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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 7h

chatgpt is just like a professor! who cares if sometimes it just tells you untrue things and you have no idea which they are? it's cheaper! professors are worthless! expertise has no value! you should definitely develop expertise anyway though! yayyyyyyy! *flailing kermit arms*

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 16h

it's embarrassing for us as a country that this needs to be said. *obviously* the remedy for racism involves race.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16h

why are we pretending that race shouldn't be predominant when remedying racism?

it's the same problem I've always had with affirmative action being about "diversity" rather than quotas.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULD BE ABOUT QUOTAS.

REMEDYING RACISM IN VOTING SHOULD CONSIDER RACE PREDOMINANTLY.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 17h

that's just a weakness of corporate media, though. not unique to comic books.

allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 17h

he was one of my favorites as a kid! i didn't start reading until after he died so i knew what was coming but even so. loved him. him, kitty, and illyana were my favorites.

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 17h

yeah i know. i'll read it after it's done like i did with all the others. but i am not optimistic.

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 18h

also comics characters should age normally. this is a generational art form and the characters i grew up with should stay the same age relative to me, stories and personalities maturing as time goes on.

there is no world where kate pryde should be younger than real-world me.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 2d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 18h

which did the setup a disservice too. like if that's how the story ends then that date night is a poignant romantic moment with subtle foreshadowing.

now it's just "hey did you know that phoenix is powerful? no really, like mega elite super powerful 2000!"

allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 18h

...that would have been so much better, wow.

especially because they set it up with her holding back his eyebeams on date night earlier in the same story. they could have avoided the whole shi'ar/moon thing, which always felt like a hat on a hat to me.

this is my headcanon now.

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 18h

ramsey, more than xavier or magneto, could have solved the problems facing mutants.

but that would have eliminated the mutant oppression metaphor at the heart of the x-men.

which they sorta did with krakoa later anyway. and resurrected doug was a big part of that. "ahead of his time" then maybe.

allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 19h

end of inferno, my bad. forgot the name of the "limbo invades nyc" storyline.

allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 19h

as a kid i was a huge fan of the new mutants, with doug and illyana as my favorites.

and yes, this. illyana's story ended. tragically, but it was a powerful ending and they should have let it stay there. but they undid her death *and* her choice at the end of hellfire. such disrespect.

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 19h

doug ramsey was always the most powerful mutant, not in terms of combat ability (though he did catch a bullet for rahne sorta successfully), but in his ability to enact major societal change.

marvel was just (correctly) not interested in telling the stories in the 80s his gifts lent themselves to.

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 2d

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 1d

the way i see it, being exposed as a racist antisemitic piece of shit is a skill issue. you have to suck real bad to make wanting to hurt other people that much of your personality.

bunch of fucking losers, all of 'em. every setback gets blamed on others? take some personal responsibility, dipshit.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 1d

a few months later, yeah.

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 1d

oh yeah that's when i made out with your wife! lol

that was a great gp. it was also my last gp as a judge. :/

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allison steele, organic human person @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 1d

*incredibly* stupid times.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.