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Dan Seitz

@dseitz.bsky.social

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Marketing guy, former paid blogger, current commerce content guy. #juggling #cycling #comics #film #gaming. All opinions strictly my own. He/him

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · Jan 17

If you want to understand #climate first you need to understand how emissions are calculated. Let's do that with my wedding ring, my ally bracelet, and my cycling cuff.

A wedding ring on top (visual metaphor for scope 1), a paracord LGBT ally bracelet (visual metaphor for scope 2), and a high viz reflective cuff. All are sitting on a desk.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

it’s amazing how easy it is to chase off evangelical extremists with the mere sight of a naked butt

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

There isn't really a "singing songs down by the campfire" way to tell people this, even if they're willing to accept it, which few of them are.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously pretty much everything from Reagan onwards needs to go, and it needs to go with an admission that it failed, comprehensively. Basically a lot of Boomers will have to admit they wasted their lives and made their country worse.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 7h

these folks talk about "this 80 year Old lifetime politician" like she isn't popular, effective or well liked in the state she has governed.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 8h

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

One of the core issues of pretending fixing the US is "just" an ideological project is that there is no way forward without an admission that the GOP's ideas and policies are total failures and need to be scrapped.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Didn't you shake down Columbia and NYU and for kids protesting and revoke their visas and deport them

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Farrell Destination: Bloodlines @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 1h

I have a little elastic thing with plastic loops on the end I hook onto the elastic loops on the mask: pulls it snugly onto my face and takes pressure off the back of my ears.

Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 4h

Seeing multiple artists lately say they got covid at cons even while masking but then I see photos of most people wearing loose fitting ear-loop masks. For maximum protection you NEED A TIGHT SEAL! Head-loop masks like N95 are best (or at least get ear loop adjusters/mask tape so KN95 fits tighter).

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

It's very easy to piss on public services when your voters are all a thousand years old, live in the middle of nowhere, and greet the Census taker with a shotgun blast. It's a lot harder when your constituents are on top of each other, mad at each other, and need a whole bunch of shit FAST.

Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

The other problem is that this will enable Republicans to collapse rural communities, which will then move into the suburbs seeking jobs and services. So suddenly all your voters are gonna have a very different set of concerns, including upgrading public services.

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 1h

5/ If Americans really wanted an ideological project to unite behind, every conservative would be lining up behind Great Deportations. But notably Trump won 49.5% of the vote and he's sitting at 41% approval, and it's because shit is too expensive. Close to 20% of Trump voters aren't happy with him!

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 1h

2/ If you believe the polls the voters do not want a national rebuilding project. They were sort of modestly satisfied with federal government departments, very unsatisfied with Congress, unsatisfied with SCOTUS, but most importantly, they think things are too expensive.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Florida is kind of the bellwether here because they'll never admit it but retirees are pretty much their bread and butter, economically, and now that homeowner's insurance is impossible to get that gravy train is going off the rails.

Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

None of that went away, obviously, but now you have the added problem of the Deep South increasingly being a retirement home subject to the worst impacts of climate change. If your population is aging rapidly while your workers are leaving that is going to get bad, very fast.

Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Similarly, the incentives to invest in the South were declining quickly. Why build a factory nobody will work at, in a state that might be on fire because white people can't handle their shit?

Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Part of the reason this legislation was passed in the first place was because the South was facing an existential crisis. There was simply no reason for many young people to stick around, so they weren't.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

At the Public Safety committee hearing, and the chair just asked a woman from MCI Framingham, “Where do the drugs come from?”

“We aren’t the ones who go in and out. We get strip searched all the time, everywhere you go. I’m not saying you should start strip searching the guards, but…”

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 2h

I'm obviously worried about SCOTUS signing off on gerrymandering because they think we're "post-racial" or whatever the fuck, but I don't think anybody cheering this on has quite realized that Republicans are continuing to concentrate in a handful of states, or what the broader pushback will be.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 2h

That state senator would be Samuel Douglass. He serves on the Senate Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel, no less. He also works in rural mental health, according to his bio, so that's... just great.

Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 2h

1.) One of those „kids“ is a state senator in Vermont. (They’re not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the „I love Hitler“ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

he is one million percent in these chats

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2h

I've contacted my senators today about KOSA! Have you?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 2h

There was a Pope a few centuries back pleading that his forty-year-old nephew was "just a boy."

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 2h

Any white dude under 50 years old is a young boy.

Any Black kid over 6 years old is a dangerous thug.

Caucasianity!

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Erika Uyterhoeven @electerika.bsky.social · 2h

As a member of the Joint Committee on Racial Equity, Civil Rights, & Inclusion, we heard informative testimony on the status of equity in higher education. It was wonderful to hear from testifiers with a wide range of experiences & perspectives including the Commissioner of Higher Education for MA.

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 2h

4/ In these areas we could start to life expectancies fall as ERs and specialists become stressed. This will further push affluent families away from these areas (think Florida) as retirees don't wanna pay taxes to maintain public services and medical services are stressed.

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