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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 3d

Dublin is very much not in the UK. No Kings, and all that.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 4d

Does not value brains

..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 7d

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social
ABBATIAL

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 7d

Pitcher tipped the pitch

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 7d

And wronger

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9d

"Institutions frequently drop content onto a platform rather than opening a conversation with their audience or understanding what a platform’s algorithm will reward."

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

carnegieendowment.org

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9d

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

carnegieendowment.org

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 11d

Nevertheless

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 11d

Like, is it an infinite void?

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 11d

Now I have questions about Mary's vagina.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 22d

Red MAGA-style hat that says "This hat kills fascists", paraphrasing the WW2 slogan "This machine kills fascists" that Woody Guthrie pasted on his guitar.

..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 25d

Counting down. If you don't hear from me again youll know why

..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 26d

goddammit I missed out on another rapture bubble. When's the fallback rapture date? I gotta cash in on this nonsense next time.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · 27d

Every morning I wake up and check to see if he has survived the night, and imagine what I would do if he hasn't. I think it involves a large pot and a heavy meat pounder meeting each other loudly and rapidly on my balcony.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 16

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social
FLOCCULENCE

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 15

This might explain why everyone I know ghosted me last year.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 13

Wait, no, Firefly.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 13

Bakersfield PD

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yeah but what if they were aiming at someone else? Hmm?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk woke up every day and made a conscious decision to be the Charlie Kirk we all saw. That’s the meanest thing I can think of to say about pretty much anyone, and it also happens to be completely true.

We can remember what he did, and we can remember who he did it to.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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..corylus.. @jgcorylus.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thread

Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · Sep 11

Horrible violence in Utah. Political violence, if that is the motive, is an aggressive cancer that kills us all.