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bdonnelly

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NYC. Turn ons include black coffee, loud guitars, dead lifts, books, Islay whiskey, demonstrations, and anything for the revolution. He/Him. Happy to be here. Happy to be anywhere. mastodon.social/@Theblueone

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · Sep 4

What if the Deep State was just the norms we made along the way?

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 12h

Garbage's Shirley Manson speaks out against music industry economics: "This is an alarm call"

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: A proposal for rebuilding Gaza that's been shared with the Trump admin references Tesla, IKEA, TSMC, and tons of other companies. I reached out to them—none had discussed or agreed to any work in Gaza. Some had no idea they were mentioned in this proposal:
www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, but he still couldn’t run a casino in the same way he can’t run a country. He does succeed at being corrupt, tho.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 6h

He failed at that. Spectacularly.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h

“‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat *** Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

This is a big piece people shouldn’t overlook. It’s hard not to think about all the people who argued for a "less restrictive" culture while utilizing their proximity, or wink and nod affiliation, with these people, and not believe this has all been an open secret among the press.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

it also highlights a big point of the political project across social networks, which is to find ways to make this kind of dehumanizing and hatred less surprising and acceptable as a part of a culture. its why i've always felt weird about the mainstreaming of so much 4chan langauge and meme stuff

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 9h

Here's Atlantic City after he got through with it. He ran a casino into bankruptcy. I wonder what his philosophy is.

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 9h

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 9h

Scrawls "What gets measured gets managed. Only closers get coffee" on the whiteboard

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 11h

Stop arguing with faceless avatars with no posts but tons of annoying contrarian replies for months. Most likely planted opposition. Block hard.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15h

Frank was Antifa.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 15h

Tuesday morning mood...

Tracy Chapman - Why (Live)

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.

[Peter Mumby] said coral reefs needed “aggressive” action on climate change & […]

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 16h

You are valuing your sinister testicle at about $4600 than.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 17h

6am morning milk run

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 19h

Guitar of the Day

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 19h

solid piece from Garbage Day. in the aftermath of the 2010s - which in retrospect now look like a golden age of social media - it's clear that the priorities of platform companies shifted to 1a) ensure mass politics can never again emerge on platforms & 1b) keep the content pipe open for AI training

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about these people is that they are above average intelligence, but genuinely still not all that bright.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

it's very funny to me that his delusional misreadings can include both Watchmen, one of the great 20th century novels, and One Piece, a fun comic serial for children. But it's not good that this man is genuinely mad and a major political and financial force in the United States of America.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 20h

“I'm sorry. I can't control it. The things that they did to my head. They made you like they made me.”

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 20h

“American Ultra” (2015) was a flawed, film, but the symbolism when the protagonist fights another mind controlled assassin amongst the abundance of a burning supermarket always haunts me as a symbol of what this modern tech era of billionaire lords and social media serfs has done to American culture

Scene from the 2015 film “American Ultra” where two mind controlled assassins confront each other in a burning supermarket market. One says to the other: “I'm sorry. I can't control it. The things that they did to my head. They made you like they made me.”

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Jean-Luc Dauvergne @jldauvergne.bsky.social · 21h

Just a normal dy in the solar system. Jupiter on october 13th observed from Paris.

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bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 20h

Post you from a different era: The Metal Years

bdonnelly @bdonnelly.bsky.social · 20h

I’m a big fan of the ellipsis myself, but a way to make the em dash respectable is to bring back how it used to be paired with other punctuation marks