adamvann.bsky.social
I was the one who did the cover art for the Stones’ Sucking in the Seventies LP
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Presidents routinely cite to non-emergency “emergencies” to justify sanctions and other trade restrictions under the IEEPA, but I don’t recall anyone else declaring a non-existent emergency in order to take domestic action
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Worth remembering that this site was a refuge for oppressed communities in its early days, trans people in particular. Imagine them listening to straight white men (the people from whom they needed refuge) trying to advise them on how to make the site more palatable for other straight white men
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If you use feeds and block liberally this is a complete non-issue.
For example there are no politics in my "good lunch" feed. Or even in my premier league feed, where I just now clicked to see if that was the case and ended up learning where Kevin DeBryune was heading next season. The site works!
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Hey thanks for the heads up- got shut out of lottery and didn't even know there was a presale today until I saw this in the Phish feed. Just grabbed three-day passes 👍
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Right, but you can do both here because of the feeds. Main feed is gonna have some stuff about the black cloud whether you want it or not, but if you need or want some sunshine, you can always find it
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FWIW it seems like the "followers you know" list may be incomplete but @brendelbored.bsky.social was an early Bluesky skeeter who is consistently hilarious, strong recommend adding him if you haven't yet
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Other social media sites also do terrible things!
The broader critique doesn't make sense. Bluesky has always been a no-algorithm user-guided experience where you decide 100% of what you see. Feels like you're just pining for the vibe of 2011 Twitter, which can't last or be reverse-engineered
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Exactly right.
They're also lazy in choosing topics to cover. Bluesky criticism has to be the most over-covered topic on the planet already. Apparently there's no bad stuff going on at the other social media sites that needs highlighting
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Complaining about people not posting enough of the sort of content you enjoy on this social media site is like watching C-Span and wondering why there's not more car chases. Just change the channel! bsky.app/feeds
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Amazing what happens when you have media that conveys something vaguely resembling the truth instead of just serving as white male billionaire propaganda factories
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This is wonderful, thanks. So much context for my happy memories
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NO WC in DC next year. It's because Snyder was still the Commanders owner when they were picking sites, but in retrospect maybe it's not the worst thing to steer clear of Trumpism wherever possible
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What I would give for just one reporter to ask her what she thought the "Mass Deportations Now" signs at the RNC meant
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Democrats have won many elections before (I swear it’s true, look it up) and not ONCE do I remember legacy media inviting far left media figures on the air to ask how the GOP can win back a Dem-leaning demographic block
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When this blows over I would love to hear a deep dive into what went into this apparently reputable journalist with a distinguished career deciding to nuke his hard-earned reputation overnight by platforming the rape jokes guy
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Moonage Daydream Moonage Daydream Moonage Daydream!
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Not all heroes wear capes 👍
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hey @gene.meme if we send you money directly will you post a gift link?
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It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
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Try it both with and without Mario Kart, too!
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Sign on to an account and try to click "show in-stock stores" here. When I do so, I get a sidebar on the right listing stores that have it in stock. Looks like most of the downtown ones are gone now, but plenty left in some close-in suburbs
www.target.com/p/nintendo-s...
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I stand by my post- my experience with my neighbors is the exact opposite of "fuck you, figure it out on your own."
I deleted it because attempting quote-tweet dunking is pathetic and stupid
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I don't think that at all- in fact I've said the exact opposite both in this thread and elsewhere.
I imagine neither does Tim, but he can speak for himself
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I'm sorry ... what?
Not only do I have no idea how we got here, I absolutely believe many Americans are vile white supremacists and consider it a deal-breaker. I suspect most of Bluesky would agree. Where did you get any notion otherwise?
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That's not a consequence, and I'd blame the Times for failing to ask these people certain questions.
I have no interest in forgiveness of MAGA voters (or anyone) without contrition, but extending that anger to Tim makes no sense. We're all just trying to find the best way out of this disaster
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Large, obvious, solicited bribes of public officials are inarguably very very very very bad for pretty much all of us.
You should report them as such instead of acting like their badness depends on the nuances of federal criminal law
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Right ,or wrong, your rush to chime in and chide optimistic strangers with unsolicited doomerism is the issue. Nobody's awarding bonus points for most accurate predictions of the descent into fascism. Keep that shit to yourself
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I think the issue is not that the point is incorrect, but that it's silly because food and AI are not really comparable consumer products. One's practical value is obvious, and the other one apparently exists to tell Matthew McConaughy the weather before he goes out to eat dinner by himself
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They’re also still a few shows shy of their self-imposed annual limit even if you add in a new years run.
New levels of obsessiveness!
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Yeah, just off on local info. RNC fronts first street right across from the metro, it’s where food trucks always park to serve the south/House side of Capitol Hill
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I work around the corner from the RNC and I’m gonna need all of Bluesky to shut up about this until I get my free tacos TIA
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Exactly. As some point we got rid of shame. We need to bring it back
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My point is that we’ve tried everything EXCEPT chastising these people for unknowingly or knowingly voting for cruelty for a decade now. It’s not working. Maybe it’s time to try being assholes to them. Being assholes seems to be working for the other side, and their targets don’t even deserve it!
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Dear DNC: my next door neighbor loves Trump and hates pupusas, please own him next
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Counterpoint: free tacos
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Yeah if nothing else maybe “yes you DID vote for this” will encourage people to pay more attention to candidates and the stakes of elections in the future.
Can’t hurt- like I said we’ve been doing the other thing for a decade and things keep getting worse
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Except the Dems and the entire political media apparatus have been catering to the fee-fees of white midwestern or southern Trump voters for a decade now and things keep getting worse. Maybe it’s time to borrow from the post-2008 GOP playbook instead, that seemed effective
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I think you’re saying the same thing I am? We don’t need to convince Missouri hypocrites to vote differently, we need to convince the rest of America to unite and stand against against these idiots, and if we’re lucky maybe discourage the idiots from voting at all
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Elections are not simply or even primarily about persuading voters to change. They’re also about activating emotion and passion. The GOP has spent decades openly antagonizing everyone who disagrees with them about anything and it doesn’t seem to have hurt them at the polls
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Unfair to blame this on our innocent, perfect midwestern Trump voters, they had no way of knowing who this “Stephen Miller” fellow is or that he would play a role in the Trump Administration they elected
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I guess the "citizens" referenced in your name don't include victims of sexual assault and workplace harassment
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Great read.
FWIW I suspect many of the folks demanding mea culpas from Trump voters owe the rest of us a similar apology for sidelining and tut-tutting the obviously correct "Abolish ICE" movement
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They voted for Trump's immigration policies too. The data is all American adults, not Trump voters.
Absolutely no idea where Morris got the idea that tens of millions of Trump voters do not broadly approve of his immigration policies. There's zero evidence of that as far as I can tell
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Quote tweeting is such a garbage move. Whine somewhere else
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Most of it goes to BOFA
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Are you under the impression that the democrats do not hold rallies in the lead up to elections?
I may have been giving you too much credit here