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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h

One consequence of Netflix putting out so much slop is that the geniunely good stuff they do put out gets overshadowed. ‘Midnight Mass’ was geniunely really good, the first ‘religious horror’ series that took the ‘religious’ part actually seriously, rather than just using it as an aesthetic.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

If you are not prepared to eat the occasional ratio, armored in the belief that the posts are good and the opinions are correct, then don’t let world see your takes.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, it may be be mildly bad form to qt someone who has like 12 followers, but the only reason it is out of a kind of magnanimity that definitely is subject to revocation if someone is really a dick.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

above all, poster bushido demands that you should not cry foul about a fight you started.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

PSA: if you quote post me first, you have formally invited me in

i abide by poster’s vampire rules

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

There’s basically one set of conditions where shining lasers at aircraft is a good idea, and that’s when the aircraft in question is actively attempting to kill you and the laser is the best thing you’ve got. We aren’t there yet, you do not want us to get there. Don’t shine lasers at aircraft.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

That’s not your fucking dog. That’s an operative for the French intelligence services. He’s not a good boy, he’s playing you. Wake up!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

The person that Bari Weiss pretends she is is not an enemy of liberal democracy, but the person she actual is is.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

Bari Weiss is a smart and competent person, skilled at marketing herself and her endeavors to wealthy and influential people. She simply chooses to use these capabilities in service of causes that I find abhorrent. I fundamentally do not share the values that I believe her actions show she has.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6h

I mean there’s the question of: is she good at the business side of news in the sense that she can get people to give her money for things? Clearly, yes. I don’t think even the people who dislike her would dispute that! That’s not the issue here.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 13h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

You’re talking to a mover and shaker in the Orange County Irish dance scene. Ask your self if this is an enemy that you want to make, friend.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · Mar 18

i will never acknowledge a mute list because i am a sovereign and free person and there's a fringe on that flag, your honor. the law of the sea says you have to look at my posts

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

I have been TROD UPON BY OPPRESSION FOR TOO LONG (being forced to pay a couple thousand bucks for a sewage hookup when I think the county should do it for free, and I don’t want to build septic tank), time to build a moving murder fortress.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

the killdozer guy became this only semi-ironic epic hero for the average man who will be oppressed no longer, which is funny, because if you read anything about the background it becomes like 100% clear that he was in the wrong. Which makes sense! His actions are not those of a reasonable person!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

Full stack engineer (R, Rstudio, tidyverse, Latex, excel)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

keep going. your smoke too gentle. your swag too similar. your bitch too basic. they’ll love you.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 9h

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah a more ethnically ambiguous terminator as opposed to another Aryan Ubermensch type was good casting because it showed the terminator as an actual infiltrator, good ol boy shtick with US cops, blends in in Mexico as well, etc. very prescient adaptation of the concept in the age of LLMs

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly “what does a terminator do once its target is killed, but SkyNet never comes” isn’t a bad idea for a movie. Like make the wife or kid the POV character and then one day this crazy older woman starts shooting at their husband/adoptive dad…and he doesn’t go down after being shot

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 10h

But it had more style and atmosphere than I expected, and Arnold and Linda Hamilton are both great playing older roles. They both have such interesting faces.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 10h

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 10h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

The evil terminator is well cast, as is the time traveling protagonist, being an enhanced human that still very much outclassed by the machine in a 1 on 1 fight and can get hurt is neat idea too. Fans service shit with Sarah Connor and Arnold pretty bad tho

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Terminator Dark Fate isn’t a great movie, but the bits at the border station are pretty good. Topical without feeling RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES heavy handed, nicely grimy. The Rev 9 terminator being able to smoothly and comfortably talk to people unlike Arnold’s version is a nice touch.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

The people who voted for Trump because they just straightforwardly hate non-whites or immigrants or gays, etc. and correctly intuited Trump would hurt them are worse people overall but smarter and more rational political actors than the people like Andreeseen who thought he’d do #AmericanDynamism

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12h

One of the great things about that quote is that it allows for varieties of conservativism too, the conservatism of Romney very much has in and out groups, the in group is just defined much more broadly and includes more people.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

This is an obsession of mine - a huge pathology of the press is coverage suggesting that politicians who are less skilled performers are somehow less "authentic"

Me on Romney coverage in CJR: www.cjr.org/united_state...

Me on Hillary Clinton coverage in The Upshot:
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/u...

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23h

what ways of knowing did you valorize?

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