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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 1d

Thesis: dumpling
Antithesis: taco
Synthesis: chimichanga

Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

"the relationship between the signifier and the signified may perhaps by surpassed, or at any rate best expressed, by the tense dialectic between the dumpling and the taco, each of which contain the other by containing a stuffing in each concrete instance."

Me entering my Derridean phase

A Bluesky debate about dumplings and tacos

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Genevieve McDonald @genevieve207.bsky.social · 1d

We should not be having a debate about Nazi symbolism tattooed on the potentially top ticket Democrat in Maine. The fact we are even willing to entertain it shows desperation within the Party, not dedication, and how far we have fallen from rational thought.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest debate in the history of forums, locked after 10,000 comments and 17 death threats:

Is a dumpling a kind of taco or a taco a kind of dumpling?

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

let‘s call this remake:

Fat acid heat wrap

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Every culture loves:

- creamy sauce
- pickles
- stew
-flatbread

If they don't have their own version, they steal the hell out of someone else's

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

“How a small elite tattoo in Maine indicates Platner’s World View”

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most psychotic both-sides headlines I've ever seen

Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

true poasters know the grief of giving up on a post because the autocorrect is just too annoying.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me did you say post your pumpkins?

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

look a lot of people are dunking on this, but maybe Elon just hasn’t gotten to the end yet and realized that Denethor is actually a bad guy, Gondor’s courage is brittle, and real strength is sustained by communal compassion, selflessness, and vegetables.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda want to pitch the point on a “pulled over on charges of drunk on Hegel” essay, because this political approach could be summed up as determinate negation taken to its logical extreme.

Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

there is no way of attacking a dem constituency that [certain parts of] the Democratic Party wouldn’t translate into a reasonable expression of a legitimate goal.

Call immigrants an infection? Fair, people don’t like change. Defund the universities? Okay, they don’t believe in God. Shoot trans peop

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda think a self-helpy ethos is part of the problem with the Democratic Party’s understanding of itself: every problem has to be translated into an issue I can solve by taking responsibility for myself.

Worms & Snakes @worms-and-snakes.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like people are saying, "The problem you're identifying can't be correct, because there isn't a clear solution to it."

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

Majors like public health, or any of its siblings like nursing, promote a view that “boys drool,” critics charge

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

Can we just talk about the tossed—off assertion that women’s studies is a “sibling” of Africana studies

because that is not a claim that would survive any knowledge of either.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what You’re talking about, I saw *many* no kings protestors with “give me drug price negotiation or give me death“ banners.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away

To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to:

Focus our policy agenda and our messaging on an economic program centered on lowering costs, growing the economy, creating jobs, and expanding the social safety net.

Advocate for popular economic policies (e.g., expanding prescription drug price negotiation, making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour) rather than unpopular economic policies (e.g., student loan forgiveness, electric vehicle subsidies, Medicare for All).

Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues).

Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues.

Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 1d

New Soft Pink Truth music by yours truly! Behold the video for "Time Inside the Violet", directed by hourglass animator Matthew Murray Sullivan and panic attack collagist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us). New album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social comes out Jan 30th!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...

The Soft Pink Truth - Time Inside the Violet (official music video)

YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 2d

I am reasonably sure I remember from my age of justinian book that a core statement of orthodoxy in dispute in that debate was

The tome of Leo

making this all the more appropriate

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus wept.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 3d

Peanut spread…spread on top of the jelly

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 6d

So maybe it's not so much an indictment of criticism as it is of contemporary lay psychology: we can only comprehend sadness as depression avant la lettre.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 6d

lol

Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 7d

What is this "emotion" you speak of, and can you explain it terms of this list of neurodivergences that comprise a significant part of my conceptual framework.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 7d

It is such a crystallization and indictment of contemporary criticism that someone would see Winnie the Pooh and think "ah, what a subtle portrayal of autism" and not, you know, joy at being alive.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 10d

Oh now this one is spicy. I think huge amounts of damage are done by people lying themselves into thinking they’re serving the greater good and have successfully identified the action that does it.

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 10d

There are at least three north carolina state legislators from whom I get regular updates. someone named Sydney?