Thomson
@thompson202.bsky.social
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ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
November 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY
ROLL THE CLIP
ROLL THE CLIP
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Sorry to be a boring academic, but dissonance reduction techniques including projection & rationalization are not new or unique to Trump voters, even if consequences might be esp. grave. Studies in the 1940s showed some voters wrongly projected their preferences onto the party they happened to back.
Trump and his entourage want fo claim a mandate for the most extreme elements of their agenda. But a lot of people who voted for Trump were delusional about what that agenda actually is, and voted for him believing he wouldn’t do those things. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump-Trumpist Divide
The incoming president wants to do things his voters have not embraced.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Sorry to be a boring academic, but dissonance reduction techniques including projection & rationalization are not new or unique to Trump voters, even if consequences might be esp. grave. Studies in the 1940s showed some voters wrongly projected their preferences onto the party they happened to back.
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Is it just me or does everyone immediately dislike any cyber truck on the road and its driver
November 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Is it just me or does everyone immediately dislike any cyber truck on the road and its driver
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If you hit his mouth with the water gun just right, a balloon inflates and you might win a prize!
October 31, 2024 at 2:48 AM
If you hit his mouth with the water gun just right, a balloon inflates and you might win a prize!
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Former Upstate YOUTH PASTOR faces nearly 150 alleged #sex crimes in MULTIPLE COUNTIES #pedophile
www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/30/f...
www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/30/f...
Former Upstate youth pastor faces nearly 150 alleged sex crimes in multiple counties
The suspect was already facing alleged sex crimes in multiple counties across the state.
www.foxcarolina.com
October 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Former Upstate YOUTH PASTOR faces nearly 150 alleged #sex crimes in MULTIPLE COUNTIES #pedophile
www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/30/f...
www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/30/f...
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There’s an online push to get Mark Cuban to start up a newsroom, but there are independent and local newsrooms not owned by billionaires that need your support *right now.*
Billionaires owning newsrooms (even if you like the person) is part of the problem!
List:
Billionaires owning newsrooms (even if you like the person) is part of the problem!
List:
Press Forward's Closing Local Coverage Gaps Grantees
Meet the 205 local newsrooms sharing $20 million in funding for addressing longstanding gaps in coverage in their communities.
www.pressforward.news
October 28, 2024 at 12:39 PM
There’s an online push to get Mark Cuban to start up a newsroom, but there are independent and local newsrooms not owned by billionaires that need your support *right now.*
Billionaires owning newsrooms (even if you like the person) is part of the problem!
List:
Billionaires owning newsrooms (even if you like the person) is part of the problem!
List:
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Free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/nate...
New: Trump-appointed Judge Amul Thapar last night argued donors and taxpayers should reconsider their financial support of law schools unless they hire more scholars who embrace "originalism" and better equip lawyers to argue cases based on the doctrine. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Conservative US judge pushes yanking law school funding until 'originalism' taught
A conservative federal appeals court judge argued that donors and taxpayers should reconsider their financial support of law schools unless they hire more scholars who embrace "originalism" and better equip lawyers to argue cases based on the legal doctrine, which many Republican-appointed judges like himself favor.
www.reuters.com
October 24, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/nate...
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I don’t know the literature, but do historians of fascism talk about the role played by media sources who thought “it would be indecorous to talk about what is actually happening”?
So, Charlamagne the God let's @CNN have it and Anderson Cooper gets waaay defensive. Everyone is saying it. The media has failed in its duty to cover the threat of Trump commensurate with the danger he poses. www.instagram.com/zairethinker...
ZaireThinker on Instagram: "Charlamagne and Anderson Cooper go back and forth about how CNN covers the election
"I heard more on this network about 'is Kamala Harris Black' than I do about Trump bei...
4 likes, 0 comments - zairethinker on October 24, 2024: "Charlamagne and Anderson Cooper go back and forth about how CNN covers the election
"I heard more on this network about 'is Kamala Harris Bla...
www.instagram.com
October 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I don’t know the literature, but do historians of fascism talk about the role played by media sources who thought “it would be indecorous to talk about what is actually happening”?
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folks be making whole articles about shit that don't need an article. Like oh wow that's a DualSense with a GameCube skin! Why make a 235 word article when everything I need to know is in the thumbnail
October 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
folks be making whole articles about shit that don't need an article. Like oh wow that's a DualSense with a GameCube skin! Why make a 235 word article when everything I need to know is in the thumbnail
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‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles
‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles
Keira Knightley is latest star to publish a children’s book, but some say trend pushes aside genuine writers and makes it harder to find great children’s fiction
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2024 at 4:58 PM
‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles
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October 23, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Not single major newspaper put Trump’s former chief of staff calling him a fascist who would rule like a dictator on the front page above the fold. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/u...
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator
John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Not single major newspaper put Trump’s former chief of staff calling him a fascist who would rule like a dictator on the front page above the fold. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/u...
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A statement from 60 Minutes: "Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false."
October 20, 2024 at 11:39 PM
A statement from 60 Minutes: "Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false."
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one downside of building tools like this is that it shifts the economic incentives away from verification of the network data
there’s a nod to this about “some projects it is probably not the right tool for”, but if it’s easier and cheaper to not verify people won’t
bsky.app/profile/bnew...
there’s a nod to this about “some projects it is probably not the right tool for”, but if it’s easier and cheaper to not verify people won’t
bsky.app/profile/bnew...
#atproto devs: another blog post!
this one about Jetstream, a simple way to work with firehose data.
h/t to @jaz.bsky.social for building this out
this one about Jetstream, a simple way to work with firehose data.
h/t to @jaz.bsky.social for building this out
Introducing Jetstream | Bluesky
One of most popular aspects of atproto for developers is the firehose: an aggregated stream of all the public data updates in the network. Independent developers have used the firehose to build real-t...
docs.bsky.app
October 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
one downside of building tools like this is that it shifts the economic incentives away from verification of the network data
there’s a nod to this about “some projects it is probably not the right tool for”, but if it’s easier and cheaper to not verify people won’t
bsky.app/profile/bnew...
there’s a nod to this about “some projects it is probably not the right tool for”, but if it’s easier and cheaper to not verify people won’t
bsky.app/profile/bnew...
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The five men who were known as the Central Park 5 (now Exonerated 5) are suing Trump for defamation after he once again falsely claimed they were responsible for the crime
Central Park 5 Sue Trump For Defamation After He Again Blamed Them For Crime During Presidential Debate
Former President Donald Trump famously called for harsh penalties against the Central Park 5, the name given to a group of Black and Latino men wrongly imprisoned for an assault in 1989.
www.forbes.com
October 21, 2024 at 2:08 PM
The five men who were known as the Central Park 5 (now Exonerated 5) are suing Trump for defamation after he once again falsely claimed they were responsible for the crime
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>break brazilian laws
>gets banned
>has to pay millions in fines and comply with the court's orders
>finally reinstated
>one week later
>break brazillian laws
>gets banned
>has to pay millions in fines and comply with the court's orders
>finally reinstated
>one week later
>break brazillian laws
October 18, 2024 at 10:28 PM
>break brazilian laws
>gets banned
>has to pay millions in fines and comply with the court's orders
>finally reinstated
>one week later
>break brazillian laws
>gets banned
>has to pay millions in fines and comply with the court's orders
>finally reinstated
>one week later
>break brazillian laws
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The NYT wrote up a harsher piece on Obama’s exhortation to decency this week than it has Trump’s call for a Holocaust.
October 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The NYT wrote up a harsher piece on Obama’s exhortation to decency this week than it has Trump’s call for a Holocaust.
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lol at tagging Brick Suit, the man who famously shows up at every Trump rally wearing a suit with a brick print on it, on this one. Brick Suit is going to marshal all the resources at his command, and liaise with Dan Bongino if necessary, to find out why the Trump campaign did something thoughtless.
October 13, 2024 at 5:08 PM
lol at tagging Brick Suit, the man who famously shows up at every Trump rally wearing a suit with a brick print on it, on this one. Brick Suit is going to marshal all the resources at his command, and liaise with Dan Bongino if necessary, to find out why the Trump campaign did something thoughtless.
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Wilhelm Kietel was convicted at Nuremberg for signing orders like this.
October 14, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Wilhelm Kietel was convicted at Nuremberg for signing orders like this.
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I love that this guy’s defense is “I’m a sovereign citizen, you can’t say I wanted to kill Trump just because I was acting weirdly, I am ALWAYS weird.”
October 14, 2024 at 1:51 AM
I love that this guy’s defense is “I’m a sovereign citizen, you can’t say I wanted to kill Trump just because I was acting weirdly, I am ALWAYS weird.”
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William Gibson (abridged)
October 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
William Gibson (abridged)