thebullypulpit.bsky.social
Watch.Dogs.Keep.Score.
History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.
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*its meaning 🙄
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More power to her. To us. (Control over one's feeds is why I saw this 23 seconds after you posted it. As it should be).
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My point is if the whales die, we all do. The hundreds of millions of years it took to evolve the infinitely complex (and failing) balance that allowed us to thrive is being undone by this climate deregulation.
People have no idea how fast we are careening towards ecological collapse. After that? đź’€
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There are but two possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: genocide or a fair peace.
The one Netanyahu chose—elimination of Gaza as a Palestinian entity—will fail. He has neither the death camps, public support, nor the ability to hunt down every expat on earth.
It must be peace.
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There are but two possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: genocide or a fair peace.
The one Netanyahu chose—elimination of Gaza as a Palestinian entity—will fail. He has neither the death camps, public support, nor the ability to hunt down every expat on earth.
It must be peace.
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Depends. My original content gets some traction. Interactions too.
I do have a French language account that gets zeeero engagement, but I chalk that up to French Canada not being on here (yet).
One can only hope things will improve as quality posters join.
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La voix passive m'exaspère. Ça mériterait une lettre à l'ombudsman du Devoir.
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"My dog, what the hell were you thinking?"
What indeed.
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It shows how utterly unbiased I am /s
I should apply at The Atlantic: Post one opinion one day and the polar opposite the next. All in the name of "keeping the conversation going".
Are PFAS really all that bad? 10 ways collapse might improve your social life. I have a whole trove of story ideas.
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You're suggesting you weren't already feeling smug. As an Apple user myself, I find that very hard to believe.
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Disagree: he's missing the fact that people critique before examining the data; opinionate before trying to wrap their brains around an issue.
It's all talking points. And disinformation's underappreciated cousin, dismissal.
Good job, OP.
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As for a (too) large plurality of Americans not seeing much of a problem with this "realignment" from "excessive wokeness", I'm with you.
I'm seeing a lot more begrudging acceptance than organized defiance. Something is definitely rotten—and it ain't the State of Denmark.
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It hurts more when supposed allies end up being just as biased, unthinking (and rabid) as the opposition.
The enemy's got to be all things anti-science, anti-truth, and I've noticed an uptick in convenient group think—people sticking to shortcuts & talking points rather than digging deeper.
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There are users, yes. But engagement is way down. I'm basing this entirely on the fact that I am totally disengaged. Not engaging in the least.
[We really need to get more people off of Meta and X—the disinformation coursing through those platforms is why MAGA essentially remains unchecked]
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No. I refuse to believe that droplet dogma is still a thing. *Checks public health's course correction, sees there has been none; they just "moved on" while not pushing for better indoor ventilation and a cultural shift towards masking while symptomatic*
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Only it isn't an accurate quote. The truth matters. Now, more than ever.
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Oh, I will. Count on it. ✊
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I know it. We need more choir. Tenors and barytones in particular.
If the truth of the matter were more known, people like you and me wouldn’t be so isolated.
Public health keeps failing us all.
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And having caught SARS CoV-2 previously does not protect you from COVID-induced metabolic injury ("Long COVID") — it makes you more, not less, vulnerable.
Vaccines reduce—but don’t eliminate—the risk of disability. Only thing that does: not catching it. Ventilation, masking while symptomatic.
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Just as the coming out of closeted Trans folk is behind toxic masculinity, the emancipation of women is behind their renewed subjugation, climate science is responsible for "drill baby drill".
We really shouldn’t have worn skirts. It’s our fault if the rapists raped us. Even children would have.
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There are but two possible final solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: genocide or a fair peace.
The one Netanyahu chose—elimination of Gaza as a Palestinian entity—will fail. He has neither industrial death camps nor the ability to hunt down every expat on earth.
It must be peace.
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I’d say tread carefully, Brent, but that is precisely what fascist regimes want of you: compliance.
Evil is evil, no matter the banner under which it marches. No child — be it Palestinian, Jewish, Salvadoran, Russian or Yemeni is a terrorist.
And no amount of violence will solve this conflict.