ericallyn.bsky.social
I make jokes about metahumor.
He/him. Grey-haired white cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic.
Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. Immigrant lives matter.
Facts matter. Science matters.
Aka Eric Bloomquist.
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“Bullies have always been intersectional”, as @SlacktivistFred once said:
www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
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They’re still for small government in pretty much the same way they’ve been for decades. Small government for themselves, Big Brother for everyone else.
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I can say with a certain amount of confidence that they’re infighting.
I mean, my experience in that context is very dated, but if they’re anything like they used to be, they make Democrats look positively cooperative and strongly united.
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Overconfident white men by their very nature can’t be dissuaded.
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I don't think so. I don't think the US or Israel did, either, so that's nice.
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Remember, those two "do their own research", so if you really really stretched the meaning of "researchers", this might actually sort of kind of be true.
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A broken calendar is right once a year.
(Okay, that doesn't actually make sense, but you know what I mean.)
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Almost all of your books are on my "favorite rereads" list.
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Yes, emphatically yes.
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Musk is going to go after his mechanical Turk with a chain saw.
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It's particularly cool when our nation's enemies say ominous shit partly in response to our nation's president saying ominous shit to them.
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Bowing, blowing, whatever. They can look kind of similar.
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I hope the history book authors correctly describe it as "egregious fucking bullshit".
I'm only barely joking.
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DEI
Donald's
Enforcement
Inc.
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Because some of the kidnappers might be LEOs picking up a little cash in a part-time job.
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Right. Now connect the two.
"We demand ID when you vote but won't ID ourselves when we disappear you for how you voted."
(Remember, Trump *bragged* that he'll be targeting Democratic-majority cities.)
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Yeah, that tracks.
OpenAI: "Math class is tough!"
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Hell, Trump's not even civil to people in his own party. But as long as he's even more uncivil to other people, they're fine with that.
Being led by an asshole appeals to them, as long as he's more of an asshole to "those people".
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If the GOP didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have standards at all.
Hell, that's why they keep fighting "Equal justice under the law" and against any efforts to address systemic biases. They think whites & non-whites, men & not-men, wealthy & not ... SHOULD be treated differently.
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Remember when suggesting that someone wear a mask was a HIPAA violation?
[Narrator: No, it wasn't.]
Good times.
[Narrator: No, they weren't.]
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Imagine if some foreign crackpot *leader of an extremely well-armed nation with a huge number of nuclear weapons* told us to evacuate NYC.
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Hey everyone, a new synonym for "übermensch" just dropped.
Expect to see a new startup soon, called YouGenics, funded by these guys.
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Oh, foxgloves are lovely! And bees and butterflies and hummingbirds love 'em.
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Okay, now let's do ... [checks notes] ... everything else.
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The cast was just 😲!
Robert Redford
Dan Aykroyd
Ben Kingsley
Mary McDonnell
River Phoenix
Sidney Poitier
David Strathairn
I mean ... three of them have won Oscars and the others have been nominated.
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(Admittedly, he should have phrased that better.)
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"I would be blind not to call it out."
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN BACK.
Including most of the legacy media.
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Trump's presidency and his businesses interests are inseparable by anything less than a fusion-powered Sawzall.
This is one of the inevitable results of the goddamn stupid idea that a "successful" businessperson would make a good president.
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This is hilarious on so many levels.
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I bet he was this -><- close to calling him "boy".
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He didn't mention them, but I'm sure they're on his little list. A combined million+ No Kings activists and LGBTQ+ people? I bet he pissed in his diaper at least a little.
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... which clearly hasn't made him any less insecure.
Even as petty tyrant-wannabes go, he's pretty pathetic. Dangerously pathetic, sure, but still pathetic.
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Democratic cities famously don't have any of those things.
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Wow, he has a really small ... megaphone.
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We really did embarrass the hell out of him on Saturday, didn't we? So now he's predictably lashing out.
He's such an insecure and petty asshole.
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I've been exposed to rightwing ideas since I was a kid.
I remember family members agreeing with Anita Bryant, for fucks sake. Most of the leftwing ideas I was exposed to were from *books* that I borrowed from the *library*.
(Which is partly why I support our town library.)
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By design.
The right has played the refs so successfully over recent decades that the refs should get paid for being on their team. (Which sometimes they are.)
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Did Republicans kill Democrats so they could turn around and blame Democrats?
Seriously, I doubt that was a direct motivation, but the killers probably knew the usual suspects would do the usual crap.
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It's worth noting that protecting ocean areas *increases* fishing harvests in the areas around them.
It's roughly equivalent to the idea of "seed corn", which seems obvious in retrospect.
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Tbh, that's still a little creepy though.
Give me a friendly mutt with a rainbow bandanna any ol' day. I guess I'm just a traditionalist.
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It would look (to some people) very "Marxist" though. Or "communist" or "socialist" or whatever.
But given that some folks throw those words around at anything they don't like ... [shrug].
(Worth noting that "socialism" polled better than "Project 2025" during the campaign.)
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Some people seem to think that being disagreed with is somehow a threat to their 1st Amendment rights.
🤷🏼
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* They're
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Public transportation is one of the few things I miss from when we lived in the Boston area.