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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1h

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2h

VOLITION - You got up from this floor because of a holy vow you made sixteen years ago. With *me*. To wake up exactly 07:30 every morning until the day you die.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 15h

ok does anyone have a good tldr of what's changed in Rimworld in the last *checks Steam history* uhhh five years, jesus

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

I would be so owned if Republicans made it so that a like D+3 swing nationally was enough to give Democrats 300 seats in the house

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 18h

Doing this in North Carolina is also extremely funny, because California can do a zero-Republican gerrymander which can survive anything short of a like 1984 landslide, but a major gerrymander in either direction in North Carolina will explode in a stiff breeze

David Nir @davidnir.com · 20h

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 20h

god I need to just rehost my fucking blog somewhere and stop fighting for my life trying to express long, nuanced thoughts on bluesky lol

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of these problems seem like they're deeply entwined with the culture & practice of fanfic production/consumption (and by extension the way fanfic seems to be eating some genres), but that almost never gets discussed in this context for some reason?

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 20h

If the problem here is about eroding reading culture, or short attention spans, or distractions, why did e.g. these extremely rigid & simplistic ways of reading texts first really explode in obsessive, text-oriented fandom communities prone to extremely attentive & close (in some ways) readings?

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 20h

I've been thinking a lot about musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit... and there's some valuable insight there but I think it also makes the same fundamental mistake as almost every other post in this genre:

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 21h

maybe the next one will finally figure out how to win a war with Russia

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 21h

I'd like to present two candidates:

1. Walter Audisio, because according to popular tradition he's the one who executed Mussolini

2. Gramsci, because it would be very funny to have a day where "proud Italian-American" cops in suburban New Jersey have to pretend they've read the Prison Notebooks

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22h

It seems like the conclusion there isn't "we need to know how it works" so much as "we need to be interested in learning how it works", though?

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22h

We've spent centuries working backwards from "we know this medicine does this, but why?" to figure out what certain metabolic pathways must be, and it took a huge array of other inventions to even be able to investigate metabolic pathways

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23h

Using the medicine example again, though, it sometimes runs in exactly the opposite direction. Trying to understand *why* something works can spawn a whole bunch of other inventions long before we actually figure it out

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23h

The French government teetering on the brink of collapse actually makes me optimistic based on my theory that reality has been destabilized by a French Republic lasting so unnaturally long. The sixth republic might restore balance to the universe!

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23h

If the mechanisms of an invention needed to be understood for its use to grow, large chunks of modern life *would not exist*

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23h

We still don't entirely understand how aspirin works lol what are you talking about

Joel Mokyr won a Nobel prize today for showing that it isn’t enough to have inventions that work. You have to know how they work to have sustained growth. Think about that when you hear AI scientists continue to speculate but aren’t sure as to how generative AI models work.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: "I'm banning all this green solar powered shit. no more 'photosynthesis'"

Wall Street: "thats genius sir" *Dow spikes 7,000 points*

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

INNOCENT

8-ʙɪᴛ™ @the8bitidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Free her!!!

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

"Rust is an activist language" is technically true, but the ideology it's pushing is "it's bad when the computer gets rooted and incorporated into a botnet because you wrote everything in C", not communism

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

i think the SF part is underrated because the only exposure to american governance they have is a city with very unique problems. and also one with a history of cultism that goes back much longer than people imagine

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

living in san francisco, excessive quantities of controlled substances, and private jets have produced a unique form of brainrot

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf madness isn't necessarily an *irrational* response to sf politics lol

Luis Villa @lu.is · 1d

Btw I’ve been replying like mad to the cultism stuff, because I think it is interesting history, but in terms of explaining the very weird brain rot, definitely think “exposure to modern S.F. politics” is underrated as a critical junction point where all of this went off the rails.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d

so as I understand it, the role of the umpire in baseball is to get basic matters of fact wrong, then throw a screaming tantrum if anyone objects & order them removed from the game?

Man it really *is* the most American sport

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d

look on the bright side, if the secretary of HHS does in fact manage to unleash Nurgle, Lord of Decay, at least it may finally make it impossible for anyone with the last name "Kennedy" to reach high office for the next century or so

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d

I think we can actually use Americans' love of cops against ICE tbh. "Police officers are proud to wear their badges and show their faces. ICE are just cowardly thugs trying to steal our noble officers' valor"

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