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Brian Hester
@ibehester.bsky.social
470 followers 2.4K following 930 posts
🌟 Medieval history (really any history), Politics, languages (living and dead), science, Georgia Football, and Good Beer. Yale/Hopper, Painter and girldad. Educational consultant for folks trying to get into college.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 18d
Exposure, acrylic on canvas
An impressionistic painting of a mid-century family portrait, bisected by a vertical wash of yellow light. On the left side, a woman in a striped dress, a man in a white shirt and fedora, and a young boy cling together, partially obscured by the bright band of light. Behind them, a sloping road and telephone pole lead into a soft, bluish sky filled with expressive diagonal strokes. To the right of the light band, a bright green lawn stretches toward a small white house with a porch, dappled with sunlight and shadow. A large tree canopy arcs across the center of the painting, tying both halves together with branches. The brushwork is loose and evocative, blending memory, space, and time in a composition that feels both grounded and spectral.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 22h
Let's be less subtle: This is obviously prima facie harmful, and he is a horrible person for promoting sexual engagement with a LLM.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 1d
That is the MAGA style book!
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 1d
Sorry. Other European train systems.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 1d
How does it compare?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 2d
Can we get Chotiner to interview one of these SCOTUS frauds?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 3d
Part of arguably the greatest military campaign ever waged by an American!
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 3d
They need to read his book White Flight. It is magisterial and should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand how racism formed modern cities like Atlanta.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 3d
I know. You will call this “the mob,” i.e. the epic ratio. That would be classic Weiss: whining about a group of people offering passionate, but articulate critiques of a lazy as hell take. You can’t lose. That’s the grift.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 3d
Creepy and “concerning”
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 3d
Thinking more and more about Dead Internet Theory - especially every time I see someone who means well posting gen-AI slop by mistake... www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
The ‘dead internet theory’ makes eerie claims about an AI-run web. The truth is more sinister
Is most of the content on the internet fake? Here’s what the dead internet theory really means – and why we should be warier of how we’re manipulated for profit and political gain.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 3d
Big big bubble popping
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 4d
He has looked a complete dipshit at every stage of the life cycle
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 6d
This does not exclude fighting dictatorship either
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 6d
Her internal polling must be dire
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 6d
Bluesky consensus was that healthcare was the wrong thing for the leadership to highlight. Also wrong.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 6d
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d
“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”
Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 7d
And you had much more stable and competent governance then. Do we even have three years?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 7d
In less intellectual circles, that would be called complete bullshit.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe she’s trying to avoid perjury and keep the pawpaw happy?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
Senator Lickspittle might not want to advertise that.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
MAGA ain't bothered with "foolish consistency," alas.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
Clearly her audience is Trump + Twitter. How will her trailer park belligerence translate to other slices of the country? Does it matter?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
Does she not know she is going to be "it" when the shit hits the fan?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
ROI?
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
I think your are largely correct, but "people" in this case is really the national media that has normed this perception.
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Brian Hester @ibehester.bsky.social · 8d
She got flustered when Trump lickspittle Lindsey Graham had the temerity to lob a puff ball question about the number of illegals in Chicago. That clip is going to be played and shared millions of times on social media. Well done, Senator!
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