John Brown’s Body
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Seriously, though - people keep asking "what are the protesters asking for, and what's their strategic plan to get it?"

I think what they're asking for is for America to be restored and Trump to subjected to the law. And I think the plan to get it is to demonstrate that there are so, so many of us.
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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
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He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
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I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.
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Years ago there was a Twitter leak that disclosed actual countries and email address of many ppl's IDs.

To this day you can find MAGA accounts – that were originally started by posting cat pictures – praising Hitler and, if you trace their account ID, are actually run from Pakistan.

It's all an op
Just a reminder that this place is rotten with bad faith accounts trying openly to split apart groups, redirect discussions, and ruin any chance of creating solidarity 🥰
Let’s just agree to disagree. It’s pretty clear to me that your whole framing is bad faith. I’m not gonna block you, but sure af muting you.
To which you replied about “throwing vision impaired people under the bus” before I got the actual axe out.
Alt text is a plot by Big AI to get you to annotate training data for them. The fact that it also is supportive of those with disability not withstanding.
“Throw vision impaired people under the bus”, “you get a ‘discourage post button’”, don’t think you need a sentiment analysis bot for that.
Use whatever semantic framing you want, buddy.
then you get a free "discourage posting" button!

i have found that once i've gone through the effort of uploading image, the effort-barrier to do alt-text is small enough to, as the illustrious shia labeouf once said, "just do it"
I’m sure your shaming tactic is quite effective…
I’m saying get off your fucking high horse. It’s a personal choice, and you’re ascribing a moral valence to something that is not an unalloyed good.
Alt text is a plot by Big AI to get you to annotate training data for them. The fact that it also is supportive of those with disability not withstanding.
I thought cursor heavily prioritizes non-OpenAI models (Claude, Cheetah, Grok)?
I think it’s somewhat dubious. That’s $13b to $60b just to cover GPU leases, nothing else. While it does make up the majority of their cost structure today, that is shifting as their market matures and the actual hurdle will be much higher.

Given it’s already marginal whether they can hit $13b.
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Xenophon once marched through the freezing snow to lead the Ten Thousand back to Greece. I think you can manage to go to a protest even if that means you get tear gassed and shot with pepper balls. It's sort of fun. It's also your civic duty.
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Yeah I strongly, STRONGLY agree with this. We need a model for all the Bad People in the country today to stop being Bad People! And frankly, you couldn't do much better than this from Platner bsky.app/profile/linu...
in my opinion, and i say this with mixed feelings, if we want to rebuild america w/o violence of ‘really bad purges’ or &c., this is exactly the kind/level of apology we need to become comfortable fully accepting. with its limitations. guys should know that if they come this far they’re off the hook
@houserepublicans.bsky.social lol, don’t yall have a job to do? Where are those Epstein files?
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Treating the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances like a to do list.

"He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people."

"For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate …".
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
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"Having told the truth and revealed that I am a violent reactionary, I was promptly contacted by my company's head of public relations and I actually remain committed to ohana. Now who wants to see me chat with McConahuey about our favorite Steely Dan records?"
Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO of Salesforce, now says he does not believe the National Guard needs to be deployed to San Francisco.
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Folks need to understand that the protests are a lot less scary than what happens later if there are not visible protests.