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Democracy Dies in Dorkness

@lizamazel.bsky.social

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(Banner and thumbnail are both from Remedios Varos' painting "Paraiso de los Gatos") Therapist, writer type, armchair activist, kvetch. Raised from early adulthood by Internet wolves. Warning: squees at cats. IMPORTANT UPDATE: I also like cute doggos

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · Sep 2

Me, when disagreeing with someone who seems to be able to hear and respond and modify: generally do the same, sometimes end up with a great discussion and even a new follow.

Me, once I have decided someone is an obdurate fuckhead:

a cartoon of a duck with a swirl in the background and the letters netflix on the bottom left

Alt: Daffy Duck losing his entire shit and tearing the room apart in "Duck Amuck"

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painedumonde @painedumonde.bsky.social · 1d

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- Isaac

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Prof. Charles Brainman @expanse.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how little people value the credibility boost you get from simply deleting the mistake, apologizing, and blocking any self-righteous nitwits who don’t think that’s enough.

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JJDiane 🐝 @jjdianem.bsky.social · 1d

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Xzyliac Delilah-Electroclash Ariel @xzyliac.bsky.social · 1d

It is crazy to be like “Well I’m lying in the good way”

Great, so it’s just garbage all the way down and in every direction.

That seems sustainable.

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Contains Al-generated media
• new jersey news reporter

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Everything is Al generated these days. It doesn't mean it's fake. I'm still not convinced.

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wikihowtologout.bsky.social @wikihowtol... • 6h
Get a grip. Three arms and a watermark telling you it's Al and you are still doubling down?

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Well if it's Al, it's at least true. They ARE arresting journalists. Compare that to Trump's lying record. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

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Pot Smoke Phoenix @potsmokephoenix.bsky.social · 16h

Everything is unnecessarily stupid and it‘s picking up speed and getting stupider like a Katamari Dumbassy and it would be funny if it were happening to someone else

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Ukobach (COOL HALLOWEEN REFERENCE) @uk0bach.bsky.social · 15h

Occasionally, I also think about how weird it is, that there are direct flights from Cairo to Las Vegas.

Some Egyptian toddler has definitely gone on vacation with his family, to Vegas, and been left with the years-long impression that all cities must have pyramids.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

And every chance an average person gets to exercise their resisting authoritarianism and community self-defense muscles is one more person who can go out there and inspire and teach other people how to do it too.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23h

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17h

And the exact moment they're turned away: bsky.app/profile/unra...

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Request denied/unanswered.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 12h

More photos! chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Hundreds of people joined a delegation of Catholic priests and nuns marching to the Broadview detention site to hold communion, but they were turned away with no reason given. A total of 15 protesters...

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, it was definitely to send that message. Francis & Leo (before he was Leo) loaded the ranks of cardinals with younger guys who would later vote for pope. They knew what they were doing.

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Andréa, Princess of Sky @konkondragon.bsky.social · 18h

the conclave basically elected as pope the American among their number who is *least* Like This and that's cuz he straight up lives and works in Peru and is a member of the Latin American faction of the church

i feel like part of the pick was definitely sending a message to the US church

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Duke Kaboom @freelarrydoby.bsky.social · 18h

There's an entirely too large number of conservative Catholics who have perverted the religion to support their politics in direct contradiction to Christ's teachings. American Bishops and the Justices are all of this cohort

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

Yup. Roberts & Barrett too.

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Yeti Blood Oath Exorcist @greatemuwarvet.bsky.social · 18h

I am convinced that Alito and/or Clarence Thomas are secretly sedevacantists

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

And anybody who feels like getting into an argument about beliefs & fantasy needs to read this first.

‪Mark Lemley‬ ‪@marklemley.bsky.social‬

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, they NEED to go full Catholic monstrance! The full ritual dressing & procession with the most GIGANTIC gold monstrance they can find.

With the whole animal kingdom of inflatable critters.

Pope Francis processing with Eucharistic monstrance

Pope Leo processing with Eucharistic monstrance

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

You know why the tradcaths are Catholic? Because the Catholic Church does authoritarian hierarchy better than any other manmade institution, & that's the trads' fetish. It's got nothing to do with Jesus, the Good Samaritan, or anything else remotely about "who is my neighbor" or service to the poor.