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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 13m

I mean there’s the question of: is she good at the business side of news in the sense that she can get people to give her money for things? Clearly, yes. I don’t think even the people who dislike her would dispute that! That’s not the issue here.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 37m

anyway James Coburn is an underrated contender for “coolest voice in Hollywood”

The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 6h

rewatched “Monsters, Inc.” with the kid and it’s a great movie but there’s a scene where a toddler just falls asleep instantly in a bed and I’ve never been angrier in my life

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if this site has ever considered community notes

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 2h

look, this government has been very clearly committing a genocide for a long time, the food appropriation argument was already dumb and overdetermined (Israeli food is European and Levantine in origin for obvious reasons!) but now we’ve just moved onto “making shit up for clout”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

even if you already know Ian Watkins was a child rapist, there are details where you’re still like “fucking CHRIST”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

whack.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t want to tag you directly, but hello

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

(or maybe they still do that, I’ll let the professional lesbians weigh in)

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

“who’s the Bernie and who’s the Hillary” is the electoral equivalent of the “who’s the man and who’s the woman” thing people used to do for lesbian couples back in the 90’s/00’s

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

“Fetterman”? no no, that’s just an extension of 2016, common mistake

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 4h

because we’ll never escape 2016 every praise and critique has to be Bernified as opposed to the normal reaction which is “idk we’ll see”

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 7h

Graham Platner is a very high-ceiling candidate in Maine with a lot of potential. He's also extremely untested and while he looks promising for Democrats, it's pretty important to have a primary here to see if there are any red flags that bubble up.

Just let it go and log off.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t think voters are “selfish little piggies” (or, well, not for this reason alone, at least), I think it’s just very difficult to telegraph the idea that consumer goods prices rising as the result of an emergency aren’t going to go back down once we’re out of it

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

it takes a long time for people to mentally adjust to things being more expensive than what they’ve fixed in their mind as the “normal” price!

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 5h

No inflation was actually high and once prices are up and interest rates are up people simply do not appreciate prices rising less steep.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 6h

yeah it’s interesting that these films are at least in part aimed at parents of young children but have to flub details for the story — not a big deal but kinda funny

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 6h

it’s kind of confusing how old Boo is supposed to be because she has a 90/10 gibberish:word vocab but she also uses the toilet? nitpicky I know but they also had an actual toddler voice her so the mixed verisimilitude is odd

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 6h

rewatched “Monsters, Inc.” with the kid and it’s a great movie but there’s a scene where a toddler just falls asleep instantly in a bed and I’ve never been angrier in my life

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

Ian Watkins seemed like he was in a “who can be the worst sex offender possible” contest with no other contestants

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7h

against my better judgment reading the Wikipedia page for Ian Watkins and some of it genuinely doesn’t seem real

evidence of his abuses. 301 Investigators later bypassed the encrypted password to Watkins' laptop, noting that it read "I FUK KIDZ".

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Batwingdings @batwingdings.bsky.social · 17h

I hate that "If this is so - which it is" is so funny, I'm sorry

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

shame, it can be good

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

any time I play music on my phone and I accidentally don’t have my headphones on or plugged in, the 3-4 seconds when it’s audible to the people around me is so embarrassing to me it’s a form of agony. simply do not understand on any level doing it loudly on purpose.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

bring back “shopaholic”

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

it sucks that it’s a community full of insane people because “samin postrat” would be such a good handle

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I am nothing if not an expert at crafting jokes for ≈20 people

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