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pierced.bsky.social
he/him/his Tech by trade, politics and law by hobby. But, like, trying not to be the type of person you'd assume that describes? 😬 I think humanity went off the rails the first time someone wished they knew what time it was.
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It is such a waste of time to debate whether Trump can or cannot do this or that. WE ARE THE ONES WHO DECIDE WHAT THEY CAN OR CANNOT DO. If you voted for him for tax cuts or whatever, YOU can decide that he can't abduct people off the street and send them to a gulag. But that only works if it's we.

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This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

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@ifbookspod.bsky.social remember Steve Harvey's guidelines instructing that no one he works with can contact him directly? Can't believe I'm saying this, but he was apparently ahead of his time.

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Do any European languages have a seventeen-syllable word to describe having an insightful thought, starting to ponder it, then getting a phone notification and forgetting it entirely? Or was that scenario so obvious that they made it three syllables, something like "NOKIA!!!"

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Not a Californian, but is Gavin Newsom a bad method actor auditioning for a role as a Republican?

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@erbofhistory.bsky.social Have you thought about Marc Andreessen vs. Beldar Conehead? Actual political potential there.

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To what degree has hustle culture permeated U.S. consciousness? As tariffs increase prices, will people blame Trump? Or will they say "Welp, we all knew Temu was a scam" and look for the next One Weird Trick? Maybe we could just buy good things at a reasonable price without gaming the system?

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You know what will offer an optimistic distraction from the end times? The Catholic Church. Saideth no one ever

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Feels like our system was designed under the assumption that it'd take so long to ruin it that we'd vote people out before they did too much damage. And then the most gaping asshole with a few marginal votes in the house, senate, and supreme court is all it took to detonate everything.

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Emergent proper T.

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Today is memeve, can't wait to sneak downstairs in my pajamas tonight and try to catch what the most embarrassingly online administration is putting under the tree. I left out some raw milk and browser tracking cookies.

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It's long past time for journalists to stop describing the "beliefs" of those currently in power. They claim things. You don't know whether they actually believe those things, so it's not good reporting. Good faith assumptions are a luxury unsuited to authoritarianism.

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"Look after facts, you'll miss them when they're gone." youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE

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I pledge allegiance to the ƃɐןℲ of the Petty Kingdom of America. And to the Republicans for which it stans, one narcissist as its god, unable to do division, liberated from justice for all.

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The only evidence I've seen that conservatives on the Supreme Court have any experience at all, is that they've clearly learned from previous landmark cases. Brown v. Board of Education II ordered desegregation "with all deliberate speed," and that ambiguity was a gift to racist institutions. Hence…

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The Art of the Deal came out the same year as Piss Christ, which feels a bit redundant.

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It's going to happen.

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New Department of Education guidelines: the official pangram for teaching the alphabet is now "The quick fox jumped over the lazy brown dog, it was the quickest fox, everyone says so, almost as quick as me but you know it wasn't even close, the fox cried when he saw how quick I was."

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I absolutely understand what they were going for here, but this is perhaps the most dystopian menu I've ever seen in an interface. Feels like an easter egg from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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After all these years I still reflexively type "smile." when going to amazon dot com... the program where you could choose a charity to benefit from your purchases. They canceled it. The title of the main page of amazon dot com says "Spend less. Smile more." Maybe they stumbled into a good point.

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I guess it matches the zeitgeist, but this Disney+ Marvel interface shows NO ONE WHO SEEMS HAPPY TO BE THERE. The straightforward alt text description is all the commentary it needs.

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We shit on J. Jonah Jameson, but I'd forgotten that when Green Goblin was holding him by the throat looking for Spider-Man's photographer, he could've literally pointed at Peter in the room but refused to snitch. (yes, a lot of "rewatching Marvel movies" posts lately. nostalgia for simpler times)

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