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The community mod list era was pretty bad because of ... we all know why. The labelers are better but not by enough. I still want to see "transphobia" or "racist" labels but ... every time I find one they start fine and slowly devolve into "disagreed with the maintainer"

they truly want to believe that they're brave, they're heterodox, their deeply conservative impulses come not from a place of base reactionary fear but intellectual rigor and here is Bari Weiss, ready to tell them they're ever braver than they think

nine years old

This is some fun environmental storytelling.

There was a guy from my high school that got arrested and convicted for fed posting during Obama first term. So this is fucking extra weird to me.

fictional serial killer after being caught: ah detective, but when you rage at me, are you not really raging against God? I see you, a vulnerable little boy, after your mother died. I know those feelings. real serial killer: well I guess you guys caught me. can I have a cheeseburger?

Fiction has to make sense to land a least a small audience. Reality has no such constraint. It knows we’re captive.

Nuremberg trials are a compromise.

I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator

I am the descendant of African Slaves and Irish peasants who is studying to become an academic in one of the hubs of the world. That happened because people fought for and one the impossible one fucking step at a time. Do not tell me there is not a better world to be made.

Apart of the obvious problems... this also is explicitly just TV as baby sitter.

so it was a coup

Think of the how much it would take to get a simplistic understanding of villians: Saruman, Sauron, Moriarty, Dr Freeze, Harley Quinn, Agent Smith, Darth Vader, .... would take at least a ~100 words for the simplest. Trump takes under 20.

I find my media consumption habits have altered. I now prefer complex villains with depth because it provides a nice break from the reality of a decaying corpse doing evil because "he wants to take things from people without permission because he likes hurting people and taking stuff".

The labels don't miss lmao

i find it interesting that @cortezmasto.senate.gov posted this to threads & twitter, but not bsky, despite most posts just being duplicates

You will never win a war by saying the very thing you are fighting for is an irredeemable blemish on the face of the earth.

It looks as if the color correction was done wrong.

You could have prevented so so much of the current problems in the world by just doing a few big prosecutions of white collar, esp money laundering, in the 90s. Even if you change nothing else, putting a crack in elite impunity and disrupting the money for the worst people would done so much.

I understand why it exists but licensing is terrible complication for people in our communities. #MST3K #TheLastDriving #Svengoolie

One thing that shows how intellectually vapid most people on social media are is you see arguments like "<pic of someone's replies>" then we yell at the person being replied to as if they said the thing. Its similar too but way dumber than judging people by their comment section.

I think one of the reasons people get mad at this is because they don't trust him to back them up when they get arrested but he posts like he thinks he is on the team despite not getting of the bench nor talking to people on the front.

Nuremberg trials are too good for these people

I can make children read again

I dont like dunking on the UK because its unhealthy but wtf is going on overthere.

I second this as someone who has done doorknocking and phone banking for not quite a decade. It feels very different this time.

The dangers of scheduling posts is real.

So much cool stuff came out of there, in addition to Red Green which seems to have legs everywhere throughout the midwest they supplied so much of the early Nickelodeon stuff, including "You Can't Do That on Television" and "Mr. Wizards World"

I genuinely believe that the next president should arrest Trump first thing. Simply make a national security determination - a thing which falls within the "core powers" of the presidency! - and dare Roberts to overturn his own ruling

lawyers in response: "thank god i can construct a rube goldberg device to show law is finally real again"

This includes purple states like Wisconsin. We built talent statewide through dedication and recruiting. We won race after race by phone calls and door knocking and effective use of resources. No national helped us. There was not some great army of the DNC. We did it without them.

Update by the WH pool Pool didn’t see POTUS board replacement AF1, which is the smaller aircraft (757). 

Sending now as cell coverage poor inside this plane. We will be wheels up for Zurich at some point soon.

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In early covid I tried to convince a plumber pal to do door to door sales of bidets... since people were stock piling tp... Could not convince him...

Democrats have done a very good job holding the line on trans stuff. Its a clear highlight and they should talk it up more.

Oh please God oh please. We deserve it to happen.... Actually we deserve it to happen live on stage and he shits himself.... but it just happening will be good enough

you can get mad about this, but this is the truth. this is a politician leveling with you like an adult

Finally, a headline I can get behind www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

we have been running off alpha governmental software for 250 years, at some point we need to declare jira bankruptcy and re-draft in the wiki

Got this recommendation, I think I will have to pick it up for a read.

In Dragonlance the KingPriest, the religious leader and head of state, caused the Cataclysm, where the gods slammed a mountain into the capital of the empire, by demanding too much of the gods, such as more wealth and power and recognition and godhood itself. dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Cataclysm

cutting ICE's detention budget ~60% as compared to what they'd get out of a CR and legally restricting them from shuffling funds across budgets are substantive improvements, even if they're not enough, which murray herself is very clear about.

Is that cross the marker of a traffic death? Bleakly common to see them in anywhere that thinks its rural.

Really sums up the last decade.

the general sense is that a lot of officials want someone, anyone to stop trump but no one wants to be the first one to move or have to make any tough, short-term sacrifices for long-term gain

Literally Japanese high command on the eve of war with the United States

Some of this is ... fine. Cutting budget right off the top line is actually good and moving it to stuff like body cameras and training sounds good. But like this is still trimming around the edged of a deep rotten core.

Another big one "Cuts funding for CBP by nearly $1.3 billion."