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2024-11-06 06:26:58

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But seriously, "Genocide Joe" fuckers. We're all waiting right here for you to explain the glorious outcome of this election.

2024-11-06 06:18:13

So, all you "Genocide Joe" types: are you looking forward to 2025?
You now have zero leverage to stop the genocide in Gaza, which will now intensify.

2024-11-06 05:18:29

Congrats, America. In 2025:
*Ukraine will fall to Russia, which will then aim at another target
*Gaza will be wiped from the face of the Earth, and a Trump hotel will be placed on the land, once the ashes are swept into the sea
*The economy will crash to benefit corporate owners
*You'll be paying higher taxes unless you're in the 99th %tile
*Food and health safety will return to 19th-century levels.
*There'll be a federal abortion ban
*LGBTQ+ people will be even more screwed
Well done.

2024-11-02 01:29:53

This #election has really brought into focus how creepy a lot of American men are.

2024-11-02 01:11:13

I have $3 that says Nate Silver is placing big anonymous bets on Harris winning.

2024-11-02 01:02:11

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@npub1vqm…ccpx @npub1lp8…4rrw
Jesus Christ. #Trump lost pharma-bro Martin Shkreli?

2024-10-30 23:49:55

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@npub1qe5…8ugl
Looking for the negatives here.
Not finding them.

2024-10-27 03:22:54

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@npub186j…8z6r
Bullshit reporting from NYT.
I mean, seriously: the daughter of the South African billionaire who owns the LA Times is given a platform where editorial boards are not?
Who cares what this unqualified parasite thinks or says?
Big journalism really racing to the bottom in the US.

2024-10-27 01:11:34

Remember when WWI started and all the heads of state were cousins and competing with each other with the result that regular people had to charge machine guns and endure gas attacks?
2024 feels a little like that, but with billionaires.

2024-10-19 20:35:09

Given that both Elon #Musk and Peter Thiel spent their formative years in South Africa, I don't think Haitians are the problem.

2024-10-17 16:30:08

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@npub1utg…efkq
Microscope.

2024-10-17 06:14:45

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@npub1jdw…awld
Reminder that Trump would be tossing paper towels.

2024-10-07 18:03:36

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@npub1rc6…g7hx
All of them.

2024-10-05 18:59:32

#Arizona voters.
You have until Monday, October 7th, to register to vote. I just checked my registration and, despite having re-registered months ago at my new address, my registration had reverted to my old address.
Check your registration!
#vote #registertovote #Election
https://servicearizona.com/VoterRegistration/selectLanguage

2024-10-03 23:26:18

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@npub1kvz…k9es
Exactly. Copper metallurgy is a neolithic technology.
Find anyone who, today, can get copper out of ore the way they could 6000 years ago...
No idea. Dumb stares. Most wouldn't even recognize the ore. You just handed them a rock, like, WTF?
The Romans invented concrete. We subsequently forgot how to make it for about 1500 years. Roman concrete buildings existed during that time.
No one could figure it out.

2024-10-03 00:25:18

Regarding the use of mules to bring supplies into hurricane stricken areas, I am only slightly annoyed that people keep referring to this as like the "Stone Age."
Mules only started to be bred in the late Bronze Age, were major parts of huge military operations in WWII, and continue to be essential infrastructure worldwide today.
"Technology" isn't just computers. Calling the use of these animals "Stone Age" is not only incorrect, but insulting in its "primitivizing" whole peoples.
JFC

2024-09-29 00:14:50

This #election is just like every other election where I wonder if next year I'll have to hide people in my attic.

2024-09-20 18:43:58

The US very clearly needs a federal law that prohibits voting rule changes the year of a presidential contest.
The only reason for such rule changes is corruption. It's clear #election tampering.

2024-09-20 18:19:44

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@npub1r47…wytr
If you need quick or repeated access, the panel simply can't be grouted in.

2024-09-19 19:28:36

Opinion: Stop using "neo-" in front of "Nazis."
They're the same old Nazis, same old plans. Nothing new here.
The use of "neo-" waters it down, as if they're "almost" Nazis or perhaps reformed, "better" Nazis.
They're just Nazis.

2024-09-18 19:00:34

Reminder that there have been 33 bomb threats against #Springfield schools since Donald #Trump lied about Haitian immigrants at the debate.
When asked if he would condemn the bomb threats, he refused to do so.

2024-09-17 17:00:03

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@npub186j…8z6r
SCOTUS used up this trick in 2000. The plan will fail.

2024-09-13 22:25:49

The reason #Trump says #Harris can't stand up to #Putin is because both he and Putin know she can.
Trump is trying to do a friend a favor with his claim. Putin is terrified of a young, competent American president.
She'll mop the floor with that retrograde KGB dinosaur.

2024-09-13 22:13:55

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
It is precisely in the same vein as Elon Musk's threat of sexual violence towards Taylor Swift.
The point is the power to say outrageous, dangerous things with impunity.

2024-09-10 16:58:38

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@npub1uw8…88kr
Infinite resources for AI,
while famine rages,
on the planet below

2024-09-09 17:52:06

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
It's because they hang out at the same meetings.

2024-09-09 17:40:51

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
Reminder that Trump lowered the entry standard for Border Patrol agents.

2024-08-28 16:32:45

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
We call that "the incel delta."

2024-08-19 18:31:00

Americans are actual idiots. Worse, they're irresponsible. Trusting #Trump more on crime? On Ukraine? ON DEFENSE?!
Look, you smooth-brained numpties, this ain't it.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/990/088/388/249/692/original/f7f539b0a9a11242.png

2024-08-19 17:06:57

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@npub1ept…jcl3
Chechnya: "We have a shiny overpriced technical"
Ukraine: "We have the F-16 now"

2024-08-18 23:27:06

What if those JD #Vance jizz cups aren't fake?

2024-08-18 23:25:13

#Harris has yet to reveal a detailed plan for the economy so let's hand it to the guy who has a detailed plan to end democracy in America is quite the weak-ass take.

2024-08-18 22:23:39

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@npub10mc…exkd
Amazing analysis, truly.
I figured these guys were going to spoon it ritually onto their couches, but your take is spot on.

2024-08-17 18:08:03

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@npub1dm5…5sqe
This is amazing.

2024-08-16 00:53:10

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@npub1r47…wytr
So, like, basic economics.
Well stated for those who choose not to understand.

2024-08-10 18:14:52

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@npub1qe5…8ugl
"When I think of climate change, I immediately think of population control, don't you?"
What a weird loser.

2024-08-08 17:34:26

Our democracy is not "at stake" if #Trump gets elected.
It's gone.
"Dictator on day one" and his confederates have been quite clear about how they'll end democracy in America.
Our democracy is "at stake" right now.

2024-08-08 17:16:34

Yet another great thread from
William Lindsey :toad:
@npub1lzz…jhl3
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112926809694780610

2024-08-04 19:22:08

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@npub1tel…4v4v
Pankrations?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/905/371/598/314/559/original/6d95666415ef3cd1.png

2024-08-04 18:40:44

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@npub1tpv…zwsk
Correct solution is for the upper levels to flood the shower.

2024-08-04 16:39:39

Have you heard that Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala #Harris had an affair a long time ago during his first marriage?
It's just like when Donald #Trump fucked a porn star while his 3rd wife was pregnant and then paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about it and then was convicted on 34 felony counts because he did all of that in the most illegal way possible.
Now you don't have to click on stories funded by fascists in attempt to dilute the severity of Trump's behavior and his crimes.

2024-07-30 02:10:40

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Audience is the key. For Trumpers, "weird" is always pejorative.

2024-07-30 01:24:40

Sean Astin looks exactly like Sean Astin on the "White Dudes for #Harris " call.
He told a touching story about the support his brother got from his men's group when recovering from drug addiction.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/872/828/097/494/920/original/e1337a8789cf08f5.png

2024-07-30 00:56:37

I'm 55. I've never seen anything like this "White Dudes for #Harris " call.
The speakers are passionate, imploring, and clearly believe in #Harris
Her ethnicity and gender are right up front: referenced by every speaker as a strength.
There's a strong positive undercurrent of "being a (white) man means knowing a woman or a person of color can (and should) be in charge, even of the country.
It's subtle, important, positive, and non-toxic.

2024-07-30 00:51:43

One recurring message on the "White Dudes for #Harris " call is "stand up. Tell your white dude friends. If you push the needle 2-3%, it's a landslide. Take this moment."
It's a powerful message.

2024-07-30 00:36:39

Governor of North Carolina on the "White Dudes for #Harris " call is talking about how #MAGA is deeply disrespectful of women and people of color.
Right up front. No coding. No prevaricating.

2024-07-30 00:26:23

"It's more than just saving our democracy, it's building one."
Pete Buttigieg on the White Dudes for #Harris call

2024-07-30 00:19:51

The Dude abides with 60k of us white dudes for #Harris
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/872/567/237/992/025/original/9c2d0574f85215ae.png

2024-07-28 23:29:33

Imagine being offended by the #Olympics opening ceremony but not by Donald #Trump
#Evangelicals

2024-07-27 22:31:59

#Trump wants to end democracy in the US but some asshole somewhere is worried #Harris is going to make him use a paper straw.

2024-07-27 20:39:34

I don't think we should say #Trump wants to be a "king."
Modern kings often exist as the (sometimes symbolic) leaders of social democracies.
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, the UK, et al. have monarchs.
Trump wants to be dictator -- an authoritarian despot who turns the US into a powerful, heavily armed, fascist ethnostate.
Stop calling what he wants as being a "king." Trump wants far more than that.

2024-07-27 16:45:58

When #Trump said "In four years, you won't have to vote again" he meant exactly what it sounds like.
There's no need to look for excuses or tortuous interpretations: the packaging says "fascism" and, sure enough, when you open it up, it's fascism on the inside.

2024-07-26 19:15:58

JD #Vance is perfect: he says the same stupid shit #Trump says, but somehow breaks the spell.
If Trump talked about never fucking a couch or racist Diet Mountain Dew or childless cat ladies, no one would bat an eye.
Vance does it and suddenly people are like "wait, uh..."
Vance is actually too "on-brand." Trump needed a Pence -- someone who looked "normal" to the disengaged middle

2024-07-26 18:44:05

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@npub1kmn…8cg8
Hoping she'll be dressed as the Winged Victory of Samothrace

2024-07-26 18:37:59

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@npub16zx…xzxc
Wondering how the Confederates are going to establish air supremacy over the battlefield in this "civil war."

2024-07-25 21:57:27

One thing I find strange about our political, economic, and social system is how much it rewards people who are so obviously, stunningly incompetent at everything but getting a great number of people to believe outright lies.
Kamala #Harris represents an antidote in a world with far too much Donald #Trump and Elon #Musk

2024-07-24 20:44:25

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Terry Bisson's useful short story on this topic: http://www.terrybisson.com/cap-n-trade-3/

2024-07-23 20:48:17

Whenever #Trump says he doesn't know anything about #Project2025 , remember that he also said he didn't know anything about payments to Stormy Daniels.
Oh, here's a list of people Trump claimed not to know, with photos of him with those people:
https://www.businessinsider.com/people-trump-said-he-didnt-know-but-did-photos#george-papadopoulos-6

2024-07-23 17:39:20

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@npub17vj…g088
Broke: They're worried evil spirits have invaded her uterus.
Woke: Republicans are the evil spirits.

2024-07-23 16:45:19

#Protests :
With Kamala #Harris , protests will continue to be legal and might even have an impact on policy.
With Donald #Trump , protests will be illegal, and the impact will be on your skull as you're dragged off to a re-education camp.
Not joking. Trump has been up-front on how protestors will be treated under his regime.

2024-07-23 04:30:28

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I showed it to my 10-y-o son.
Him, before: "I'm worried that people are too racist and sexist to vote for #Harris "
Him, after: "Wow, dad. She's going to crush #Trump . What a badass."
He wants to watch the debate together.
Not making this up. Not exaggerating. Kamala has talent, and it shows right up front.

2024-07-23 04:27:19

My girlfriend, a 43-y-o white woman who lives in Phoenix isn't super plugged in to politics
She's smart, professional, belongs to women's leadership groups, etc
Yesterday, she said, "I don't really know much about Kamala #Harris "
She'd never vote for #Trump , she just doesn't follow politics closely
I sent her this video. She watched it and was thrilled that THIS is the presumptive candidate
"I'm voting for her!"
That's all it took to get her enthusiastic. Use it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CjMtRs59g

2024-07-23 03:45:07

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@npub1lrv…tth9
Reminder that when Murdoch bought WSJ, he said he wouldn't influence it editorially.
Everyone: "it'll be fine."
Liars lie, every time.

2024-07-23 03:23:53

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@npub1c57…awu5
Wise words

2024-07-23 03:22:57

Arizona Voters!
Go here to register to vote. You need to do this if you've changed address, name, etc.
You have until October, but it takes 5 minutes, so do it today:
https://servicearizona.com/VoterRegistration/selectLanguage

2024-07-23 03:09:14

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@npub1u3t…c6ug
And there it is, cf:
https://mastodon.social/@DoesntExist/112832859851050529

2024-07-23 00:00:07

Something you should note in the coming shitstorm directed at #Harris :
These people are fine with #Trump paying to fuck a porn-star, illegally paying more to cover it up, and all this while he was married with a son on the way.
But, you know, if Kamala has had more than one sexual partner in her life, that'll be an issue.
Watch. The sexism is definitely coming.
I know you're not going to fall for it. Please call it out, mercilessly.

2024-07-22 23:19:59

Right now is the time you ignore #polls and pollsters.
ALL of their data is based on "what if Kamala #Harris ran?"
All of it.
Even in stable times, polls typically measure attitudes. That isn't an accepted methodology in the social sciences more generally.
You MUST ask about actions for valid data.
Example of an action: $84 million in small-donor contributions in 24 hours.
Listen to that. Polls are going to be shit data for weeks... maybe a month.
Even they know it.

2024-07-22 21:48:11

It took me awhile, but with Tim Burchett calling Kamala #Harris a "DEI" candidate, I think I just realized how racist a dog whistle that is.
Like, I "knew" that, rationally, but calling Kamala a "DEI" hire, given her incredible talents, which outstrip losers like Burchett by miles, it just really hit.
She's a woman. She's not white. Nothing else matters to these retro-Confederacy cosplay dorks.

2024-07-22 21:39:39

"Kamala doesn't have children" is a weird attack on anyone, but especially on someone with two step-kids.

2024-07-21 20:58:38

Reminder that when Kamala #Harris was the DA of San Francisco, she formed a special unit to prosecute hate crimes against #LGBTQ people and increased gun-control policy in the city.
Keep that in mind when someone calls her a "cop."

2024-07-21 20:07:00

Do you like the US Supreme Court?
Reminder that you're voting for who gets the #SCOTUS seats of Thomas and Alito in this election.
That's the legacy at stake here.

2024-07-21 20:04:41

I've defended #Biden
He's a good president. He wasn't my first choice, but I voted for him and would vote for him again.
The choices he made I disagree with are nonetheless very American sorts of policy, for the most part... i.e. they're not really specific to Biden.
I'll vote for anyone the #Democrats put forth, but I'm enthusiastic for Kamala #Harris
Do I agree with her all the time? No. Just like Obama; just like Marx... FDR... JFK... Aristotle... Malcolm X... MLK... et al.

2024-07-21 18:43:01

Are you ready to read tomorrow's #NYT article "Did Kamala Harris Learn Enough as VP to Run the Country?"
#Biden

2024-07-21 18:12:04

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@npub1lrv…tth9
Handing Ukraine to Russia isn't a shift in foreign policy? Huh.

2024-07-21 18:10:54

Now that #Biden has dropped out, I expect all the people on this site who have been saying that would be the best thing to stan for the candidate the Democrats put up, since a #Trump presidency wouldn't be the best thing...
Some of you still won't get the exact specific special "but I wanted a pony" candidate you prefer, but that's life. Time to suck it up.
I'll be calling out accounts that waffle as Trumpers.

2024-07-20 01:01:26

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@npub1k7q…3lrw
Hitler's DEI programs sucked. He lost a war, bigly.

2024-07-20 00:40:02

Good thread on #Trump and #Fascism from @npub1lzz…jhl3
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112813063069846708

2024-07-15 22:59:07

Every single story about #Trump "doing well" or "getting a victory" (because a judge he appointed dismissed a case, for example) is intended to dissuade you from voting.
Ask yourself this question: "Does this story about Trump or Biden make me feel hopeless because it seems obvious Trump is going to win?"
Oh, it does? Who benefits from your hopelessness?

2024-07-15 16:05:11

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@npub1dgz…4q3g
Bullshit. Get the fuck off my feed.

2024-07-15 16:00:41

Instead of despairing that a judge #Trump appointed dismissed an air-tight criminal case against him, maybe vote so we can reform this crap.
The damage was done the last time Trump got elected. The damage this time will be far worse.
Don't boo. Vote.

2024-07-14 21:18:35

Reminder that if someone had taken a shot a #Biden , the media would be writing stories about how that makes #Trump more electable.
The stories are the same. They use events as touch points to make them seem valid.
This is a very easy game for any writer: it's simply riffing on prompts, which we do by incorporating them believably into a story we've already decided we want to write.

2024-07-14 18:23:12

I don't think there's much controversy in stating that the guy who shot #Trump -- a registered Republican and White male Christian -- was the product of the GOP's culture of violence.
He's everything they want him to be,
EXCEPT he didn't shoot at Joe #Biden
People are hard to predict... difficult to "program."
If he'd shot a "woke" Lefty, he'd get the Kyle Rittenhouse treatment...
Chaos is tricky though. People are complex. Maybe the culture of violence angle is the wrong approach.

2024-07-14 07:07:31

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@npub1umt…lhmy
No, but there are two fewer Republican voters in Pennsylvania, which is a key swing state.

2024-07-13 23:19:03

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@npub1ffl…tv7d Fascists gonna fascist.

2024-07-13 23:00:18

Looking forward to the media interviewing Trumpers saying things like "I saw Jesus descend and protect #Trump it was a miracle!"

2024-07-13 22:34:20

#Trump just got shot.
Incredibly, he wasn't at an elementary school.

2024-07-13 21:01:56

People are acting like the US election is about choosing a restaurant.
"I don't like either; let's just stay in."
No.
You're starving. You can:
Eat Taco Bell. You're starving, so it'll make you ill, but you'll survive.
Eat arsenic. You'll die.
Eat nothing. You'll die.
#Trump is the arsenic one.
#Biden is Taco Bell.
Sitting out and pouting about the world not being exactly what you want is the choosing to starve
This election isn't choosing a restaurant. It's choosing whether to live

2024-07-11 22:18:43

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@npub1su4…a0dw
Counterpoint: They just didn't like Nazi stuff.

2024-07-11 21:34:23

The "Trump will push America toward authoritarianism" language is bullshit.
#Trump is an unequivocal up-front fascist, replete with pogroms, political prisoners, para-military party wings, etc.
Hair-splitting on how much he's like this fascist or that one -- or that he's a "slippery slope" -- is nonsense.
Trump is what's at the bottom of the slippery slope.

2024-07-03 21:58:37

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@npub189n…satx
As a white man, I vote like you. I do this not out of pity, guilt, or even because I understand your experience.
I do it because it is just. It's that simple.

2024-07-01 18:14:18

Quick bit of history:
The 17th century, not the medieval period, was the height of absolutism in Europe. From this derived the wars of religion and the invention of the nation-state; witch burning was a popular activity.
It wasn't that long ago. Harvard was founded in 1636.
This post has nothing to do with #SCOTUS trashing abortion rights, declaring the #POTUS above the law in all cases of "official" acts, or Evangelicals fomenting "culture wars" to mystify our politics, nothing at all.

2024-06-24 17:17:50

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@npub10n9…tjug
Same. And after. And when answering the question, "what do you do?"
And when talking to my dad.
And at 2:00 AM when I wake up and think "you'll be dead some day."
;)

2024-06-24 17:15:07

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@npub10n9…tjug
Optional: "Why the hell am I a writer?"

2024-06-24 17:09:56

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@npub10n9…tjug
"What the hell do I want to write?"
"What the hell am I writing?"
"What the hell did I write?"
;)

2024-06-24 17:07:31

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@npub10n9…tjug
All of the above, but it's a different tool at each stage.

2024-06-24 16:50:21

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@npub1c9e…zhes
Next up: normalizing death lists.

2024-06-22 18:21:50

Looked up a Planck length on my phone. AI, unbidden, gave the top answer, giving a size comparison with a proton that was incorrect by 21 orders of magnitude.
I didn't ask AI. I didn't ask for a size comparison with a proton. Nonetheless, the bot gave me an impossible answer.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/661/651/868/560/842/original/84111ba0397a5ed7.jpg

2024-06-15 20:38:52

When you see Stanford caving to pressure from the American right-wing to shut down groups that study the negative effects of the American right-wing on society, remember that university boards consist primarily of fascist financiers and technocrats, not warm fuzzy humanities faculty
University administrations are as anti-intellectual as you'd expect investment bankers to be. They're moving money. They don't give two farts about people, institutions, etc. Higher education trains their work force

2024-05-31 17:10:17

The fact the the #GOP is fawning over #Trump the day after he's convicted tells you everything about its viability as a party.
This is their last gasp. Put the pillow on their face and push hard.