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Elaine Atwell

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i believe that i am the biggest bonnie raitt fan of my generation. she/her

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · Nov 11

“History doesn’t merely offer us the comfort of knowing we are not alone in grief; it reminds us that people have always carried on and made joy amidst the sorrow. We have continued past our empires, and we will again.”

I wrote about how this moment feels. www.thedart.co/2024/11/08/b...

Borrowed Time. Or: The Centrist Does Not Hold - The Dart

I think I have discovered a new emotion, since it happened. Well, not “new,” exactly, but a mixture of the familiar primary colors into a new shade. There’s rage, of course, although not the bright, b...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10h

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 1d

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 12h

in conclusion: bedo meemaw merch NOW.

Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 12h

1. how is potentially upsetting content flagged for dropout shows?
2. is there a master list of triggers? if so, i have about 30 follow-up questions, starting with: who made it?
3. if no list, does it fall on a dropout staffer to determine triggering content? and did that person have a parakeet?

Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 12h

deeply amused that the most recent @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social episode includes a content warning for a joke about a dead parakeet, but absolutely nothing for the next bit, about *cannibalizing children.*

this raises several interesting questions.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 5d

this but for the entire human experience.

Pikmin’s Model @zaaack.bsky.social · 5d

last 15 years feel like an experiment in putting individuals who don't know why people see movies in charge of getting people to see movies

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 5d

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Carrie Kisicki @cmkisicki.bsky.social · 6d

usually you’d have to be getting paid to come up with this kind of egregious euphemistic sanewashing spin. but at the NYT they do it for the love of the game ❤️

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 6d

"Antidrug campaign" dear lord

NYT: U.S. expands its antidrug campaign, striking a boat in the Pacific off Colombia.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 6d

food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people

please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d

In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has:
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice

Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 18d

i haven’t gone for the election doomer narrative up til now but this seems really bad.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 19d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 18d

“donald trump was ROBBED of the nobel peace prize. so my resolution proposes that we send seal team six to norway and steal it back.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · 21d

i constantly hear “AI is here whether we like it or not.” but like, okay, what if we fucking *don’t like it*? are we helpless against every nightmarish technology just because it proclaims itself to be inevitable?

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 21d

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects." Another must-read banger from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · Sep 14

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · Sep 10

I mean the worry isn’t that this is the tipping point for general violence, the worry is that this is the justification for state violence given the target. Minnesota was never going to be anything because it was one of their guys. It’s all asymmetrical.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 10

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 10

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · Sep 10

The casual way that these news people throw around ideas about killing anyone with mental health issues is terrifying

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

i was not rooting for the world to break but at this point i just wish it would break faster

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 9

So many people out here proudly announcing their plans to pollute the public sphere.

5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan

Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

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Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

i really want to know what percentage of people who want to believe her over their own eyes are able to do so. and how many more don’t believe her but will pretend to. where is the spiritual polling on this

Elaine Atwell @elaineatwell.bsky.social · Sep 9

greedy =/= smart

Darin Self @darinself.com · Sep 9

Stocks are higher today because investors believe labor market weakness will push the Fed to lower interest rates.

But they're playing the wrong game. The labor market is weakening because Trump is altering the structure of the international and domestic economy. Its not something the Fed can fix.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Sep 9

but then the forger forgot to release the forgery to the public until eight months into his intended victim’s second stint in the presidency 22y later

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 9

so his argument is that someone used an autopen to forge a private birthday card in 2003 to frame then real estate guy donald trump?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Burchett: I mean, anybody can do a signature. We’ve seen autopens used quite a bit. I’ve never known Trump to be much of an artist. I don’t buy it.

Raju: You think someone might have forged this?

Burchett: Yeah…

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