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On the old website I was blackcheckerjim. I used to be in a band called Black Checker, and my name is Jim. The band no longer exists, but my name is still Jim.
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One of the four stories you posted involved institutional journalists pretending that their institutions are more important than they are by stealing the work of an independent journalist and crediting their institution instead.
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also the kerning on bring is all fucked up, it looks like “loving your own stereo”
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I’m told that basically everyone in the Annapolis music scene has had an encounter with Jimi Haha, and those encounters have been uniformly negative
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Tyler Childers - "Heart You've Been Tendin' (Jubilee Version)”
William Matheny - “Every Way to Lose”
Sturgill Simpson - “In Bloom”
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I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s “or worse”
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both your last two posts have bolstered my argument that housing pressure is different than food and energy pressure, which really was my only point in the first place
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Yes it is. You can eat cheaper food. You can use less energy. Thanks to single family home-only zoning, there is no cheaper housing. The cheaper housing units literally do not exist.
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So that is another way that people don’t actually judge the economy by. Maybe they should. Maybe you want them to. But they don’t.
Saying “look at the math” does not change the way that the pressures of high cost housing in particular make people feel.
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If you judge our economy by how big a tv you can get for a thousand dollars, this would easily be the greatest economy ever. But that does not seem to be how most people actually judge the economy.
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and the only point I am making is that people are unable to perceive the other gains the economy is making because they think they’re a couple paychecks away from living in their car. That a country-wide lack of affordable housing makes people unable to see any other gains.
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Wow, so it turns out I am totally wrong and you are right. It is actually a good thing that people can afford to buy steak but can’t afford anywhere to cook it.
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I’m specifically talking about the increase in the cost of housing relative to inflation and wage growth, and I think you have to go back longer than 20 years
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In the past, people could afford somewhere to live no matter if the economy was “good” or “bad.” Now people can’t afford anywhere to live whether the economy is “good” or “bad.” So who really gives a fuck if the economy is “good” if people don’t see their lives improve because of it?
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I’m sorry this feeble brain is attacking you; FYI this kind of thread is where this BlueSky extension really helps to know if someone has any interest in genuine conversation about trans people or whether they are subjects of a failed journalist’s transphobe fiefdom
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craig newmark
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I agree so much. If you can delete two paragraphs from your op ed and the conclusion seems different, it’s not arguing effectively!
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This looks like Corky St. Clair’s apartment in Waiting for Guffman
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I bought a DVR for over-the-air TV specifically for this purpose; it has been money well spent
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when people say they are mad because the democrats are bad at communicating here is what they actually mean:
I feel sad and powerless and I’m lashing out at the only people who will listen
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me too but if people I follow on Bluesky seem to be talking about it a lot I may reconsider
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100% chance that Justice Thomas has a Harlan Crow-financed goon lair
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the four notes of the “Unlimited” melody are the same as the first four notes of the chorus of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, albeit with a different rhythm and different harmonization
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How Marisa Kabas is modeling acquiescence
Is she just going to just roll over for frivolous legal threats? Signs point to yes.
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easy for you to say, your tweets are good
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boy king of a fiefdom of transphobes