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Swifties for Kamala has had three sitting Senators on the call so far, for those keeping score on the relative drawing power of affinity groups
August 28, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Swifties for Kamala has had three sitting Senators on the call so far, for those keeping score on the relative drawing power of affinity groups
Holy shit the number of people here who think summary execution is the appropriate punishment for negligent homicide.
That’s fucked up.
That’s fucked up.
August 31, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Holy shit the number of people here who think summary execution is the appropriate punishment for negligent homicide.
That’s fucked up.
That’s fucked up.
I just read The Monster of Elendhaven, and at first I couldn’t figure out the ending. So i went and read a few online reviews, and some of them were so amazingly wrong that it finally clicked and i think i get it.
Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA.
Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA.
Reminder to tell bluesky about the good things you read. Books, articles, blogs, Greek epigraphs written across your lover's skin, mystical sigils glowing on the walls of a brokedown palace, whatever really. Share good stuff.
August 31, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I just read The Monster of Elendhaven, and at first I couldn’t figure out the ending. So i went and read a few online reviews, and some of them were so amazingly wrong that it finally clicked and i think i get it.
Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA.
Good book, but trigger warnings for violence, gore, an on-camera but not graphic SA.
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Honestly I'm just kind of impressed by the idea of a judge who understands computers enough to know what a VPN even us
August 30, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Honestly I'm just kind of impressed by the idea of a judge who understands computers enough to know what a VPN even us
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Anti-Communist propaganda is one of the core functions of the US government.
August 30, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Anti-Communist propaganda is one of the core functions of the US government.
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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background
media.tenor.com
August 30, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at blinkingguy.com
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there should be a warning label for low entropy accounts
August 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
there should be a warning label for low entropy accounts
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this is so fucked up. these people should not be allowed to appropriate dinosaurs from people who are actually cool and good. we should send in the 82nd airborne.
We have added a new label “🦖: Dinosaur Emoji”. This emoji is frequently used by so called “Gender Critical Feminists” (Transphobes) from the UK to self-identify. To avoid false positives this will require manual review.
August 30, 2024 at 12:44 PM
this is so fucked up. these people should not be allowed to appropriate dinosaurs from people who are actually cool and good. we should send in the 82nd airborne.
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them: "gender?"
me: "no thanks, i'm trying to quit."
me: "no thanks, i'm trying to quit."
August 30, 2024 at 9:43 PM
them: "gender?"
me: "no thanks, i'm trying to quit."
me: "no thanks, i'm trying to quit."
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Honestly surprised to see the Brazil Twitter thing isn't a fascist crackdown but, like, a judge making a ruling against a corporation because it wasn't following the law? And so it's actually getting shut down?
Like, a judge. Upholding the law??
Like, a judge. Upholding the law??
August 30, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Honestly surprised to see the Brazil Twitter thing isn't a fascist crackdown but, like, a judge making a ruling against a corporation because it wasn't following the law? And so it's actually getting shut down?
Like, a judge. Upholding the law??
Like, a judge. Upholding the law??
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More than half of Caltech’s incoming undergraduate class in the fall will be women for the first time in its 133-year history. #STEM
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caltech's latest STEM breakthrough: Most of its new students are women
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
www.latimes.com
August 30, 2024 at 8:40 PM
More than half of Caltech’s incoming undergraduate class in the fall will be women for the first time in its 133-year history. #STEM
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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its changed my life - I originally took out 90k in 1992
for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my
REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY
after paying almost 188K over 25 years
for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my
REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY
after paying almost 188K over 25 years
August 30, 2024 at 8:34 PM
its changed my life - I originally took out 90k in 1992
for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my
REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY
after paying almost 188K over 25 years
for 25 years I paid almost a thousand dollars a month and the day that my account was set to zero by Joe, my
REMAINING BALANCE WAS 98K STILL TO PAY
after paying almost 188K over 25 years
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Musk, in his infinite wisdom, is burning the 6th largest market of Twitter (formerly: Twitter) because he can't follow country laws.
Twitter (formerly: Twitter)'s death spiral continues unabated.
Twitter (formerly: Twitter)'s death spiral continues unabated.
August 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
Musk, in his infinite wisdom, is burning the 6th largest market of Twitter (formerly: Twitter) because he can't follow country laws.
Twitter (formerly: Twitter)'s death spiral continues unabated.
Twitter (formerly: Twitter)'s death spiral continues unabated.
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Blessings upon the nameless stranger who turned this vacant lot shrub into a No-Face cosplay. A+ Portlanding.
August 30, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Blessings upon the nameless stranger who turned this vacant lot shrub into a No-Face cosplay. A+ Portlanding.
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Here’s the opening, where she makes clear that she is taking white women to task for the narrowness of their political imagination.
August 30, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Here’s the opening, where she makes clear that she is taking white women to task for the narrowness of their political imagination.
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UPDATE: Brazil's Supreme Court says anyone using VPN to access Twitter/X is subject to fines up to $8,874 a day
August 30, 2024 at 8:12 PM
UPDATE: Brazil's Supreme Court says anyone using VPN to access Twitter/X is subject to fines up to $8,874 a day
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do you ever think about how if we took the money, materials, work, and time it took to construct (and maintain!) all the cars and roads?
we could probably use a fraction of those resources to build trains, busses, and bike shares, which would be more efficient and even save lives
we could probably use a fraction of those resources to build trains, busses, and bike shares, which would be more efficient and even save lives
August 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
do you ever think about how if we took the money, materials, work, and time it took to construct (and maintain!) all the cars and roads?
we could probably use a fraction of those resources to build trains, busses, and bike shares, which would be more efficient and even save lives
we could probably use a fraction of those resources to build trains, busses, and bike shares, which would be more efficient and even save lives
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Brazilian court formally orders X/Twitter offline and removed from App stores following noncompliance with Brazilian law.
This could be pretty damaging to X/Twitter, as Brazil is one of their largest user bases.
This could be pretty damaging to X/Twitter, as Brazil is one of their largest user bases.
Twitter fora do ar: Justiça ordena que operadoras, Apple e Google impeçam acesso • Tecnoblog
Alexandre de Moraes deu prazo adicional de 24 horas para que empresa designasse representantes legais.
tecnoblog.net
August 30, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Brazilian court formally orders X/Twitter offline and removed from App stores following noncompliance with Brazilian law.
This could be pretty damaging to X/Twitter, as Brazil is one of their largest user bases.
This could be pretty damaging to X/Twitter, as Brazil is one of their largest user bases.
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When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
August 30, 2024 at 7:10 PM
When Bashir told Garak about the boy who cried wolf.
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Every time the aristocracy reinvents itself, we have to deal with it. We can't just leave it up to the orcas, people.
Taxing billionaires out of existence should be a completely mainstream idea in the Democratic Party. The longer it takes to get there, the worse things get.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...
Confiscate Their Money
Taxing billionaires out of existence must become a mainstream idea.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Every time the aristocracy reinvents itself, we have to deal with it. We can't just leave it up to the orcas, people.
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
August 30, 2024 at 6:36 PM
If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
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Dems should push back more, because the data is clear: mass deportations don't mean bigger slices of the pie for everyone else, they mean a smaller pie and thus smaller slices. It just damages the whole economy.
Here's a paper that was just published. carsey.unh.edu/sites/defaul...
Here's a paper that was just published. carsey.unh.edu/sites/defaul...
One reason Democrats dumped Eric Adams from the Biden messaging team: He spent a year making a zero-sum argument that the more migrants you have, the fewer resources you have for citizens.
Emotionally powerful take and Dems haven't done much recently to push back.
Emotionally powerful take and Dems haven't done much recently to push back.
Here is a passage in an American newspaper drily analyzing the sudden deportation of millions of people as a pluses-and-minuses housing and labor policy intervention. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...
August 30, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Dems should push back more, because the data is clear: mass deportations don't mean bigger slices of the pie for everyone else, they mean a smaller pie and thus smaller slices. It just damages the whole economy.
Here's a paper that was just published. carsey.unh.edu/sites/defaul...
Here's a paper that was just published. carsey.unh.edu/sites/defaul...
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gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the failure to correctly label this kind of trash as racist and sexist is itself racist and sexist
I’d like a NYT style guide explainer about what “racially and sexually charged” means and how it’s different from racist and sexist when it references “an image depicting Ms. Harris as a dung beetle with her face covered in what appears to be blackface while astride a coconut”
August 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM
gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the failure to correctly label this kind of trash as racist and sexist is itself racist and sexist