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Michael Carvin

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Married to a saint. Socially awkward. Liberal. Focus, attention = kryptonite Learning→trying→failing→repeatedly to develop an app for dog owners. Mostly politics and movies. Sometimes both. Movies @ https://letterboxd.com/mcarvin

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 47m

I didn't have anything re: CSCW on my bingo card today.

I really wasn't expecting to see 5 very interesting papers on the intersection of CSCW with real world social, political and/or legal matters.

Thanks for sharing and thanks to @migueldeicaza.bsky.social for reposting this!

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 12h

Th Washington Times: for those who think the Washington Examiner is too liberal.

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 14h

If I had a conspiracy streak in me, I'd look at this guy and MTG and Thomas Massie, and wonder if this were a test to see if Dems can get behind that flavor of politician.

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 15h

And not for nothing, the $40B isn't because an economically-failed Argentina would have ripple effects across South America and you help your neighbor when their house is on fire.

It's in no small part to help Scott Bessent's buddy, which I learned weeks ago from some article in some magazine.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 1d

who “could in fact treat their slaves the way the Bible tells them to treat their slaves,” and that although he condemns slaveowners who “actually engaged in real abuse,” Christians “cannot condemn the entire institution of slavery outright.”

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 1d

that it’s “not inherently evil to own a human being,” and that “every Christian in today’s society should be able to defend” those claims, Right Wing Watch noted. Haymes said it was “chronological snobbery” to condemn the United States’ slave-owning founders,

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 1d

Joshua Haymes — a far-right podcast host and former pastor at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s church who argued that the fall of the pro-slavery Confederacy inflicted longterm damage to the nation — went on a rant last week saying “the institution of slavery is not inherently evil,”

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

tl;dr: Former pastor of Hegseth's church says slavery is a-okey-dokey.

Between this and the dynamic duo of Chip Roy and Tommy Tuberville...fuck it, they're just racist fucking clowns.

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These pro-Trump influencers are all-in on chattel slavery

MAGA influencers and a GOP operative have been offering defenses and outright endorsements of slavery in recent weeks.

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 1d

As opposed to this?

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm, yeah, I see.

High Anxiety seems to be popping up a lot for me the past week. It was on Movies! and I think TCM had it on. Sign from above.

Also: The In-Laws with Peter Falk. Airport ‘75 and bask in George Kennedy’s “range”. Pre-code DeMille for that special kind of cray cray.

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 3d

Is it all Come and See, Uncut Gems, Threads, etc?

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 4d

Northern District of Illinois: “Chicago’s not burning down. Please stop misrepresenting things.”

7th Circuit: “Again with you and the bullshit. Please stop.”

SCOTUS: “Not only is Chicago burnt to a crisp, we should have really brought in UN peacekeepers to help the entire armed forces!”

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 4d

It's like some people have a perception of Catholicism based on:
1) The Crusades
2) The Inquisitions
3) The Prophecy with Christopher Walken

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a dark room .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a dark room .

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 4d

And is living his truth by not seeing a woman get paid for doing nothing.

Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

See, this is what you get when you have a Republican who doesn’t want to see an American woman of Mexican heritage get paid for doing nothing because the House is out of session.

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KathCLeSage @kcl71.bsky.social · 5d

The Chicago Pope is gonna excommunicate the Supreme Court majority so they’ll feel even more persecuted

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a suit and tie holds up his hand in front of a green curtain that says radio

ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds up his hand in front of a green curtain that says radio

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

That might be the coolest thing someone said since I joined this place!

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

Look around…can you make a rudimentary lathe?

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

Speaking of concerned sons, I found this candid behind-the-scenes photo of the sons looking at their father.

The cute aliens from Galaxy Quest, moments before they devour one of their injured tribe.

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 5d

15 paragraphs in, and The Hill just about gets there.

"That too remains a jump ball, especially as Democrats continue to cry foul over the possibility of the Trump administration taking more steps to claw back on a partisan basis funds that had passed the Senate with bipartisan support."

Senate GOP, Thune throw curveball into shutdown fight — The Hill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing a curveball into the shutdown fight as he plans to bring a full-year spending bill for the Pentagon to the floor on Thursday, effectively daring ...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 6d

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Michael Carvin @mcarvin.bsky.social · 6d

"[Rep. Dave] Taylor believes it is the result of “foul play or vandalism,” the spokesperson said."

Yes. Foul play. Vandalism. Sure.

A meme of the old 80s PSA where a father finds his son's weed stash and asks "Where'd you learn about this?" The son replies "I learned it from watching you, Dad!"

Except this meme isn't about weed. It's about where the Young Republicans and junior staffers in political orgs get these ideas which lead them to tacking Nazi symbols on walls in their Congressional offices.