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Kakistocracy (Jay)

@crankypacifist.bsky.social

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 27m

One can vote pragmatically within the flawed two-party system, while also critiquing the shortcomings of the party that presents the lesser evil.

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 33m

Ding ding ding ding ding ding!

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 36m

He's a devil, Jessica, not an asshole.

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 41m

Hell, they're talking about autonomous armed drones with "AI" (sic) kill/no kill heuristics. What could be more horrifying than an impersonal algorithm deciding everyone it encounters is a target.

Wait, that's Terminator…

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 46m

*a call-out—albeit a dubious one—of…

(the original wording undermined both my characterization of the revelation as a call-out, and my expressed skepticism of the purity of intent behind said characterization)

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 52m

Prolly not even a tank anymore. Drones are relatively cheap and have a much lower risk of personnel losses.

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 55m

Subtle insinuation. Subtext, if you will. The big titties are the the first detail revealed (heh) as a dubious call-out of the genre's male-gaze tendencies.

(fuck, I've been in academia too long)

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Sweat, salt, musk, potayto, potahto.

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

😭

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe a teeeensy conflict of interest?

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

I think you can strike "who" from this sentence

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

This is possibly the best description I've ever seen of that show

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

(waves in NC)

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Friends just rings hollow for me since I learned about Living Single.

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Ha! If you find something that works, let me know?

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

Welp, I'm out.

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

💜

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1h

"kEePinG dC sAFe"

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know what to do if I don't have at least half a dozen stories in various states of disrepair and and a full-time day job breathing down my neck

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 2h

My adhd azz gonna have to keep a cheat sheet to read this one, aren't I

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 2h

I guess that's one way to keep demand down.

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 9h

I'm pacifically unphased by that one, it just doesn't jive with me to get on tender hooks about it, I could care less. For all intensive purposes it's too late to nip it in the butt now. Can't be at the beckoned call of that escape goat stuff. It's a doggy dog world y'know?

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 9h

I really wish we could do timed mute on accounts like you can on words and tags.

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 9h

Breathing schmeathing.

Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 10h

(stares in radiculopathy and anxiety)