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Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday.

This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.
June 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
February 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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As we go marching, marching, in the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts grey
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses, bread and roses"
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 24
Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night.

I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Apropos of this afternoon's thread, here's more Utah Phillips for the folks who don't know why he's awesome:
rahaeli.bsky.social rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Jan 25
"The long history is the most radical idea in America."
These old songs, these old stories - why tell them? What do they mean? When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. History textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists, and the presidents who didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it, you know? So when I went out to get my first job, I went out armed with somebody else's class background - they never gave me any tools to understand or to begin to control the condition of my labor, and that was deliberate, wasn't it? Huh? They didn't want me to know this, they didn't. That's why this stuff isn't taught in the history books, cause we're not supposed to know it. Understand that. No, if I wanted a true history of where I came from, as a member of the working class, I had to go to my elders. Many of them, their best working years before pensions or Social Security, gave their whole lives to the mines, to the wheat harvest, to the logging camps, to the railroad. Got nothing for it, just fetched up on the skids living on short money, mostly drunk all the time. But they led those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again, and in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful than the best damn history book I ever read. And I've said so often before: the long memory is the most radical idea in America.
January 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM