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Lindsay Ballant

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⬛️⬜️🟥 Here we go again. Art director & designer for hire. Former: The Baffler, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Forum, etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first. lindsayballant.com

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 23d

Hate to be *that* person but—this was a (yes, “guerrilla”) project I made in my senior year of art school, back in 2004…

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 31m

Finding my partner though match dot com 11 years ago still feels like boarding the last chopper out of Saigon

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 12h

Mariners/Brewers would be the most wholesome series this century I think

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 14h

The Banner is a nonprofit founded by liberal philanthropists. Most of those types are performative anti-Trump centrists who support the Dem Party establishment that’s hostile to the left/emboldens the GOP, but it sounds like you were talking about Sinclair. You can just say you didn’t know, it’s ok!

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21h

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 21h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Yourson Smells @tailboi.bsky.social · 23h

I don't understand how "willing to get death threats and suffer immense personal and professional blowback" indicates a lack of character. This is, under scrutiny, some all time gibberish

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 21h

how shallow do you have to be to treat the cause of Palestinian liberation like an indie band you saw at Northsix in 2003.

Why would you gatekeep this? If you actually cared about the cause, you'd of course want as many high-profile people speaking out as unrelenting as Ms. Rachel has done.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 22h

you're confusing them with The Baltimore Sun I believe

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 22h

they brought this person in to start The Banner's founding newsroom too. L.A. transplant who asked twitter tourist-style what she should know about the city before heading up this local news entity who's existence was supposedly grounded upon being hyper-localized www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

LA Times Deputy Managing Editor Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Discussions About Staff Via Open Slack Channel

The Los Angeles Times’ deputy managing editor apologized to the newsroom on Wednesday evening for “inappropriate” Slack discussions about staff members that were first revealed in an investigation by ...

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d

How many times have I watched that DAAAAAA Yankees Lose clip over the past 3 days

a man and a woman are sitting in front of microphones in a cbs news special report about michael cohen testimony

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in front of microphones in a cbs news special report about michael cohen testimony

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d

Is this not clear enough for you? Last month she went on Fox News to praise Hegseth and Trump’s illegal bombing of those citizens… to troll him?

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d

Is supporting a CIA-backed right-wing coup 23 years ago to install a neoliberal dictatorship over Venezuela’s nationally controlled oil reserves so U.S. corporations could cash in part of her long term plan to troll Trump? bsky.app/profile/cart...

Lee 'the J is for J' Carter @carterforva.bsky.social · 2d

Well that doesn't sound very "Nobel Peace Prize" of her.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

When you practice such shallow reductionism and your entire comms strategy has been Orange Man Bad for the past decade, you find yourself aligning with his Latina ally.

And then you wonder why the public at large tunes this messaging out and no longer trusts you!

Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! I didn’t know who she was either, which is why I spent 30 seconds googling her instead of assuming it was some slight to Trump. Not sure why that’s such a hard task for people with grad degrees to do

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

It’s worth bearing in mind that to the libs, “defenders of democracy” can mean anything from “Barack Obama” to “Islamist militia we have armed to the teeth” or “death squad carrying out a genocide”, and that in practice, these warm approving terms tend to mean “cooperative with America”.

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

They are fine with a Trump ally who literally thanks Trump in their acceptance message, as long as it isn’t Trump himself.

Democratic Party comms are full of these operatives and the Dem primary voter stans eat it up—no consistent ideology, only care about aesthetics.

The resistance!

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

Blocked 4 Truth. Many such cases!

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

The educated intellectual class’s resistance to Trump is fine with Trump’s policy as long as a POC woman is carrying it out instead.

Either that or they have to admit they were wrong and didn’t bother to learn anything about her, which they’ll never admit to bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the “Venezuelan Democracy Fighter” in question on Fox and Friends explaining her support for Trump bombing the fishing boats just last month

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

War is hell, Portland style

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3d

you know it www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wI...

Aaron Judge judges his favorite Drake albums 😅👀

YouTube video by House of Highlights

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3d

🥲https://bsky.app/profile/orth.ca/post/3m2q6bs7zm22g

James G @orth.ca · 3d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3d

*lose (again, two old fashioneds in)

Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3d

I literally cried tears of joy watching this live, and I don't even like Toronto that much, like I hope they lost to the Mariners or Tigers.

My Yankee hate is just that pure
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James G @orth.ca · 3d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not the same day every year, but the day after should be a national holiday regardless, like a national flex holiday