@malmoi.bsky.social
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The responses Trump voters give when you ask them why they’re okay with Musk hacking and slashing his way through the government have me convinced that if we manage to pull out of this mess, the first thing we have to do is bring back Schoolhouse Rock
February 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The responses Trump voters give when you ask them why they’re okay with Musk hacking and slashing his way through the government have me convinced that if we manage to pull out of this mess, the first thing we have to do is bring back Schoolhouse Rock
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As several people downthread are noting: in his first term, Trump very visibly bungled a pandemic, told people to drink bleach, got hundreds of thousands of people needlessly killed ... and skated away with zero accountability. Why would this time be any different?
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
As several people downthread are noting: in his first term, Trump very visibly bungled a pandemic, told people to drink bleach, got hundreds of thousands of people needlessly killed ... and skated away with zero accountability. Why would this time be any different?
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is it really so hard to say something like, "trump is ripping up your constitution, arresting your neighbors, helping cancer win its war on people and oh, also, eggs are fucking expensive"
January 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
is it really so hard to say something like, "trump is ripping up your constitution, arresting your neighbors, helping cancer win its war on people and oh, also, eggs are fucking expensive"
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Trump doing to trans-inclusive orgs what he previously did to Planned Parenthood, which has not crumbled into dust.
Just a reminder that as fucked as this is, we are still surviving.
Just a reminder that as fucked as this is, we are still surviving.
Trump orders federal ban on recognition of transgender identity, financial support of institutions supporting so called "gender ideology"
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump doing to trans-inclusive orgs what he previously did to Planned Parenthood, which has not crumbled into dust.
Just a reminder that as fucked as this is, we are still surviving.
Just a reminder that as fucked as this is, we are still surviving.
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They’re going to win a lot of battles. Maybe even most of them. But as I’ve seen others say before, your enemy can win the majority of the battles and still lose the war if you make those victories costly enough
January 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
They’re going to win a lot of battles. Maybe even most of them. But as I’ve seen others say before, your enemy can win the majority of the battles and still lose the war if you make those victories costly enough
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Could the current far-right court throw out even that precedent in favour of just completely making something up? Certainly they could try. But it would be an outlier even from their prior decisions, and most importantly, *there is zero-need to pre-surrender to that now*
January 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Could the current far-right court throw out even that precedent in favour of just completely making something up? Certainly they could try. But it would be an outlier even from their prior decisions, and most importantly, *there is zero-need to pre-surrender to that now*
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Just heard Kristi Noem say the Chinese are exporting fentanyl expressly to “kill the next generation of Americans” and I don’t like that the Overton window has shifted to the point that that’s not recognized as a psychotic thing to say
January 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just heard Kristi Noem say the Chinese are exporting fentanyl expressly to “kill the next generation of Americans” and I don’t like that the Overton window has shifted to the point that that’s not recognized as a psychotic thing to say
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X is dominated by MAGA voices and actively suppresses others; meanwhile, the distance between the Morning Joe Libs and hardcore leftists on Bluesky is so vast, there's disagreement here all day. Painting this place as an echo chamber is just lazy, especially at this late date.
Some observers warn that progressives risk placing themselves in an echo chamber—or ceding a much larger user base to their opponents—if they abandon the rival posting site, X.
Rise of Bluesky may create progressive ‘echo chamber,’ say observers as more MPs join
‘If you don't allow yourself to be exposed to opposing viewpoints, that can actually increase polarization,’ says former Conservative staffer Jennifer Laewetz.
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
X is dominated by MAGA voices and actively suppresses others; meanwhile, the distance between the Morning Joe Libs and hardcore leftists on Bluesky is so vast, there's disagreement here all day. Painting this place as an echo chamber is just lazy, especially at this late date.
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um because of all the rules he broke and has publicly admitted to breaking and also the fact that this is a private website that can make their own moderation decisions? what happened to not obeying in advance
At some point in the next 2 years, the admins of Bluesky will 100% have to testify under oath in front of the Republican House of Representatives and will get asked explicitly why they chose to ban Jesse Singal if they ban him.
More serious than "oh noes elon will be mad boohoo"
More serious than "oh noes elon will be mad boohoo"
What ammo? Elon will say mean things about Bluesky again? Oh no!
December 12, 2024 at 4:12 PM
um because of all the rules he broke and has publicly admitted to breaking and also the fact that this is a private website that can make their own moderation decisions? what happened to not obeying in advance
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We had one, it was called Black Lives Matter and since then we had the most virulent counterreaction to any movement since Reconstruction
That Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry and Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman are all walking around free in the most carceral nation in the world is something that demands a reckoning.
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 PM
We had one, it was called Black Lives Matter and since then we had the most virulent counterreaction to any movement since Reconstruction
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Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers
If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
December 9, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers
If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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5 4 rogueone 6 [gap] 8 3 7 solo 1 [large gap] 2 [another gap] clonewars 9
December 10, 2024 at 1:36 AM
5 4 rogueone 6 [gap] 8 3 7 solo 1 [large gap] 2 [another gap] clonewars 9
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Oh good, Bluesky's first mass "let's psychoanalyze and attribute meaning to this guy's posts" event.
Bluesky has the juice.
Also, time to log off for the day.
Bluesky has the juice.
Also, time to log off for the day.
December 9, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Oh good, Bluesky's first mass "let's psychoanalyze and attribute meaning to this guy's posts" event.
Bluesky has the juice.
Also, time to log off for the day.
Bluesky has the juice.
Also, time to log off for the day.
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You’re laughing? Americas greatest criminal is named Matthew Spaghetti and you’re laughing?
December 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM
You’re laughing? Americas greatest criminal is named Matthew Spaghetti and you’re laughing?
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"You've heard of Elf on the Shelf"—actually, no, I never 'heard' of it at all, it's just some marketing trash that suddenly appeared everywhere in 2005 pretending to be a tradition. I hate it and everything like it. Shove the Elf up your ass. Fuck you.
December 12, 2023 at 1:10 PM
"You've heard of Elf on the Shelf"—actually, no, I never 'heard' of it at all, it's just some marketing trash that suddenly appeared everywhere in 2005 pretending to be a tradition. I hate it and everything like it. Shove the Elf up your ass. Fuck you.
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If you make a horror movie and I’m actively rewarded for scanning the background of your wide shots for ghosts, then you will forever have my sword
December 8, 2024 at 2:07 AM
If you make a horror movie and I’m actively rewarded for scanning the background of your wide shots for ghosts, then you will forever have my sword
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I love Mad Magazine
December 7, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I love Mad Magazine
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Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
December 7, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
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human communication may not be possible, concludes several million year study
December 8, 2024 at 2:48 AM
human communication may not be possible, concludes several million year study
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What made @caseynewton.bsky.social’s critique on AI skepticism so “disgraceful” (to quote @edzitron.com)?
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism
What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
open.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM
What made @caseynewton.bsky.social’s critique on AI skepticism so “disgraceful” (to quote @edzitron.com)?
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Since AI skepticism will a vital counterweight in the years ahead, I deconstruct it in depth here. With shoutouts to many of the AI skeptics he forgot.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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the baseline is people who believe in equality. there's a huge diverse range of opinions about what that looks like or how we get there. but if you don't believe in that first of all, no, fuck off, you're wrong, get out of the bubble plz
December 1, 2024 at 10:41 PM
the baseline is people who believe in equality. there's a huge diverse range of opinions about what that looks like or how we get there. but if you don't believe in that first of all, no, fuck off, you're wrong, get out of the bubble plz
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