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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 16m

More desperation late game to try and stay in the playoff mix? younger coaches more willing to experiment/gamble? Sports betting / crypto deliberately influencing the sports media ecosystem to encourage college coaches to go for it (to try and gain arbitrage for weird parlays)?

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 2d

These folks would never be on the side of progressives in the battles a 100 years ago for city sewage systems and water treatment facilities. they’d never be on the side of progressives in the battle for universal high school, or The battle for rural electrification, or the battle for an income tax

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 2d

The center left is fighting a two front war all the time and they ALWAYS think it’s a good idea to do so. No football team says, “hey, why don’t we send our defense on the field too so that our 11-man offense plays against 22 defenders? cuz offense and defense aren't the same tribe!”

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 2d

It clearly illustrates the center left views their own tribe as distinct, while the populace at large (both the left and the right) do not recognize that distinction. The center left is so focused on excluding EVERYONE that they don’t know who their allies are, nor know who their enemies are!

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 5d

to Paraphrase the famous saying to work for a right winger perspective “one injustice to me one time, is a threat to me for all time.”

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 6d

I had the weirdest uncanny valley experiences reading Snow Crash in like 2009, i had thought it was a relatively recent book and I kept thinking throughout “this is so brilliant, it’s like an alternate history projection of the worst the internet could have become.” Now it feels scary accurate.

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 6d

I have often wondered if the Expectation of audience and troupe/writer was that every Shakespeare love story was inherently as funny as Bottom et al. (As it was so obviously a bloke doing a bit) and nobody took it sincerely for decades/centuries…

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 14d

Planned obsolescence?

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 16d

Is that why it’s called formic acid? First identified in ants?

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 17d

my bad, I thought my tone was silly and sarcastic. Sentimental Value is right up AMPAS’ alley, and obviously a heavy hitter this season.

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 17d

Ahh I see the narrative taking shape already, critics lobby for months about sentimental Value but the guilds and academy still wind up voting mostly for the films with momentum and buzz that they’ve actually seen. post season, critics seamlessly pivot to backlash against the winners, same as always

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 19d

Also let’s not forget that both Patton and MacArthur were aristocrats born and bred to be officers and that Is part of their appeal as well to the modern conservative movement, they want to go back to that, they have no respect for middle class flyover kids like Eisenhower and Bradley.

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 20d

their silence signifies their assent

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 20d

Phenomenal and I agree. And astonishing the democrats persist in following this strategy when both Trump and Obama have recently shown the same outcome (winning). of pursuing a strategy that changes the composition of the electorate by mobilizing non participants into participants.

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 22d

All the naturopaths that people treat as doctor suggest yes. the fact that the lesser Kennedy was even confirmed this year suggests yes.

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 23d

The Christmas Adventurers are really spiraling out of control, just deranged actions everywhere across the board.

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 25d

They are going to keep extorting money until the state pays them off before the Olympics. Then it probably won’t work and they’ll laugh all the way to the bank.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25d

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 26d

air pollution from automobiles also graphs to autism hmm correlation!

neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · 28d

It’s not even this. The Dem consultants are _Bored_ with abortion as a campaign issue they’re “forced” to focus on & they don’t want to “waste any more time“ on it. And they‘re blind to their own boredom as the cause of their disdain and rationalize nonsense to abandon abortion as an issue.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29d

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 18

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

www.nytimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Sep 18

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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neverlockedcut.bsky.social @neverlockedcut.bsky.social · Sep 18

Completely seriously Newsom should use the precedent of Intel to put in a competing offer for WB and outbid Ellison.