shannonbarnsley.bsky.social
Writer and folklore devotee from New England. Author. Poet. Editor. Chronic illness bard. 2x stroke survivor. Forest wanderer. Lifelong pagan. Dog person. Amateur baker. Occasional balladeer.
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Apparently, "unsmellable" isn't a word? Strike one, nerds. How did you miss creating that one?
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Leaving or fired, he's $170 BILLION richer.
He destroyed the agencies tasked with regulating his businesses. He shut down active investigations.
He's still pledging $100 million to political groups controlled by the President.
We're not stopping until he's truly out of power.
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Almost like this should be further looked into, something democract establishment types won't be doing.
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I am so sad to see the youth now repeating this absolutely addled redpill stuff to me when 9 or so years ago, they were teaching me so many interesting things they learned online. Online was really cool! These fucking billionaires ruined everything.
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...
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The urge to opt-out of cultural contestation is effectively an urge to opt-out of politics as it actually and inevitably exists.
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In politics, there are no "material interests" outside of people's subjective interpretation of them. Those subjectivities are culturally (re)produced. Retail economic policy offers can only be effective alongside an actively and organically developed culture of inclusive solidarity
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Think one key difference is that the subset of people that Labour care about don't see British Steel as a seething hotbed of "Cultural Marxist" subversion where women and minorities conspire to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. And it's important to respect these concerns.
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I mean, I’m boring myself by banging this drum, but almost every university in this country employs more people than British Steel, and the fact that Labour refuses to recognise that is simply intentional ignorance at this point.
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I mean I assume they’re targeting LJMU and UCLan but with those pedigrees they could just as easily be thinking of Manchester and Liverpool. Or, perhaps, they’re not actually thinking at all.
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Not to mention more than 50,000 students, a large chunk of whom are local, who will suddenly become NEETS and a large number of international students who would presumably have to go home and stop contributing to GDP (education is an export!)
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When you visit Emily's home in Amherst, they give you a free em dash. True fact!
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SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!
I did not learn the option+shift+hyphen combination for the "—" decades before the ChatGPT back when art thieves had the decency to conduct their business as a ragtag ensembles of likable misfits getting together for one last heist
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ChatGPT uses the em dash because the people it stole from use the em dash. I hate that a thing people use for specific grammatical and structural reasons is now being taken as a sign of a machine pretending to write. 😖
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ChatGPT can take the em dash and semicolon from my cold dead hands!!!
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Interesting point! While people say the em dash is a dead-giveaway of LLM-generated writing, it can be–and historically has been–used by famous authors throughout history. Like with most things, it's best not to jump to hasty conclusions!
(I tried to sound like an LLM lol)
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They are currently covering the history of climate change which is fascinating.
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THIS
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being fat isnt a moral failing and being sick isn't a moral failing and if you think either of those things go to hell
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Damn dude better find the systemic issues that cause all of us to be fat and address them, otherwise we're just blaming fat people for being fat.
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The problem isn't fat people. The problem is capitalism and the *plethora* of ways that it screws us all over, resulting in poorer health and poorer health outcomes in people of all sizes.
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Even if we all eat good food (which is its own battle because capitalism), even if we all exercise (which is its own battle because disability and capitalism), there will still be fat people.
Like me.
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Reforming our health care system would save us more money than every American eating healthy from birth to death.
www.kff.org/health-polic...
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The biggest drivers of medical costs relative to other high income countries is higher costs for prescriptions, doctors salaries, and administrative overhead for insurance companies. We could save half of our healthcare costs (2.5 trillion) if our healthcare system was more like other countries.