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@outeast.bsky.social

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Won't post much as I have no insight or expertise, but sometimes forget that when drunk with the power of a keyboard. Pronouns whatever. Writer, editor etc. of ESL materials in Prague. Interests here: Politics, climate, SFF, linguistics, i dunno

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 8h

If anyone wants the source, it's "Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness" by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. The only textbook you need for every science course, as long as you're not expecting to actually pass.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 1d

While pretending to be a 16-year-old. That doesn't sound at all concerning.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly call for Epstein's clients to face justice but don't downplay Maxwell's role. According to Guiffre she was Epstein's procurer, groomer and facilitator and also a repeat active participant in rapes, including Guiffre's first rape. There's no place for a "but".

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.

A page from a Victorian penny dreadful. It has an etching of a woman in a nightdress being dragged from her bed and fed on by a vampire. This vamp is no handsome seducer: his hands are like claws, his face thin and maddened, his limbs thin, dessicated corpse-flesh. Nevertheless, most would probably guess it to be Dracula, but it is his literary forebear, the dreaded Varney the Vampyre.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2d

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”

A young, scared-looking boy undergoing some kind of brain scan. But is all as it seems? No - for this is Daryl, or more properly, D. A. R. Y. L. , which stands for "Data-Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform."

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2d

If clothes are a social language, surely this RW Grifter aesthetic just as valid as e.g. punk, with its own sartorial vocabulary that reflects the values of the subculture, communicates in-group messages and so on ;)

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2d

Time has eaten
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
Ozymandias
intended
for glory

Those legs tho
Phwoaarrr
So vast
and so trunkless

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

There once was a king, Ozymand
Who bragged about all he’d command.
Trying to fill his foes with fright he
Said “Look on my works, ye mighty!”
But now it’s all trunkless legs and sand.

Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 3d

I heard there was a statue tall
That sneered at folk and commanded all
But you don't really care for symbols do ya
It goes like this the feet the fist
The head that fell the aim that missed
The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
Ozymaaaaandias

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 3d

Their first year was the time to break their ill-advised rules and focus on fixing at least some things people *can* feel - I'd have gone for new housing, the courts and care but there were options. They'd have faced fury at first but need/ed results people can feel 2 years before the next election.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 4d

I for one definitely knew my dad's cousins as "First cousin once removed Doris" and so on. And didn't at all have to Google to find out what my Auntie Doris' actual relationship to me is technically called.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 5d

Of course he does. He's probably even submitted a fess but couldn't keep to the character limit

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, shit

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 5d

I read a reply to this question that was basically that there are plenty of Chotiner interviews where people don't come across as arseholes because not every interviewee is an arsehole. And arseholes lack self-awareness, so...

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 5d

Still so proud of my old hometown's solution to the "but it's part of our history" crowd

Statue of Edward Colston, slave trader, being toppled during the BLM protests in Bristol, England

Colston being dumped in the docks by a crowd of protestors

The statue displayed in M-Shed museum, prostrate and heavily defaced with graffiti, and now part of a permanent exhibition about protest in the city and the city's links to the historical slave trade.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 6d

Mightn't any "exodus" likely be among people who weren't on payroll stats in the first place, though? The "self employed" whose jobs are disguised as contract work? Changes in that population (in either direction and of any magnitude) wouldn't show in those stats? And they'd be the first to be cut.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 6d

But the thing is: ads aren't made to meet quotas or policy goals but to sell stuff. If they have diverse casting, it's because it improves perceptions of the company/product - i.e. that's what people *actually* like to see. If many people were really put off by it, it simply wouldn't be there.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 6d

It's also the sort of advice that should have been kept for a private word rather than a public post, much as his advice suggests. It's very funny.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 6d

Just don't think too much about the relationship between mom and pop there

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 6d

What if I'm the alternate

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

The knuckle-draggingly stupid part is that if consumers didn't want diversity in ads, it wouldn't be there. Ad execs don't sit there wringing their hands over inclusiveness, and ads are *expensive*. If casting isn't statistically representative, that's because it's what people want/expect to see.

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

Heinz Himmler

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

Omg it's true, I thought that was blood but it's tomato sauce isn't it?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

I'll tell you one thing, he's not building a playhouse for the childr - actually good god he might be

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

I was going to suggest that "microwaved whole" belongs much further along the disintegration axis but now I'm worried about "countless nights." Do you need someone to talk to?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh looking forward to this one!

felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 7d

I still can't wrap my head around this being the new normal in the US. It's all happening so fast.

Kathleen @nyc-kat.bsky.social · 8d

Yesterday I left 10 extra whistles on my door w/a note saying to take 1 & blow it to alert others if you spot ICE agents. 6 have been claimed already. I’m going to buy more to restock. It’s an easy, friendly way to support immigrants & to self identify as a safe space.

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