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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · 17h

please consider turning on bluesky's alt text reminder setting for the low-vision folks 🙏💛

On X, formerly Twitter, Graham Allen @GrahamAllen shares a photo of Pete Hegseth in the passenger seat of a fighter jet:

THIS IS INSANE!!! The Department of War just dropped this INSANE VIDEO of Secretary Hegseth in a FIGHTER JET!!

AMERICA'S SECRETARY OF WAR 🔥🔥🔥

Patrick Cosmos on Bluesky:

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · 6d

Came here to do this. Beat me by seconds! 😅

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · 9d

Unless it's interactive fiction! (though I suppose that would be more often second person)

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · 12d

I recently discovered I've been saying Anania's name wrong (a-NAAN-ya) but I can't for the life of me remember what it's supposed to be or where I heard it said properly. Someone help?
👉👈

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14d

The descendants of illegal immigrants who built a nation on stolen land are complaining about illegal immigration.

You really can’t make this up.

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · 21d

Caligula stabbing the sea

"What happens if social media's data-gathering and profiling engine is turned not to selling merch or promoting political rhetoric, but to profiling enemies? Just this week, Trump issued an executive order designating 'Antifa' as a domestic terrorist organization (despite the fact that antifa is not an organization at all)," Karpf writes.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · Sep 18

"It's the privileged who talk like this! We need to burn down the system for the oppressed!"

What do you think will happen to your disabled allies in the starvation and rubble of a civil war fought with cruise missiles and drones? You think their meds will still be available?

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Bar Mageddon @barmageddon.bsky.social · Sep 16

there's nobody out there going half-mast for robert redford i'll tell you that

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 14

Just put an egg in an egg in an egg in a tomato in a tomato in a tomato and you will be amazed

A YouTube video called "Just put an egg in a tomato and you will be amazed! Breakfast recipe #5" has been screenshot-ed and shared multiple times, each with the video's title repeated in the post text.

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 14

I've certainly ✍️ had ✍️ a cocktail. ✍️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 12

If you’re doing any writing or posting about the phrase “transgender ideology” it should be to say one of the following things:
— it’s a meaningless dog whistle
— trans people had nothing to do with this shooting
— there’s no evidence shooter was trying to show support for trans people/trans rights

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 13

Honest, independent, fearless my whole ass

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 11

If violence is never the answer and we should be trying to win over centrists by "exposing the callousness" of people like Kirk, that should start with refusing to lionize them.

bsky.app/profile/nort...

Dr Adam R. North @northy1.bsky.social · Sep 11

To me, it seems like a really easy argument to win. People like Kirk have a big audience, if you can expose the callousness in their position, then you may win some of that audience.
Politics is a numbers game.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Sep 10

"Given the crimes Epstein was convicted of, I steeled myself before scrolling. Somehow, my internet-addled imagination failed me. This book is a nightmare." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself

This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 7

And Muslim hatred is Muslim hatred no matter what word is used. I'm glad we agree.

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 7

You might want to read the Wikipedia entry a little closer. As a term, Judeophobia first appeared in the late 1800s, not 1800 years ago.

In any case, Judeophobia is *also* a word that was created. I'm gonna hold your hand when I tell you this...

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 7

So there's no such thing as antisemitism because that word was created too, right? to describe a phenomenon? And I guess all Jews are X because the Torah says Y? Just want to make sure I'm understanding your logic here.

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 7

For someone with a post history so against antisemitism, you sure are quick to be Islamophobic...
bsky.app/profile/phan...

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Sep 3

Them: Tell me you've had your heart broken without telling me you've had your heart bro–

Me: WHAT WOULD **YOU** KNOW ABOUT THE CRANBERRIES

#writingcommunity

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Cherry kirsch

Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yeah... Somehow it keeps bringing me back to Deleuze

From Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari: "If you free it with too violent an action, if you blow apart the strata without taking precautions, then instead of drawing the plane you will be killed, plunged into a black hole, or even dragged toward catastrophe. Staying stratified-organized, signified, subjected-is not the worst that can happen; the worst that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or suicidal collapse, which brings them back down on us heavier than ever. This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 24

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

There Is No Trolley Problem

We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

www.the-reframe.com

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Aug 15

a woman in a suit is saying i 'm not gonna spank you .

Alt: Spencer, the fuzzy gremlin from the show Very Important People, says "Don't spank me! Don't spank me!" as he chases the host with his bottom.

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Sky Palm @darnschyp.bsky.social · Aug 13

And may dogs inherit the earth 😭