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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · Nov 9

This has been my experience as well.

We should use social media that doesn’t make us feel terrible and anxious. This is the one I’ve found for this moment. That might change down the line, but right now this is the best I’ve found.

Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Nov 8

Bluesky is a social media platform and presumably poisoning all of our brains like any other.

But every time something bad happens in the world the Skyline is suddenly filled with fun, interesting people saying "I guess I'm gonna post here more, wow, it's so not-rancid" and I appreciate that

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 1h

Amazing that the GOP has managed to push the normie dem stance to “abolish ICE” in just 9 months.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 12h

want cake? why not try "mug of cereal." that's right, mug of cereal: Its what you have

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 16h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 11h

Leave it to Douthat to tell the Pope how to Pope.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 12h

It makes sense for the Roman Catholic Church’s social doctrine “to take the form of general moral guidelines rather than a checklist of policy obligations,” Ross Douthat writes about Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation. “At the same time, however, there is a danger in vagueness and vapor.”

Opinion | Pope Leo’s ‘Dilexi Te’ Needs to Be More Specific

A pious vision of political economy should get more concrete.

nyti.ms

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 12h

lmao

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I have a feeling conservatives are *really* not going to enjoy the looming backlash.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 19h

Goose meme, but “who’s the other person, Katherine?!”

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this ought to be a huge scandal, but because it’s completely expected everyone will ignore it.

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Shocked Futurama GIF - Find & Share on GIPHY

Discover & share this Shocked Futurama GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 1d

Reading through the replies here, it seems like most people think it’s the technology: what seemed futuristic 50 years ago seems anachronistic today. I think that’s definitely part of it, but it feels (to me) that there’s more to it.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think there’s anything specific about sci-fi that makes it more susceptible to this phenomenon?

Comedy makes sense to me, because so much of what makes us laugh is embedded in culture, but I’ve noticed when I’ve recently gone back and read older sci-fi that it tends to age poorly.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 1d

I believe it’s “rank order of 20th-21st Century presidents, but it’s insane.

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 2d

So I guess just call them cows?

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 2d

American bison.

Although everyone knows what you mean when you say buffalo.

nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news...

It's Bison, Not Buffalo. And Other American Bison Facts

The iconic song of the American West, “Home on the Range,” got a key detail wrong — buffalo never roamed the region! But bison still do. Isn’t it time you learned why?

nationalzoo.si.edu

Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 2d

Technically there are no buffalo in North America.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 2d

It seems like that’s the current motto on the entire right wing of America.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 3d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 3d

lauren
@NotABigJerk
i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4d

What if the connection between reactionary MAGA politics and the sexual abuse of children is deeper than we want to admit?

The name for this idea is pedocon theory.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Thirst aid trap @lantro.bsky.social · 5d

Sort of a “pain thermocline,” insofar as things are broadly fine until they very much are not.

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