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You've hit on the essential thing that they don't understand about the world. Their motivation is control, full stop. They have no other guiding purpose. They would much rather be in control of a poor country than live in a rich one they don't control.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 8h

Lol you deserve this ratio.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 17h

The party quite literally belongs to whoever shows up to vote.

jwmason.org/slackwire/po...

Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason

jwmason.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h

1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened

2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 19h

Wtf is this

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 20h

There's no reason in principle that NYC can't get solar from upstate, Long Island, NJ, farther away, etc.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 21h

Oh wow, the 'Critics have argued' actually contains a link to something! I wonder what? Usually when I see those words I just assume it's the obligatory preface that comes prior to the writer sharing their own opinion.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 22h

Disagree that shoving chatbots down consumers' throats will spur much innovation or that much innovation is needed for a clean energy buildout. Chatbots displacing clean energy as the hottest investment is on its face an indication that the incentive structures don't benefit society at large.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 22h

There's already going to be increased electrical demand for EVs and heating electrification, I'd like to see that 'evened out' before anything else. The bottom line is that 'AI' only exacerbates the climate and inequality problems, and for no societal benefit I can discern.

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Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 22h

It's going to be a long time until the UK grid has a day running on solar, unfortunately. Plus it may make more sense to import from Spain or Morocco than to install that much solar in the UK.

Honest J @frangsbo.bsky.social · 22h

Seems like enough for Congress to kick him out.