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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social

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Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Rural liberal. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher who's forgotten more about cognitive assessment than most people knew. #SFWA

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · Jan 19

Wow. I guess #BookTok has shown up here? Well, anyway, welcome to my new followers.
So here's how I do things.
I tend to keep my followbacks low until I get to know you as an account management tool. I use the OnlyPosts and Spec List feeds primarily.
Gotta have time to write.
What do I write? 1/5

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 30m

They did it in the '60s. No reason to expect anything different.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 32m

And even then...nope.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 34m

YES YES YES.
Those who say otherwise either weren't around or are letting nostalgia color their memories.
I was an activist in the '80s and held positions in the Young Democrats. You bet I heard stuff.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 35m

Libertarians saying stuff like this has been around for a long time.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 36m

Amanda lives on a different planet. I was on campus in the late '70s/early '80s as a Young Democrats leader and the stuff I heard from Republicans was...icky. And this was in a state generally regarded as blue (though actually more purpleish).

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 38m

Yep. Oh, it would be a wink-wink-nudge-nudge testing to start with, and if you gave them any encouragement...it got worse.
I was a legislative intern in 1981 and some of the stuff said at parties by Republican interns *then*....

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 40m

Oh dear ghod. Obviously they weren't there.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 1h

I...dunno. I heard some pretty icky stuff as asides during my political years in the '80s and '90s. Especially when I was at the University of Oregon. The YR types there tended to be frat boys, and...yeah.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

I submit that a huge part of the pandemic of distrust is that reactionaries & progressives the world over are both dissatisfied with democracy, for different reasons, but this creates a pervasive common sense (via incompletely theorized agreement) that democracy's in crisis.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

Ha ha, trick question: it's those same parties benefiting from disillusionment who are saying you shouldn't trust democracy, that it's corrupt. We call these "populist" parties.

There's tons of work on populism, but everyone agrees it's associated with rhetoric that makes distrust commonsensical.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

With the assumptions in place, the main event: why are people distrustful of democracy?

Put simply: because they're told to distrust it. They're told it's betrayed them, that it's failing. That's why people are becoming disillusioned—& it's why some support parties who say so. But WHO'S SAYING IT?

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 2h

I am extremely jealous. I get knocked down for 48 hours.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking from experience...the Silents, the Greatests, and the older Boomers are all at fault. I was a Jones watching this phenomenon happen in the '80s and...it was the Silents and the Greatests co-opting older Boomers and selling out Jones and X. It was damned depressing to experience.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 11h

Dungeness crab probably won't be a challenge...maybe boning a tuna?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

The majority of the country couldn't be bothered to vaccinate annually but they're looking at disabled people masking like we're the problem?

Nah, bud. I don't have patience for it anymore.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

my Aunt Kathleen, who passed away last February, was a lifelong Crafts Person and a Catholic fundraiser party hostess practically from the cradle. for the last decade she precision-targeted that energy toward pro-choice women Democrats in small-town NC. she was worth 100 dirtbag online leftbros

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 14h

Weird. Totally weird. Hugs.

Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 1d

I love this.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

More Lucky Loser:

DJT is incredibly lucky that his siblings didn’t go off on him. They SHOULD have. They had an excellent case for exploiting an elder, elder financial abuse, and out-right theft.

The only reason they didn’t? Their own shares of the fortune were in the family money laundry.

CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 2d

As above (or yesterday) this is a guy who can easily be goaded into spending more money and getting less for it than if he’d just been reasonable, normal, financially prudent. This is all public, it’s not anything that wasn’t reported at the time.

Journalistic malpractice all over 2016 and since.

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olivicmic.bsky.social @olivicmic.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody is bullying anyone for being marginalized. It’s just mad up whining for attention. They are being “bullied” for using AI, doesn’t matter who they are, they deserve it fully.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Y'all, the NEWSMAX motherfucker won't even sign this.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

www.cnn.com

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Chris Anderson @midwestdude.bsky.social · 1d

Real wages rising for the exact demographics people say they want looked after, and then saying Democrats/liberals abandoned them, is one of the more disconcerting social media trends (on the left) of the last few years.

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LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @lqlana.bsky.social · 1d

💯
And you're absolutely right. Near silence with James while people lost their shit over Kimmel.

When your fight for Democracy is selective then you ain't really fighting for Democracy.

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 1d

When I posted a meme saying that we should support Tish James like we did Jimmy Kimmel, heaps of white people began attacking me. Not on Twitter, here on BlueSky. A whole bunch of guilt ridden, hit dogs came here to holler. The problem with America is that racism survives progressivism.

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