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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 9 days ago • 1614 comments

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

submitted 12 days ago • 226 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 13 days ago • 2085 comments

will crypto look like this in a year

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 16 days ago • 291 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

submitted 23 days ago • 3405 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 23 days ago • 4419 comments

What fresh hell we got today

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

submitted 34 days ago • 1217 comments

Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 138 comments

Unrelated to my kid joining Bluesky, Meta's decision to let their services turn even more into troll mires means we're likely to have another influx of new users. Let us pray to the almighty Alf Hog that the servers are ready.

submitted 47 days ago • 57 comments

Hmm can we workshop the name please? They’re going to be bullied by the skibidi kids

submitted 54 days ago • 1350 comments

Congrats on eating this shit sandwich for two long years, Mike Johnson

submitted 66 days ago • 77 comments

The drone shit is proving that we're in for (at least) four years of nonstop War of the Worlds panics. People you once believed smart and entrust with your children will corner you with podcast medicine. Refuting it? Pointless. You will realize your doctor is an alchemist 25 minutes before surgery.

submitted 68 days ago • 217 comments

love these looks from Proper Cloth's new lookbook titled "New Ivy." even the grey shetland knit with black jeans and small dress watch looks great.

submitted 71 days ago • 116 comments

This is literally true. School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose. From my book WHITE FLIGHT:

submitted 76 days ago • 136 comments

I'm sorry but it's time to talk to your kid about the Council of Nicaea

submitted 76 days ago • 26 comments

This video stirred a surprising amount of controversy on Twitter. So I want to talk about how to think about the fit of men's pants. 🧵 www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/vide...

submitted 80 days ago • 60 comments

I'm in this post and I don't like it

submitted 81 days ago • 38 comments

fascinating, relatable @kait.bsky.social piece on her experience with a course aimed at helping people reduce their phone use (I type from my phone in bed at 10:30 pm) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Making TikToks at a 144-year-old newspaper like

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

I follow way fewer people on BlueSky than on Twitter, yet I've gotten far faster and more reliable information on developments in South Korea here than over there

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People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

submitted 84 days ago • 2991 comments

Imitation, flattery, etc techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/m...

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Reskeet if you’re so so sleepy

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The Meta thing is interesting because users have been vocally opposed to all these tweaks along the way & they have defended each one w/ metrics+engagement. But when there’s competition, people are moving. It’s a reminder that engagement ≠ enjoyment. Wonder what experts have to say about this ⬇️

submitted 90 days ago • 323 comments

DOOMERISM DOESN’T WORK is a thing I will keep saying

submitted 91 days ago • 13 comments

Know 👏🏽 your 👏🏽 worth! 👏🏽

submitted 92 days ago • 441 comments

The other exploding area of dark money in politics is the crypto lobby. They have dumped insane sums in elections in both parties (Dem primaries + GOP general elections). It’s pretty bad

submitted 92 days ago • 542 comments

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

submitted 93 days ago • 1648 comments

im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.

submitted 96 days ago • 581 comments

"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.

submitted 97 days ago • 444 comments

when i first joined bluesky i really underestimated just how much time we would spend posting about lord of the rings

submitted 97 days ago • 16 comments