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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 2d

This is the kind of thing that gets lawyers sanctioned when they use AI to write legal briefs…

Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 2d

Besides getting better at reading in whatever other language you are reading, struggling with writing in its original language is an education in the opacity of language and meaning that is different even than reading difficult works in English like Ulysses. It certainly keeps one humble!

Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 2d

You’ll need a good dictionary and will use it often, it will be really frustrating and slow at first, and you will miss a lot of things. But stick with it! There is nothing quite like grasping a well-written sentence or verse in the original for the first time.

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 2d

Make yourself read works in their original languages rather than depending on translations. I mean, trying to read Mishima after two weeks of Japanese on Duolingo isn’t happening, don’t even try it, but if you have a decent basic foundation in a language already? Take a shot!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 2d

The 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate is far superior to the novel.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 14d

so it seems the big deal comedians had with "cancel culture" is that we plebes didn't pay them to shut up

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14d

What makes this work is that I think for many in MAGA world this really is describing a hellscape that they actually do think justifies a military response.

Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 14d

As someone living in "war torn" Portland, I saw this on Reddit and it really made me laugh.

Good --- very good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1ntntuq/a_letter_from_the_front/

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 18d

Some days it’s like we are living in a nightmare simulation trained exclusively on Vico’s New Science

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18d

like fascism is just the unfortunate passage of time

Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 25d

Transgender Day of Remembrance tdor.translivesmatter.info

Remembering Our Dead

This site memorialises trans people who have passed away, as a supporting resource for the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR).

tdor.translivesmatter.info

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 26d

These are folks who have never seen a list of names for TDOR and noted that up to half of them are folx from Brazil.

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, over and over again for thirty years! But as Kang (or was it Kodos?) said, “the politics of failure have failed: it’s time to make them work again”

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 26d

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 26d

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 26d

The other time a judge was a woman in Kansas (I think) named Driskell who filed a rambling handwritten five or six page complaint on notebook paper against “Homosexuals.” Not specific queer people: “Homosexuals.” *All* of them.

Trump’s lawyers join the august company of Crackpot Kansas Lady

Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 26d

In many years of drafting, and reading, federal complaints, this is only the second time I have seen a judge *look at* a complaint before the defendants filed responsive pleadings, and the first to strike under Rule 8.

The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 27d

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.

Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 27d

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.

Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 28d

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

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Brian Cubbage @bcubbage.bsky.social · 28d

Coming to all networks in late night: An hour of the Trololo Guy singing to a ten-foot-tall poster of Charlie Kirk, every night

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 28d

This seems bad

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Libération @liberation.fr · 29d

Une commission d'enquête de l'ONU accuse Israël de vouloir "détruire" les Palestiniens.

✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · Sep 15

from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."

The trans-shooter myth, reports the Trace, a newsroom focused on gun violence, largely began circulating in 2023 around the aforementioned Nashville shooting, “as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest.” As I’ve explained previously, trans people are over four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent assault. Conversely, over the past decade, according to the Gun Violence Project, less than a tenth of one percent of shootings were committed by someone who identified as trans or nonbinary. Nonetheless, last week the Justice Department was reportedly considering how to ban trans people from buying guns.

Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all or, like in the past week, spending more time mourning the death of a guy who gleefully mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband being attacked with a hammer than urging caution to protect a population that voted for Kamala Harris second only to Black women. It would almost be surprising, considering those numbers, how quickly 2028 hopeful Gavin Newsom praised Kirk, if Kirk hadn’t been Newsom’s first podcast guest.

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · Sep 16

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Sep 14

I know I risk offending the sensibilities of this website, but it's almost like the leadership of higher ed, the media, and many of the other commanding heights of our institutions are staffed by idiots, cowards, opportunists, and social climbers.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · Sep 13

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 13

on the one hand this reads as nakedly authoritarian and all that. on the other hand it reads as a drunk guy stumbling through a public park yelling that this land is his plantation, damn it, and his rules

NYT screenshot: "On Capitol Hill, Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, said he would use his congressional authority to seek immediate bans for life from social media platforms for anyone who “belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked,” he wrote on X. “I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I’m starting that today.”"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 13

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 13

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · Sep 13

a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values

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