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I guess that watching over a million people die of COVID just to go "back to normal" and then watch a genocide be sponsored even by the Democrats made it pretty clear to the more overt fascists that mass murder's on the menu and nobody will say anything about it.

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Never forgive, never forget

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Now imagining the "for fans of..." music rec algorithm thingy, but for drugs

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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

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huh i wonder why the trump administration lied about releasing the full epstein files

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I mean that some men felt "feminized" by a crisis that required care instead of violence

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Fucking finally

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this is important and I fully agree but I'll also extend this as a word to folks doing anything else, too - blogging illustration, linkedin posts, podcast logo, itch cover art, fan page, literally everywhere, you'll be better off with even roughly slapped together stuff than whatever genAI plops out

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i keep banging this drum - now is the time to educate yourself on the concept of necrosecurity. the right wing believe mass deaths make THEM safer and society stronger. understand this and you will understand RFK and what they will unleash on us.

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i hate talking to people on here who you can tell have no actual morals or principles because everything is a "slippery slope" to them even when it's absolutely not. "if we start harassing nazis where does it stop??" at the nazis. that's where it stops. i have an actual moral framework, do you?

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This is of course very true and I know this doesn't need to be said but: The terrifying part is not everything can/will be put back the way it was, even if Musk & co realize "Oh yeah that was there for a reason" Twitter functionality is so much easier to turn back on than government functionality

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This! You can literally keep your specific thing specific! "But I want to reuse some characters/places" then just make a shared universe! or do crossovers! People LOVE that shit! "But that's cringe/unprofessional!" Professionalism never got jack shit done. Actually DOING the thing has.

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"Stranger danger" is so nefarious as a propaganda tool, because 1) most sexual violence is committed by people known to the victim and 2) the people imagined to be "the stranger" (trans people, immigrants, Black people) are themselves most at risk for facing violence from people they don't know

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Don't forget that Bezos made it quite clear the direction of the paper if you're debating telling your story to the WaPo. Check out @marisakabas.bsky.social or the folks at @wired.com and @rollingstone.com if you want to be sure your story will be told and you won't end up on a list

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the current head of the FBI has 8 separate appearances on this show

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And let's be absolutely fucking clear, because someone should be, that "blank cheque" will be cancelled hard and fast if the freelance vigilante is any combination of poor, dark-skinned, Muslim, queer, lefty "activist" or an immigrant. Because it always is.

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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇 Better start, huh?!

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I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask

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I love you, good people, but if you're on Substack, you really really need to get off Substack (see: following).

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Everyone wants fewer deadly crashes, and any decline in fatalities is good news. But before we declare victory, we have to ask a crucial question: Is this decline real? Or is it simply a return to pre-pandemic conditions, misattributed to policy changes?

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Something that baffles me about pro-LLM people is that they are all convinced that intelligence is having a basic, summarized read of a million things? Instead of knowledge being an ability to piece together and holistically understand many complex details?

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I very strongly feel that the political press is uniquely to blame for this

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WHY ARE WE DEBATING PEOPLE'S SAFETY AND EXISTENCE IN THE FUCKING FIRST PLACE (what if you were the party of not a single human being got left behind and we will ensure that our policy is here for every single one of you how could that have gone ffs)

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We've supported RAINN for over thirty years. They folded at the first real test of solidarity. These are great times to find out who really has your back.

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I think there's merit to the idea that fascism must, inevitably, eat itself and collapse but if you take that as your goal, if you wait for fascism to eat itself, it'll eat everyone else first the natural state of the world is not caring who survives

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Friedrich Merz, German chancellor candidate stated also "No one on #Gaza is free from guilt"⚠️ Justifying and openly agreeing to the mass murder of babies, children, women. No outcry from no one in this country ❗🥶 I fear, the 23 Febr. 2025 will becomes one of the darkest since 1933 for Germany❗

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With alt text.

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Yes! It's less about "sheer numbers of children" and more about "making sure children are firmly under the thumb of parents who are fully onboard with fascism."

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White power and fascism depend on a nuclear family and a traditional nuclear family to enforce hierarchy and power dynamics that are then reproduced later in life within the fascist system. People who are LGBTQ plus knock a hole in this fundamental lie they require to to reproduce their ideology

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I stand by this!

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For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

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The assumption that the (white, rich) women married to the architects of our current apocalypse are victims-by-default—too delicate or too weak to stand up to the racist fascists they support—is just kid-gloved misogyny.

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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

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With Alt text.

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“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”

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The propensity for so many people who live in 'blue' states to have this mentality of "lets just abandon the 'red' states to the worst of this because this is those people's fault and they deserve it" is a clear sign they are not at all as far removed from fascism as they think they are.

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