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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 17h

TIDAL has better audio, actually-functional family accounts, music videos, and does not have ChatGPT-powered recommendations

demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 18h

Don't do this. Be shocked. Promote the story. I mean, come on, if you say it's old news, then people shrug.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) has been on this "far right extremists taking over the Young Republicans" beat for quite a while now. The Politico story adds new facts to the story, but it's hardly a new revelation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The War Within the Young Republican Party

At the Young Republican National Convention, far-right figures made few inroads—but they did read my Nation investigation.

www.thenation.com

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 18h

huge parts of what left-leaning media infrastructure exists are designed to flatter these people into becoming customers

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 19h

It's just weird how many people see the "GOP is bursting at the seams with young weird racists" and make it a Democrats problem

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 19h

Weird response

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count pilnokula @pilnok.dad · May 11

x-ray skeleton with a red blob in its skull
"oof ouchie, too much strawberry jam"

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 21h

you seem really mad about this woman joining this open race!

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 21h

I dunno, I think the most harm you can do in a primary is to clear the field, not sure why that wouldn't apply here

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 22h

I think it's kind of weird that you're like "this old person in good health will drop dead immediately after the election" and it's way weirder that even after hearing her hypothetical death wouldn't actually cause any problems you're focused on it being not ideal

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 22h

Top five musical intervals:

5. 9th
4. 10th
3. Tritone
2. minor 2nd
1. flat 7th. it's corny but you know it to be true

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23h

Anyone who has worked in left wing politics has come across American Spirits Guys

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 23h

American Spirit guys are probably one of the more interesting sub-categories of nicotine guys

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 23h

Okay but this is not a coronation, it's a primary? It's a vibe check? It's not a reward?

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Kain's essence really is a fedora m'lady guy, and I knew that back in 1991, when I was 7

Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 1d

Characters include:
• Warrior of Light (FFI)
• Kain Highwind (FFIV)
• Krile Mayer Baldesion (FFV)
• Terra Branford (FFVI)

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

The Project 2025 stuff was a really big whiff on their part, which I'm reminded of every time somebody says "I didn't vote for THIS"

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Can't spell dignitary without dignity, and "Without Dignity" is Bob Fioretti's personal motto

Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day from an Italian heritage street festival in Chicago's Viagra triangle where, yes, Bob Fioretti, dressed in a "Dignitary" sash, is collecting signatures for yet another run for elected office

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

This has been the case for decades, too! bsky.app/profile/book...

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people built their understanding of I/P last year on the premise it couldn't get worse

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

(in the last 50 years)

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, leaving aside 2000 this is every time a Democratic in-party lost the presidential election

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

In this analogy you gave your car to an entirely different mechanic, not sure what you think they can do to fix a car they don't have in possession

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d

Stephanopoulos did pretty well on that bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 4d

This is where it's at for me. Primaries are fundamentally vibe checks and if Graham Platner can't overcome a single 78-yo, doesn't bode well for his chances against GOP $$$

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