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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2h

mine have been for the same wrong guy for YEARS. I'm certain he's putting the same # down every time someone makes him fill out a form.
Last cycle, he got me on the list for some local races, and now I know where he is within a couple square miles of his house.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

I was thinking about this yesterday, but when we consistently ask the same people to show grace and sacrifice, we come to expect them to be the only people who must do so.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 22h

Currently working on follow-up research to determine if this also may be a viable treatment for Tuesday

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 1d

Just waiting for them to pull out the classic "Well I WAS going to, but now that you've thrown a fit about it, I don't want to anymore."

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 1d

So nice to see the new generation of heisters is being brought up in the field PROPERLY

World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2d

"We're testing if anyone will do anything about this"

World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2d

Grok says facts don't care about your feelings

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2d

Only what had to be done, no more.

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2d

Lol I didn't see active dressed like that. Tons of normal folks in dad-joke tshirts though.

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 2d

I pre-dated my timesheet and sent it in a week ago to beat the rush

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 3d

Calling them violent extremists for no reason at all makes every elderly white hippie I know feel great! Takes em right back to the wrongful accusations of their youthful college days ...

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 4d

AI has some specific, narrow tasks for which it is very useful. None of them are things random average folks are doing in their living rooms.

For everything else, you already have an ACTUAL Ibtelligence.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 4d

Do they think shaving is permanent?

World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 4d

This!
Also a solid plan for non-elderly after a sudden, unexpected fall. Slow down, calm down, and make sure everything's stable before hustling them up to flee the press corps!

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 4d

"I don't pay attention to what my staffers have in their cubicles" would have been a perfectly serviceable lie, but they went with "it was a secret invisible swastika planted by antifa"? Okayyyyy

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 4d

Really great thread.
Everyone should know this stuff, even if you're never around any elderly senators!

🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5d

Just so folks know- they didn’t handle that fall by Mitch McConnell well. When seniors or frail people fall, the best thing to do is actually let them lay where they are. Some people recommend counting to a certain number. While the person lays there-

World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 5d

Increasingly aware that a mysterious space-time accident that landed me on the USS Enterprise would end with me facing down a glassy panel and saying, "NO. SHUT UP AND GIVE ME A KEYBOARD."

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 5d

He's also definitely "had work done", he just got it done *well*.

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 5d

Actually the beans-n-franks were probably doomed as soon as they came out of the same can, which isn't technically her fault

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 5d

It's actually impressive that she can ruin lasagna AND baked-beans-n-franks in one terrifying recipe

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 6d

Mine holds the absolutely unwavering belief that "only" is not a word.

And regularly changes normal words into proper names of people I've never met. Idk who programmed it, but some guy named "McHenry" is at the top of my suspect list.

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World Ahead @worldahead.bsky.social · 6d

I wouldn't trust three author of these messages to handle a customer-facing position at McDonalds, sir. Your painful lesson can be an exciting new career in restocking the buns on the back line, speaking to no one.

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