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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3m

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23m

A large social crisis of the past decade or so has been caused by people conflating "My speech should be free of legal attempts to restrict it" with "My speech should bear no social consequences."

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 6m

side rant: when are newsrooms going to get over parents' ablest squick about their kids and start using identity first language?

"disabled person" not "person who is great!! except for this icky disability!!"

"autistic person" not "person with a lil' case of the autisms"

etc

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 13m

This is awful to see. There is at least some self consistency to stuff about minors and parental consent. But once you're 18 you're a legal adult and nobody else should have any say at all.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 29m

Like many trans healthcare bans, the Fenway Health policy covers everyone up to age 19, including legal adults who are 18 years old.

Mainstream reporting consistently ignores this creeping ban on adult care, which extends the legal minority of trans adults to maximize the harms of delayed care.

snippet from the Boston Globe home page:
Under federal pressure, Fenway Health ends gender-affirming medical care for trans children
The community clinic, long a key institution for the LGBTQ+ community, treated 5,000 patients transgender patients in 2023, although its unclear how many were minors.

With "and young adults" added after children in red

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

Solvable by getting a PhD. Having a wealthier wife while you make less: you aren’t even the one who has to make the kid, fucking pull it together dude. Having a wealthier wife with a PhD: you are a bohemian intellectual in a loving relationship with someone subsidizes your life of the mind.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

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The plight of the trophy husbands — Business Insider

Kim Dhatt, a 34-year-old recruitment specialist, was in a relationship with her ex-partner for four years. When they first got together, he earned slightly more than she did, and the difference didn't...

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 46m

some cis men especially are so humiliated if this happens, if they realize they maybe said something that's not ... actually smart or helpful. rather than admit this they just shoot the messenger.

Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 52m

When cis strangers act like fools or assholes in my replies and then aren't ... pleased when I notice and respond ... I really have so little patience for this these days.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 1h

Group chats are what did Saruman in

Saruman the White in a palantir group chat with Sauron the Deceiver

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 44m

Yes, the US has always been infested with racism and fascist inclinations. But it is, at the end of the day, a comforting delusion to cling to the narrative that it's *always* been essentially the same shit. It avoids the horror and the pressure of recognizing history changing, battles lost or won.

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 47m

Yeah, "these are only aesthetic changes" posting is people posturing as more in the know about the horrors of the US, but the firewall maintained by both antifa activists and Buckley-type conservatives collapsing in 2016 was really a massive and consequential historic development in a ton of ways.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 50m

The pushbutton on my Ioniq 5 has been a source of frustration, confusion, and annoyance until I figured it how it worked. I think I have the hang of it, but it is different

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 51m

Well it's a new car thing, and this was a car that replaced a car from 2009

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1h

alternatively, trump's at 41% approval — that's pretty "sour" right?

Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 1h

In his interview w @jonfavs.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, "why haven't the tariffs soured the public on Trump?"

An answer from my book on ACA opinions: the contemporary US economy is so diverse & complex that even sizable policy changes don't move opinions consistently.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 56m

My dad is somewhat pro EV and got a 2022 PHEV RAV4 in 2023. My mom doesn't like driving it because she doesn't like the pushbutton starter. And she's much less pro EV.

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Nate the House Whisperer @energysmartwv.bsky.social · 1h

I didn't realize it was that stark. My wife is firmly against getting an EV, she doesn't want any potential issues. She's basically a laggard on this front.

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 57m

I was slightly more pro EV than my wife but not by much - we are equally committed to renewable energy. My wife is strongly anti Tesla and Elon and was earlier to come to that position. I was willing to consider a Tesla until 2024.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 59m

I suspect that the tens of thousands of Americans who have been spurred into buying an EV by the Republicans ending the federal tax credit will become new EV advocates and will help bring down the gender gap in terms of transitioning away from using fossil fuels for their transportation.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

What's funny about that latter adage is that a 15 minute conversation with a member of the political elite may be just as, if not far more, disquieting

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Sam @very-simple.com · 5h

Love when someone schedules an absurdly early meeting on my in-office day and then, *when I'm already on the subway to get here* realizes that it doesn't need to be quite that early and pushes it back by a half hour.

(can't even get too mad because the scheduler is in an even earlier time zone)

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1h

I mean there are many drawings of naked ladies that don’t require petabytes of pornography stolen from real sex workers to produce

Jeff Thomas @buildbackwetter.bsky.social · 4h

A categorically new version of pornography centered on narrative while avoiding exploitation of sex workers and millions of liberal millennials inexplicably pretending like they're not going to use it

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 1h

A Churchillian "democracy is the worst system except for all the others", and "the best argument against democracy is a 15 minute conversation with the average voter" point of view

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 1h

Well that's sort of "democracy is broken and it always has been"

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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 1h

My biggest thought as to why it can't be relied on is the quality of the voters

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