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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇

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Artist, Philosopher, History addict, Social Justice Worrier #BLM 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · Nov 10

This is a video of my art show in 2017 at City Center Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. It contains over 150 mechanized ordinary objects, each timed to move once an hour.

Since then I’ve changed my focus to doing philosophy of mind. It’s harder than doing art.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80W1...

The Waiting Room

YouTube video by Jim Rubino

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 20m

With a special section showing all the awkward things you’ve said to people you just met.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 39m

I’m not optimistic. Please include an option to opt out of this feature/bug.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 41m

I expect this to be like updates to iOS — terrible, unnecessary changes. They’re just looking for something to do.

(I’ve never seen their AI-driven labeling of comments as spam, rude, etc., to be correct. Maybe work on that first.)

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 2d

"Kids dressed in Halloween costumes, walking to a parade, do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer. They just don't," federal judge Ellis told Lead Trump Thug Bovino, after ICE tear gassed a Chicago neighborhood, forcing the cancellation of a Halloween parade.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4d

Trump regime ICE thug smashes a US woman to the ground, 2025. ICE has increased its use of violence against its victims and US citizens alike.

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 1h

He needs to be imprisoned in one of his immigrant concentration camps.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 1h

In the original Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, the Republican ant refuses to give the grasshopper any food, and is used to highlight the importance of being productive. In the Middle Ages, the Democrat moral of the story changed to emphasize the importance of charity.

Her facebook post:

The Facebook post:
I'm so anxious about this whole shutdown. My husband's veteran using his GI bill for school. Which that's affected and we get good stamps since I'm disabled and he's in school. We have 2 kids, one is 2 and we're waiting to get her tested for autism. She's a picky eater, l've tried other foods but in the end I give up because I don't want anymore screaming. My 6 month old is starting purees. Yes we get wic but still. I don't know how we're going to pay
rent let alone our other bills and get food. I do cook everything from scratch and l've been adding rice, beans or noodles to stretch it out. I'm just at my wits end and I'm overwhelmed. Plus we're almost out of formula, he asked his mother to buy a can until our wic
comes in. Her response was we voted for this.

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently Vance has fallen for 17th century European propaganda portraying the Native Americans as savages, giving a justification for colonization.

A 17th century depiction of native Americans as cannibals.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

Then why did Europeans come to America?

"Samoset was the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in New England. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621 by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, saying ’Welcome, Englishmen.’" (Wikipedia)

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

Mace arranged for police to escort her from her car to the ticket gate, but she showed up late and in the wrong place.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Jake P @jahre.bsky.social · 2d

Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.

The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

Using a fake image of a person talking is like using quotation marks around a made up sentence.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

Stop making cents? How did we get here?

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

I taught a class once at 8AM. I have no memory of it.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

AI video is just lying with images.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 2h

The NYT, known for its puzzles and its ability to use fudge words, like "defiance of the law" or "raised a chilling question."

A word search puddle with "FUDGE" as the clue.
Rich
Chocolate
Decadent
Sweet
Soft
Caramel
Indulgent
Fatty
Gift
Nutty
Confectionery
Candy
Dessert
Creamy
Traditional
Homemade
Smooth
Butter
Milk

Added:
Evade, Waffle, Bunk, Nonsense

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 3h

Block first, question later.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve never tasted egg nog, or for that matter, any kind of nog. Are there other kinds?

For some reason I associate egg nog with buttermilk, which I think of as curdled milk with good PR.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks. My potato brain failed to see the light.

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 3h

From Samuel Johnson’s Erewhon: "Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots crawling straight thereto."

"Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots crawling straight thereto: they will crawl along the floor and up the wall and out at the cellar window; if there be a little earth anywhere on the journey he will find it and use it for his own ends. What deliberation he may exercise in the matter of his roots when he is planted in the earth is a thing unknown to us, but we can imagine him saying, 'I will have a tuber here and a tuber there, and I will suck whatsoever advantage I can from all my surroundings. This neighbour I will overshadow, and that I will undermine; and what I can do shall be the limit of what I will do. He that is stronger and better placed than I shall overcome me, and him that is weaker I will overcome.'
"The potato says these things by doing them, which is the best of languages. What is consciousness if this is not consciousness? We find it difficult to sympathise with the emotions of a potato; so we do with those of an oyster. Neither of these things makes a noise on being boiled or opened, and noise appeals to us more strongly than anything else, because we make so much about our own sufferings. Since, then, they do not annoy us by any expression of pain we call them emotionless; and so qua mankind they are; but mankind is not everybody.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 3h

It’s real people versus fake people.

Cuomo ad is about fear; Mamdani’s ad is about joy.

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 4h

I believe he said "it’s they’re fault."

Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 4h

Shoah is also where I learned of their train transportation system. It makes the holocaust about real people doing horrible things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7z8...

Shoah - Official Trailer | HD | IFC Films

YouTube video by IFC Films

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Dean Boooth 🦆🐇 @deanbooth.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, but Stephen Miller said trans ideology is terrorism. They’re going down their list.

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