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MAGA really are speedrunning the classic fascist mistakes —

getting into a winter battle with partisans

motivating the nerds AND the shopkeepers

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A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

Yeah... Putting messages in your knitting is a useful plot device, but not practical.

What is practical is having an easily made, easily seen, group marker.

Pussy hats were that.

Lots of "leftists" deride them because they don't demand alignment, even as they show solidarity

I feel like some right wing Georgists a land value tax is a convenient abstraction, their "after the revolution" - something that can never be achieved, but gives a permission structure to demolish every other tax. Look at Milton Friedman, who praised LVT while shilling for Prop 13, the anti-LVT.

Yeah, I think the Never Extend Presumption Of Good Faith sensibility is an overreaction to the foolishness of Always Presume Good Faith

On a few occasions I have even had people say that reading people in good faith is fruit of the poisoned tree of the western liberal tradition.

They are not wrong in identifying my ethos. But I cannot make sense of the ethos they want me to take on instead.

I have had people tell me on social media in so many words that it is unreasonable for me to expect them to read me as speaking in good faith.

Including people who have had exchanges we me on social media for many years. Including people who know me personally.

logo for the New England Patriots

Football fans, are the New England Patriots supposed to be Twi’leks, or Lovecraftian monsters, or what?

I think this is in large part an artifact of most every American who isn’t a MAGA and is paying attention to politics being angry and terrified all the time, and less an issue with Bluesky itself per se

Really interesting thread on French nuclear power.

That demon looks like it was drawn by @katebeaton.bsky.social

discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing

Gosh, why has American politics become so terrible?

I respect why a lot of people disliked it.

But the shitstorm was deeply wrong.

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Skarsgård was chosen because he looks like the protagonist of an adventure serial. But the whole point of Murderbot the books is to undermine, parody, and question that default protagonist.
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He is doing good work, but was also a disappointing choice

a scam economy is when you try to have an information economy with no information quality control

For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous. Trumpism as a political project stipulates that whiteness would override other forms of solidarity. If not, then what do they have to offer with their vastly destructive policies?

There are so very many things that are fucked up about how things are in Minnesota right now and it is hard to tell what the outside world knows about.

The street blockades may seem odd . . . if you haven't seen the way ICE & CBP drive.

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This, I think, is the hidden meaning to all those myths where a king or an angel or a god comes to town disguised as a beggar, and judges the whole society on the basis of the aid they do or do not receive.
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Those journal pages shook me.

Andrew Vachss territory.

I know the extravagantly horrific FBI tips get tons of attention but genuinely for me this is far more bone-deep chilling than any of those

The fact that MAGA is pissed about Bad Bunny in the halftime show should be presented as an uncomplicated positive. "Not only is he hugely popular with the majority of mainstream U.S. audiences, he's also made ignorant bigots as angry and excluded as we would always hope to make them feel."

Screenshot from LOTR: “Perhaps we could give the ring better training.”

“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

Some of them really did not understand what they were voting for

Best creature design I have seen since ‘The Ritual’

I wish I could find the interview I saw with Jim Henson in which Kermit interrupted him … and Henson was unmistakably surprised by what Kermit had said

I tapped out from the Netflix documentary series ‘Abstract: The Art Of Design’ in rage and disgust at the bullshitty blather of the episode about Oxman.

I had a suspicion about why so many middle-aged fellas quoted in the docu were eager to hail her as brilliant.

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia.

In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.