Paddleboat Galactica

Paddleboat Galactica

@early-adopter.bsky.social

Laws. Technology. New York. Yelling. Jewish, in case you’ve got any slurs to get out of the way.

483 Followers 835 Following 1,294 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 day ago

The upshot is that *internally* so long as the actual physical labor and raw materials are available in the country, the war machine will not stop for balance-sheet reasons if the state feels existentially threatened because in that case the state will eat whatever costs are required.

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1 day ago

Browser histories that would shock the conscience

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1 day ago

DOGE didn’t send the best of the best. The sent the first saps who didn’t realize following orders was going to end them in jail.

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3 days ago

this is also why leftists who dream of red brown crossover are (at best) fascist dupes.

fascism was *founded in order to coopt leftism.* Red brown crossover is literally just fascism; it's how fascism is meant to work.1

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2 days ago

Repost, but not for the purpose of demonstrating the truth of the matter reposted

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1 year ago

my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

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3 days ago
An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable

I think I may have cracked it

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2 days ago

No. And pathetic

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2 days ago

If someone attacks a synagogue because they're angry at Israel, that is antisemitism. It doesn't matter the reason they're angry. Targeting a synagogue because they need to take out their anger on Jewish people--and any Jewish place of worship will do--is antisemitism.

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3 days ago

My 6'0" buddy from Elsewhere would not take my word for it that he'd be safe riding on the NYC subway

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3 days ago

The kids don't even KNOW, man

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3 days ago
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3 days ago

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

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3 days ago

Correct framing

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4 days ago

Mom read the nutrition labels and calculated calories per dollar so we could stretch our foodstamp money.

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4 days ago

Sure. Why not.

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4 days ago

It’s fascinating how AI citation has become the third thing lawyers actually get sanctioned for (the other being fucking with client’s money and having sex with clients)

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4 days ago

Flush.

Also, George

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4 days ago

And ergo you, sir, are worse than Hitler.

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4 days ago

Bigotry of all kinds has no place in America.

If a member of Congress said Jews don’t belong in this country, there would rightly be outrage. GOP leadership should condemn this unequivocally.

We stand with our Muslim neighbors against Islamophobia and all forms of hate.

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6 days ago

This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

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5 days ago

There is a kind of hyperstupidity that can only be unlocked by access to unlimited time and resources.

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6 days ago

It’s insurers’ world. We all just live here.

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6 days ago

¿Pero por que no los dos?

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1 week ago
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

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1 week ago

Did you know that Graham Platner was Ryan Grim's bartender back at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a fact that Ryan Grim acknowledged on X?

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1 week ago

Yeah. There’s a good chance Ben Franklin would be a dril / Trump / Kevin Durant / Joyce Carol Oates tier poster.

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1 week ago

So the thing about human rights - literally, the whole thing about them - is that they are everyone's, regardless of who they are, where they are from, and what they do.

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1 week ago

Game over. Best judicial statement of all time award… awarded. Everyone can go home.

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1 week ago

give me the lab meat / and free my soul / i wanna get steak that is ethical / and drift away

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