s a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil don’t become therapists
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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It’s almost like egomaniacal criminal property moguls and narcissistic ketamine-addled tech bros aren’t the best people to lead the world.
June 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It’s almost like egomaniacal criminal property moguls and narcissistic ketamine-addled tech bros aren’t the best people to lead the world.
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F is for Fuck This
Orson Welles has a new gig — despite being dead since 1985 — thanks to AI.
His voice has been digitally re-created "using licensed audio from his estate."
Which reminds me of something the real Welles once said: "I hate almost everything in the modern world.”
variety.com/2025/digital... #FilmSky
His voice has been digitally re-created "using licensed audio from his estate."
Which reminds me of something the real Welles once said: "I hate almost everything in the modern world.”
variety.com/2025/digital... #FilmSky
Orson Welles Can Now Be Your AI-Generated Tour Guide
Orson Welles is back -- as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit.
variety.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
F is for Fuck This
This is so awesome to see.
Game Informer is back! The entire team is returning and we can't wait to reconnect. Come join us to celebrate the best in games, the people who make games, and the people who play games from all around the world.
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-...
March 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is so awesome to see.
Absolutely loving Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
March 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Absolutely loving Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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Perhaps the Gamers are alright
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Perhaps the Gamers are alright
Just finished: Beautiful. Loved it.
March 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Just finished: Beautiful. Loved it.
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This isn't some fictional zombie apocalypse series you can watch, turn off, and walk away from into the radiant light of day.
This is a coordinated group of actual human beings living among you, with dangerous agendas they will not abandon unless opposed.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
This is a coordinated group of actual human beings living among you, with dangerous agendas they will not abandon unless opposed.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
It's Time to Pick a Hill Worth Dying On
If your eyes are clear and open right now you can see it, can’t you?
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This isn't some fictional zombie apocalypse series you can watch, turn off, and walk away from into the radiant light of day.
This is a coordinated group of actual human beings living among you, with dangerous agendas they will not abandon unless opposed.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
This is a coordinated group of actual human beings living among you, with dangerous agendas they will not abandon unless opposed.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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