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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 59m

in Britain you're allowed to do it in the afternoon too, high tea can be "brunch" but it can also be "linner".

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, we literally see this with Tully's wife Margaret, who ends up dumping him for Cousin Itt and becoming an Addams.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1h

Ah, because a clarification is needed apparently.

“C’mon, my laser is just a little guy!”

Just 5mW of visible light? Are you CERTAIN it is 5mW or just trusting that label on your bullshit laser? Also, funny how that doesn’t matter. The startle/flinch response happens at lower power than that.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 5h

But the more reasonable reason to not have a bullshit laser on your person is that you are every bit as much a blinding hazard to your fellow protestors as you are to law enforcement. If you happen to be arrested and have that laser on you, you will not have a good time.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 5h

For people getting the advice “It’s dumb to do it alone, you need to do it en masse”, the counterpoint is that it is also dumb to make it hard to navigate a large flying heavy thing when you under it. This is also why it is a felony.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 5h

I am very tired of this, but a quick review.

In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.

How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 6h

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

Shining lasers into the air also forces aircraft doing stuff like “life saving medical flights” to land, which is a great way to lose popular support for your activism. Don’t fucking do this.

bsky.app/profile/patd...

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6h

It is wrong and so freaking stupid. It's impacting hospital care (causing helicopters to have to land an hour away instead of at hospital which is near ICE facility) and the type of thing which will turn people against the protestors. www.kgw.com/article/news...

OHSU says emergency flights will be diverted amid 'laser party' aimed at helicopters circling over Portland ICE facility

A "laser party" for those frustrated with helicopters' nightly flights over the South Portland area can have dangerous consequences for patients, OHSU warned.

www.kgw.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

take it from the Canadians regarding why it’s a really terrible idea to point lasers at aircraft:

tc.canada.ca/en/campaigns...

Aiming a laser at an aircraft—Not a bright idea

Campaign page for how to use laser pointers legally and safely

tc.canada.ca

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 6h

Gee I'm sure glad your experience of the 1990s was universal across the whole globe.

This would look kind of silly if, say, tens of thousands of Bosnians were killed and about a million expelled from their homes in a genocide in the 1990s, or something.

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 6h

Cheap target shirts aren't made by people who are getting paid fairly for their work.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 6h

journalists should force people they're interviewing to just text the people they know when they pretend they don't know answers like this

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 6h

you know i just saw a thing where george stephanopolous was talking to jd vance and he was like propublica says several of your cabinet members have multiple mortgages and jd vance was like well i don't know but i question the source. but like. he can text them. this isn't 1980

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

This post needs an updated re-issue because AI companies have truly come up with some incredibly novel ways to push this technology that no one wants onto people.

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

slashdot.org

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 6h

What happened after Nuremburg for that matter? Was the punishment given to those found guilty 'nonviolent'?

banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 7h

"You voted for us but you didn't kowtow or call Kamala Harris god incarnate; her loss is on you!"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 7h

That's nice. You gonna answer this question at any point?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

i think it is fair to request a statement from @jay.bsky.team on TRANS PEOPLE and where we fit in on @bsky.app.

i think as a transgender journalist, it's acceptable and makes sense for me to ask this

and so, the question, am i not a person as a trans girl and do i not deserve to feel safe here?

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 7h

WouLD You BE MaD if ShE waS On THE LeFT? OR a MaN? Yes and yes, dumbass. Jfc it's embarrassing how dumb the supposed thought leaders have become.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 7h

White women falling all over themselves to defend Bari Weiss as some sort of fucking girl boss just showing their whole asses by not even bothering check in with her new employees to find out how the first week went. Spoiler alert: not good. www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

'We Just Got Elon Musk-ed'

Bari Weiss’s first major move as CBS News chief has staffers on edge—ordering every journalist to submit a written memo justifying their work, in an apparent Elon Musk-style loyalty test.

www.status.news

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banjessesingal.bsky.social @banjessesingal.bsky.social · 7h

Can you give an example of some of these "past statements" he needs to take back, and can you prove he actually said them?

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